The Martian was excellent.

The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie was a hell of a lot of fun.

I’m guessing that’s (cartoons or movies) (made for kids), not (cartoons) or (movies made for kids) - so the Spiderverse moves were also excellent.

How old are your kids?

Stereo vision

Handwriting or drawing ability beyond that of a 6yo

The ability to follow a conversation with more than about 4 people in the room, and for crowd noise not to flip into a gibbering hellscape.

• sunny loves grumpy
• savage mama bear
• really fucking personal, inexorable vengeance

Most of them are very conventionally-boring though.

Hear me out: pretty much all the goblin chicks from BG3.

Slimy, yet satisfying.

Sure, why not (assuming the girl isn’t 15 or something)

Teenagers gonna teenager, and the best way to ensure they teenager safely is to give them a safe environment to teenager in and the security to know they don’t need to sneak around.

Gothos, no.

Malazan / Discworld.

Just about any pair of characters would be amazing.

Like they’re talking into a pickle jar.

Australian here.

You sound like a cross between a duck lure and a dog stuck in reverse.

Depends on the pain.

If it’s joints or ligaments, stop immediately. Coddle the shit out of them.

Muscles, treat them like dirt, get shit done.

I worked for a company once that installed a remote-activation killswitch in their drivers, as a secret weapon to force the customer to stay current on their maintenance contract.

The CEO was a fuckup however, and the code killed their system even without being activated - resulting in a bunch of angry phonecalls and some of the most egregious lying I’ve ever heard.

god, he was a piece of shit

Yeah, frozen puff pastry is a go-to ingredient. You just won’t catch me making it by hand because as my grandmother used to say, bugger that for a game of soldiers.

My kid’s 18 and thinks he’s a fucking loser.

Croissants. Tasty and pretty, but a ridiculous amount of fiddly work with all the rolling and folding.

Ditto puff pastry from scratch.

Pavlova is almost boringly simple, though.

Beat eggwhites and sugar for ages with a little vinegar along the way, dump onto a parchment lined baking sheet, bake - then turn off the oven, leave the door open a crack and leave a few hours to slowly cool.

Instead of making a big intricate arrangement with the fruit, go rustic with it - bowl of sugared berries, bowl of whipped cream, dollop of each on each slice.

One at the white house, one at the sun.

NPD and BPD are both driven by an eternal sucking void of insecurity and negative self-esteem that can never be filled.

Narcissists try to fill it with praise and social status, or failing that, power and subjugation.

Borderlines try to fill it with limerence and victimhood or failing that, revenge.

But it can’t ever be filled - it’s worse than addiction, worse than being underwater in some shitty MLM scheme. It takes and takes and takes because fuck you, pay me.

So they don’t have friends or loved ones, they have hosts. They suck out all the goodness until there’s nothing left to give, then they start in on the pain.

Assholes, in the other hand, are just driven by simple greed, callousness and lack of consideration. They can and do still hurt people of course, but it’s not an all-consuming obsessive need.