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You mean Ivana

This is what Nintendo hardware engineers do to fill time when the Switch 2 is just a scaled-up Switch 1

Who are the people buying Despicable Me 4 on 4K

I dunno, I can pretty easily come up with reasons why events would force someone to venture out into the world. See The Lord of the Rings and also basically every JRPG from the 1990s.

In my tabletop RPG campaigns I always make it a point for my characters to have at least one living parent, and usually two. These games are always so full of haunted orphans whose villages were burned to the ground or whatever.

Most movies and TV shows are created these days with the assumption that people are on their phones at the same time. I mean actual studio notes to that effect when the plot becomes too difficult for the average person to follow when they have it on while they're also watching TikTok.

For all the faults of the final seasons of Game of Thrones, I appreciated that this was the consistent message in the novels and show: beware powerful men and women, and those who aspire to be, because your interests are not their interests. The government formed at the end of the show was basically the least-worst option available in a feudal society.

Zombies in the George Romero tradition are basically just animated through magic. Otherwise it would be a World War Z (book) situation where the zombies would eventually just decompose entirely.

The expert who somehow knows all things science and engineering, like they're all just basically the same. Just once I'd like to hear, "I'm an astrophysicist, not a cybersecurity expert. I don't have the first clue where to begin hacking any computer, let alone an alien one that I've never seen before."

Bonus points if the characters have to look for a different solution due to their lack of on-hand expertise in a particular area.

It's not about being friendly. It's about not saying the exact same comments in every single Nintendo thread. It's repetitive and boring.

Agreed. By OP's definition I'd be in the upper class, but I would actually consider myself upper middle class. I'm comfortable, but I'm definitely not wealthy. Wealthy means labor is optional and you're leading a comfortable life.

Security is a component of wealth. Security for me means I don't care if I have a job or not, and losing my job doesn't mean I'd lose my house. I'm actively working on that, more so than FIRE itself.

In other words, zero debt and low monthly expenses is more important to me than retiring early, because then I know no company can ever again have leverage over me.