There are still nice indies without that greedy attitude that big corps have. Wube Software for example (the factorio guys) are pretty irreproachable afaik.

Movies are usually fine for me, as long as the sound is reasonably loud. Television not so much: stuff is going too fast and I’m always anxious about missing out. Paradoxically I was very fond of cartoons back in the days, just frustrated that I could never get the whole story because of worldly contrivances.

Here is what works for me. If it doesn’t for you then that’s understandable.

At some point it gets easier to live with less than to work more. Jobs that pay a lot always either:

• are painfully hard
• require rare degrees of certification
• require a lack of morality Many combine several of those items.

Personally I live with way less than what would be considered “low” in my country: it pays for my home, food (as long as I cook myself most of the time) and I am even able to keep some around in case of need. Now with that said I have no idea how it is in your country so my advice are probably off.

French. I know a bit of Spanish too but not much.

I speak English. That’s a foreign language for me… Does that count?

In french that’s the word for a merry-go-round

Those cubes do ring a bell although I suspect it may be fabricated memories. It being an IQ test makes sense with what was told to me, thanks!

The pictures question wasn’t about “comparing two pictures”: pictures were presented only one by one and I was supposed to find “what was wrong”.

My dad coming should be just a one-time thing, he lives hundreds of kilometers away and wouldn’t make the trip just for fun. But yeah, writing it down is definitely something I’m doing (thanks for reminding me, I would have forgotten…)

Thank you! I guess I’ll still mask anyway because, well, I can’t picture myself not masking at all when interacting with a stranger, and even less if my father is present. Also this shouldn’t be my last appointment so hopefully I’ll have other occasions.

Thanks for your account! Mine won’t be remote, and I don’t have any animal at home (except some spiders but they are too cute to eat my cords).

This. Except I’m not limited to authority figures and that’s sometimes very hard to handle. Like if a friend wants to invite me on monday but I already have something planned with another friend that same day I sometimes feel like giving the real reason would make them jealous. Yes, I know I shouldn’t do this, and I’m working on it, but it’s not easy. It’s especially hard when the real reason is something like “spending time with you in particular is very stressful for me and I can’t handle it”.

Here in France (American) comics aren’t common. Findable if you look for them, but you won’t see it in your supermarket. Meanwhile mangas are almost as popular as our own kind of comics (bandes dessinées) which is its own thing.

I’m a huge fan of bandes dessinées but also read my fair share of mangas. Meanwhile I must have read perhaps one or two comics in total unless you count “Picsou magazine” (Picsou is the french translation for Scrooge McDuck)

Not a specialist in physics but I still think I can help with some of this.

About plank length/time: this isn’t the “smallest length/time that exists”, it’s just a limit under which we know our commonly used model for distance and time stops making sense. To help you understand this, think about something such as temperature: you probably have an intuition about it (unless of course you are like me and your perception of temperature is completely screwed up), you can feel that some things are cold and some other are hot, and you are probably able to imagine what would it be like to have something “hotter than this” or “colder than that”. From that you can imagine temperature as a property of matter. Now take a blob of gaz (one that is, let’s say, at 20°C). Cut it in half: both of the two halves will be at 20°C. Cut it again: still. Imagine an ideal cutting tool, one that lets you cut extremely thinly without adding heat. When you reach chunks of sizes around a few molecules, this notion of temperature stops making sense: temperature simply only makes sense for stuff that is composed of enough small elements that we can’t consider each of them individually. To say it differently, if we were able to know precisely the state of all the molecules in a room, then the notion of “temperature of the room” would stop making sense. Distance and time are somehow like that: they work fine for most of the stuff we encounter in our everyday life, but we also know they are not a perfect description of the details of what happens.

Had a Therion phase. Also Ultra Vomit but it doesn’t have the same appeal now that they have become bigger.

I’d say Modded Minecraft, Factorio, Céleste and one I can’t advertise because it’s NSFW.

The taste of several specific things (cheese that “turned bad”, garlic that isn’t perfectly fresh), high-pitched sounds, and a few more I don’t have in mind.

A few of those items are only redflags if done in a specific way. For example about “non-reciprocal”: if you are in a wheelchair and your partner is arachnophobic, it makes sense that you are the only one who takes care about dealing with spiders while your partner is the only one who helps you move around. I recommend that you start consulting this kind of list only when something starts to “not feel right”, otherwise you’ll poison all your relations before they even start (because there is no such thing as a perfect relationship). Still I’m no relationship expert, so take my advice for what it’s worth.

I have something that may or may not be related: some stuff just makes me physically faint. It’s never sudden, I see it coming and if I manage to get away from the trigger, lay down and wait it goes away, but if I can’t do it quick enough I know it can be dangerous. Among the triggers are intense pain (like burning your stomach by swallowing something too hot) but also conversations about “real” body horror (a movie is fine, but somebody telling me about how their plan to get an operation often isn’t, back in middle school I remember fainting as the teacher was talking about some health risk).