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Odd, random question.

So we call 1920-1929 the twenties, 1930-1939 the thirties, and it goes like that, fourties, fifties etc. until we come to 2000-2009, which is known as the "noughties". So...what the heck will 2010-2019 be? For that matter what was 1910-1919? There's nothing that really sounds right and has ten in it.

Tenties? Just "The Tens"? Seriously, this has been bugged me all day xD

And imprisoning them accomplishes what, exactly? Stops them? Is that enough? Making people feel better is the only positive that can be drawn from the kind of crimes that result in a death penalty, only way you can pretend to have rebalanced the world. Isn't that what people want from the justice system, a sense that somehow the scales have been balanced?

A lot of the time if a child's old enough to comprehend it, they're old enough to watch it and will probably enjoy it (because children are sadistic f*ckers). If not, there's no harm in having them watch it since they won't comprehend it but will probably still watch it because of all the pretty colours.

Like a lot of the adult jokes in The Simpsons or The Animaniacs. Fingerprints, anyone?

Also with the girlfriend, it's mostly a case of "Can you see staying with her?". I know people who've been madly in love with their girlfriends/boyfriends but still decided to end it when they went to university because they didn't want to do long distance, and at the end of the day knew they weren't going to be together forever.

I suggest if you wish to do this, learn the programming (and/or how to use an available engine) since programmers are the most difficult people to hire. Artists and Musicians can often be found who'll work on a commission basis. You pay them, they produce the artwork/music, they get credited as the artist/musician and that's the limit of their involvement.

Programmers, however, are more wage-workers. You pay them by the hour. As such, they need more assurances of a release, payment etc. and so are more hesitant to sign up.

A common practice, from those I've spoken to, amongst those endeavouring to become indie developers seems to be to take a part-time job and use their remaining time working on the project. It's hard, tiring and requires clever budgeting on every aspect of your life. They maintain this until they are earning enough off the indie development alone to live off, at which point they can freely quit their part-time job and devote all their attentions to developing.

Indie developers are in a new and lucky position in modern times. You have tools available for use which simply were not available to those who came before. Heck, the Unreal Engine is freely available and you don't even need to start paying commission to Epic Games until you're making over $50,000 and that commission is tiny.

You have two huge markets in the iOS and Android phone, Valve are remarkably supportive of independent PC developers through Steam...

Just wait until you're old enough to drink, or at least think you're old enough to drink...just wait until you start drinking.

I live somewhere with near-sane alcohol regulations go clubbing regularly. I get hit on with a little regularity by people I don't know...of course I have certain issues that mean I tend to reject those people, sometimes in rather heartless but hilarious manners after a varying amount of leading them on, but that's my baggage. At least I can vouch that it's possible for guys to get hit on by women in such places xD

Seriously though, the problem may be it seems like you're looking for a girlfriend, like you're looking for an accessory rather than a person of the opposite gender you enjoy being around (and would like/get to see naked). Don't get me wrong, those aren't mutually exclusive but you can't make females feel like the former (even if they are)...just makes you seem kinda shallow and pathetic.

So yeah, don't think about types, don't think about appearances, just go forth and what will be will be.

Besides 30 is a pretty good age to get married. I have a pet hypothesis (probably wrong) that divorce rates are at about 50% because more people who get married do so first when in their twenties, and that marriage then falls apart and they remarry later

Solution is simple: Get in bitches face. Arguments are both fun and satisfying ^^ When a shit storm is coming in your direction, I say you should run straight into the eye of it. It's coming either way, at least there you can minimise the amount of shit that sticks to you and clean as much of what it dirties as you can. Of course, you have to have the stomach for that much shit and very few people do...

Right well now that this metaphor is worn out, who's hungry?

Either he wises up, she relents, he disowns you only to later realise you're right and you're vindicated, or she devours his soul and you never see him again except for the occasional awkward Christmas party. Either way, problem solved ^^

I like to always present an alternative solution to the masses, gotta know your options