I have experience with Blender and its counterparts, in a professional setting. Blender sure is powerful and solid on its own, for many things you can make the case that is better than Maya- it’s absolutely better value - however I wouldn’t say it’s better on all fronts. But yes it’s absolutely worthy of a mention here.

wot

Oh I see. So he said Aspergers can’t use the toilet unassisted, not that Elon needs assistance

I’m obviously OOTL here- I’ve known people with Asperger’s and they used the bathroom by themselves just fine. What’s going on? I don’t live in US

Yes because if someone demolishes your house or sets it on fire they cause no harm to you, right? I mean you don’t really need a place like to sleep and be safe right?

Interesting. I would have thought that since the species is so in demand according to the article, that the collectors keeping them alive would periodically have batches of new queens they could sell. Never occurred to me that it would be easier to capture live ones in the wild

This doesn’t look like seeds to me, but it’s also super hard to see what the eggplant tissue is like. If you didn’t mention eggplant, I would never guess what you’re holding is an eggplant. A classic cross section of the whole thing would be more useful to identify what’s going on.

Next time if you can just cut the eggplant in half, either along its length or across, and take a photo

You mean as terms/words or as media? I can’t say I understand if there is much of a difference between the three, as words. I use “manga”. As media, yeah, it’s cool, some manga is great, some is just mediocre. Like anything else. I’m not a fan of the genre but I really enjoyed some of its titles

I’d name it Someday just to mess up with people.

It’s just a fad. Speech mannerisms also come and go with the times. Right now it’s popular to use it, and people use it.

Okay, I don’t know if the word has a very specific meaning in contemporary military vocabulary.

All I know is that a mercenary is an umbrella term for a “warrior for hire”. It’s typically associated with having to do jobs most others don’t want to do, either because they’re very demanding physically or because they’re morally questionable. And this is where your confusion with assasins and hitmans comes in. A mercenary may also be a hitman, it depends on the context. But not necessarily. Usually mercenaries are supported by ( because they work for) either the government or some other legal entity. An assassin or hitman usually doesn’t, or at least isn’t supposed to.

In other words, a mercenary has a reputation for taking morally questionable jobs but isn’t regarded as a criminal, whereas assassins, hitmen, and evil henchmen are criminals from the get go.

I hope that helps

This depends on the amount of time and dedication you put into it plus your natural ability to understand and represent the world visually. Which isn’t the same for everyone. Nature and nurture both make a difference.

In short I’ve seen most people make significant progress in the first year or two of their art journey, but after that you sort of hit a plateau. Here’s where the difficult stuff begins and it’s a life journey. Whether or not that is good enough for you and what you want to draw is only for you to decide.

I don’t know where that candid jesus image is from but it has so much Dicaprio Raising Drink energy that if it hasn’t been memed already then it should

Never. I can’t stand the crowds and the loud music. And I don’t appreciate the crowds singing and screaming on top of the music either. I’ve been to concerts like two times in my life just because others insisted so much I joined them, and the experience was exactly what I thought it would be.

I’m just not cut for them.

I don’t think I bought band related merch ever, but I’ve seen some really cool stuff so that is something I would consider if the opportunity presented itself.

Your grandma sounds like a legend. I know for a fact mine couldn’t have touched the topic

Good on her!

Yes I remember seeing the 70s Playboy magazines for the first time in my life just a few years ago, and I loved them. As you said, they were more about erotic nudes but it was also mixed up with tasteful art, literature (not all of it erotica either) and articles on contemporary culture. I would absolutely want to buy a few issues if I ever get the chance.

Kudos to her, I don’t think my own mother would have bothered to go get books if she didn’t know how to explain things to me. I think most people’s reaction to facing something they don’t know how to do is to just avoid it, which she clearly didn’t. So yeah, cheers for progress!

How old were you at the questioning time?

Anecdotally, the stork along with other stories (did you know? Human babies can also sprout from cabbages) were more effective a few generations ago when people were actually in contact with and interacting with storks or cabbages etc.

My mother has a large family. Some of her aunts/uncles would tell the stork story to their youngest kids so that when the newest baby had to be delivered (at home, in some rural area) the kids would be distracted looking for a stork in the skies while their mother yelled her lungs out in pain from the contractions indoors. Once the kids grew up they figured it out obviously, and as adults they would laugh about it, but as a tool for distraction I think it’s pretty clever. It makes sense in the context.

Very interesting, a step in the right direction at least.

Now, I don’t understand things in fine detail but wouldn’t this “force with package upon purchase” that google does with the play store and chrome the same gimmick Windows does with its Microsoft suite trash (and other apps)? If you manage to uninstall some of them they’ll be reinstalled the next update without your consent.

So my question is, why is only Google getting in trouble when there are others doing similar things?

Did you resent the avoidance at any point? Also, did you have questions before getting sex ed talks that went unanswered? I guess that’s what I’m curious to find out, from those who didn’t have any talk or had it too late, what did they do before hitting the first school lesson on the subject.