Kind of an aside, but for an Apple Music users, there is an "Apple Music Classical" app now. Inside the app there are a series of kind of podcast format selections called "The Story of Classical."
It includes episodes on the Baroque Era, the Romantic Era, etc. The narrator gives some history, hits on some of the major composers, pieces, and themes, and adds some flavor.
I've been working my way through them, and I've really enjoyed all of them. Highly recommend. Probably about 9-10 hours of content.
Toss Bezos in the ring too! Make it pay per view. I've never paid to watch a fight in my life, but I'll shell out for this!
newfag is inaccurate.
Yes, if true (and it seems likely to be true), a coverup should be punished.
First baby, wife had been in labor for about 20 hours. Baby's heart rate was dropping, and everyone was getting very tense. The baby crowned but didn't move much further, and we were minutes away from an emergency c-section. There was fluid (and more), everywhere, wife was screaming and sweating, it was fucking brutal.
Baby comes out, wife is so out of it from the pain and exhaustion she had this 1000-yard stare for a couple of minutes before she snapped out of it (had refused all medicines). She was also bleeding quite badly from a tear when the baby came out.
In retrospect, it was a fairly typical delivery, baby was healthy, mom was healthy, we left the hospital on the usual schedule, etc.
Giving birth is quite literally a link to the human condition that is shared by all humans since the beginning.
There are simply too many unknowns here, but ALL law suits have two sides. It sounds absolutely horrific, and it IS absolutely horrific. Let's not lose site of the fact that a child is dead, and a mother and father have lost their baby.
There are no doubt many factors. Quite obese mother and (statistically speaking given her weight) a highly likelihood of gestational diabetes, both of which are major risk factors for pregnancy problems. G.D. babies are sometimes just so fat they can't get out.
The Dr was not an employee of the hospital and has been practicing for 20+ years.
Maybe she was 100% negligent and 100% to blame, and maybe it was a one in a 100 million freak accident. I feel bad for all involved.
If the doctor is to blame, one hopes for jail time.
I'm open to the idea of a relationship if I find someone worthwhile, and I've been on a few dates, but I can't see the appeal of most women today. They're all take and no give and, as a single parent, I have no time for games.
Probably best for your kids. I've known some people single parenting who try to go on dates, shack up etc., and it often turns into a disaster for all involved.
As for fun, these days I'm into guerilla gardening.
..Guerrila gardening?
I never wanted kids for most of my life and am still pretty indifferent on that now... For whatever reason like the whole dream of a wife and kids just wasn't really ever there for me for the most part anyway. Perhaps at times as I get older.
It's interesting. I always wanted to have children. I clearly remember having a conversation in highschool where some of the guys were like "hell no, I'd never have kids" and I felt the exact opposite.
There may be no rhyme or reason behind it...just something that you're into or you're not.
Sincerely good luck! While I love coding, I don't think I could ever get all the different pieces together to make a game. Anyone who can juggle the media, design, coding, and business sides deserves a ton of respect!
I hate to ask this, but are you worried either about getting doxed or about people coming across your name on this site and then slandering you and your games elsewhere?
I saw your other post but didn't respond.
I'm in my 40s, relationship started RIGHT before apps got huge. Wife and I met in a grad school program. Shared interests, shared classes, etc. We had chemistry, hit it off, went from there. I had gone through undergrad with exactly zero sexual female relationships. I was very much white knight nice guy friendzone, and it SUCKED. Literally incel. I kind of reinvented myself when I went to grad school, and it was good.
It took me until my late 20s to figure out how to get in shape and eat healthily (and cook), and that was huge too. I would highly encourage all men to take charge of your health and your body, starting with what you eat.
Neither wife or I are 10/10s--nor are we disgusting ham planets. I'd say we're basically just normal people. I would not have done well in the app world.
What do we like to do? A lot of hiking. Daytrip somewhere over the weekends to a lake or a beach or some trails. Nothing expensive or fancy, just being outside.
I've spent time in the past on redpill, marriedredpill, etc. I think there are pieces of very good information, but there are a lot of depressed and angry people. If you allow yourself to fall too deeply into the anger and blackpill, what's the point?
I'm not MGTOW, but I respect the position.
I worry for my Gen Alpha children.
I really don't disagree with you at all.
In the 90s, my memories of D&D were pretty much just that the same nerdy kids who played video games and were in to science fiction and fantasy ALSO played D&D. My group was 100% male (briefly had one girl, and her presence almost made the whole thing fall apart due to thirst), 100% straight, etc. We were just nerds.
We often had a kind of persecution mentality. The cool kid and girls and others at school made of nerds, so we accepted anyone else who didn't quite fit in.
And yeah, that's basically the story of how D&D turned into a hobby for social misfits rather than people who were into the roleplaying and fantasy elements. Gatekeeping would have been nice, but D&D was kind of set up, at least in my experience, to be anti-gatekeeping. We were desperate for more people!
FUCK Unitarians.
These weren't Unitarians. I don't know how common they are elsewhere, but these small house churches, often rent space in a gym or a stripmall or something, are pretty common across the south. They tend to be run by a charismatic preacher who preaches against denominations (while at the same time making his/her own church pretty much a denomination). A lot of variation in them, but my friend's family group one was pretty whack
Woot, my perpetually-tired-looking-even-when-you're-not brother!
Aka a lefty church. It wasn't rightwing.
Don't think so. Could never do anything on a Sunday. Called Catholics non-Christian satanists. Thought D&D and MtG were Satan inspired. Weekly Bible study and Greek study, Biblical inerrancy and literalism, etc.
They were far out there and crazy, but I can't think of anything lefty about what they believed. Both the kids hate Christians today.
I don't think it's at all anti-Christian to acknowledge that there are some groups and sects that ARE a problem. Search for an Ex-Jehovah's Witness group for instance. Jehovah's Witnesses are, in my opinion, doing damge to Christianity as a whole.
the same people who raised two faggots
Well, they raised one "bi" female who was craaaaaazy (and crazy smart) until she settled down in her mid-30s and married a dull normie. So there's that.
I'm not Catholic, but I told a friend recently that I had found a church that performed one Latin Mass a week, and I was excited to check it out--I've always wanted to see a very traditional Latin mass.
You would have thought I had grown horns and a tail. They started going off about evil conservatives in the Catholic church, homophobes, misogynists, pedophiles, etc. It was crazy.
It's not a myth. My parents didn't much care about stuff, but my best friend's family went to a non-denominational church that did convince people D&D was satanic. It didn't stop my friend from playing, but he couldn't buy any of the books, and had to keep it secret.
Later his mom because a told SJW leftoid crazy. She went from one end of the crazy spectrum to the other. Actually, not uncommon. Crazies gonna crazy.
There are some good books, but my kids read a lot of older stuff.
The "Who Was..." book series is pretty good.
I have a ton of recommendations of books for boy children.
Some other favorites
A British Tar (Data/Picard): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kXyLMWdqw
Abdul Abulbul Amir (Data/Lore): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS543JUiPeA
Somewhat similar vein...
Ode to Spot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SySZdvsFYt4
(I have not seen SNW, so no idea what the musical episode or what not is. I do want to see the Lower Decks crossover.)
Literally crying.
Haha, I remember you saying you would buy a steak, and I'm glad you followed through!!
IMHO, it was .... meh. I mean, there was nothing in it that I hated. I mostly just found it totally bland and unwatchably boring.
They genderswapped a somewhat main character (Kynes) for no reason, didn't show another early key character (Feyd-Rautha), they have the classic thing that all movies have now where bad guys HAVE TO TALK IN WEIRD ECHOEY MONSTER VOICES LIKE BANE which is annoying and pointless.
I found the casting incredibly uninspired. None of the characters had any chemistry or on screen charisma. Maybe Jason Moamoa?
Paul Atreides is supposed to be a strong youth who has been trained in combat from a young age. Timothee Chalamet just looks like a pussy twink who hangs out at the record store and wears skinny jeans. Zendaya, boring. Thufir Hawat, boring. Duke Leo and Jessica--I honestly don't even remember them at all.
It wasn't offensive, just bland and boring. The only thing it had going for it was pretty tight cinematography and sets. Those were pretty great.
Hey, it worked for the Kennedys. Cough, Chappaquiddick, cough.
What's the surprise? Evangelical Christians have hard a hardon for Israel before there even was an Israel. Why do you think both the religious right (Evangelical Christians) and left (Jews) support Israel?
You've got to remember that the religion of the white leftists is self-flagellation and inborn guilt for the sins of the fathers. They do not believe in freewill or salvation. Only guilt. These are the same fruitcakes who, during the Black Death, would have walked from town to town, whipping themselves bloody as a way to seek God's mercy (and spreading the plague all the while).
"Ocean Mottley"
Apparently (Linkedin) he is "attorney & Counselor, labor & employment law, criminal defense & re-entry services, tax, and family law"
Also
Ocean Mottley began training martial arts at Suigetsukan in 1999. He found the dojo through the Free Skool at the Long Haul (Berkeley). He took his first class as a requirement for a women’s studies class [Politics of Sexual Violence] at City College of San Francisco that he was enrolled in along with Sensei Tim Sheehan. He holds the rank of Yondan in Danzan Ryu Jujutsu. His home school is Suigetsukan, and he has trained at Shinbukan and Redding Jujitsu Academy. He also holds the rank of Sankyu in Judo and has trained at UC Berkeley, UCLA, City College of San Francisco, Hollywood Judo, and Modern Combatives where he also trained in Muay Thai and competed in four smokers. He began teaching classes in 2006 and has also worked with Girl Army.
I don't know a ton about classical, and I've found them really fun to listen to. I haven't finished all of them yet, but I would highly recommend.
After the podcast recommend it AND the movies post here recommended it, I now have the movie "Amadeus" on my watch list too.