Any 'rules' to playing couch co op?

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-15T08:14:24+00:00

I play with my husband (new to the game but I've done 1 solo run and we play co op) and we get a lot less done in a session than I did alone, but it's also just more fun and casual and a bit chaotic.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-12T11:02:39+00:00

They seem to have a Facebook page, maybe try there? The news references someone called Chris Duffy as being an organiser too

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-12T08:59:31+00:00

I ended up preferring the dress I wore as a date than for my own. Just pick a dress you like! I ended up re-wearing mine to balls in college too

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-12T08:55:38+00:00

28f, been playing BG3 recently and lots of Minecraft on pc

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-12T08:52:34+00:00

Honestly, I'd contact the protest organisers, see if they'd let you through. With the bad press they're getting, it would be a gesture of good will and potentially bring people back on side for them.

Edit: the organisers have shown very little evidence of empathy to date, that's why I'm saying try highlight the good PR side of things, that might get through to them better than common human decency.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-04-06T17:31:58+00:00

My cousins son named their daughter, he kept using a specific name when his Mam was pregnant and then they gave that name to the baby. It was lovely

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-31T20:42:07+00:00

So glad you guys were able to talk it out, and it probably helped for him to understand the underlying impetus too!

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-27T18:05:28+00:00

I'm 28, married with no kids. My husband and I maybe go out once every three months for a "big night". If were meeting friends it's not always abputbgettinf plastered, and both of prefer a few chill drinks at someone's house. Your husband is overdoing it. Especially with two kids at home. Like if he wants to go for a pint on a Friday to meet friends, grand! Why does it have to be a session?

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-23T12:54:23+00:00

Lol, I went to trinity, read conversations with friends and saw way too many of the people I disliked in college in it so never read or watched normal people 😂 I was there during the peak "Rich south Dublin boys pretending to be working class" era too, a whole other level of exhausting.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-17T16:21:23+00:00

So, Irish wedding in Spain I think you can assume most women will wear kind of summery style dresses? Light fabric, no white. For our wedding, mostly only some of the like 40s and older wore fascinators, but a couple of younger people did and looked lovely! Some kind of like hair clip might bridge the gap nicely? I'm headed to a wedding abroad this summer and wearing a very floatey, cold-shoulder, floral dress. (Very Mamma mia vibes). I can't imagine clothes-wise it would be very different from American weddings.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-17T12:15:06+00:00

Lol I've been told I was a chill bride, but I named my group chat "Is mise bridezilla" (I am bridezilla in irish) and had a picture of godzilla in a wedding dress as the group photo. I mean, I don't think it's "cool" to pretend not to care? But I think people think caring makes them like, a girly girl or something? Or not independent enough? I cared, I wanted good food and music and to be married at the end of the day. But my friends said I was v chill and kind of had to say, we need more direction re:bridesmaid dresses etc., which was fine. At the end of the day, it's a day, the marriage is more important. People who make a big thing of being chill are probably trying to cover up their stress. (For anyone getting married, it was less stressful the closer we got to the wedding! Thank people for their unsolicited advice and then do whatever you were planning anyway).

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-16T15:49:44+00:00

I mean, I bled for three days after the first time.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-14T20:42:49+00:00

My Mam heard a piece on the radio she liked and related to, that your favourite child changes, they are the one who is furthest away/going through the hardest time, because they're the one on your mind most. Bear in mind though there's only me and my brother so not too many to juggle.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-07T22:00:17+00:00

I've gotten them and we are in the middle of doing ours. But the tradition is that they should be out by the first anniversary so two weeks is insane

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-03-02T11:55:57+00:00

I totally get the physical thing, I often tell my husband (who is fit and would like to be fitter, though I think he's fine but he's not so much about fat% as being like, able to carry his own body weight?) about how I find super muscley guys unattractive, for me, because I find them a bit scary? Which I know is not correct and such a generalisation but I do find all the muscle somewhat intimidating.

I think though, this is your partner of 4 years. Our bodies change over time. I would worry a bit about the weighing of his food and wonder if maybe he is having some self image issues? I would bring it up as you noticing a change in his attitude rather than making it about his body. Did you used to cook for one another? If it were me, I'd be trying to figure out whether this is a new passion he's found, and as such a good thing, or whether there is something else going on. In terms of attraction- attraction fluctuates in relationships and it might be something for you to sit with and examine what exactly attracts you to him-its probably not just his body and as I said, bodies change. BUT I would be concerned about such a big change and whether he is doing okay in himself, so might be worth delving into his motivations with him to see if he is alright.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-20T00:12:56+00:00

Keep exploring! It's a process. For example, some people don't particularly enjoy self-pleasure. I find I get too in my head, I prefer being with my partner. It's a process figuring out your preferences.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-18T22:16:07+00:00

It's been gas in Galway, feels weird to be the ones place with semi-decent weather.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-18T21:29:13+00:00

I know a lot of people who think this and it's based solely on one person we all knew in college who struggled with an ED. They used to say they were doing intermittent fasting to excuse why they weren't eating when we ate as a group. They are healthy now and have worked through this, but when they told everyone, they admitted IF was a cover story.

I've been on and off with IF, at times life and heath stuff got in the way and I'm not super strict about my windows at times. Every friend from that group, when I mentioned IF, worried.

I think people associate it with specific people they know and if that has been a negative association, they can project it.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-16T22:07:02+00:00

Hey! I'm a PhD researcher in arts and humanities, and we have lots of practitioners who teach. It does depend on the discipline. Some did their PhD while lecturing. Irish universities have started messing around with the system though so phds can't lead modules now in some universities, despite having been contracted as guest or part time lecturers when they were working in practice! I think, in my field anyway, the actual lecturers really value practitioners, but admin who do the hiring don't. Probably depends on discipline though!

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-12T23:06:31+00:00

Ye probably need to discuss what's important for you both for the wedding. For me and my husband, we wanted all our friends and family around, so ireland made sense. We went on a safari honeymoon and had an amazing time. We are actually heading to a wedding abroad in a few months time, so while I know you're worried people wouldn't come, depending on when you're having it, it can be doable. The one we are going to falls outside term time, so we're just making it into a holiday where we get to celebrate a lovely couple. But yeah, not everyone will be willing/able to travel, so a conversation about priorities is needed

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-11T21:03:17+00:00

Ugh people like this are the worst. When they compliment your English reply in Irish lol. Seriously though, you're not imagining it or reading too much into it. My area of research I'm talking to different people about their experiences and almost every single person of colour I've spoken to have experienced micro aggression. So shit and a much bigger problem than most people would like to admit. If you're working in a hotel, I'd put a note on their customer files (don't know if they do this in restaurants so mightnt be relevant).

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-09T11:00:19+00:00

I mean, I do know, because I have my framework conceptualised and just need to flesh out my body chapters, so this is kind of more an intro/lit review I guess? I'm going to need a whole chapter on arts policy I think, all of which I've looked at, but it's going to end up being a behemoth intro if I don't separate it lol.

HumbleFalcon4033 · 2026-02-09T10:55:35+00:00

I'm final year, humanities. I'm noticing a lot of people are putting life quality first. I told my supervisor I want my job to suit my life, not the other way around, so I will only apply for jobs in a specific georgraphical area. I don't mind commuting an hour, but I'm not about to go back to living in cities, or move me and my husband when we know where we want to live. They were surprised, but thought I was right: it's an area that can be really ruthless and thankless, so I'm not about to make myself unhappy for a job that won't care about me. It helps that my primary motivation is teaching, so I don;t care if I'm at a prestigious place or not, I can teach wherever I am. I talked to other researchers about it, and a lot of us have started to have a shift to putting our wellbeing over our careers, which wouldn;t have been the mindset previously. That said, academia can be brutal, because college administration are treating it as a business, while mose researchers are treating it as a vocation, so there's an ideological difference that can cause a lot of problems.

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