For context, see research by Myers, D., 1993 (which I can’t find a link to at the moment) about differences in satisfaction in couples in India in arranged marriages and couples in Amerikkka in marriages of choice, and compare it with the later research Myers, 2005.

More specifically to your statement about auntie zeroing in on something, see MacDonald & Ross, 1999.

Yes. 100 percent, absolutely, no doubts, yes. If your dog is over (a very arbitrary, but we can drop it lower) 1 stone (for the brits), 20 lbs (for the amerikkans), or 8 kilos (for the euros intelligent worlders), you should have to have a significant insurance policy on the dog (I think my local authority sets the ‘dangerous dog’ minimum at $100 grand), a license that can only be obtained with at least 6 months training, and a yearly inspection of your facilities and the dog.

Reasoning: I’ve had to patch up, or take the parts with us, too many folks who have been bit.

Every time I have to see a spaniel, I cringe. The publicly available data (and videos on the effects of it for the assholes who have to see this shit to believe it) on their brain and skull sizes means that anyone still breeding them is just an asshole.

Was a cop, now I’m in EMS. Much better mentality, even with a shittier job environment.

I think I cheesed them pretty hard with the boundaries. I much more hated the plant-folk.

Oh lord, it’s hilarious that when I searched ‘Gantt Chart’ to learn what it was, the second or third link was to excel templates for it.

For anyone who wants to laugh at these fools, you can look up the public website ‘police one.’ Try to watch their ‘1 minute training’ videos without boggling at the idiocy that is being presented to cops in amerikkka. When I worked for a police agency (for way too long for how short the time period was), the higher echelons would send the videos out to be watched routinely.

It’s why I personally detest horror movies where the enemy/monster/force can make you see things or get in your head. There’s no agency at that point, because everything just happens as it needs to for the writers and there’s no longer any need for internal consistency or boundaries.

I think it’s just because it’s so easy. Comas and everything you see being a reference to the real world is just as simple as making an entirely new story, but you can say it’s the real story. Any and every contradiction that your take has can be explained with the dream and reality interplay.

Why would folks who aren’t professional writers not use the ‘easy button’ that even professional writers use?

Yep, that was the only reason I finally pulled the trigger. What makes me laugh is it wasn’t even about windows, it was because of fucking CHROME.

Off the top of my head, the arena mod makes ‘training’ your troops a thing, by bashing them about in the arena. I liked it because I could pretend I was actually training my army.

I know there were several others I used, including an execution mod that makes it so enemies of a lord you execute are happy with your decision (rather than every single lord ever suddenly hating you), a politics mod that makes other nobles more ‘realistic’ in their moods and desires, and one that changed the max level you could get in a skill based off of points invested in it.

There might have been one that added a ‘missile barrel’ that you can get more arrows from in a siege, but I think I’m confusing bannerlord with warband on that one.