lol do you always assume anyone who disagrees with you is acting in bad faith? Whst a convenient way to shield yourself from uncomfortable truths.
No wonder you’re desperate to lock someone into a relationship with you asap, you sound nuts.
lol do you always assume anyone who disagrees with you is acting in bad faith? Whst a convenient way to shield yourself from uncomfortable truths.
No wonder you’re desperate to lock someone into a relationship with you asap, you sound nuts.
Paranoia wtf? I’ve formed my opinions from my life experiences, are you trying to tell me you’ve done peer reviewed research to decide what makes a good relationship?
I was with my wife for 10 years before I proposed. We have the best relationship of anyone we know. I know plenty of people who married after a couple of years and are fucking miserable.
This is terrible advice. Most people’s “gut” reactions are heavily based on external influences like peer group pressure, media influence and upbringing.
Practice critical thinking.
If you’re in a good relationship but they leave because they couldn’t wait 4 years to get married, then you fucking dodged a bullet. Jesus fucking christ.
Find a skill based hobby that you love and practice it every week. Stuff like a sport, musical instrument, art, etc. The hobby itself will be rewarding but there is no substitute for having decades of experience under your belt for these kind of activities.
Also, don’t have children.
I’ve been a programmer for decades and I still sometimes look at code I wrote 6 months ago like what the fuck was I thinking. Code is as much art as science.
What the fuck are you on about, the “bot” is just a feed of RPG blogs that gets posted here on a wide range of rpgs and topics.
“I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries”
This is such a weird take. The setting is dystopian, it’s a staple of the genre. The setting doesn’t celebrate the oppression, as this article seems to be suggesting.
Just block the subs that do it and never waste another second of your life thinking about it.
Yeah that’s exactly we did, had a couple of big wipe outs on the crazy stairs we were doing 180s down and were just like, is this all there is? And even if you’re doing grinds that’s like, one trick (no matter how many different angles you can position your feet when you do it).
I save my knees for basketball these days, but I miss the skateboard.
I think the realisation that rollerblades are pretty boring once you’ve become decent on them had a lot to do with it. Unless you’re going to get into serious acrobatics, there just isn’t a wide variety of tricks you can do on blades, compared to skating.
“Yikes”.
How is this supposed to work? How do you describe a song in text well enough for someone else to recognise it?!
The way different people write is usually split along the lines of this question. A good example demonstrating this is the Game of Thrones TV series. Martin’s novels were very much written with the world building at the forefront; character’s narratives were mostly secondary to what was going on in the world and if a character ended up in a deadly situation then plot armour wasn’t going to save them (usually). However when the content of the novels ran out and the hollywood writers took over the plot, you almost immediately see a switch to character driven narratives because that’s almost always how hollywood writes stories. Notice that basically no major characters die in the later seasons.
I think this difference is very noticeable in the TV series, even if people don’t necessarily recognise this specific explanation of why the later seasons feel so different. And as a writer I think you want to at least recognise which of these styles you are personally using. As others have pointed out, if your worldbuilding seems too obviously constructed to make the plot work then that can be noticeable by the readers, but maybe that’s fine if you’re writing a very character focused narrative. You could even leave the details of the world fairly vague and ill defined if this is the case.
But if you want your world to feel detailed and cohesive, then I think you need to have a decent amount of the worldbuilding fleshed out before you start writing the characters. Like, by all means have your plot structure figured out, but the actual page to page writing should be informed by the worldbuilding otherwise there’s a strong chance your world just feels like a cardboard backdrop to your characters.
Carlin’s podcast (and a lot of popular history podcasts) are generally considered fairly poor by academic historians, in regard to accurately portraying modern historical research. I think those kinds of podcasts are good to engage and stimulate interest in history, as long as the listener understands that they are a kind of “pop” history and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Same goes for a lot of popular books, like Sapiens.
lol you’re the one who came in swinging with “for all I know!” “you could be lying!” as soon as I pressed you on a point. That’s the definition of a bad faith argument, you’re not acctually trying to engage with points of discussion you’re just trying to “win” the conversation.