I don’t disagree with most of what you’re saying, but parasite still fits. The definition says nothing about generic source.

To be 100% accurate, the human fetus is also a parasite.

I just picked this up from the library, along with ori. I had never heard of ori before, and so had zero expectations, so far it’s a pretty fun platformer.

Glad to know octopath is good, hopefully I can get to it.

Tbh, I think things could have gone the way where I thought the same as OP, and you originally.

I grew up in a conservative religious household, tattoos were literally against in my religion at the time (Mormon 🤮, apparently “permanent” modifications to the body weren’t something that could be corrected when your rotting dead husk gets resurrected later on…). I think if it weren’t for growing up with my brother (4 years older than me) who was the definition of rebellious, including many tattoos, I’d probably be right with op. Most of my brother’s tattoos are stupid. He’s got radiskull and devil doll, most of the doctors from doctor who, if he crosses his fingers there’s two stick figures hugging. But I think most of them are cool. And btw I in no way idolize my brother, I don’t agree with most of his life decisions or how he behaves in general, so that’s not a factor.

Ultimately, I think it’s purely a matter of perspective. I think I’ve seen studies where people who enjoy getting tattoos are more likely to have significant trauma and pain in their lives, and I can imagine those that despise them are probably sheltered or lacking in “real” life experience.

I love this. My 12.5 y/o dog recently passed, and I’m still trying to think of something I can get tattood to appropriately honor him. It will be my first tattoo.

Additionally, my wife and I would love to travel, and I’ve had an idea (independently, but later I learned it’s hardly original), to have a sleeve of some consistent geometric shape, hex, or triangles probably, and find a local artist in each place we go to fill one of the spots with something they determine represents the area.

Wait, so people aren’t allowed to have life history before they turn to religion?

Just because they’re a priest now, doesn’t mean they always were one.

To be entirely fair, humanity has been doing tattoos and other decorative body modifications since basically forever. Look up “Ötzi the Iceman”, he’s our earliest known example of tattoos, but only 5300 years ago or so, no reason to think that’s the earliest that did it.

I can count entirely on one hand with ASL. 1-10 are static hand positions

Check your local library, can rent console games for free!

They, like parrots, can also mimic speech

I may never be able to drink juice from oranges again…

I really want you to know how much I appreciate this, and I will be making an attempt to integrate this into my vernacular.

Yeah, some of the same reason everyone uses stripe or PayPal for payment systems. If the site itself handles the cc info it holds all the liability, and has to pass rigorous POC testing and compliance.

I’ve reached that point as well. Every new thing I sign up for I use an alias email, because I’m certain they’ll sell my shit at some point, and I’d like to be able to know who did it.

People need to stop using xitter

Damn

What do you know? Can you share?

Thanks for cropping into the screen properly

I want to downvote this so bad, because I don’t want it to be real.

How about in it?