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As someone who has loved ND games her whole life and regularly replays them but is also incredibly sad how they have changed (and paused) over the years, playing Penelope Pendrick gave me the same feelings as playing a brand new ND game! There was more than one instance where I wanted to say “Oh, Nancy” to something Penelope did.

The second chances, the characters, the snooping, the options to be snarky or kind, the storyline, etc. It was all so much like a continuation of the original series that when I finished the game, I sat with bated breath to see if there would be a teaser for a second one and absolutely squealed in delight at 11:15pm that there was one!

I’m so sad it took me so long to play this, but I am now very highly anticipating Tomb of Glass!

I use Libby multiple times a day. I went onto my app today and nearly every book I had borrowed including skip the lines were gone. On the timeline is says that they were returned early, but I didn’t do that.

Has anyone dealt with a similar issue?

In my recent debates with PLers, I’ve heard that I don’t want ANY births to happen, I want born babies to suffer and be abused, pretty much that I’m anti-baby by being pro-choice.

And it feels like trying to get through to PLers that PC doesn’t mean anti-birth or anti-baby is impossible and therefore a productive debate fails.

Does the PL side note anything from the PC side of something similar? Is there any truth to these assumptions?

The crux of both arguments trying to convince the other person rely on aspects of abortion that are uncommon and ultimately do not account for the majority of abortions.

From the pro-choice side, rape and incest and ectopic pregnancies are often brought up to try and catch the pro-lifer off on their stance by trying to get them to agree with pro-choice or to admit to prioritizing the ZEF over the woman.

While on the pro-life side, pictures and images as well as words that give fetuses infantile features or emphasizing them as an “innocent baby” is used as a fear tactic to get pro-choices to agree with killing babies that look like newborns.

Neither is being completely honest to the reality of abortion. The reality of abortion is that the vast majority of abortions occur from consensual sex (with the knowledge that rape often goes under reported) and prior to the fetus being able to survive on its own or even have executive brain function, let alone look like a newborn.

The PC side often gore toward the rare exceptions to try and convince PL of a few exceptional conditions for abortion to appeal to them, and PL claims abortion kills innocent babies to demonize the PC side.

So, how would you approach the PL/PC debate if you could NOT use the arguments above? What would you say to convince the other side?

Hi all I’m a 27F. I’ve struggled on and off with anorexia since I was 8 which tumbled into orthorexia as well when I was 17 and in college trying to avoid the “freshman 15.”

Since then I’ve had a baby (which honestly pregnancy helped my ED so much since gaining weight was expected and healthy) and since then (18 months ago) I’m back to how I looked and felt prior to pregnancy and most importantly I’m back to where I used to be exercise-wise. Freshly postpartum I could barely run a mile and now I just did a half marathon.

So all in all I’ve been feeling really good.

But then I was reading “The Anthropocene Reviewed” by John Green and he was talking about Dr. Pepper and mentioned how a scientist said sugar is terrible for you as a reason to drink diet instead.

I know sugar isn’t like, a health food, but I’ve tried very hard for years to not pay attention to labels, to eat intuitively, etc. But after reading that passage I’ve looked into it a bit more and am now terrified that I am setting myself up heart disease or diabetes. The only sugary thing I eat is ice cream — no soda, rarely coffee, etc — but now my brain wants me to cut out the one dessert I enjoy. And I don’t know how to unlearn this and if I do ignore it, I feel like I’m being irresponsible with my body.

Anyway, anyone have any thoughts especially how you’ve gotten through a mental hurdle like this?