Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. A psychologist is sent to a station in orbit around a planet covered by a sentient ocean to determine if research on it should continue. Lem’s work consistently blows my mind, actually–other favorites are His Master’s Voice (memoirs of a mathematician working on a project to decipher what might be a message from extraterrestrials) and Peace on Earth (an adventurer returns from a trip to the moon with his brain bisected, and the half that remembers what happened is both unable and unwilling to communicate it).

This isn’t a map of countries’ largest trading partners, it’s a map showing whether the US or China is the larger trading partner for each country

It’s Nastume’s Book of Friends for me

I don’t know if this question was rhetorical but Kim likes it when you make level-headed decisions and say correct things about the case. Basically, he likes it when you have your shit together. On the flip side, he doesn’t like it when you insult people or behave recklessly. If you really want a reference, you can search the variables on fayde–ReputationGrows(“Kim”) and ReputationLowers(“Kim”)–to see which dialogue options will affect your reputation. You can’t go into his room until after the tribunal, but I think you can go in regardless of what he thinks about you.

The kind of name you’re going for will obviously depend on your genre, but I used the method described here [https://rpubs.com/tarakc02/name-project-1] to build a fake name generator. It occasionally comes up with something really out there, and occasionally comes up with a name that actually exists in real life, but for the most part it gives a lot of good fake names that sound reasonable enough for it to be easy on the reader. I also like behindthename’s random name generator [behindthename.com/random/] because you can get interesting, unique names that are still plausible for real people. When neither of these is satisfactory, I look up lists of small towns and borrow one of their names.

I thought he was just going to lend it to me for a minute… I thought I would be able to give it back to him after… I wanted to give the pen back please believe me lieutenant

The true meaning of christmas is making my whole family eat my cooking

check out HerbMessiah on youtube, they have some cool guides on movement and weapon tech

Check out the divide new york caucus, it’s hilarious

Now take a break

I take every chance I get to recommend Dark Water (2002). It’s a supernatural movie that takes advantage of our inherent fear of drowning, but more importantly, it’s about the main character’s struggle to hold onto her daughter in the face of the paranormal events she’s experiencing, the paranoia they’re causing her, and a custody battle with her ex in the aftermath of their divorce. Maybe I was just going through a hard time when I first watched it, but it had me in tears

frog and cranberries it must be fall

I like Aldi but I wish I could get tofu there

I haven’t seen it, thanks for the rec

Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972). Easily one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. It’s available for free on YouTube with subtitles in English and a few other languages. Silent Running (Trumbull, 1972). This movie inspired the original set of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It’s not a masterpiece but it made me really emotional. The Fly (Neumann, 1958). A classic in sci-fi horror. There’s a 1986 remake by Cronenberg, but I can’t vouch for it as I haven’t seen that version yet. Asteroid City (Anderson, 2023). Very Wes Anderson. Made my eyes hurt when I saw it in the theater. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968). A visually stunning classic featuring evil robots. M3GAN (Johnstone, 2022). A horror story with a sci-fi premise. I like when robots get to be completely selfish.

You’re right. I overreacted out of frustration, but it’s true that misogyny is not a necessary part of manhood, and that men can and should be educated out of it. We CAN hold them accountable, and we do need to, but I’m frustrated that it rarely happens. Most people seem to think that misogyny is not a big deal

How so? Misogyny is not inherent to being a man, but when men are surrounded by a culture that insists they’re better than women by virtue of being men, they come to believe it

Men actually believe that they feel emotions more deeply and genuinely than women do. There’s not a man alive who doesn’t think women are beneath him.

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The main cast of Eternal Punishment is adults, and although it suffers from making Maya a silent protagonist when she was such a dynamic character in Innocent Sin, the themes of self-discovery remain very much intact. As a follow-up to Innocent Sin, where high schoolers make heavy sacrifices for the sake of the world, Eternal Punishment shifts the perspective to adults who think, “those are just kids, they shouldn’t have to deal with this.” (i like persona 2)