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Sloth is the strongest. Of course, that is only by playing the long game. The indifference and melancholy of sloth can become an indestructible armor that protects your sleep all the way to the heat death of the universe and for eternity after. Gluttony eventually runs out of things to eat...

I would probably be the designated hero`s talking animal sidekick or mute orphan companion. My job is to be the hero`s morality chain, preventing them from falling into despair and cynicism no matter how difficult our journey.

If you are offering a service you have no intention of actually providing if the offer is accepted, then yes you are being a poopyhead. However, some recruiters actually look for someone who is goofing around; being able to treat lying as a game is a desirable quality in sales representatives.

I always admire a small-steps hero. The kind of protagonist that does the right thing because its the right thing to do, even if that invites danger or retribution.

I feel safer interacting with a new dog than a new human. Humans are so expressionless; you can never tell what they are thinking. Dogs in contrast are super obvious with how they are feeling.

As someone with a college degree in math, let me say that history is more important. As a society, our math is super developed. There are even branches of math that have been proven complete. For example, every possible finite group has been systematically classified and named. There are no more...

That's faster than I can talk.

Humans are in the AAA phase of civilization, angry awkward adolescent. The human brain is still optimized for communities between 100-300 individuals, and an environment where war was a beneficial adaptation to food scarcity that immediately lowered the number of people so they don't all starve...

I learned that the word Cowboy was originally a racial slur. A white rancher would be called a Cowman or Cowpuncher, while only black ranchers were Cowboys.

From a linguist`s standpoint, there are several parameters involved in different speech and behavior styles, including polite speech. Two parameters of particular importance to polite speech are status and solidarity. Think about how you talk to your parent, this is someone who holds high status...

I tend to find kingdom building rather dull. Several stories I liked for a while started out as adventure genre but got really boring after the MC earned peerage.

30L of low grade toluene.

If your sodium is normal, your cholesterol is normal, your heartrate is slow, your bloodpressure is low, etc. If you are healthy you should not loose weight no matter what your bmi tells you.

Parents divorce because once in a while neither the government incentives (there are a lot of these in my country, mostly based on subsidized healthcare or tax benefits) nor the romantic ideals of marriage live up to the reality of actually living together for decades to come.

One can read and write in 300 dead languages but cannot understand speech. The other is indistinct and shrouded in a billowing cloud of purply miasma.

Chemistry class. We go through a whole lotta weird sounding compounds, some of which can be inspiration for nicknames or insults. There's also a whole lotta processes named after old dudes from centuries ago whose names are pretty out of fashion but still sound proper in a feudal or fantasy...

95 on Paladin, my lowest was 25 on Warlock. It totally noticed my strict adherence to the letter of law, in malicious defiance of common sense and safety.

Thanks all. To be honest your responses are much nicer that I was expecting.

My professor really gave me some troll bait this time. I know there are several so just pick the one you are more familiar with.

Thanks all, I managed to turn my assignment in on time.