There's a line running through the middle of this; on one side you're strongly independent and on the other side you're an asshole. I've veered back and forward across this line for most of my life (in my late 40s now). There's no hard and fast rules around which side of the line you're on in any given situation, every circumstance is different and needs to be assessed on its own merits.
If meeting somebody halfway means doing something I don’t want to do, I don’t want a relationship with this person.
Having this as a hard rule that you always stick to, will frequently put you on the asshole side of the line. Sometimes its nice to do something for someone, even if you don't particularly enjoy it, just because it'll make them happy. If you care a lot about them, making them happy is enjoyable (well, it should be!) even if the specific activity isn't. As I said, you assess each situation on its own merits. Figuring out how much you're willing to compromise on stuff like this, and for whom, is just something you'll need to work on over time. If it's something that you don't particularly want to do but it'll make your partner really happy, why wouldn't you want to give them that?
Communication is key. You need to be able to explain to the person why you make these decisions, but also be able to listen to them about how they feel about it, and find some understanding on both sides.
But why must couples do everything together?
They shouldn't, people who think like that are awful. But they should do some things together. Probably quite a lot of things.
If a person I’m dating feels entitled to try to change me, I don’t see how a relationship would work
Going from being by yourself to being in a relationship will always require changes. If the way you think in a relationship doesn't change to include the other person, then you're not really in a relationship you're just hanging out. People shouldn't try to force changes on people against their will, but you should be accepting that you will need to make some changes, just because it is a fundamentally changed situation from being on your own.
It does sound to me like you have some reflexive responses that are a reaction to your upbringing, that I suspect will make it difficult for you to communicate and negotiate through a relationship in these ways. Some kind of therapy can potentially help you work through some of this, but also being self aware (which you seem to have some amount of) and learning through experience should be able to mature these aspects of your personality over time, as long as you make the effort to self-assess and try and be as objective as possible in those assessments.
The Australian women's breakdancing contestant performed an absolutely inexplicable routine with no breakdancing in it and just a bunch of random body movements and extreme weirdness. Her official explanation is that she knew she couldn't compete with the younger, more athletic contestants (she's like 40) so she decided to compete with creativity, but I'm sure there's something else going on. My theory is that she had something like a panic attack and was basically out of her head and got all these weird ideas and had a freak out.
Not sure if it got nerfed, I haven't played in a while. The throwing hammer didn't have great range but usually enough to throw it from outside of an enemy's aggro range. And the best thing about it was that with a fully charged throw it would knock down a lot of enemies, it was amazing to initiate combat with a knockdown from range and then run in and smash them.
I ran dual greathammers with this and the smith's hammer that you can throw. One of the most fun builds I've ever played, insane damage and surprisingly fast for such a heavy build.
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