This is interesting, because I have the same things happen with different reasons behind them. Responding to a joke as though I didn't understand it was one is something I find internally amusing, and my own sense of humor is pretty dry/deadpan so people do miss sometimes when I'm "joking back" as it were
I think the dividing line is the intensity/frequency, unless one knows one is diagnosed. My coworkers for example pick up on the differences in the way I talk when I'm joking vs sincere pretty quick, and likewise learn that I find some small amusing in being irritating now and again
100% correct. One of the most frustrating things with talking women's sports, imo, is the same as talking about abortion: me personally? I'm not a woman. Never have been. Due in no small part to that I don't think I have any fuckin business deciding what's best for women, assigned at birth or otherwise.
I don't know a lot about boxing either. I'm pretty sure literally anyone competing in Women's Olympic Boxing could lay me the fuck out. I don't think what's in their trunks or what diagnoses any of them may have contribute to that outcome so much as "they're some of the best people in the world at punching other people"
Not "not for everyone" so much as "for a distressingly low number of people"
Like, I make decent money and still never would've been able to afford a home without help from my parents, and I can't believe some days how lucky I was/am for the circumstances that made that possible
I'll probably get downvoted for it, but The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. The protagonist of the novel, first in a series, is the best example of a Marty Stu I have ever encountered in a book; Kvothe is the dullest, most offensively boring protagonist it has ever been my misfortune to meet. There's absolutely zero narrative tension because the situation always boils down to "Kvothe wins immediately or Kvothe wins harder two chapters later."
I peaced out around two-thirds of the way through. Amusingly one of my complaints, that the book had an unnecessarily high amount of smut for something not advertised as, gets even worse in the second book. No thanks
I can't find anything on actual NK forces being deployed. Another user linked an article in English and near the end it postulates that this is sort of a win-win for NK that they can help their ally while gathering test data for the vehicles
I mean this purely as an observation, but: almost certainly literal child detected
I'm in my mid 30s, and the people in my extended social circle around my age that don't fire up a game at least once or twice a week are few and far between, even including the harried, busy, regular not-yet-grand parents, haha
Quick edit: imo, the ones not playing video games at my age (again, in my area) are generally the ones who seem the least like they have their shit together. It's weird but it's a thing I've noticed
I enjoy building all kinds of different scales, actually. The varying degrees of complexity and effort needed mean I can build the RX-78 n different times and each build experience will be at least slightly different. I have lots of "multiples" where I did just that
Enjoying some hamberders with Melanie