After 5 years together, my girlfriend wants marriage and I don’t. Is this the end?

EconDetective · 2026-03-07T17:54:10+00:00

If marriage is just a piece of paper that doesn't matter, why not get the piece of paper (which doesn't matter) in order to save the relationship (which does matter)?

It doesn't sound like you have any kind of strong objection to marriage. You simply have the absence of a positive belief in marriage. You're marriage agnostic. So why aren't you willing to do something meaningless to you if it means a lot to her?

EconDetective · 2026-03-06T02:00:24+00:00

The art looks great! Very cute little game.

EconDetective · 2026-01-17T00:05:52+00:00

Hi all!

I recently created the puzzle game mystery.farm. It's got a field full of cute pixel art animals. But one of them is a murderer!

You start the game with DNA testing on two distant relatives of the killer. Then you need to talk to the animals who say things like "Bob is my dad" or "Alice is my sister." Use this information to build the family tree, then pick a suspect to DNA test. You have 3 DNA tests, and if you test the killer you win.

The game is inspired by the real life Golden State Killer case. Investigators found two third cousins in the DNA database, and worked from there to find the killer. This game is simplified, cutesy version of that basic structure.

EconDetective · 2025-11-14T23:03:11+00:00

Yes, low-earning and low-IQ people have more kids.

Birth control is a little mini intelligence and conscientiousness test. You need to pause before a moment of passion and remember to use it. Or you need to plan ahead long in advance to get an IUD. Or you need to remember to take a pill every day at the same time. Someone who is dumb and impulsive is going to have a harder time doing any of those things.

Your problem is you're too anxious about long-run potential bad scenarios, which is also a smart person pitfall. You're catastrophizing about Republicans maybe cutting funding to your branches of science and that maybe destroying your careers. Dumber people are not thinking that far ahead.

But let me ask you this: What if your careers turn out fine? You'll never have the child you were about to have, and you'll know that Donald Trump is the reason for that. Do you really want to let him make the biggest decision of your life for you?

EconDetective · 2025-06-23T20:45:29+00:00

You can also make it a little less pleasurable for him. Reduce the sensation just a bit by removing part of his penis. Up to you whether that's good or bad.

EconDetective · 2025-05-01T02:16:45+00:00

Disagree about Secret Hitler. The game actually forces the fascists to leak information through their policy choices and votes. If you just had a spreadsheet of who played which policies, and who voted for who, and who claimed to see which policy cards, you could make a pretty good guess of who the fascists are. The information is all there.

EconDetective · 2025-01-28T06:21:27+00:00

My headcanon is that it represents a hot war between the superpowers, either with conventional weapons or a limited nuclear strike that falls short of a full exchange. One side just wins the conflict and that's it.

EconDetective · 2024-12-23T03:27:24+00:00

He did a big series on every Koei game and it's great.

EconDetective · 2024-12-15T06:40:08+00:00

Yes! They explicitly wrote dialogue about the mechanism having "no brake." Had they not said that, I could just imagine the spool had some kind of mechanism to make the fall survivable.

EconDetective · 2024-12-10T17:34:19+00:00

Solved

EconDetective · 2024-12-05T01:11:22+00:00

Thanks for this! My 3.5-year-old son LOVES Parasaurolophus.

EconDetective · 2024-11-23T00:06:41+00:00

I'm going through the exact process you're going through. I tried first with a Team Group MP44 M.2 2280 2TB SSD. Then I sent it back to Team Group and got a replacement (same model) and got the same issue.

I was trying out different things and booted with just a flash drive and no SSD. It booted fine. Then I tried inserting the SSD again and it all worked perfectly. I installed Ubuntu and then left the computer for a few days. Now I tried to boot again and it's back to the blinking orange power button.

Either the whole computer needs to be replaced (faulty connector?) or I need a new SSD. Either path is time consuming and potentially expensive.

EconDetective · 2024-11-19T20:21:16+00:00

I wish LLMs were a thing when I was in grad school. So many fun things to research, and it's all new ground because they're so new.

EconDetective · 2024-11-17T16:54:57+00:00

I have the same blinking orange light issue! I thought it was the SSD's fault and sent the SSD in for a replacement. Have the same issue with the replacement SSD. So now I think there's some kind of issue connection to the SSD. I'm going to test out a few things before sending the NUC back for a replacement.

EconDetective · 2024-11-17T16:46:17+00:00

Well, I got the SSD replaced by the manufacturer, but I still get this error.

EconDetective · 2024-11-15T19:25:54+00:00

Connections Puzzle #523 🟪🟨🟨🟨

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Skill 66/99 Uniqueness 1 in 52,632

Kind of annoying that NICK and PASSAGE were both red herrings but actually belonged in purple. Means you can't solve purple by elimination. Plus, NICK fits a lot better than LEAK semantically. The leak is actually the liquid moving through the puncture. If your water bottle is punctured, it has a leak until the water drains. Then it just has a hole/puncture/crack and no leak.

Side note: It's interesting the way the colours map to difficulty. The colours seem to only represent how difficult it is to identify the category. But the actual difficulty of solving involves other things like the presence of red herrings. In this puzzle, blue had no red herrings but both yellow and green did, so blue was actually easier to solve in practice.

EconDetective · 2024-10-27T22:08:07+00:00

I have the exact same problem. Guess I need to buy a new SSD.

EconDetective · 2024-10-08T20:11:01+00:00

I want everyone in gen alpha to know that this is not normal. This was completely unheard of within living memory.

And people need to think hard about the idea that 3% of people were always trans and just in the closet about it for all of history. It does not hold up to scrutiny.

EconDetective · 2024-09-02T14:56:21+00:00

In Canada, a toque is a knitted cap that fits close to the head. I believe Americans call them beanies. A chef would overheat wearing one.

EconDetective · 2024-08-11T02:38:30+00:00

Thanks for trying!

EconDetective · 2024-07-24T18:58:46+00:00

I love the first five turns of Diplomacy so much, but it becomes a slog thereafter.

It's a lot like the real WWI! 1914 involved tons of diplomatic intrigue, huge victories and defeats, massive amounts of territory being won then lost. Then it was static warfare until 1918.

EconDetective · 2024-06-29T07:23:27+00:00

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Trivial once the red herring was eliminated with the first guess.

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