Honestly no… I generally think words hit the hardest in many instances. I have had to bluntly tell people how I feel about them, their actions or my opinion on something they believe in - these instances have been the most impactful and are the most poignant in my mind.

I punched someone in retaliation as a child, that’s as physical as I have got - self defence, honestly don’t care.

Haven’t cheated or been unfaithful, nor really neglected anyone (knowingly) in respect of their emotions.

I also try to think of what would upset me the most. The most awful thing I could experience is someone I care about verbally dismantling our relationship, especially if it includes blunt honesty about how they felt about me - contrary to how I wanted/perceived things to be.

Probably just said something awful in the heat of the moment.

I can be brutally honest at times, which I am generally happy about - but on occasions I suppose I could have waited until a calmer moment to say what I wanted to say more considerately.

I don’t regret any of these actions, more use them as learning experiences. A bad argument hasn’t happened in years, so somethings working

Until the person above explained it, I had never heard of Rule 34 before - first thing I did was check the rules of this sub.

Then didn’t really want to google it as it seemed controversial or otherwise implicating to the OP.

I understand the school experience, but from someone long past that - embarrassment at school subsides, my intention to pass on that hope to the OP, amongst my other points

Thanks anyway

Thanks for responding.

Honestly, just wait and see what comes of this fiasco. No need to share any more information until you know what the next steps are going to be.

I would still defend your corner in respect of being recorded though and ensuring that information shared in presumed privacy is not used against you unfairly e.g. bullying.

We all do embarrassing things in our lives, those that happen in your youth generally become laughing matters later in life

Never heard of that before, does it generally imply material that would be taboo or illegal?

Im trying to gauge why this person cares so much.

People have some weird interests, doesn’t mean it’s bad though.

I also have zero idea why I’m getting downvoted for asking a legitimate question

What is Rule 34?

Authors websites or public pages may advertise where they sell them physically and digitally, take your pick.

Banning things generally doesn’t go down particularly well, especially when Islam is a complicated belief system with varying degrees of interpretation and application across the globe.

There are 1.4 billion or so Muslims, all with varying degrees of faith, views on scripture, ideological beliefs outside of Islam etc.

You’d be basically white washing 20% of the global population in absolute, without a reason that would satisfy each individual.

Laws already exist that are not compatible with Islam and vice versa, does not matter whether Islam claims one thing - if the laws of the state are properly imposed, Islam will not be able to circumvent them openly, nor it’s adherents without risk of persecution.

Risk of persecution via law is essentially what we as a society have as a mechanism for attempting to translate logic, feeling and reason into rules and regulations. People can still try to ignore these if they so wish, nothing to stop them attempting to - regardless of faith.

Common sense generally refers to actions, thought processes etc. which are obvious, generally understood by the majority of a given demographic, and require little to no external explanation.

Not sure I understand the question, can you expand on what you mean/where you’ve heard this?

Maybe use it in a sentence you’ve heard it in

Pretty sure child birth can weaken the pelvic floor muscles etc. usually women are recommended to practice pelvic floor exercises before and following child birth to assist with giving birth, and also as a preventive measure for urinary incontinence

Plenty of us try act as we would outside of work with friends, cut out the snobbery and keeping up appearances, create a calmer and less invasive environment, and hopefully the work will be met with more productivity and collaboration.

It works to some extent, but there are always going to be people who are not interested in the job enough to motivate themselves - you can support them as much as you can, but things do to get done.

I like the fact my work is not a major worry to me, and I have control over my work, can influence positivity for colleagues, and my work life balance/working hours. The job itself is not something I want to do forever, I don’t find it rewarding, but I do feel good when I do a job well.

Depends how you define free will I suppose, how much faith we place in probability being the limiting factor, and how far your imagination takes you in respect of the control we have over our realities.

This gets a bit murky if you are looking to ‘prove’ anything, but some look to quantum physics for example as an area of research that could mean anything is possible on an atomic level until observation fixes it’s position.

How this may develop and may be extrapolated to human control over their reality is open for discussion.

We don’t necessarily, it depends on the extent and type of bacteria causing the mould, your personal susceptibility to that bacteria, and indeed how your body handles exposure - such as digestion.

It is a bit of a misconception that mould is bad in absolute, but for the ease of removing obvious mould from food - such as cutting the mouldy bit off some generally un mouldy cheese - you may as well do it.

18-23 was a more turbulent time, where the turbulence resulted poignant impacts - I felt much less settled and confident in myself those years, which at the time felt like a regression, followed by a huge increase to peaks of confidence and contentment I had never experienced before.

Generally taking control of situations and minimising my reliance on other people and things.

Is he worshipped by all factions? Is this the Demi-god the OP mentioned?

Thanks for spending the time writing that.

Sounds up my street - fine with obscure sci-fi nerd imagination, and the idea of ultra twisted dark themes throughout is kind of what I want to see on screen.

Seems quite accessible to be honest based on some of the recent things I have seen, and there is a gap in the market for more justified shock/to the bone productions.

Do you think it is viable as something for the screen, as someone familiar with the universe?

Shall have a browse!

Thanks for the response.

I suppose support for the ‘anti-hero’ as a viewer could be interesting, would make good viewing if the audience were all split on whose ‘side’ they took so to speak, or were routing for throughout.

Would be curious to see how they balanced this on screen.

Are there factions within the universe that are either majorly loved or hated by fans, to the extent the producers would want to consider where the fan bases allegiance currently sits?

I suppose favouring the current fan bases story arcs could make it more ‘elitist’ and less open to outsider viewers if they feel there are under/over represented factions. Equally if popular factions are underrepresented, do you think this would piss off the ‘original’/current fans, and receive criticism?

Depends what you are looking for… allegiance to the current client base or adoption by the masses. Sure there is a middle ground, Rings of Power is a recent example, some die hard fans think it’s awful, I am a Lord of the Rings fan but not a lore nerd, so I am not dissecting it as much.

Genuine question… from an outsiders perspective I am kind of aware of what it is, but how would you sell it to me?

At current all that comes to mind is people painting figurines and playing with them like dungeons and dragons.

What would be an equivalent - existing - programme that you would compare it to to try draw me in? Is the style of this example how you would want it to be presented?

Potentially, but it is much simpler to say that that he is simply a person with X Y Z tendencies, behaviours, background etc. than try profile the fictional character and box them up, unnecessarily.

It serves no purpose and adds another potential caricature to the list of portrayals of people on the autism spectrum.

The guy is presented as a snobbish creep in both the film and the BBC series.