I’m in a similar situation - I badly hurt my best friend from school and we stopped talking. This was over a decade ago. I know from mutual friends that she’s moved away, she’s happy and has children now. Although I really regret how I acted, I think it’s best to just leave it in the past. No need to dredge up old pain for her just so I can feel better for apologising.
Idk if that’s the right answer, but it’s what I’ve chosen.
There’s a lot of freaky porn out there that I don’t want to see
Please say the AI part is the bad thing, not the gay part
It sounds to me like you want a person to go to work, and the other person to stay at home. Doesn’t matter which is which. So not mysoginistic at all, if I’ve understood correctly
That’s what I’ve heard other people say, and it just sounds insane. You’re in a world of fantasy literally seeing things that aren’t there and somehow that’s normal behaviour. Crazy!
But I guess it seems weird to you how I can do anything without seeing things. I’ve had someone online get very angry with me for saying I have no visual imagination, because how can I even read and recognise letters if I can’t see them in my head?
Humans are very weird sometimes! It’s nice that there are so many different ways to exist :)
I sometimes have to trace back because I often skip parts that look description-y and some authors like to slip in some piece of crucial informatio
Ugh, me too! I kinda hate when that happens
You’re asking the wrong question. How do you guys without aphantasia manage to read when there’s pictures whizzing around your head all the time??
Mechanically, whenever I read about someone’s or someplace’s introduction and it describes their appearance, I’ll just skip that section. If it’s more than a sentence-long description I’ll often unconsciously just move on to the next paragraph - it’s literally meaningless to me.
I read a lot when I’m not stressed. This week, I’ve read the whole of the Robots series by Isaac Asimov (four books, around 1500 pages total). Several times, I’ve read entire books in one sitting without even moving.
I can’t really tell you if it affects my ability to enjoy books, because I don’t know how I’m “supposed” to enjoy a book. So instead I’ll just talk about why I like to read.
When Daniel and Giskard decide to be friends and shake hands, symbolically becoming people rather than just machines, made me cry. It’s so meaningful.
World-building This is something that I think Alastair Reynolds is really good at. He writes science fiction books that are grounded in reality, and being able to see what he imagines. Another good example is old science fiction where there’s the dichotomy between humanity having conquered space thousands of years ago and yet the cutting edge of technology developed a few years ago is recieving the news on a paper ticker tape! Seeing what what the authors imagined vs things we take for granted today but was so advanced it never even occurred to them, like the Internet.
Mystery / plot There’s a certain beauty to seeing the web that’s been built up over the course of a story all coming together at the end. A good example would be Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time where all the threads come together and the resolution at the end wasn’t what I expected but, in hindsight, nothing else would have done it justice.
Character growth Gravity Dreams by LE Modesitt is my favourite book and I don’t know why. I think it’s just that the journey the main character goes through really speaks to me and gets me thinking about my own philosophy and life.
In summary, I’ll say that you don’t have to see something to comprehend what is happening and to be touched emotionally. As for your other question, I also watch film and TV but I definitely prefer animated over live. I can get easily confused between different actors which doesn’t happen with animation for me. I find that TV or film takes less effort to enjoy, but also that I don’t enjoy it as much as a book.
Wait, why would you want to make your attackers horny?
Very detailed, and that explains a lot, thank you.
It’s ok, we have hamlets here too. I live in one!
That’s different from anything I’ve seen in the UK. Every house seems to be surrounded with lawns and so spread out, and yet you still need whatever that giant building with the green roof and car park is. Presumably a shop? Why’d you need such a big building for so few people? And why are all the houses detached with no terraces? Very strange…
(All of that was rhetorical, I’m sure it makes sense if that’s what you’re used to. And having more room to spread out and less history to deal with)
Cool, thank you
This is why I was confused. There’s no way that’s a town with so few people (from a UK perspective)
Very detailed, thanks :)
No thanks, America is already confusing enough 👍
A) No, I like my jacket too much. Also I’d just die.
B) Also no. All I carry with me is phone, keys, wallet - all of which are useless on their own.
C) I think I’d like to give this a go. I have a couple of weeks of food in the house, I’ve got all my books. Kinda sucks not having electric once the batteries die - we have solar panels but they’re on a shed roof so all I’d get to take is the batteries and inverter! I’d expect to find potatoes in Peru which I could recognise and know how to turn into food, plus I know (in theory) how to test which plants are edible. My main concerns would be not speaking the language and not having the right skin colour. But I often think about whether it would be fun to live in the wilderness in prehistoric times (or I guess 1300s Peru…) and if I get to keep my books too, that sounds great! I’d probably die in a couple of years, especially if I try to stay alone, but why not try it?
None of the top officials want their skeletons coming out.
I don’t want my skeleton coming out either, I’m using it
It’s ok, you definitely won’t do it again. I’m sure you’ve learned your lesson
When scarcity happens, people become selfish, it’s survival of the strongest, and everything falls off the rails and naturally goes to capitalism and hoarding resources.
I take huge exception to this. That is absolutely not the case in my experience. Poor people are often much more generous with their time and resources than rich people. Any given billionaire could give up 1% of their wealth to end hunger in their country, but they don’t. Rich people could give up their holiday homes and empty rental properties to end homelessness, but they don’t. And yet poor people will volunteer in food co-ops, donate to homeless shelters, work extra hours to provide for their families.
naturally goes to capitalism
Capitalism is only around 300 years old, it is absolutely NOT a natural state of affairs for humans. It’s just another way of arranging the economy like mercantilism or socialism.
It’s required by law in Ireland that you wake up every 30minutes to pray and curse England. You might as well check your emails since you’re awake anyway