Eau - for when consonants are unnecessary
Acquire (but also "require"???)
As others pointed out, it might help if you elaborate on your position in the comments. This would make a healthy debate possible.
On the substance - I think sex before marriage should remain normal, and there are many benefits to it. For one, sexual compatibility is a big factor for many people when it comes to building lasting relationships - and you won't know it unless you try. Better sexual chemistry improves long-term romance, improves mental health, and may also contribute to fertility, so this is not something to look over. Also, making such a big deal out of sexual relationships can make it more frustrating if they don't go perfect right from the start - and being married, you are now trapped, which doesn't really help.
If I want to marry a person, I want to know them as much as possible - I want to know them as a friend, as a lover, as a sexual partner, as a person to share household with, and many more. I'd love to see them as a parent, too, but this is too big of a commitment with other person's fate on the line, so parenting goes after marriage. Sex does not have such properties, and I see no sense in putting that goalpost so far.
Finally, an opinion with more downvotes than upvotes.
But on a serious note, I think there is something to it when you know you play with/against real people - a sense of connection, a spirit of honest competition (not with a machine that is either poorly programmed or straight up let you win so you would feel better, like, good luck playing any board game against actually fully equipped AI), and then, chatting and social behavior.
This is why people get so pissed off when they see bots introduced into multiplayer games - all of a sudden, you can now never know if that juicy frag you made was against a real person you outcompeted or it was just AI that intentionally played dumb, being nothing but a dummy. There is also less connection and communication in that scenario.
There are also other cases like companies of friends playing together (co-op games exist, but are limited in scope and amount of players), or MMOs where entire economy and systems are built around players making the game and forming lively communities, roleplay, working together and waging wars, etc.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Nice!
Sounds like a nice social space overall :)
Wow! That's great to know :)
What is the goal of the nonprofit, if I may ask? Just mass entertaining, or something more complex?
Fair enough!
Interesting - I don't seem to have many specialized earplugs in here
Also true. Seriously, we need quieter theaters as well. There's no need to bombard our ears!
You mean all the bass vibrating through the body?
Also, "school" because my first foreign language was German
German sch roughly equals English sh, so I'd always read it as "shool". Doesn't help that the German word for school is Schule, which is read as "shule".