I basically made masking a hyperfixation for a while, until I had a good enough grasp of NT social interaction that I could drop the mask more and more. Then I just came across as cool, confident, and interesting when I was doing my own thing. It’s kind of a “Learn the rules so you can break them” situation. NT conventions aren’t really all that complicated if you devote a bit of time to study. If you can steer your fixations at all, it’s worth the investment so you can get on with your life with fewer interruptions.

His son actually further developed the experimental dance therapy into the practice of mental karate.

NOWAI

Just because a question was posed rhetorically doesn’t mean the answer is as forgone as the asker assumed.

Publication order is probably fine, though it takes a few books for him to settle into his general story structure. It’s not the only way, and unless you’re going to sprint through them in relatively quick succession it’s probably not the best way, as you may get lost in some of the focused character development.

This is a bit of an open question. Most of the books center around one or another subgroup of characters (City Watch, the wizards, the witches, Death, etc.), although there’s some overlap. The way I’ve been going through seems to be roughly the agreed upon “best” way: choose one of these sub-groups and read all the books that center around them in order, then move on to another.

Those sub-series are relatively self-contained, so I think you get more from exploring a theme from beginning to end than jumping from theme to theme. There are several tie-ins, but I don’t think they’re substantial enough to agonize over missing context.

Personally, I’d either start with Guards! Guards! or Going Postal, as they’re the beginnings of the more grounded sub-series and give you a good foundation of the world in general, and Ankh-Morpork in particular. But as long as you’re not skipping ahead in a sub-series, you should be fine.

I was gonna make a joke, but then I read the article and

After serving enlisted in the United States Air Force, Eiffel entered the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1993. In her first year, she was sexually assaulted by another cadet, but thwarted the attack with a training sword. She was subsequently dismissed from the Academy with a personality disorder: “I really felt that the only way for me to sleep is if I was holding onto something, like my sword, because that was the one thing that protected me. And it just got worse,” she said.

kinda takes the fun out of it

TIHI

This is a horrible policy, the consequences of imperceptible yaks are disastrous to our economy and public safety. Recriminalize it.

When I played a leveled system, typically we’d start at level 1 but the first few sessions would each end in a level up.

Llama, bonobo, elephant(it ate some of my mail)

Most nights I sleep on the cheap, hard futon couch I’ve had since college. If I sleep in my actual bed too many nights in a row, my back starts to get stiff.

When did Harris bomb Iran?

Harris would not have done the same, so yes voting would have prevented it. Not voting did not prevent the genocide in Gaza. So you accomplished nothing, and things got worse.

Ad-hominem all you want, your opinion has no value whatsoever. Grow up and think about something besides virtue signaling for once.

Life has many doors, Ed-boy

Braindead bad faith take. Who’s gloating? It’s tragic. This could have been prevented.

I don’t support either of those things, but they’re happening either way. Hence why I voted for the one poised to do less. Unfortunately, not enough people did the same thing, and now we’re bombing Iran. I guess you won. Congrats?

Who is the DNC mass murdering right now? The government is controlled by Republicans right now. The Democrats losing the election did not end the genocide in Gaza, in many ways it’s gotten even worse. And now Republicans are doing additional terrible things that the Democrats would not have done.

You care more about posturing and virtue signaling your purity than you care about other countries. Everything is worse now but at least you didn’t compromise.

What was bipartisan about it? It’s actually a perfect example of my point.

Prefacing a statement deserving of valid criticism with an assertion that critics are bad does not make the criticism invalid.

And genocide marches on, entirely unaffected by your lack of support. Good thing there weren’t any other policies “blue maga” differed on, right?