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What's the soonest you can tell a new partner you love them?

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First date
2 (8.0%)

First few days
1 (4.0%)

First week
1 (4.0%)

First two weeks
2 (8.0%)

First month
3 (12.0%)

First two months
1 (4.0%)

First six months
4 (16.0%)

First year
2 (8.0%)

Longer than a year
0 (0.0%)

THEY MUST NEVER KNOW
1 (4.0%)

I don't do "Love"
1 (4.0%)

SEWIWEIC
7 (28.0%)

What's the longest you'd wait for a partner to declare love before giving up on them?

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First date
0 (0.0%)

First few days
0 (0.0%)

First week
0 (0.0%)

First two weeks
0 (0.0%)

First month
0 (0.0%)

First two months
3 (11.5%)

First six months
4 (15.4%)

First year
4 (15.4%)

Longer than a year
2 (7.7%)

I WILL WAIT FOREVER
3 (11.5%)

I don't do "Love"
1 (3.8%)

SEWIWEIC
9 (34.6%)

Triggered by a couple of things recently where people were shocked that people would tell them that they were in love within the first few months.

And my general view is that if you aren't incredibly excited to spend loads of time with me and wander around holding hands while grinning a lot within the first few weeks of dating then we are probably not compatible.

andrewducker

1. The neurons playing Doom are actually testing a theory of intelligence: (tags:doom games intelligence ai )
2. Stay Classy (a history of the awfulness of Prince Andrew): (tags:royalty UK OhForFucksSake corruption )
3. How good are you at spotting colour differences? (I scored 0.006 - see if you can get yours lower): What was particularly interesting was that on some of them I had to let my eyes "settle". They'd see a wall of colour, get overloaded, and then after about 10 seconds I'd easily see the line. Oh, and I'm much better with shades of green than with shades of blue.
(tags:colour viamybrothermike )

andrewducker

1. Persistent attenuation of lymphocyte subsets after mass SARS-CoV-2 infection: (tags:immune_system pandemic )
2. Huge fire shuts Scotland's busiest train station indefinitely: (tags:Glasgow Scotland fire trains )

andrewducker

I was chatting to a couple of friends last week, and realised that I really fancied having one of those "bar chart race" videos for my links, showing what had been the most popular links over the last 21 years that I've been saving links (to Delicious, and then Pinboard).

So I downloaded the JSON blob of my whole link history, used some PowerShell to slice and dice it into a CSV, and uploaded it to a site that converts a bunch of data with dates into a bar chart race. And voila:

Watch on YouTube

Unsurprising to see "Europe" break the top 20 in 2017. Followed a year later by "OhForFucksSake".

Both files available here, for the very curious.

andrewducker

1. Fans of weird/spooky 70s movies might be interested in "Rose of Nevada": (tags:movies trailer video )

resonant

( Cut for pet death )

andrewducker

About two months ago Gideon discovered Mario Odyssey. He played ¾ of it with me, and then restarted and played the whole game by himself.

And then followed that up by playing all of Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

And then, this afternoon, discovered that we have a PS4. So now we're playing The Last Guardian. He is delighted by his pet dog-dragon.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

andrewducker

Last Sunday Sophia threw up.

She spent Monday and Tuesday with a fever, and then Wednesday clearly feeling better but not well enough to go to school.

She was mostly either asleep or watching videos. I worked at home on the Monday, when she mostly slept.

On Tuesday I had to work from the office, which is when Jane had to deal with a lot of...demands.

And then I worked at home on Wednesday, although I did drop-off and pick-up. She continued to have demands, and we split them as best we could, depending on who had meetings when.

And then by Thursday she was feeling much better, and made it in to school for World Book Day, where she was Sophie from the BFG (pyjamas and drawn-on glasses). And since then she's thankfully been fine.
Original is here on Pixelfed.scot.

rydra_wong

[ID: shot of my character from the back as she looks into the blasted ruins of the Kiln of the First Flame. She is wearing mismatched red and yellow clothes and a silver helmet, and holding a halberd.]

And it only took 8 months, and a number of hours I will not disclose. Though, to be fair, since I unexpectedly got into the multi-player, a lot of the total hours actually represent me reading a book while waiting to be summoned.

Dark Souls is slow, janky, eccentric, flawed, wilfully obscure about some of its mechanics, and one of the best games I've ever played. I am in love. Ask me anything.

andrewducker

1. AI ruins inviting authors to book clubs: (tags:ai writing OhForFucksSake )
2. Are AI-generated summaries suitable for studying and research?: (tags:ai knowledge writing )

kass

I wrote a trio of Stardew ficlets for PeacePangolin for

purimgifts. (And the images I shared along with them are simple re-colorings of in-game images; I am chagrined now to see the kinds of beautiful things people created, and I will need to level up before next year!) Anyway: here's what I wrote.

1. Sam (373 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sam/Sebastian (Stardew Valley)
Characters: Sam (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 1
Summary:

He can’t remember a time before he knew Sebastian.

2. Sebastian (443 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sam/Sebastian (Stardew Valley)
Characters: Sebastian
Additional Tags: Purimgifts day 2
Summary:

Nevermind I’m going to delete all of this and start over.

3. Abigail (401 words) by Kass
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sam/Sebastian (Stardew Valley)
Characters: Abigail (Stardew Valley)
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 3

kass

My final

purimgifts fic and collage are Lady Astronaut ones again -- absolutely lovely. Thank you so much, Mystery Author! You have brightened my Purim a ton.

2329 Days (329 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lady Astronaut Series - Mary Robinette Kowal
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Elma York, Nathaniel York, Jean-Paul Lebourgeois, Estevan Terrazas
Additional Tags: Canon Jewish Character, Canon Compliant, Collection: Purimgifts Day 3, Outer Space
Summary:

A moment of prayer for when Elma sees the stars

lomedet

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

rydra_wong

That Puzzle has hit Tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/vassraptor/810048615228866560

Take the warnings seriously, if you are at all susceptible to the lure of Sorting Things.

From the tags:

#if you’ve ever thought about taking a quick break from keeping yourself alive properly #this will make you forget to drink water

It's not even a "logic puzzle" per se, just an invitation to sort a very large number of things into different groups.

A friend sent it to me in December and I lost a solid day to it. Had a great time, but wow it really was like having my brain hijacked.

You know that odd bit of vampire mythology in some countries/traditions where you can delay a vampire chasing you by throwing down sand or seeds or other tiny objects because they will be compelled to stop and count every grain?

Some of us are like that with Sorting Things. You know who you are. Protect yourself.

(On the other hand, if right now you need to be not thinking about some things, and you don't have urgent tasks that can't wait a day or two, and having your brain consumed sounds good: CAN REC.)

kass

Once again my mystery creator has given me a gorgeous basket of mishloach manot, this time featuring fic and art for The Diplomat.

First Impressions (709 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Diplomat (US TV 2023)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kate Wyler, Hal Wyler, Frances Munning, Pensey, Eidra Park
Additional Tags: Collection: Purimgifts Day 2, First Meetings, Canon Compliant
Summary:

Pensey, Mrs. Munning, & Eidra meet Kate for the first time

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