As someone already mentioned, the more you get to know a person, the more attractive (or less attractive) they objectively become to you. I firmly believed that my wife was beautiful, and as our relationship soured and she started cheating on me, she quite literally became physically uglier in my eyes.
It’s just how the brain works. If you love someone, they’re beautiful. End of story.
I recently tried out my desktop PC for gaming with mint. I removed my windows drive from the PC, installed mint on a seperate drive, tried out several games, shut PC down, put windows drive back in PC, windows won’t boot… Had to nuke both drives and reinstall windows…
Very good point! I also like the “Sees you in a while” perk the Glockodile has, though. Something that’s alive for quite some time may know some secrets.
True, but it’s slow on land, ordinary rounds only work on land, and it doesn’t voluntarily control it’s arms to aim. Honestly that seems more like a grenade on a roomba for most combat purposes.
Yeah, but tentacles can’t see. They’re firing blind based on instructions only.
I suppose it’s still possible an octopus can convey an exact distant angle to a tentacle, even though that’s not an evolutionarily relevant task. Clearly, the only reasonable way to settle this is to steal an octopus from an aquarium, and force it to do dot torture drills on a paid subscriber stream.
Salt mines are so awesome. They’re usually room and pillar, so they’re the closest we get to the Mines of Moria. Plus they are almost always bright white inside, unlike most metal mines.
I didn’t think people who stay in stable long term relationships look at it that way. The first thing to realize is that our brains are wonderful things. For instance I know my wife isn’t going to model on the front page of Sports Illustrated any time soon. But to me she really is more attractive.
The more we find out about how our brains work in relationships, the less the idea of having to be perfect makes sense. Both with beauty and personality. If you have the best body and personality according to society then you’re not unique. Millions of people are trying to make themselves into that image. Being yourself and being healthy are far more likely to land someone who actually cares about you.
Being attractive is mainly helpful in getting dates and having casual sex. Beyond that there needs to be actual compatibility of some kind, solid relationship skills, and a willingness to work at the relationship. Those are far more important over the long term than classic beauty because when you’re older that’s what’s going to be there.
That all said, I’m not aware of anyone “settling” in the modern era. We seem to be far more content with our friend groups unless there’s really something there.
I’ve seen your comments about reading digital media but if you can get an eink screen (kobo, amazon paper white, etc) it Doesn’t feel like a screen at all. Then you can look up words right there. Ive started doing it every once in awhile as a native English speaker since its so convenient.
That said I’m gonna start picking up French again (hopefully) and that’s gonna be tough because my vocabulary was always lacking in French and I haven’t really read anything in French in years.
I hope you enjoy crooked kingdom. I really liked both books. All the characters are so cool :)
Yeah, I might buy an eink reader one day, they seem useful (at least if I find one I can freely modify its software?). Especially because I don’t have much physical space to store books.
I’m in the beginning of the second book, so not much to comment about it, but I liked the first one, lots of action and nice characters/world :)
I think I’ve heard of people putting custom images on kobos but I Don’t know too much about it. I’m just using stock kobo and not connecting it to the internet and it’s been great for me
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