Pronell

Being cis does nothing to influence your response here. A trans person would call them by the same name, see?

Call someone by the name you're given, and if you're unsure about pronouns, either use they/them or ask.

And as long as you act in good faith and are accepting and understanding, you're doing well. I think this is the spirit of the question - you aren't sure how to act and don't want to offend.

Same as Al Queda operatives taking desk jobs in Afghanistan and hating their lives.

Be careful tearing down a system, you might need to live through the results of your actions.

Wuv, twoo wuv between these two.

Yeah, anything that has you speaking in game jargon in public should qualify.

One of my friends at a pizza place a few years ago: "I can't believe I didn't get to poison anyone last night."

Me: "Dude, context! We are in public!"

I'm not surprised.

I was enjoying it, but it was trying to bring in too many threads all at once, including Watergate and the Nixon tapes.

It was a simple show about bringing down a crime lord, establish that and stretch out in the finale.

Instead it felt like it was trying to set up a ton of plotlines rather than just telling a story.

You are not the asshole. Maybe you could've been slightly more polite about it, but that's honestly looking for a nitpick.

Assuming good faith, some people will need to be educated about these things before it becomes normal and comfortable for them, and unfortunately that education will be up to you more often than you'd like.

"Scholars"...

Fax machines!

They were invented long before the computer or modem, with the original patent being issued in 1843.

They seem wildly outdated, but the ability to replicate the signature (iirc) led to faxes being accepted as legal documents.

This speaks more to the underlying usefulness in earlier eras, but it's still wild to make a phone call that leads to a printed document.

Blackmail business too.

It's just a mistake, there's no point in beating yourself up over it at all.

Try to find a way to laugh it off and either cancel or have a fun time doing something else in the area.

Your mistake is an embarrassing inconvenience. Nobody is hurt, nobody lost their job, you aren't fired, evicted, or divorced.

Take a deep breath. Self-forgiveness is a skill worth practicing, lest you poison your memories with regret.

If the visual style is anything close to the opening credits of Duster, it could be a ton of fun.

I hadn't thought about Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars for at least a decade prior to that show coming along.

It's far out.

Agreed, if you don't see a way forward with the relationship, you should be honest.

If you're living together, please consider giving them some time to figure things out, if that's feasible for you.