Pestis the Spider

Well, rain is not exactly fun, but it's not like I hate it. I'm just describing the actual weather here. You don't need to watch forecast to know it's going to rain, because it almost always rains here.

Try Lothian weather. Forecast "all sunny skies" = rain. Forecast "rain" = rain. Forecast "Deep Snow" = rain. Forecast "thunderstorms" = rain. So much fun.

It's Space Stone. Mind Stone was in Loki's Scepter, now it's in Vision's forehead. Aether (red liquid thing) from Thor 2 is Reality Stone, and the purple stone from GotG is the power stone. And that's all we know so far.

Oh, so we're actually talking about men-towomen explanation in particular. Well, I didn't want to go there, because as far as I know there is lot's of total nonsense going on about it in US (but I am not from US, so I really don't know the actual situation, so I don't feel qualified to discuss it). But can I ask you how did you know that this guy was a a sexist, not just a simple douche? Did he specifically say that he knows more about the topic because he is a man and you're a woman?

Ok, thanks a lot!

The thing was always a peeve of mine. I think noone likes condescending people, right? But I just really don't like some of these newly created English words. They sound silly, and "mansplaining" is one of them. Also while googling I noticed that some people are completely overusing this word in some situations. Why can't we just keep to the words already exist rather than forcefully creating new words? I know that new words need to be created when needed, but "mansplaining" is hardly such a case.

I just googled the word "mansplaining". From now on it's my new pet peeve. O.o

I finally (finally) managed to get a copy of White Sand. So far everything goes as I expected, so basically no surprises there. But I have one, very minor question, couse I just simply can't remember:

Sometimes in some books there are people trying to explain something in terms of genetics (viruses, mutations, zombies, other weird stuff happening), and the explanation makes like absolutely no sense, because the author didn't do research. Funny thing is that this weird stuff could be easily explained in the way that makes sense (even if it's fantasy explanation, really) if only the author tried harder. I can't really remember any particular examples right now, but I remember thinking "there is no way it works this way" several times, while reading books/watching movies. Edit: Seriously, sometimes I prefer that author uses just "magic" as an explanation instead of trying to make his explanation sound scientific and making it completely wrong.

My computer skills are limited to surfing the net and playing games, so that never bothered me. But I am a biologist, so I end up with, for example, manatees problems or totally-wrong-genetics problems in books/movies/games. I am really dissapointed that authors don't care enough to do a proper research before creating a work.

Super-ridiculous stuff helps, because the audience is basically warned that all of the stuff is going to be super-ridiculous. Crazy sci-fi stories are fine. My problem is when books/movies/games treat a completely unscientific thing like it's totally legit and scientific, and give no explanation whatsoever as to why it is so ridiculous. As long as the reader is informed in some way that ridiculous stuff is not real then I'm fine. Like for example I started to read a manga recently. Nice art, decent story, set in history-fantasy world. Of course all of the fantasy stuff get at least pointed out. However for some reason the Birds of Prey in this game behave like piranias and the author treats it as totally normal thing. Or I play a game, where you swim in the deep ocean and all crazy stuff happens (because it's magical deep ocean, or something), but then suddenly a manatee appears, like it's normal. I mean, no matter how magical is the ocean, the manatees just don't swim in such deep water.

I have a similar problem as Twi, and I really don't know how to deal with it. I am terrible at all this social stuff. So I have this coworker. We're both from Poland, and we're pretty good friends at work, as we talk a lot (my job allows talking as long as job is being done in the same time). He's several years older (I'm not sure how much older exactly). Also both of us (as well as other 15 or so ppl from our work) live pretty close together, coincidentally. So one day me and this guy were walking to the exit gate, when he started to talk about some interesting stuff. So I decided that I can go with him (usually I take different route, but we live so close that is doesn't really matter), so we can keep talking. And it was all fine, until he almost walked me home. I was not fine with that, so I stopped him half-way, but back then I thought it was just because he wanted to keep talking (he's pretty talkative) and talking. But then the next time we worked together he actually waited for me to go out of the building (I had to change clothes, which took me a few minutes). So we walked home together home again. Half-way I decided to go do some groceries to the nearby supermarkt, and so I told him that he doesn't need to come with me (I was trying to tell him to go home, but I'm bad ant subtlety). He went to the shop with me, which stressed me out so much that I forgot half of my groceries. I told him that I don't want him watching me shopping, but he said he's not paying attention and that he doesn't care what I buy either way. Then I think he tried to walk me home again, but I stopped him again (trying hard to be subtle, so I don't offend him). Then the next day he wrote to me on facebook inviting me for some fresh carrot juice (he knows I like it). I totally ignored that message. Since then I told him I won't walk home with him anymore (I found some almost reliable excuse), but often he still waits for me after work, even though he knows I won't walk with him. So here's my problem that I am even not sure that he is really trying to flirt with me or if he is just being friendly, and I am simply overeacting. If he is flirting with me, then how am I supposed to make him stop without offending him? I like him as a collegue, but that's it. And I am really, really not in a mood for any relationships right now, so I admit that I might be panicking a little without reason. I am really, really bad at dealing with people. But that's not all. There is this other guy that just started working with us, but he seems to be overly friendly with me. I saw him like 2-3 times, and he already behaves like he knew me for months, and that freaks me out. He once touched my shoulder in a friendly manner once (some ppl at my work do that sometimes, because I am too scared to tell them that I totally hate it, but they know me much, much longer, so I learned to deal with it). Also the 2nd time I saw him he said that he "missed my beautiful smile" (I'm basically smiling all the time at work for several reasons. It's not exactly honest, but most ppl don't know that.) I have no idea if he is so friendly only with me or also with other ppl. The only other person I see him spending lots of time is a Spanish girl, but I think they might know each other from outside the work. Also I don't know what they're talking about together, since they speak Spanish all the time. And I don't know what he does when I'm out of the room (and I am out of the room about half of the time). What is the possibility that he is trying to flirt with me? Or maybe that's just his personality? How do I deal with this? Any help, please?

My brain is my pet peeve, because it makes me do this: Step 1: I read a book/watch a movie/play a game Step 2: My scientific brain activates, and a thought like "OMG, this is so unscientific!" (e.g. "but manatees live in shallow water!") is created. Step 3: My stupid brain forces me to rage quit otherwise enjoyable book/movie/game. Thanks, Brain, you killjoy.

Mistborn?

Huh, that makes sense. Why didn't I think of that? As for the new bad description: It can be anything. Even Harry Potter.

Hyperion?

I'm pretty sure that ppl suggesting Bakker didn't know at a time that OP is just 12.

Any chance I could get this spoiler in PM, since you deleted it from your post? I'm curious.

Can you maybe tell me which parts of Second Apocalypse do you consider messed up? I read some very dark and gritty stuff, so my tolerance for messed up is really high. So I don't notice a lot of stuff. But I would be really grateful if you told me what you consider messed up in this series. I would love to know how other ppl think.

Where can I find it?

I think it's because they are not so popular characters. But if you look them up on DC Wiki you can find some comics with them (as adults as well).

@Darkness Ascendant Just remember that MCU is totally separate from Marvel Comics, so we can't really say anything about Dr. Strange based on his comics. We need to wait for the movie to come out to be sure that the producers don't change his magic into god-knows-what. Edit: Also Xavier and Deadpool are separate universe from MCU. MCU doesn't have rights to the X-men and these movies are made by Fox, not by Marvel Studios, as far as I remember.

Judging by the fact that the main guy was called Robin and was dressed like Batman's Robin, then I would assume so.

I heard that it was the Time Gem and that was supposed to explain some time bending powers or something. O.o

Well, she got super telekinetic powers, so I don't think she's that far. As for magic, I don't know. Maybe they'll explain it somehow with more Infinity Stones, black matter or some other space stuff. Maybe it's just powers too awesome to explain in scientific terms. But it is still magic, generally speaking. Dr. Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme after all. You know, the moment I wait most in the MCU is when Avengers finally meet GotG and Strange. I really want to see Stark's reaction to magic and talking racoons.