We killed the christian god and all we got was a lousy.... uuuh, hang on, what if ever good did the guy do that wasn't covered by anygod else? Hmmm... Hypocrisy maybe?

I'm not the young spring chicken I used to be and I find myself appreciating the trekking poles more and more. Having the extra stability on rough or narrow sections makes me safer and they make a big difference to my knees on long downhill sections. Highly recommend

Practical effects in Carpenter's remake of The Thing are hard to beat

Nope. I'll be cremated or eaten raw. It's going to be hype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5IB3ac0Gcw

To predownload everything, you had to run it with a -image launch parameter. So if you "just downloaded the thing", you probably used the normal streaming approach of it downloading stuff on demand.

I strongly suspect the plan is for there to ever be any such reconstruction. Or people left who could benefit from it.

It's hilarious and tragic that you feel attacked. While projecting that on others ("Feel called out?"/"I feel attacked!")

Asexual is a spectrum. On one end, you've got the people that don't want to cuddle or hold hands, and on the other end, you've got the people that will have sex, but find it about as exciting as brushing your teeth. Not saying OP is or is not ace, but that the asexual community might have people who align with their sexual preferences.

"wrong amount" is a bold statement

Furries. As a furry myself I don't get the hate

Have you tried this: -> You suggest [specific activity] -> They suggest alteration -> You say, "I actually really want to do [specific activity] this time, but we can do [their suggestion] next time!" -> (1) They agree. Else (2) They insist on changing it -> You ask why they don't want to do your suggestion -> They hopefully have an explanation you can understand so you either feel better about changing the activity, or you go to the activity alone and do their suggestion with them another time (both are just as good!) There's nothing rude about planning something and inviting people to the activity. If they don't want to join they can say no and you're still allowed to follow through with your plan. Suggestions for activities to do on your own where your current friends can join if they want but you can also do alone and meet new people at the activity: cooking class, dancing class, amateur theater/improv, book club (I'm sure there are open book clubs to join at your local library, or you can ask the librarians to put up a flyer and start one... I do 1-on-1 book clubs with different friends at different times when we figure out a book we want to read. We just set a chapter goal and call once or twice a week to check in on each others progress and yap about our thoughts on the book so far. Not every activity needs to include the whole friend group every time - they're all unique persons with different interests and time availability), join an orientation club, volunteer somewhere (I like animal shelters, but might be more interaction with other volunteers at something aimed at humans or political/societal), visit an orchard and pick seasonal fruit/veggies (may not be super social with strangers) join a hiking tour, especially likely to be social if it's over several days, go to concerts and festivals, go to a meetup/show for motorcycles or old cars or something (initiate socialising by asking questions about, and giving people compliments on, what they brought to show off (car, MC, vinyl collection) )

Seek help mate

I don’t go to business meetings anymore, so maybe it’s still going strong, but I feel like the wave has kind of crested on using “ask” as a noun. Like, “that’s a big ask,” or, “my ask of you is this.” I know that nouns get verbed and verbs get nouned all the time in popular usage and normally I’m totally fine with it. Impact as a verb never bothered me, for instance. But for some reason ask as a noun was always super annoying to me.

Same goes for him.