Yeah, I recognize him easily. I have this lightbulb memory of learning that a friend of mine was playing piano when I heard him perfectly play the piano melody to “Feel”

It’s one of those things where the royal family has no actual political power vested in them, yet at the same time this particular king and queen has used their royal influence to better people’s lives wherever they can.

Like, even if they have no power, being king and queen turns heads, and they’ve used this to make sure people are heard, people are unified and important things come to light.

They’ve highlighted the importance of diversity, gay rights, religious freedoms and all that entails. This king has used his influence to right the wrongs he’s seen in how indigenous people have been treated, they’ve travelled to areas after natural disasters to help with relief work while in rubber boots and work jackets while the areas were still dangerous. Left the fancy suit and stuff at home and went out to help.

For Norway, I think a lot of people see the king as their kind grandpa who still believed in the good in the hearts of the people. That grandpa who didn’t become more radicalized the older he got. The kind of man who listened to his son’s girlfriend’s troubled past full of poor choices and still said “No problem. You’re still welcome here.”

I think the world is a little bit poorer without him, even if I mostly don’t like monarchs and monarchies. Power doesn’t corrupt as much as it reveals, and with him, I feel it revealed a man with strong morals and a good heart. He also says he has full faith in his son to continue that work and that spirit, and even though his family is very controversial, I want to believe in the late king’s judgement.

But yeah, hereditary monarchies ARE weird as fuck, but they can also be used for good.

Odd thing to ask, but does nonverbal in this context mean more than just “quiet”? I’m assuming it’s muteness due to stress?

Wish I could tell you. I don’t remember

Don’t think so. Think it was just the pic

Zamn! I remember seeing that fox girl some odd 15 years ago. Musta awoken something in me…

Yeah, you raise a good point there. I am not a huge social media person either, so I was kind of under the impression that instagram would be at the very least a little bit better than twitter, but I concede that it’s entirely based on vibes.

Maybe it’s for advertisers or start-ups who want to figure out where the biggest audience is?

But then again, how do we know these numbers aren’t just bots?

Guess it’s a weird side thing for me. On the one hand, I probably won’t use this knowledge for anything, but I’m glad to have heard it, if nothing else. Weird.

I think a lot of people are struggling to make the switch because “everyone is on twitter”. A YSK like this might help people see that it really isn’t true, and you can absolutely make the switch.

Completely agree with climate town. Very well sourced, and important messaging

The headline is inflammatory, but the article just boils down to “Feedback might be that a class is boring, but the solution isn’t necessarily tweaking the class itself. Rather tweaking the progression systems or other tangentially related systems could be the solution.”

Which seems level headed to me

An enemy killing you right off the bat to set the stage for immortality and resurrection being a game mechanic seems like a somewhat odd thing to get hung up on to me, plus judge the whole game from.

I mean, if you continued for a while and then realized that the gameplay wasn’t for you, that’s fine, but you said you quit after the first enemy. I have a feeling the game might not be for you, but it also sounds like you didn’t really give it a fair shake either

Celeste and Silk Song?

I suppose we’ll see, but if the numbers were real, seems 15% still bought physical. I’m one of those. I pretty much only buy games physically. I wouldn’t mind if they kept selling the mountain bike (disc drive) and let others maintain the roads of their own volition. (Super rare games, etc.)

Huh? What is this analogy? Doesn’t make sense to me. In this case, your mountain bike provider is the sole provider of courses in the world and is now deciding to get rid of all off-road courses. Only asphalt remains.

I’d argue that that is exactly what you voted for. The option to still have physical media.

You may well have been buying mostly digital games, but you DID buy the console with a disk drive for a reason.

I KNOW humanity is awesome! It’s also really fucking terrible, but I cannot allow myself to become jaded either. I like helping others, I like to see people happy, and what goes around definitely comes around.

Small acts of kindness are hugely important, and I’ve known people whom I’ve shown what I thought were standard care for, burst into tears for being so nice to them.

Your small acts may mean heaps for others.

If a teacher gives you this question, I can guarantee it’s a way to make every answer correct, and the teacher is doing it to amuse themselves a bit :P

Two come to mind here, neither are bad.

Dune and The Lord of the Rings.

I suspect these two to be exceptions to the rule of thumb you’re proposing though, but I can’t actually think of any that does this poorly.

Got any examples?

I think that sounds fair.

It might not be illegal to not have a filter, but if your lack of filter makes you unpleasant to be around, then others might not want to be around you.

I completely agree… but… Isn’t that exactly what a filter is though?