Can relate. So we played for about a year the Rise of Tiamat, and near the end our party infiltrates the cultists’ hideout.

For the first time since joining the campaign, the DM mentions my character found underwear in the cultists’ chests of personal belongings. And just there and then, also for the first time, my character got rid of her old panties and into a fresh set of clean ones.

Ye of course what could ever go wrong bro

I wonder if AI will indirectly bring back into vogue the lost art of handwritten letters.

I’m happy to hear Netflix is not acquiring more. I’m not so sure about Paramount and Warner merging though. Could have been worse I guess.

It is an important detail. Someone not familiar with feline anatomy might wonder whether straddling prey and dragging it in such a way interferes with the feline’s testicles. Clearly not a problem

Such a cliffhanger. So, is it possible to comb all the hairs in such a way, or is the parting impossible to remove?

Naaaa you think you deserve that but in reality you don’t need that. You’ll soon see how their products and tools make ram and storage redundant for you. I’m sure

With a long tail, small nose and small body size(use the bird and snail as reference) it couldn’t be a koala. Even if the snail was a giant African snail, that would still leave the grey creature in rodent size category

I said hope… why do you need to crush my dreams…

She’s doing great I hope she can walk some day

Hey, nice to see you posting here

Best ice cream name here imo. I love how they stick to it unashamedly. I’m a straight woman and I love a golden gaytime lol

Both, we know AI cannot create anything new, hence the churning of slop decelerates any potential progress or pivots. Why innovate or find new meanings if there is no pressure for you to come up with new stuff? AI does it for you from what’s already there.

Scented candles? Relatively affordable, easy to re gift if they don’t like it

Brilliant

I’m still on Baldurs Gate 3 and loving it

When they get withdrawals, even if mild. Some people get a bit cranky if they don’t get their daily fix (and yes, it has to be a daily habit). That’s evidence for me of an unhealthy dependence.

Of course, if they always have alcohol available it’s going to be difficult to see the withdrawal and it’s also difficult to draw the line because not all people tolerate it in the same way.

Okay the key here is what you mean by “constantly”. Telling a story about something so life changing once a year hardly goes as “constantly” in my books.

What may come across as manipulative is you mentioning she’s trying to get you to do as she says or trying to get guilt or compassion from you. And this with a pinch of salt, because it’s very hard to tell from what you share here. I would have to become a fly on your wall for a long time to have my own opinion about it.

You tell me she’s telling you this every week and making reference to it every day, several times a day, and now that’s what I consider “constantly”. That she hardly has anything else to share about her past or that she somehow finds a way to spin everything to a framework of scarred pregnancy mother, or similar.

My own mother has told me about her pregnancies several times a year, I heard her stories so many times. Hundreds. Yet that was never the only story she had, and it was always brought up more or less naturally in conversation. The same happened with several other favorite anecdotes of her own past and me and my sister’s childhood. I would consider this aspect to be normal.

I never felt manipulated by her retelling of a story though. And I know she could manipulate pretty well. She also had a few topics she would constantly harass me about, yes, daily or nearly to a point. But retelling the past was not part of it, even though she did frequently.

I’m positively surprised on this one

Anything that forces you to build your own sentences, be that writing in any genre or public speaking or heck even casual conversation