The internet. We've had a solid few years, but it has become a giant heap of shit for the most part.
Back then, not everything was an AI generated, SEO, ad riddled, interaction fishing, time wasting, data collecting nightmare with auto-playing videos and a dark pattern employing cookie banner.
I don't remember believing in Santa, so at the very least it wasn't an important moment of my childhood. Writing letters isn't a common thing where I live, instead we got a thick catalogue and circled everything we liked. I guess that made it pretty obvious from the very beginning.
Whether or not I'd lie to my hypothetical children... I don't know. I guess I don't care either way and would leave it up to my partner.
Ito often works like Lovecraft, being drawn to something irrational you cannot understand is the whole point. It's also heavily utilized in Uzumaki. The body horror is just the cherry on top.
The sensation is quite common for a lot of people, think of "l'appel du vide" (call of the void) or intrusive thoughts in general.
Quite honestly, I never questioned my sexuality. Naturally, I've been attracted to others before, I can recognize this feeling quite clearly. Which labels others put on me because of that really doesn't matter to me, so I don't think about them. I simply go for it if I feel attraction.
Of course, only go for it if you're single and while it never applied to me or you in this case, don't go for illegal things. If something like bestiality or pedophilia ever came up I would start questioning myself and consider therapy.
Weekend everyday, basically. I don't care for a house or fancy things, I'd spend my time creating art and having fun with friends - who I'd share some wealth with.
Don't apologize, I didn't mean to invalidate your thoughts. Until we've found other life, everything is possible. Maybe they all are slightly different humanoids with similar problems. In fact, many theories about why we haven't found anything yet are based on the very same assumption.
I just meant to add some additional food for thought.
That is a very human centric way to approach it. For starters, we don't even know if other life has to be carbon based, let alone in which environments it exists. There could be an entirely different ruleset to their reproduction and of course their society. And even ignoring all these things, they could simply advance a lot faster, outpacing climate change and declining populations. Heck, we could be outpacing these problems if we never stopped puring endless ressources into space travel, but alas, capitalism deemed it unworthy.
Who cares? Just like most things your average programmer relies on, they are written by smarter or at least more specialised people to make your job easier. They have learned to write memory-safe code so you don't have to.
You might want to know that FF Tactics and FF Tactics Advance are different games entirely, unlike FF V and FF V Advance for example. They couldn't even keep a consistent naming scheme for ports/new games within the FF franchise.
Now, depending on who you ask, only one of these two is good. I firmly believe FF Tactics Advance is the better game, most ofher people will sing the praise of FF Tactics.
Having played both, just between you and me: FF Tactics has so much jank, I couldn't finish it despite FF Tactics Advance remaining in my Top 10 since release. It has an awesome story, but there are just so many battles you simply have to restart over and over because the NPC you should be protecting dies before you get a single turn in. And don't even get me started on the two occasions you get prompted to save your game inbetween two missions - soft-locking your game if you cannot win the second one.
And, SRPG fans are firmly separated by perma-death. Some think the genre needs it and FF Tactics has it. Others, including me, dislike perma-death and FF Tactics Advance doesn't have it (with few exceptions).
So, within the next 60 years one of my close friends probably dies? Sounds about right.
(The article actually specifically states that it does drop from 2 to 1 on average. Couldn't find a number for woman in there.)