I haven't moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-
Wipe anything
Reinstall anything
Learn new things and finally
Use my computer.
The last one is the real pain. I'll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I'll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there's some easy to access resources for learning a system!
I explained to my cat before his surgery that if he didn't stay a little boy forever, his instincts would drive him to leave home and the life of constant play and treats and being allowed to sleep under the covers with me at night, and he would murder and pillage every creature in the neighborhood and would be an ecological disaster instead of my cute fuzzy boy.
I took his purrs and headbonks as consent. Years later he still seems happy with his lot.
Not Christian anymore but I grew up extremely Roman Catholic and I can answer this.
My priest preached evolution. The idea here being that the concept of Adam and Eve could very well have been some distant ancestor. After all, there had to be, even in evolution, a "first" man and woman, reaching some unknown criticality in the evolutionary process.
Just like the "earth was created in 7 days" bit, when Christians say, but what is a "day" to God?
I don't follow it anymore but I thought I could shed some light.
I'm vegan, that's where the convo in my example came from (letting my friends try my vegan butter). The vegan butter I use has like 10x the cholesterol of the dairy-based. I still eat the vegan kind by principle, but the nutrition is significantly worse.
We've been poised to lose the ability to care for our adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities because we pay the paraprofessionals who do this very important work so little that I could make more money frying chicken.
People like me who truly care for our most underserved populations (enough to continue working despite the pay, long hours, high physical and emotional demands, and awful benefits) are being forced into burnout because there's simply no one else.
We are overworked, underpaid, forgotten and often as a consequence of the work subject to emotional and physical abuse.
My boss is out due to a factored kneecap. Her boss is unreachable because the new food stamps restrictions have made her spend every hour trying to secure food for her family (see again; underpaid) a necessary priority.
We are struggling.
I hope these workers strike and their conditions are improved. I will stand in solidarity with them at every step. I often wish my sector has that luxury.
I didn't get to the boss. When the game started giving me debuffs for talking to these women (which is like, half the point of the game) I noped out. How am I supposed to answer their questions for maximum points to prove I like them if talking to them makes the game more difficult? Look up a walkthrough? If I wanted to look up gameplay somebody else did, I may as well watch someone else play it, and if I'm doing that then why bother playing at all?
Fuck that. Bring back the ridiculous "Hey, just curious, what did I tell you my cup size was four days ago?" quizzing! That's such a hallmark of these games! Getting to know her isn't supposed to make it more difficult to get in her pants!
I think the writer of the game didn't realize that a lot of the players were women, too, because some of those debuffs were fucking idiotic. The porn star gets a "Busted Vag" debuff? What kind of unrealistic incel garbage is that? That is not how women work.
That one wasn't what made me quit playing but it's the one I remember most. If I was going to punish the player for talking to a girl (big NO on that) I would at least choose better debuffs (you have the same name as my dead father, xXPussySlayerXx, so I get sad when I say your name - boom! Don't Say My Name debuff).
I'd ask which one meets my dietary requirements and then never be offered any goop again.
Which sounds sad but I'm the only one who bakes and makes sweets so I'm delighted when this happens. And much more delighted than when I eat something and spend 12 hours firing from both ends.
HuniePop is extremely popular, even with straight women. I get what you're saying that people should admit being horny but also sometimes it is actually the game play.
For the record I loved HuniePop. But the gameplay wasn't enough to get me through HuniePop 2.
My nightmare of a previous boss called my moissanite engagement ring "cheap" and "trashy," and treated us to a 30-minute speech about how if it's not "real" diamond, it doesn't count.
I hope sucking down those Marlboro blacks takes care of that problem of a woman sooner, rather than later, and in the meantime the gorgeous rainbow sparkle of my pretty ring is made all the more beautiful for the complete lack of child slavery that went into making it!
... I also just realized that horrible harridan didn't have an engagement ring, or even a boyfriend, and now some things make sense.
I haven't moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-
The last one is the real pain. I'll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I'll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there's some easy to access resources for learning a system!