Personally I’m super disinterested in plotlines that suddenly shift and have the main female character desperate to reproduce, or happy about falling pregnant unexpectedly, even, perhaps especially, when it’s wildly out of character for her badass self as she’s written, or makes no sense at all given the circumstances.

So obnoxious and overdone. And so very very lazy, because it’s almost never well-written, it’s just pandering nonsense. I straight up stop watching shows that pull that shit.

Probably a lot of it is the long term maintenance involved with trees. Both at a personal and municipal level.

We recently had a tornado touch down in a place that doesn’t normally get them, and we lost a lot of really big old trees, some planted long before the roads were paved the first time, and that did a ton of damage to the infrastructure, as well as just sucking in general for all the damage they did to houses. And insurance companies were… not super great.

Additionally, there is a need to do regular maintenance to keep clear power lines and such, clean up leaves, trim branches, whatever else, making it less attractive financially/time wise, even though it would increase wellbeing all around.

I don’t see that as a particularly valid reason, personally… there’s a park, about an acre and a half, in the middle of the boring part of my town that was put in a few years back as a veteran memorial because the land is otherwise pretty worthless (with the stupid way we have set society up - it’s actually incredibly valuable real-estate for microshops in a human-centric design). Nobody ever goes to it, because there’s no shade, despite the lovely expensive granite benches, and its central location. The town doesn’t want to pay to maintain more trees, because we already have a lot of them in other, bigger (thus more localized) parks. If they put 2-5 strategically-selected-and-placed trees in now, along with a water retention soil amendment to avoid watering, it would be a nice little local green space park people would walk to in as little as a decade, but they haven’t planted anything but non-native bulb-type flowers that even our pollinators don’t like, so nobody will ever use it. I wouldn’t mind paying more in tax to responsibly green up the area, but they don’t even want to bother trying.

Same with towns/neighborhoods with no trees, they tend to kinda suck to be in. I can’t imagine not having trees in my yard, or immediately around my place if I was renting (I used to rent a place with like 6 big shade trees around the buildings, that was nice). I’d plant some if they weren’t already there, tho I’m adding 4 more to my tiny lot as soon as the easement is nullified! Free food trees (apple, plum, and pear) yeah! But my big tree will -absolutely- wipe out my house if it comes down in a storm, it’s a 150yo oak about 10 feet from the side of my house. The absolute best case scenario if it comes down… is it splits in half and only takes out the front room and living room (empty rooms at night). I’m leaving it, despite having damage because of it that tornado, but I understand my neighbors taking theirs down when they lost a big branch and had to deal with home damage. And I get not planting new ones after that, tho I disagree with it.

I had a weird case of ringworm a while back that wasn’t touched by otc meds either, it didn’t look like rings with the red outer (I was a wrestler for years; I’m very familiar with ringworm), it looked like tight-skin scar patches and just kept spreading, but my partner had a totally typical presentation and otc creams did work for that. Then again the redness being absent may have been from the otc meds, they just couldn’t clear it.

I went to urgent care and asked for an oral antifungal once I hit 20 spots including on my scalp. The guy looked at it and said it was psoriasis, even tho I had no history of that, because “it would be an atypical presentation of ringworm” (yes but would this not also be a strongly atypical presentation of psoriasis, considering I’m late-30s, never had a flare before, this doesn’t itch, isn’t red, and isn’t limited to the normal regions of flares?? Just give me the damned med, moron.)

The oral antifungal took care of it in about 2 weeks, thankfully, which was still a bit longer than a normal round (had to go back for a second round)

I feel like the point of that in it takes two is communication. It’s pretty heavy-handed in the whole “sort out your shit amongst yourselves” theme, and it’s sort of meant as a way for a gamer to get a non-gamer into gaming, so you’d have one person with the skillz leading the other through challenges.

Or at least that’s how it played out with me. The person I was playing with is also a gamer but not really environmental/puzzle games (and easily frustrated) so it was sort of playing around with what to do and walking each other through - calling out timing and stuff, etc.

It’s a very interesting take on co-op, imho.

If you like small people in huge environments, exploring, and not being super hand-held, tinykin is a cute game, not super long, it does sort of a bit guide you through some major things but not in a particularly obnoxious way. Mostly just exploring on your own. :)

I don’t have anything to add to this, except my mother was going to name me Elsbeth. I’m glad she didn’t, but this is the first time I’ve come across that name in the wild in my entire life (almost 40).

Women/female bodies basically stop growing entirely about 2 years after menarche (first period), regardless when that hits. And once menarche hits they only grow another 1-3 inches, typically.

For some girls, myself included, menarche was around 9 years old (the historical normal age of menarche was around 15 years, as far as we can tell, and that age has been going down in modern history) meaning I didn’t really get a chance to grow before my body stopped being able to do so. I have not grown since I was 12. Had I been able to delay puberty by a few years, I may have ended up average instead of 2 standard deviations below average. On the plus side I can wear kids stuff sometimes.

Male puberty doesn’t work that way quite as dramatically, since puberty includes growth spurts through the early-mid 20s, but eventual adult height for men is still based on the height they are when the growth spurts start.

Here’s a really surface level resource that explains further about female puberty if you are interested in learning more.

https://www.familyeducation.com/teens/puberty-sex/do-girls-stop-growing-when-they-get-their-period

Despite being cis myself, I wish I had the option to delay my puberty a couple years. I stopped growing at 12, and am very short. Even another 2 inches would have only put me in the “almost average” category.

It’s something that doesn’t harm anyone and allows kids to choose another aspect of who they want to be as adults. I’m here for it.

This is mine too. Smells like weed to me.

Be interesting to see what scotus does with it, as it will almost certainly end up there, but I don’t really have high hopes of a good outcome…

“We”…?

Look, I know we are all on this planet together and stuff, but the vast majority of us aren’t doing anything at all that depletes resources at a too-fast rate.

Sure, most people in developed countries have some things they could do in their daily lives to be more efficient, like being a no-scrap-left-behind sort, and if they can practically implement those changes they absolutely should, but that actually makes an insanely small difference in the grand scheme, and requires a ton of individual effort, which makes any change unlikely to stick.

Instead, let’s look at the individuals (rich people) and companies (most companies) who are using more than a reasonable share of the resources, and force us as consumers and employees to use more (throw-away culture via product design, commute especially via private transportation, dress codes, etc.) and, you know, make them stop doing that…? If we did that, and made some changes to infrastructure/zoning/public transit, individual change would necessarily follow with very little individual effort, and thus be more likely to succeed.

I just finished the Lego Harry Potter games… kinda old, but with the next horizon game being a Lego game I figured I should give them a fair shake. I love horizon, and I want to like the next incarnation.

TBH I’m not really a fan of the Lego games. They are ok, but I don’t really like the format of rush to the end to unlock what you need to then go back through and collect all the things you can’t collect the first go around.

Next on the list is the Lego movie games, there’s actual dialogue and some of the mechanics seem like what they would use for aloy… so probably a good next step.

I’ve also got marvel, city undercover, worlds, and some real old Star Wars Wii games. The Harry Potter ones are the first I’ve managed to finish.