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  1. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't think the housewife has ever been the norm in history. Families used to be more extended than they are, and grand-parents, or other family member would take care of the kids while the parents would work, in an "unconfortable" environment it doesn't make much sense for a woman in her late...
  2. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Mine started at 6 months, 4-5 times 3 hours a week, pediatrician told us she wouldn't get much out of it at 6 months BUT if we were to put her after 10 months it would become harder to get her used to it. So we put her at 6 months a few hours a day, most of the weekday. It's true that she didn't...
  3. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I think it depends how much daycare they're getting. I leave my daughter on average 20 hours a week at the daycare, and it's great. She just turned 2, and she already has a couple of friends. She clearly doesn't speak as well as the kids that spend all their time with their parents (especialy...
  4. Gurgeh

    Living in Eastern Europe on a Budget

    I simply don't know anyone that didn't massively pirate games in the 80's 90's. No money was ever lost to the industry as we were spending already as much as we could, and the gaming industry grew with our wallets. I'm playing a tenth of what I used to play back then, but I sure spend 10x as...
  5. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    Planetes was top tier. I'm looking forward to this.
  6. Gurgeh

    Paris

    Yeah, well careful lately antifas have been aggroing the police and then train them on yellow vests or even random passerby.
  7. Gurgeh

    Paris

    Likelyhood of getting shot at a concert in Paris probably isn't much different as the one of getting shot in one in the US... Same comment regarding the police, if you see a bunch of antifas being chased by the police do what you would do in the US... I'd suggest to stay whatever time you like...
  8. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    This Woman Can't Hear Men Due to a Rare Temporary Condition Possibly not so rare...
  9. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    Watched Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai today, seems possibly interesting. Heavy in WW2 dogfighting. No idea where this is going tho.
  10. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    It's probably best if that kind of show doesn't last forever. Pretty sure we still have people with PTSD from Lost over here.
  11. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    Peter F. Hamilton was in town next to mine the other day, kinda surprised me, but in the end the room was full, he sold out, and there was a long ass queue to sign the books. Anyway he said some interesing stuff, like how alien invading can't possibly be for regular ressources, as any FTL...
  12. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    I was on the fence about watching this show, so I gave it a shot. Seems promising. Possibly even darker than Made in Abyss ?
  13. Gurgeh

    Counterpart

    Best show around at the moment, I hope it's 3 seasons at most. I would hate this show slowly turning into shit.
  14. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    DP
  15. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    At 4.5 it's usually harder to have kids shut up than speak, the average kid can speak relatively coherently. That being said, one of my colleague's kid couldn't walk at 3.5 and end up top 2-5% of the students of his age, but not being able to hold a simple conversation with a 4.5 year old...
  16. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    We went with our 18 months daughter for a 1 month trip in Vietnam / Korea. Found out that the asian way work relatively well for small kids in restaurant : they bring all the meals at the same time and you share them. We went pretty much once a day to a restaurant, and somehow it wasn't too much...
  17. Gurgeh

    Winter 2018/2019 Anime Thread

    wtf recap of the abyss but no sequel ?
  18. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Sounds like french "Connasse", slang from Louisiana ? In French it's something like "dumbass" (female, "Connard" for male...)
  19. Gurgeh

    Fall 2018 Anime Thread

    I don't think so, she just went through the same thing.
  20. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    My daughter is only 2... So I can't talk from experience, but I bought a Switch even though I've never owned a Nintendo product before (except the original donkey kong handheld...) partly because I believe Nintendo games are the most suitable for young children. Various friends kids (between 4...
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    Parent Thread

    Departments stores ?
  22. Gurgeh

    Starlink - Battle for Atlas, Ubisoft's Star Fox

    So far I've spent most of my time on planet surface. Fighting on planet surface has been mostly close range combat. Then you have the exploration and small puzzle at guardian sites...
  23. Gurgeh

    Starlink - Battle for Atlas, Ubisoft's Star Fox

    Bought the game a few days ago, I haven't played any starfox nor no man's sky, so to me the closest thing would be Zelda BotW. Wich is fine by me as Zelda was one of the best game I've played last few years.
  24. Gurgeh

    Coffee Thread

    I got those as well, it's not that bad, they are indeed paracetamol resistant headaches, but after 24 hours it's over for me. Happened to me a couple of times when I had to go from 4-6/day to 0. If I stop progressively it doesn't happen.
  25. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    Seeking 10 years for boundaries is a long long time. Finding one might actually save him from facing even more violence in the future, but probably not as the mother will tell him how mean his uncle was so he can keep snowflacking. Unfortunately a lot of parents are unable to set boundaries...
  26. Gurgeh

    Fall 2018 Anime Thread

    Anime based on LN are often massive blueballers....
  27. Gurgeh

    Fall 2018 Anime Thread

    That party looks ridiculously op for goblin slaying, if that was EQ you'd think they'd be PLing that cleric...
  28. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    Germany is hitting a new low. I mean even Panama would have fired a coach with that record.
  29. Gurgeh

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't think you have to be Jordan Peterson to notice that women's brain do not work like male brain. I've got the same issue with the wife, and I think at least one guy reported it as well in this thread : my wife tends to bring up stuff at random literaly, like I'm doing voodoo magic on some...
  30. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    My girl is 20 months old now, and all a sudden (over the last 2 months) it became easier. Very rarely complain when going to bed, sleeps from 8:30pm to 7:30am pretty much every day. She's eating whatever we give her. When she throw a tantrum and start rolling on the floor, we just have to ignore...
  31. Gurgeh

    Summer 2018 Anime

    Major's good, I remember watching some unsubbed EPs back in the days, couldn't wait for them. In sports anime I like Hikaru No Go better tho, and even Capeta (but it was much shorter than major, which remained good for a long time).
  32. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    I guess that draw is okay then ! Likelyhood of Euro league seems rather low though. Group C looks fun, the loser will probably get the Europa League as a consolation price.
  33. Gurgeh

    Summer 2018 Anime

    Overlord is so slow, it doesn't seem we'll ever get anywhere near anything ressembling an ending, unfortunately. Still killing giant rats seasons 3...
  34. Gurgeh

    Are we fucked as a species?

    Well that's mostly feels, so don't know what to answer. From a french point of view : the quality of water, air and food have factually and continualy improved over the last 50 years. I guess it's the same pretty much everywhere else in the developped world. So you're right : a few well...
  35. Gurgeh

    Are we fucked as a species?

    The end of the current civilization, with 95%+ of the people dying, could be, maybe in a global nuclear war. The end of Homo Sapiens ? Very unlikely, 100 of them alive somewhere in a place that could just barely sustain life and we'd be back settling all over the earth in a blink of an eye (20k...
  36. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    Yeah, well I guess it could happen. Hope keeps people alive ! I don't follow that at all, except that the OL won the 3 last women CL, with a mostly french team. Sounds like something France will win as well !
  37. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    Your take is that you went to see a semi last year so everything must be fine. Alright.
  38. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    Well then you'll explain the EPL having half the top 10 and top 20 richest team in Europe and one CL in 10 years... The likelyhood of that happening is about 1% (assuming there's a 50% chance of an EPL team winning), and if you look at the last 25 years, it's even worse, 4 out of 25, the...
  39. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    I can see ManC being the favorite this year, last year, no way. With RM being a whole new team and Messi not getting any younger, we might see a non-spanish team win this year. The PSG might even have a shot at it.
  40. Gurgeh

    Le Football 2018/2019

    Yeah as Brando stated, I'm not much into EPL, they aren't likely candidate to win the CL, teams seem to be solely focused on the EPL. You'd think English teams would be better as they have a truckload of money, but they're forced to spend it on british players, so I guess : suck to be them. I...