Recent content by AnnaIME

"Yup, that's what that's like." Maybe I'm giving Disney too much credit, but fairytales are supposed to help children process the challenges of adult life. Far too many of the children in the audience are going to experience sexual assault at some point in their lives, so we need modernized...

Me: They're making a new Stargate movie. Husband: Yaay! Me: They explicitly said it's going to be nothing like the shows but just like the old movie. Husband: Oh. Well, that saves us a trip to the cinema.

There. That's part of the reason I can't just shrug it off when "my" franchises do something like this, or go free-to-pay, or force social interactions into single player games. Of course gaming needs to evolve, and of course the companies have a right to do want they decide to do. There are...

Trained librarian here. I used to work with teens who were weak readers. Part of what makes practising reading difficult for someone who hasn't mastered it fully as a child is that age appropriate books are too hard to start with. They don't have the vocabulary or the knowledge of the world...

So talk to your supervisor about him, or to his supervisor, or to your "arbetsmiljöansvarig". You can improve your own work environment, and you really are doing this guy a favour by speaking. We have some employees with special needs at my job too, and part of why they are there is for them to...

Of course you can dislike people, no matter what their intellectual capacity is. I see from your profile that you are Swedish - is that correct? If you work in Sweden, then this trash collecting person is probably employed by a company that provides meaningful work for people with...

It seems none of you are homeowners. We don't have any water shortages where I live, but we still have to pay for it. Heating the water costs a lot more, though, and both water treatment and energy production cost environmental resources. There is also the aspect of not using all the hot...

I saw Robocop when it was new, in a theater. I was seventeen and it was the first "real" date I ever been on. The movie was the most violent film I had ever seen, and my date thought it was laugh-out-loud funny. Maybe all those things Bob said about intelligence and social satire were there, but...

Which parts of Ronja do you see as problematic? Or are you confusing Ronja with Pippi?

1 - This kind of name marks you as a parent. Other parents and teachers will think just a leeetle bit less of you, and this will make things just a leeetle bit more difficult for you AND your child. Why stack the deck against your child? 2 - Names shape people's expectations of you. This...

I read the article and decided I wanted to learn more about this game. I followed the link to the developer. There is very little information about the game, except that it is rogue-like. I don't think that means that it sneaks around, steals things and excels at backstabbing, but I can't be...

To all those saying that the Skyrim names would work in the Nordic countries: No. No they wouldn't, at least not in Sweden. The Skyrim Nord names are often very close to traditional Nordic names, but not quite. If I named my child Brynjolf or Haelga they would be alone in all of Sweden with...

Getting teased in school is just a part of it. Your name is a marker of who your parents want you to be and how they view themselves, and your child will be judged accordingly. When we named our children we thought about what image the name gave us. One of my suggestions, my grandmother's...

There are many, many Sims fans who don't accept always on DRM either, and many of us use mods to remove all the annoying online/facebook/spam-your-friends parts of the game.

A compliment has to come with a look of appreciation. If you just say it without paying attention to the one you are addressing, it won't feel real. And never, ever give compliments you don't mean. That's just mean.