Both are the same. You are what you put put into the world, the actual measurable effect of your existence, not the intentions in your heart that affect nothing.

I just meander without purpose, going whichever way feels good. The unaimed arrow never misses.

I thought of a third gripe! I would have preferred to play this game in Japanese, but only the main story lines are translated. Being loving to your horse or overhearing villagers talking about your deeds is totally lost in playing with just subtitles. You really need the dialogue to be in your native tongue to get the full story and atmosphere. Every spoken word should have been subtitled and translated. This is an accessibility issue, too. Deaf people just don’t get to experience that part of the game.

That’s fair, I loved that side of things, too. I’m more talking about the conspicuous and samey cliffs that look and feel a little too contrived, strictly made for gameplay purposes like creating paths, blocking off areas, providing platforming challenges and assassination opportunities. They were overused and unnatural looking sometimes.

Larger than life beauty for beauty’s sake is done so well, in that game, it’s an amazing experience, the overuse of little cliffs everywhere is really my only gripe. I spend more time walking on my horse along paths than I do galloping straight to my destination. I like just soaking it all in. I’m playing it right now for the first time; I did the first act and the DLC, I’m about a quarter of the way tbrough the second act now. Loving it.

Edit: Oh I do have a second gripe, but with the DLC, and it’s the same gripe I have with all DLC. It was obviously written by the B team, the writing is less subtle and everything is a bit more extreme. Still a good time, but just a wee notch lower in writing quality than the main story.

The world design is very gamey in Tsushima. A bunch of platforming jungle gyms with landscape filler in-between. Such a beautiful game, I would wish it looked more realistic. More Red Dead, less Far Cry.

I Vow To Thee My Country: https://youtu.be/GZNJFrb0IGo?si=dqEkteZvzqMGXEv0

Shame people are too easily offended to get a character like stiffler in movies nowadays.

This is such a BS take. The Boys exists and is super popular. You’d never be able to show anything like the boys back in American Pie times, there are far worse characters than Stiffler in current media. The Boys is setting off an “offensive content” pissing contest so things are only going get more filthy. Tell you republican grandpa, or whomever told you otherwise, that his movies are safe from the Woke Monster under his bad.

Professor Farnsworth teaches a course on the quantum fields they generate: https://youtu.be/3hvzmxarAh8

That’s anecdotal, not data.

The grass is always greener on the other side. The life described does not exist in 50-150k cities. I live in a 500,000 population small city 40 minutes outside of a major one. I used to live in the major one. Everything you described about “city life” is what I miss about living downtown in a major city because I don’t have it here. Even within the major city’s limits, it’s only close to downtown that those city living benefits actually exist on a scale to be useful for more than just a couple errands.

Most casual convos with strangers I’ve had have happened on public transport but again, only in the major city. The small city public transport is used by people too drunk or poor afford a car, because a car is necessary, and aren’t in the mood to chat (I’m too poor to drive, I don’t want to chat in the gross, mismanaged hour long bus trips to go somewhere it takes 15 minutes to drive to). In the real city it’s used by everyone because it’s faster and lazier than driving. People who are good at public transport don’t work for small cities. And that’s true for most things, especially the city government. Good city councilors and employees get better paying work in nicer places if they can. The small city and everything in it is left being run by people not good enough to make it elsewhere.

Your family is right. Unless you move to the downtown core of a city most people in the world have heard of, you still need to do everything you still do except there’s less nature and character and more grumpy assholes who wish they lived in a smaller town or bigger city.

When I was 12 that would be such a treat. Well done!

This sounds like a formative experience for E, great job! Would giving him bit of money for work be appropriate? Show that not only can work be fascinating and fulfilling, but also provides material rewards?

The Last Kingdom. Better than Vikings.

Mrs. Maisel is one of the funniest shows I’ve seen.

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A Dutch one I got from my Oma: “It’s as if the angels upon my tongue have pissed”. It means “yum”.

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying you don’t need to be an asshole to disagree. You don’t need to “tear down” beliefs and “not play nice”. Being rude to people for being wrong just makes them dig deeper into being wrong out of defensiveness. It isn’t about edification, it’s about finding an excuse to be mean.

That said, other people’s education is not my responsibility. Taking the time and energy required to correct a random stranger about what shape the earth is isn’t going to change the world but it will take a toll on me. Being wrong doesn’t make them a bad person. Being a jerk to them for believing so does. Believing in a flat earth a symptom of fundamentally flawed reasoning skills that I don’t have the time or energy to deal with. If someone believes the earth is flat, I’ll politely disagree and state my opinion, but ultimately I’ll let them do them. Who cares. I choose my friends, they won’t make the cut.

So you’re an asshole, using religion as an excuse to berate and bully people, got it.

As would FFXIV.

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