I believe you are acting way too definitive about something rather unknowable.

For example, what is Aphantasia then?

I’m in the “inner monologue” camp. Most of what I think materialises as thought words. I don’t have to move anything in my throat to do that unlike OP though, I can think in words without mumbling to myself.

But I know the voice can’t be all. It’s difficult for me to think in words while actively saying something, but I can have new thoughts while speaking. Sometimes, I get interrupted in thinking mid-sentence, but then I return to that sentence to finish it because… it’s just satisfying? It’s not that I learn anything new.

I feel like I don’t have very much imagination any more. Its hard to produce images in my mind, not impossible but I do have to concentrate - remembering images is easier.

Weirdly, way harder to me: imagining a voice. Inner voice is what I sound like to myself, I can remember and replay songs and quotes as I heard them, but having any voice say anything is hard, especially female voices. Went through some examples in my head couldn’t make anyone say anything - until I thought to make different tf2 mercs sing “Oh Canada”, that somehow worked despite me definitely not having heard that before. Brains are weird.

OpenTTD. Trains go vroom.

Had it on my radar for a while, didn’t think I would like it this much. Boy was I wrong, my sleep is as badly scheduled as my trains.

Ad blockers

Discord, YouTube and Twitch. Even if I don’t count 1 because I don’t really build any online presence, all 3 together probably count as having mainstream social media no matter how strict the definition.

The reason there are fewer child births in the US since the 90s is mainly the reduction of pregnancies in the demographic “25 and younger”. They didn’t made a conscious choice, looking at their abacus and evaluating the state of the world. They slipped into it and were forced to make it work. Interestingly, they then still had children later in life as well, for more complex and personal reasons.

It seems to me, that if you give woman the choice, they choose not be pregnant at the cost of their career.

If we don’t have to have played it - the Zelda Cdi games, for obvious reasons. My most recent subscribtion is an active YTP channel.

The edutainment games presented by Germany’s beloved children’s show host Peter Lustig, published by Terzio.

The tie-in video games to both his TV series Löwenzahn as well as the Swedish Gary Gadget (Mulle Meck) books were elevated by his voice clips and I still quote them regularly. They really put a lot more effort into these games than anything I’ve ever experienced, there was fucking free DLC for Gary Gadget if you visited their website and had your father put some files in the right folder.

The worlds themselves both star an excentric man tinkering on inventions, but while sometimes fantastical they are more grounded that the world of Peterson and Findus. They teach children about community and physics, similar to the book “the way things work” - guess who presented its animated show of the same name in Germany?

Link him Bill Wurtz’s “history of the entire world I guess” and tell him to skip to 2:08

All these savings aside, you should also know where to save, and for that you need an example of monthly expenses you can compare yourself to. Luckily, government assistance programs do just that when they tell you how to live on their pittance.

Here’s the one for Germany, rounded to nice numbers (source), so a fairly wealthy central European country:

• 200€ Food and drink (14%)
• 50€ clothes ( 3.5 %)
• 50€ energy
• 50€ transportation (!)
• 50€ communication
• 50€ leisure and culture
• 30€ furniture and appliances
• 20€ medication
• 50€ other

550€ total flexible costs (40%)

To compare to your bill, you also need to consider the costs the agencies just take on outside of that source I gave. These are the regular expenses that depend on location even more so, but just to have them here:

• 500€ rent, no utilities (source being the maximum the local agency covers in a moderately big city)
• 150€ utilities (guess)
• 200€ health insurance (guess)

850€ total inflexible costs (60%)

Making 1,400€ for one person to live one month in a German city in 2025.

Needless to say, unless you buy multiple AAA games a month, these expenses are dominated by inflexible costs, even more so if you’re living in a place with a housing and health insurance crisis. Also note that the value for transportation is clearly too low for car ownership, if you need it for work that monthly expense better be covered by the extra income.

Now you should compare those values to your own expenses and reason why you spend more/less in some areas. And then you should be able to tell where you are living above your means, or if you need a more local comparison. And then you can still figure out how you can save 7% of your expenses by cooking at home.

Keep in mind you pay extra for convenience in many situations. It was said here before, but home cooking is the prime example.

Speaking of which, buy the stuff you use a lot off cheap, buy the expensive stuff only if you use it in small amounts. Example: I’m really into curry, so I use a lot of carrots and potatoes, the cheapest veggies here, but that alone is a bit bland. So i use moderate portions of whatever hearty veggies are in season (sweet potato, zucchini, pumpkin, eggplant). There’s also this really good curry paste I like, and I didn’t even bother comparing its price since I know I will need to buy a new one in half a year at the earliest.

As a consequence of that rule, skip on meat. Too expensive and too big portions. Even if you still want to celebrate the end of a week/month with it, you really need to learn some veggie recipes for the work week.

I find rice to be the perfect balance between work-intensive potatoes and pricey -in- comparison pasta. So I of course don’t buy the minute rice, but literal 10s of kilos from the local Asia mart for cheap.

It really is up to him if he wants to smell like roses or not, it’s totally understandable to pass on that.

If only he wasn’t such a bitch about expressing that preference though.

I have to imagine this peanut butter was intended to feed animals, probably for hunting.

So it isn’t even particularly sweet and processed at a lower standard than the stuff the husband was used to. But what do I know, maybe he always intended to bait hogs with it.

Not only is Gacha a bad game monetization from a consumers perspective, the moment it’s implemented the game is shit, and you should be ashamed to play it.

I dont care about Genshin’s cultural impact, Fortnite’s mechanical depth or how hot the latest team fortress character is, you should always have the thought of supporting the indefensible in the back of your head while playing them and consider it a guilty pleasure. Meaning: keep your damn pulls to yourself!

And since I used to say it too: “You can absolutely play without paying money” isn’t an argument when you need to pay with time instead, doing dailies is a chore, not leisure.

BMI works for me, skill issue :P

Like this?

Women have always been initiating, just (…) in a more indirect way.

Well, tell me those indirect ways!

Au contraire! As was sung, “I am the one thing in life I can’t control” (Edit: Oof, how embarrising), spending effort on that is the waste. So just coming off as more approachable is the one path open to me.

Way to miss the question, I know that works for some but for me it’s not going to happen. Unless you can tell me why I can’t take the role that never needs to initiate I’m not interested into being psyched up.

Best way to get 20$ off is to buy the game 2nd hand.