I played on several NWN persistent worlds back in 2002 before settling on Avlis, and played there on and off for 10 years or so, eventually getting into DMing. Kids came along and I couldn’t play online games that couldn’t be paused for a while, and just a couple of months ago brushed off NWN (well, bought the EE version) and logged back in and was able to pick up my characters from back then. Having a blast and still discovering new areas, learning crafting, and interacting with the rest of the player community. Haven’t seen any game quite like it.

As it pre-dates our knowledge of sperm and ovums, I think there’s another aspect to this revealed in the English language (and likely others), where semen is referred to as “seed”, and wombs are referred to as “fertile” or “barren”. The view being that conception is like a field, where you plant a seed and the ground nurtures it. You can also take a seed and germinate it and grow it in water (for a while, depending), so if you take the man’s “seed” and give it a place to grow, won’t it grow into a person because it’s a seed?

Fraternal vs identical twins.

I had these. They had the option to rent, rather than buy, for something like $10/month. Sound was amazing, maybe the best I’ve heard, apparently that funky in-ear thing allows it to customise the sound profile to your eat canal. Build quality was superb. After a couple of hours or so they’d start hurting where it pressed inside the ear. I stuck with it for a couple of months in case I could adapt, didn’t, so sent it back and cancelled subscription, all with no drama or regrets. Still miss the quality of the sound though.

I always find Lisp a bit mind bending and feel like I will be a better programmer once I master it. But it also feels like wood carving, and most of the time I just need to slap some planks together for a bookcase, and don’t have the time to scrimshaw it into a beautiful work of art. I’m not seeing here how Lisp is differentiated from an agent with a code sandbox and python, unless we’re operating that agent inside of Emacs… That’s where the code and the data are swimming together. I don’t think there isn’t a difference, it’s more a matter of my not getting it, if anyone is able to help me understand it’d be appreciated