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Lol, I just got it to work with the grapes included, so they're optional too. I guess because they're seedless?

The wealthy became the Eloi in that story, haha. You're supposed to want to eat them.

Lol, the rhythm game is actually the last (real) one.

Yes, I left them, avocados and eggplants out.

Since it took me an unreasonably long time:

Where the hell is the guitar cat?

I'm pretty sure I got it including corn.

Yeah, clearly it's designed to make a mistake sometimes.

Ooor they'll turn their kids into "pugs" that are ultra-cute and good at passing certain tests but otherwise useless and unhealthy.

I'd definitely prefer we didn't go down that path, but do consider the endpoint might be more The Time Traveler than Gattaca, because rich people aren't exempt from being dumb.

Europe had practical seafaring since antiquity. European naval technology during the discovery of the Americas was on par with other Eastern Hemisphere naval powers.

No and no. In antiquity they followed the coasts most of the time, and followed really safe routes across mostly-closed seas the rest of the time. Trireme construction was good enough to take rough weather, while it existed, but for one thing they had trouble with navigation.

Chinese boats of the early modern era were leaky and unseaworthy by comparison, if sometimes extremely large for show, and their sails didn't tack nearly as well.

The Vikings did manage seafaring, but they had a very specific design that was pushed pretty much to it's limits. You can't make a clinker-built longship any bigger or better really, and eventually economic conditions meant they stopped bothering with the big expeditions. Later on some of those same techniques made their way into the caravel.

The Polynesians managed it much earlier, and did spread around, but they were otherwise in the literal stone age. It is still pretty curious they didn't leave more impact on the Americas.

I'll come right out and say the West isn't necessarily ahead on what a good relationship is. Outside of maybe traditional rural areas our extended families are fucked. Some of the people we idolise are openly toxic. The few ideas there are about what makes a good partner are far too abstract, and emphasise short-term attributes over lasting compatibility despite that being a stated goal.

Lasting compatibility is the main problem I see here, too, although I'm hardly old enough to confidently comment. A 17 year old's life and worldview are going to change in a million ways over the next decade. Even relationships with other 17 year olds tend not to last, but then there's a mutuality to the growing up and going separate ways.

That may well be. I'd say I understand the basic concepts, but people in this thread have more detail on the specifics and how they work out in practice than me.

It does make me wonder why everyone hasn't been doing it, if there's no drawbacks, though.

Given that she's gold digging or something similar and he probably knows, I'm not sure if that's even immoral. Just a bad idea and going to fall apart in a messy way.

Maybe it seems icky, and in the West proper everyone would agree with you, but in your own culture the other poster was right, your dad has already overlooked your own taboo preferences.

Edit: Hopefully that helps. I'm not trying to shame you here, it's a complicated situation.