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Reading thing, at least initially about a person reincarnated as a giant spider. Read chapter title. "I am a spider, currently behind you."

Laugh.

E: Two chapters later, the equally amusing line, though not chapter title, "This is my so called 'Be careful, I'm coming from the top' strategy! A great success!"

This is quite possibly the fluffiest account of repeated and vicious spider killing I've read in a while. I like it. Actually kinda' like the sort of light-hearted PoV/stream of consciousness writing style in general, just don't really see it very often. The semi-embodiment of :3

E2: Later: "Yosh, it's the ground!
However, the sky is full of bees.
I encourage my tired body and start running again."

... what? A joystick is a joystick. They've... never been particularly synonymous with controllers, or at least they've pretty much always been a particular form of one. Unless it's changed in the last... decade or less. Could be different regional terminology, I guess.

When the zog did they start being anything else, though?

If they couldn't manage at least forty cakes per poisoned person per year, that wasn't worth it. It was worse than terrible.

... also, the cause was substantially due to that EM bullshit whatsisface pulled off, it seems, so the problem in this case actually was big government, not small :V

What version would you suggest? I've read some pretty old literature so I wouldn't mind reading the King James Bible if that's the most accurate and/or popular one. Or should I try one of the newer versions?

NIV is the better version these days, iirc. Think there's a couple other ones that at least don't screw up as much as the KJV does, too. KJV is probably still more popular, but it does things like manage to screw up the ruddy 10 Commandments, among other issues -- it's something I'd recommend to pretty much no one at this point, save to see what many others are (unfortunately) reading. While you're at it, you might want to pick up the Vedas (generally a much more fun read than the biblical texts, which is why I'd recommend them first), maybe a few other holy books for flavor. Even if many of them are full of really nasty stuff, there's still a lot of rather aesthetically pleasing writing and good moral/spiritual lessons among the mess.

In any case, if you're looking for spiritual insight of substantial note, you're not going to find it limiting yourself to one belief system. Shop around, as the saying goes, and realize there's truths to be found in nigh on everything, but the likelihood of any one thing having the Truth is essentially nil. No text written by the hand of man can fully express the will of the divine, no matter how inspired those words are.

As for the whole commitment thing... just. Don't? There's no real need, save as a psychological salve for other people, and a lie works just as well there as actual investment, with considerably less needless personal sacrifice. If your parent's worried about your soul, you could always give a try of gently reminding them that it's God that decides what happens on that front, not them, not the church, and not you, and that you feel that chaining yourself to a single denomination is against its plan for you. Things will go according to its plan, and attending church or proclamation of adherence to a particular denomination will no more change that than you can lift a mountain with one hand. Could even be a true statement, ha.

Gender quotas seemed to work pretty well for... India, I want to say it was? Governmental (local, at that, if I'm not misremembering) instead of business positions, iirc, but still. If the practice is best (or at least good) at bringing the desired goals (and generally, about the only way to find that out is to just try it -- and given how few positions the noted change effects, what they're proposing/implementing sounds like a fairly good wide-scale/low-job-number change), might as well give it a go.

... also that's a heaping pile of bullshit, MSH. If the practice actually improves the general situation, you'll be getting paid regardless of whether you have that particular job or not, and probably in a better position anyway. There's plenty of peoples' successes for which it's sane to care about beyond your own, because their success influences yours as well. Y'can question whether the practice actually does that, but "Fuck them, got mine" isn't actually a terribly sane position at all, especially when it's causing notable negative effect.

... there's some damn good writing to be found in those 9999, though. It can be pretty nice when a decent author gives slices of the proverbial fallen as part of the general narrative.

Kinda' want to say... System Shock? 2, at least. Did something along those lines bloody well. Just as an example.

Beyond that, there's plenty solid writing in the stories of those who failed, even if all the purpose behind it is to get you into the head of someone on the (short) path to ruin. It just tends to be fairly depressing :V

As for the easy solution not working, you just have to pace it. The puddle can only be a waiting aqueous templated trapdoor spider so many times, heh.

... I'm mostly wondering how the hell they borked things up that badly when all that needed to be done was fix a hinge. That... it doesn't take much technical capability to take apart a laptop and replace the screen hinges, so long as you've got the parts for it. I mean, I guess you could accidentally the hard drive or something in the process, but, uh. It's... not that difficult. You shouldn't be messing up any of the internals during that...

Plain high heels aren't comfortable or easy to wear, never mind the more extreme ones. I tried, once. Only once. I don't care how much more tappable they make one's ass, nothing is worth that.