Try dodging over parrying. Much more forgiving. Not nearly as precise. You can dodge most attacks the first time just by waiting to see when the attack is going to hit/land after the windup. I’d say by the end, I was dodging about 80-90% of the attacks, even from things I had never seen before just because the wind-up system is fairly predictable. Once you get the hang of it, dodging is super easy.

With a human hand tail

For women who needed their hips sawed open during birth… Horrifying.

The effort and strain of pooping is more than urinating, so it essentially triggers the bladder as a side effect.

This was bugging me, thank you.

You sound like one of those people he’s talking about

/s

It still means that.

…And then it got worse.

(said in a thick Russian accent)

Generally speaking, people are bad at understanding the odds/chances of something in the real world applying to them.

Everyone should be terrified of cancer, it’s the #1 killer. But nobody puts it on their list because it either feels obvious, or by not giving it the time of day people feel like they won’t “get it”. This sort of response from people is normal.

With that said, they specifically call out the way they’re going to commit suicide, so yeah, you’re still right to ask they’re doing ok…

Some might even say that’s the way things have always been, so they refuse to change it…

Because by their nature and beliefs, they are resistant to change, any change, even good ones.

OSHA rules are written in blood, as the saying goes.

Pretty much this. Cults isolate you as their first step. Anything that can be used to make you feel beholden to them, or “fresh/new”. They make you think your parents are the enemy, and convince you that your real “family” is inside the cult.

You’re from the UK I presume then? 🙂

Officially this was the case, but nobody really paid that. Capital gains were still around 20%, around where they’re at today, and that’s how most of them got wealthy.

Yup, I agree with your points. It’s where I landed too. I always just try to see it from the perspective of people who like the hallucination theory.

It’s like the Ferris Bueler was in the head of his friend and wasn’t real theory. At first glance, kinda explains a lot. But it’s absolutely not true, and the are breaks in the movie that would happen if it were, additionally the director said that wasn’t true straight up.

But people still believe it. I try not to antagonize, but to show how unlikely that theory is to hold up.

People all collectively forgot that that was the piece that made America great in the 50s.

I don’t think that was the takeaway from the American Psycho book. There’s a lot of unknowns that the author leaves up to the reader, but at no point did I get the impression the whole thing was a hallucination. It can go a lot of ways from an interpretation standpoint, but there is no definitive ending in either the book or the movie (I believe the movie is even made more ambiguous on purpose).

There’s just as good of a chance that he killed everyone and got away with it because he’s rich and powerful (a satirical characteristic of 80’s “power” businessmen the book was trying to expose).

Most assume he killed at least the prostitutes, because there are callbacks and some police records indicating that in the background. It’s only very slightly questionable if he killed his peers/business associates.

Here’s an article that breaks it down from the movie standpoint

I’ll call out an excerpt from the end:

A popular theory is that Patrick did in fact kill everyone he copped to in his phone call to Harold, including all the ones we saw with our own eyes — that is, except for Paul Allen. This theory is most likely the closest to the truth when we take into account Paul Allen’s vacant apartment, with no signs of Patrick’s murderous rampage to be found. This theory would also explain Harold’s claim that he just had lunch with Paul Allen, so there is no way Bateman could have killed him.

On the flip side, another theory is that Patrick killed everyone, including Paul Allen. We do know that Patrick has a vendetta against Paul Allen, yet another pretentious yuppie with a superior business card. It is also possible that Harold had lunch with someone he thought was Paul Allen — we know how common it is for Bateman’s superficial crowd to mistake each other for someone else.

Both primary competing theories on the movie are that he killed almost everyone, or everyone. In the books it’s similar, even less ambiguous that he killed at least several people.

I would say the less popular and less supported version of the story is that he hallucinated everything. It’s kind of one of those theories that makes sense, but the “facts” in the story don’t add up and force a break of character. It also fights against the narrative of the author who was intending it to be a satire of the power-mad, power-hungry, grab-them-by-the-pussy businessmen of the 80’s, and what they could get away with.

I know everyone’s exhausted by politics, but truthfully, people like trump, the playboy “billionaire” tycoons of the 80’s was who Patrick was supposed to be emulating.

And we all know trump could shoot someone on 5th ave and get away with it at this point.

Looks like the author knew their stuff.

Yup, same, I’m enjoying learning German this way now

It feels that way, but that is correct. Here’s an article that helps to understand a little better. Usually there’s a buffer between Democracy and Monarchy/Tyranny. In the case with Trump, went straight from democracy to Tyranny because they elected a monarch who was also a tyrant.

https://www.history.com/articles/what-are-platos-5-forms-of-government