It’s from someone’s bad acid, more like.

wut da fuq

The insane thing is that just when the story seemed to be converging into some kind of climax, with most of the major players seemingly moving towards coming together to face the threat of the White Walkers, suddenly he opened everything up again with whole new narratives and characters and everything spreading out again. I have no idea what he is thinking.

Did I see Laidlaw’s 400 Boys in there!?!? O_O

Spend your money, travel, get outside your comfort zone and challenge yourself. Or get professional help.

Why?

It’s a masterpiece and one of the most influential novels of all time.

You’re in the cyberpunk sub but you’d never heard of Neuromancer before?!`

You’ll formalise your knowledge in college, for now just work on whatever you enjoy most without worrying too much about what its teaching you.

Sure, just keep in mind that most of the answers you got are completely wrong :]

DO NOT ASK SOCIAL MEDIA IMPORTANT MEDICAL QUESTIONS. CONSULT AN EXPERT.

Almost all of the replies here are wrong or missing important information.

There’s a line running through the middle of this; on one side you’re strongly independent and on the other side you’re an asshole. I’ve veered back and forward across this line for most of my life (in my late 40s now). There’s no hard and fast rules around which side of the line you’re on in any given situation, every circumstance is different and needs to be assessed on its own merits.

If meeting somebody halfway means doing something I don’t want to do, I don’t want a relationship with this person.

Having this as a hard rule that you always stick to, will frequently put you on the asshole side of the line. Sometimes its nice to do something for someone, even if you don’t particularly enjoy it, just because it’ll make them happy. If you care a lot about them, making them happy is enjoyable (well, it should be!) even if the specific activity isn’t. As I said, you assess each situation on its own merits. Figuring out how much you’re willing to compromise on stuff like this, and for whom, is just something you’ll need to work on over time. If it’s something that you don’t particularly want to do but it’ll make your partner really happy, why wouldn’t you want to give them that?

Communication is key. You need to be able to explain to the person why you make these decisions, but also be able to listen to them about how they feel about it, and find some understanding on both sides.

But why must couples do everything together?

They shouldn’t, people who think like that are awful. But they should do some things together. Probably quite a lot of things.

If a person I’m dating feels entitled to try to change me, I don’t see how a relationship would work

Going from being by yourself to being in a relationship will always require changes. If the way you think in a relationship doesn’t change to include the other person, then you’re not really in a relationship you’re just hanging out. People shouldn’t try to force changes on people against their will, but you should be accepting that you will need to make some changes, just because it is a fundamentally changed situation from being on your own.

It does sound to me like you have some reflexive responses that are a reaction to your upbringing, that I suspect will make it difficult for you to communicate and negotiate through a relationship in these ways. Some kind of therapy can potentially help you work through some of this, but also being self aware (which you seem to have some amount of) and learning through experience should be able to mature these aspects of your personality over time, as long as you make the effort to self-assess and try and be as objective as possible in those assessments.

Nah I’ve made my peace with it, I don’t let it bother me (mostly). I only posted here because I’m super bored at work. I used to be mad about the ongoing death of quality media but I now I mostly don’t even pay attention.

I’m just doing the math.

Statistically speaking… it’s going to suck.

These two having any kind of conversation would be fucking hilarious. Absolute opposite ends of the spectrum of narcisstic assholes, they would both go insane trying to out alpha each other while being completely unable to communicate in any way that made sense to each other.