Thymos

• I usually sit on the couch sideways with two pillows in my back. I have a reading light now that I face towards the book. That made a big difference since I no longer have to stretch my neck to see the page.
  Back in university I had to read two books a week, that was tough. To stay concentrated I would sit at a desk or table with bright lights on.
• I mostly read at night now, after my boyfriend has gone to sleep. He’s sweet and all, but can be very loud and distracting, so reading is practically impossible if he’s around. It sucks, but hey.
• I rarely take notes, but if I do it’s in my note app on my phone. Which is kinda annoying, and might be why I don’t take many notes…
• I don’t have a recommendation, but what I noticed myself about reading difficult material is that I sometimes lack some prerequisite knowledge. The book itself usually doesn’t make this explicit of course, but it can help to read a summary of the book first or a Wikipedia page about the topic before going in.

False dichotomy? The host pretends that the only options are “We need to keep I.C.E.” and “we abolish I.C.E. and let children be raped”. There are of course plenty of other options, but he just keeps shouting this point as if there aren’t.

Great that you started reading again! I had also been on a hiatus for a few years and picked it up again last winter. It took me a while to find stuff I enjoy reading and sometimes I still choose books that aren’t right for me, but I’ve learned that it’s okay to just not finish a book. If I’m not enjoying it, why continue? There are so many books out there, there is bound to be a better one.

Still reading Helm by Sarah Hall. It’s good. I’d never heard of her before until I saw this book at the local bookshop and was intrigued. I’m glad I bought it and will probably read more by her.

It’s a slow read though. Partly because there are more words I don’t know than in other books, and partly because I just wasn’t to savour it.

Ah, I didn’t know he had explained that, thanks. That’s a very manipulative way to go about things. Glad it was discovered.

guys and gals who have not had the ability to read or predict social cues nor understand how some acts will look like for outsiders.

I guess the dev in question here is either young or on the spectrum. Both are alright and we all make mistakes.

Definitely, even if old and neurotypical, we all make mistakes. And that’s okay.

I’m not sure how much of a mistake this was, though. Why would they hide the banlist in such a way if they weren’t worried about social repercussions? Wouldn’t they just proudly announce it as a great new feature, especially if they lacked social tact? It seems to me the only reason to obscure your actions like this is precisely because you’re worried you might stir up a shitstorm.

But maybe there’s another explanation for hiding the list that I can’t think of.

Well, my feedback: it wasn’t clear to me what “the couch” meant, only when I read it here in your explanation. I clicked around a bit on your website but couldn’t find it. Maybe I’m just dumb (a couch can’t do anything, of course, but then how did it buy stock in the first place?), but I don’t know much about stock trading so I thought it was a term I didn’t know.

Other than that it plays well and gets the point across, which is nice in a game. I also like the look, well done.

Honestly this doesnt add anything

Yes it does. It tells us the kind of person this is, namely someone who doesn’t give a fuck about anything or anyone else. Therefore his opinion is worthless.

And in case you haven’t noticed: everything is about climate change.

I just finished Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. It was a fun read, interesting to read something that old and I really liked Austen’s sense of humor. I don’t think I will read another one of her books though, at least not soon, because the whole “oh my goodness, when can I see him again, he asked me to dance with him” schtick was too much for me.

And right after that I started Helm by Sarah Hall. I’m not far in yet, but it’s really interesting. It’s about a wind (the meteorological phenomenon, not flatulence) whose name is Helm.

The only problem is I have a serious cold at the moment, so I can’t read now. (This comment took me ten minutes to type in between sneezes.) I hope tomorrow’s better.

I’m now reading Rebecca. It is good. Well-written, interesting story.

On the one hand I totally understand the main character’s feelings and actions, but on the other I sometimes want to scream at her to do something, anything other than what she is doing. This is a good lesson for myself…

I live there. Car-free neighbourhoods are very rare here. I live in a big city and there isn’t a single one. So don’t get your hopes up.

Also, the Netherlands is very densely populated. It’s hard to really get away from society and even in national parks it’s hard to find a place where you don’t hear the constant background noise of traffic. And it’s only getting worse.

I’m currently reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. It’s my third Poirot novel after Murder on the Orient Express and Murder on the River Nile. I think it will be my last.

They’re fun books and well-written, but also very much alike. And that Poirot guy is getting on my nerves…

After this I have Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier waiting for me. I read it when I was a teenager when I found a copy from the forties lying around and even though it was a little too hard for me, I remember liking it. I’m curious to see how I’ll like it now.

I think what is exceptional for English is that negation and forming a question require a modal verb. You can say “I love apples” but not “*I not love apples”, nor “*Love I apples?”. This is rare in a language. (An exception for negation could be “Apples, I love not”, but this does not sound like everyday speech.)

I often go to what are called little libraries. They’re just small book cases outside that are freely accessible to anyone. You can borrow books, sometimes keep the books and donate books. There a lot of bad books in them, but also a lot of wonderful titles to be found. You can find more info, including a map with locations, here.

Do you mean Grow Cube?

For anyone like me who didn’t know about the Stockholm Telephone Exchange Tower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Stockholm_telephone_tower

“If you want to launch a game, and get it as widely publicized as possible, you’ve got to put it on Steam so people can wish list it, and if you want to play it on Steam, then you have to get this Scarlet Letter of AI attached to your product

You don’t have to, just don’t use A.I. Easy.

It’s available on archive.org. I might read this next, thanks!

I’d prefer a [HUMAN] tag for projects without A.I. But yes, tags would be welcome.

Marriage is something for the wealthy. If you live on welfare in my country and you get married or share a household, you get less money. Also, if you want to marry a foreigner, you need to earn a minimum amount of money, which is unobtainable for a lot of people. This is on purpose to make sure we get less “poor foreigners” here. So marriage is not and never will be for me.