Man, you guys are fucking AWFUL exploitative enterprises don't give q shot .I from the I'm fucked because I don't support the allegiant

Bullshit

Such as?

Of course not, but when good communication is stifled by a field of eggshells, you do what you can.

Our communication on the subject is pretty good, but that alone doesn't solve the issue. It's hard to see a way to open that line of communication without them being offended

The hard part is communicating my needs without trampling on their feelings, because at a certain point the onus shifts off of me and I don't want my SO to have that pressure

It's not pointless. I make a claim and you're free to refute it. I've already done the research to make myself a secondary source, so you either believe me or your provide a conflicting source.

It speaks to this generation's willingness to accept information presented to them as fact.

Those people are stupid and you shouldn't trust a god damn thing anyone on the Internet says as gospel.

I actually witnessed the perfect exchange today. Someone made a claim. Someone else said, "Hey, this source I found suggests you're wrong."

The original commenter said, "here's my source that contradicts that."

They both Agreed on a middle ground and moved on

This is my method. If I sat something you disagree with, call me on it with a source to refute me.

Don't ask me to type 4 words into Google for you. If your request for information can be completed with one hand, go fuck yourself. This is literally the point of "do your own research."

I wouldn't trust one God damn source you put in front of me. I'm going to research the antithesis to your statement just for a chance to prove you wrong.

I'd never trust you to provide me any evidence at all

Yeah, people are fucking stupid. I empirically proved they'd never get a lower price, but they passed because they thought the capitalism knew more than me.

Guess what? Those fuckers didn't get to deep fry a turkey because they're stupid. Which I guess is a net positive for turkeys

Unfortunately I retired from drinking

I really appreciate your answer

But the fact that I've never pushed anything is actually part of the issue. I've been happy to let my SO go at their own pace, but by their own admission it's why I don't get the sexual gratification I'd enjoy. Like, when we first started dating they were the ones pushing me to engage in penetrative sex while I wanted to hold off.

Although that backfired on me because my penis doesn't work.

The hard part is that they've stated that the reason they don't offer to get me off when they're not up to sex is because I don't ask enough, but I don't ask enough because if they're not feeling well enough for sex then it seems shitty of me to ask for personal gratification at all.

But it's really hard to gauge when they're not feeling well enough to do anything, and when they're well enough to do it

Not that me cumming is directly relational to me seeing them naked, but it speaks to my hesitation to ask. Because I do ask to see, but they seem to intentionally conflate me asking to see with me asking for sex, even though I've explained that when I ask to see I'm literally asking to see them naked.

I have asked for them to think of a way I can ask for personal gratification without seeming callous to their feelings, but like most requests of this nature it falls on deaf ears. Probably because they're demisexual and don't really understand a cis gendered straight male on testosterone's sex drive.

Just because everyone is doing it doesn't mean it's not rude. Put your digital crack down for an hour or go to rehab.

That's one of the things I love about Tool/APC/Lucifer concerts. If you have your phone out, you'll get kicked the fuck out.

Thanks for the break down. I researched both based on your post because my beefy gaming desktop is in our living room so my SO can play BG3 on it on a Windows partition (pre-native Linux), so my proxmox testing has taken a sideline.

Based on what you've said and what I've researched, I should be able to stream anything my PC can handle to both my deck, and to the Anbernic Win600 I bought my SO.

I really just need to max my ram out to 128gb and maybe throw in my R9 390 as a secondary GPU.

I'd call it fraud myself. But retailers have been doing this shit for forever. But the thing is that people love this shit.

JCPenny almost went under when they stopped deceptive pricing tactics like 20 years ago and just offered a really low price.

Shit, I worked at a major sports and outdoors retailer and we had tags that said "Everyday Low Price." Items tagged with that would never go on sale because they were loss leaders (just barely above wholesale to get people to buy overpriced accessories).

I had customers with the items in their cart ask me if it was on sale, I told them it was the lowest price they were going to find and even price checked other retailers whose sale price was higher than ours, and they put it back every time.

People are really fucking stupid.

I see you subscribe to the Amazon sales policy.