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Say what you want about the rest of SAO, but I’ve always thought that the Mother’s Rosario side story shown in the second half of season 2 was pretty decent. Definitely a high point in a show that is otherwise mostly very poorly written.

(In case it wasn’t clear, the hot bit is calling Mother’s Rosario good: not it being better than the rest of SAO)
 
The confederate statues that got graffiti'd over in recent protests should legit be preserved in a museum as historical art pieces, monuments to over a century's worth of cultural change in America

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ya mom a hoe

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Now you see, this right here is the perfect example of a top-tier Smogoff post. It's funny, witty and insulting, but in a playful matter. If I might explain the joke, esteemed user dingbat has made reference to a common insult used by children who have just found out how to turn off the parental controls on their iPads, but is using it in a very subtle and clever way. They have used it in reference to someone's personal opinion, automatically shutting it down in one fell swoop in a way that makes us all laugh at both their message and the original poster

Additionally, their username "dingbat" holds a lot of hidden symbolism. A dingbat is both a typological symbol and a slang term used by the British to refer to a complete and utter shitheaded buffoon. So from this we can infer that this most esteemed user is either a nerdass who likes typology, or a roadman wannabe

This post is a fine example of what Smogoff has to offer to the larger Smogon community. Top notch work, user dingbat, hope to hear more from you in the future
 
Anyways uh my hot take is that hating on Religion isn't a hot take anymore, its like a lukewarm take. Mildly warm. If my shower was the temperature of the take I wouldn't be pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised. Its a very boring and cynical take that just serves to paint religious people in a bad light for going against the more commonly accepted canon that big man Science provides

Religion as a whole isn't the cause of religious terrorism, violence, discrimination, etc; religion is just a scapegoat that assholes use to justify their actions

Of course there are shitty things about religion. There are shitty things about atheism too. There are shitty things about all religions and ideologies. There's no such thing as "the perfect ideology," and even if there was then we'd still find a way to make it shitty

All humans are capable of doing bad things, whether its due to scientifically explainable reasons, an religious force such as Satan, etc. To just say "religion bad because it make people do bad thing" is incredibly ironic, because you're essentially doing what these hypothetical bad religions are doing: using your ideology as a justification to hate people who think differently from you

If you genuinely, wholeheartedly, unironically believe that religion is just a sham and a negative influence on everything it touches, then I encourage you to expand your worldview. Talk to people who don't frequent Reddit. Partake in religious media. Learn more about religious cultures. Hell, even just listening to religious Youtubers has given me a slightly better understanding on different ideas and philosophies about religion. There are such a thing as religious echo chambers, sure, but anti-religion atheist fuckheads also seem to forget that there is such a thing as atheist echo chamber

Anyways TLDR; you can't sum up an entire set of beliefs as moronic and useless just because you don't agree with them, because then you're just as bad as the people you're criticising
 
I'm getting sick of the arrangement of our four dimensional as observed universe.

Now before you pitchfork me I'm using the language of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time for our current predicament.

I am simply saying that I would be better off with four dimensions of space and zero dimensions of time. And my selfish nature means I don't particularly care if it would benefit you but I would offer my rationale regardless because I'm selfish and like to hear myself think.

If we eliminate the dimension of time, things stop getting older. You stop aging, and your body can never advance to a new medical problem.
More to the point, you'll never see Smogoff users referring to themselves as infants during the heyday of generation 5.
Not because they stopped aging but because if there's no dimension of time, then there's no location for the past to exist either and we all have regrets we'd like to truly erase, I imagine.

Like updating a software application and having the new release be worse. Without time, there will be no concept of a newer version. Thus eliminating one of the relatable modern inconveniences, just before eliminating the concept of modernity.

And aren't you tired of living through so much history? These historic events we share wallowing in the proverbial pissed in ball pit we call every day of life simply disappear.
No more interesting times if there's no more times.

And finally, I'd like to fully perceive a hypercube. I think it'd be neat.

No more time dimension. 4 dimensions of space.
 
Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Time for a speed round of some of my own hot takes.

1. The only real reason gas prices are going up is because today’s cars get more miles per gallon so the companies need to charge more per gallon to compensate

2. People who watch anime can’t complain about trend watching because watching anime in and of itself is a trend (not exactly smogoff material here but Pokémon doesn’t count as an anime while I’m on the subject)

3. Big businesses have more power in the modern world than the governments of whatever country you live in (think Amazon, Google, Microsoft, those kinds of guys)

4. The COVID-19 pandemic was actually a good thing in just as many ways as it was bad, despite the bad parts admittedly being pretty bad (people were notably home with their families more)

5. The U.N. probably has a 100% definitive cure for COVID-19 but just like the cure to cancer thing, isn’t releasing it because there’s money to be made
 
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