Absolutely mad how thoroughly management can take a successful product, piss off its audience, alienate its talent, make the site unusable, and end up with flaming refuse before parachuting off to destroy another company and call it a win.

First they came for the Deadspin comments, and I did not speak out, for I was not a Deadspin regular.

The people on Caladan are exceptionally loyal to Atreides, they’re noted to have a level of popularity and respect that makes them a threat to the Emperor.

In Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle, all the cats from Earth in the nocturnal hours rendezvous with other extraplanar cats beyond the Moon, to share information and plan wars against other dream denizens of the night.

Even if you were weird enough to expect an answer from your cat, it would be strange to ask them if they’ve heard of something, then say “me neither” if they hadn’t!

In both of my Baldur’s Gate 3 playthroughs, I was frequently annoyed with how the game would sometimes have one of my party members handle a conversation as opposed to my custom main character. This happened at random times, and not getting to use my protagonist in those conversations felt like it decentered him and…

Some people have family histories more interesting or enigmatic than “lived on one island in Europe their entire lives for many generations, then, in still controversial decision, moved to larger landmass elsewhere”, or, to what amounts to the same thing monetarily, like to believe they do.

Space is big and time is relative, so a change to a quantum particle on Earth that’s entangled with a particle near a black hole 10 billion light-years away would mean changing the behavior of something in the distant past.

If time travel ever were to be invented the number of people at Jesus’ Crucifixion would be identical to what it is now because anyone who time traveled to it would already be there for us. 

Not everyone has the same bladder nor the same response to biological triggers.

(if nothing else, the precedent it’d set would be decidedly troubling),

Let’s keep this simple. 50 percent of Gazans support Hamas. Terrorists. Count 10 women, 5 of them want to annihilate the Jews. I don’t know who’s who. Do you? Let them in? Crazy.

Given the number of Palestinian casualties reported by the United Nations and independent observers in the past 15 years while not in a state of open war, 5000 will seem cartoonishly small before long, with the death toll of Palestinian civilians Israel is happy to tolerate is on par with the bombing of Hiroshima and…

Damn bro, 2 years later?

All of the positions on the political spectrum have misogynists, but there’s a strong imbalance in where the bulk of them call home

Strong recommendation for the commentariat:

Something that the various streaming giants wilfully or carelessly ignore is the fact that their content model doesn’t warrant annual plans or subscriptions.

If you’re selecting the better spells from the numerous opportunities you get while leveling a Wizard, the ones on scrolls will generally be numerically worse options, or niche use cases (in which case being available as scrolls is generally fine).

Doing a full-on moustache twirling companion sacrificing War C̶r̶i̶m̶i̶n̶a̶l̶ Cleric of Lolth run in Baldur’s Gate 3, only the dogs and owlbears are safe.

If you’re playing as the Dark Urge, there’s a unique dialogue and reflection on your amnesiac past if you do a long rest immediately after recruiting Shadowheart on the beach, but before you recruit Laezel. The DUrge will consider their class or race and how it might connect with their instinct.