>>25303
A racial preference implies that I actively prefer a race and have a "type" like that, which is different from saying I've got a weird bias against Chinese women and is probably because of some strange pseudo-nationalist sentiment or something, plus all the bad things I heard about dating Chinese women. I guess that that one Brit can offer his counter argument to this.

I will state however that I've basically only ever dated or kissed white people Jews are also white but that's largely because I think I've almost only been around them and never really in a hugely multiracial community. Dunno why, but that's just how it is. This still isn't a bias though because it's a lack of opportunity. When I was down in D.C. before I saw some of the most amazing black girls ever and hell yes I would. To this day I still sometimes see them although I guess I am too shy, unmotivated, and generally apathetic about dating and sex now to actually approach them.

Plus I don't drink anymore and I don't smoke pot or do illegal drugs really so I think I'm pretty much limited on the kinds of people I can even date or approach or be around now because of it. I think the last time I had opportunity for sex was some half Asian heavily tattooed well, stereotypical halfie Asian woman I guess who was approaching my coworkers while we were out drinking, failed to nab my female coworker's bf, and eventually got around to me, at which point my female coworker pretty much saved my ass from disaster and just looked my thoroughly trashed ass in the eye and said she's about to go and implied I should get a ride. Which was a good thing because I know damn well I would've gotten laid that night and complicated my life, woke up hungover with no idea where I am or how to get to work and not be fired etc.
As such I don't drink anymore partly because I have the most horrible combination ever of Irish and Slav genes because I'm a raging alcoholic.
Such cases.

>>25305
I dunno, even with a nationalist German chick I just really can't see myself with one. I think that I can see it as a bit of a problem in America. I am not really "woke" or am some kind of a poltard, but I do actually see certain cultural and genetic tendencies, and among Americans imho the absolute worst, most damaged, annoying, barging into things, bossy, arrogant, dumb af, megachurch rally going evangelical nutheads are the fucking Germans in our interior. I mean not to get all racist or anything, but when I think of that fat, blonde, blue eyed soccer mom bitch from hell that ruins everything and wants to get kinder eggs and caffeinated drinks banned and make everything censored and illegal, it is the flyover state mostly Germanic moron. Of course, the same can be said for our Irish or English ancestry people since idiocy and arrogance are not confined to one race.

But at the same time as saying all this, I don't really have a problem with 14/88's German Americans. It's just...idk. And as for the actual German women, yeah, no. It's just something about their culture and the Germanic mindset. If it's not self hatred and self pitying it's being an autistic overcompensating domineering arrogant faggot. Germans, okay not to go all meme tier and be a complete asshole, but Germans seem to constantly be in a state of despair and hate for all life and self pitying and self loathingusually after trying and failing to do some nasty shit to some neighbor or to suddenly try to go full-on Motivational American tier and start whipping people up and berating them and going full on Hun mode. That German ITT or maybe news thread is a good example of this.

As for the Irish, I would definitely date an Irish lass. Probably for similar reasons as why I'd date a Puerto Rican, except the eccentric mad mood swinging Irish woman tends more to melancholy from what I can see, and Puerto Ricans are just aggressive and fierce.

There's something about that ferocity I find attractive. I enjoy it when a woman can make me bleed. I just want someone trustworthy.

I guess I am also a bit biased against Israelis, ironically for similar reasons as the Germans. JAP girls can be great, and are often just as neurotic and moody and eccentric as say Irish women. It's also fantastic when a woman has got a bit of that inner religious fanaticism about her, but not in that kind of stereotypical murican Evangelical way. Anyway I'm rambling and taking up your guys' space sorry.

So, I finally finished reading it. It's really good. Hiawatha feels like a proper culture-hero who embodies the values of his people to lead them forward.
He gives them safety, food, writing, and rituals. The only strange thing is how this all takes place very close to today.
The penultimate song basically takes out the whole work from this "epic" void where it could take place at any time, or simply be a series of events that differentiated from reality over time, bearing little resemblance to what actually played out.
(Just to bring up the Nibelungenlied again, that takes place entirely in this "pocket dimension" where Attila (Etzel) the Hun reigns, but the Romans don't exist. It's an amalgamation of a probably true rivalry between two queens that somehow merged with the Sigurd/Völsung-mythos down the line. In essence, it takes place in a void. It turns into mythos and legend.)
Longfellow kills it by mentioning "the white man" coming to the Americas in the second to last episode, and Hiawatha's predictions about the ruination of his people and what he built makes the ending quite bittersweet if not sad.

Otherwise, the rhythm is pleasant, and the stories Longfellow tell are quite entertaining and bear the necessary heroic qualities that make an epic good.
I especially liked how deities, plants and concepts are anthropomorphic, and for example Hiawatha's defeat of Mondamin in a fight means that he successfully subdued corn into a domesticated plant that feeds his people.

It's quite short, so if you have two otherwise boring afternoons or evenings, it's definitely worth a try. The author definitely knew what he was doing.

>>23822
Oh stupid question but a dual core 3.6ghz CPU is inferior to a quad core 3.1ghz right?

>feel guilty

Don't. I'm not even sure if I remember you in particular doing so but everyone was raving about how good Witcher 3 and Divinity Original Sin 2 was at the time iirc and I simply grabbed it on a sale which I think might have been longer than a year ago. I also might have been drunk spending at the time. Regardless it was my fault for spending money on a game I knew I couldn't run without an upgrade not realizing I'd be too tight on money to blow on a GPU for basically one game for so long but now it is a great many games including multiple I already own, so at this point simply buying a new GPU alone is going to be the equivalent of buying 3-5 games for me (since 3 wont run and 2 did work but now the fucked driver won't boot them).

>If I find more time later I can elaborate why a slow CPU will be a huge bottleneck for games from the last 5-7 years no matter how fast your GPU is and how much RAM it has

This is now my other biggest concern where PC upgrades are concerned. I thought it was still pretty good but now, eh. Also, would putting new thermal paste on achieve anything? Don't you need to do that if it's been running almost nonstop for like 7 years?

>Having 500GiB of fast storage that will live longer.

Fair enough. I've heard mixed things about SSD reliability. I'm assuming that's why. Also because some shitty component of Seagate kept trying after a couple years for people. Had I not heard from you I probably would've just blindly gotten a new HDD instead of SSD if I could help it though, but now I am thinking maybe SSD isnt so bad as long as I dont overload with crap.

>>25047
Witcher 3 is pretty good, you just need to go in with a different mindset. It's an RPG with a pregen main character. You get to flesh out the finer points but the general concept is set in stone. I remember your concern from earlier about having to play as Geralt the randy old man. Just go in with the knowledge that you are going to control how he navigates the world (several different ways are entirely in character and plausible) rather than who he is.

And yes, I agree that Fallout 4 isn't the best in the series but in many ways it came close. It just never really fulfilled its obvious potential. Combat was far better than it was in 3 and NV but it used DPS calculations instead of shot-based damage which made semi-auto weapons just plain better than automatic ones. Weapon customisation was also pretty nice and had a lot of options but base weapon options were limited and despite the variety of weapons, they felt less varied than in say NV. Then settlements which was pretty fun, and was cosy for a while but lacked anything to really do with them. They just sort of felt like padding rather than an actual game mechanic that meshed with the rest of the world. Levelling is a matter of preference rather than something that is binary good-bad, but I personally didn't mind its removal of skills, but did prefer Horizon's version where skills operated in the background by using them and perks tended to add a large lump sum to the relevant skills in addition to their usual benefits.

That's my point really, that a lot of the core of the game comes really close to being great but falls flat in some way. They get the hard work done but don't follow up on it to make it really click. A shame really.