I personally cope by skipping a lot of the optional content. I used to try to milk every achievement out of a game - now I play the main story, and it was enjoyable I’ll go back and play around some more.

The invading jerks are the problem - every time someone is kind enough to rate my beg, I turn human and almost instantly get invaded. I didn't realize I could still turn human and use Solaire without an internet connection, though. Thanks for the tip!

I'd read that.

Didn’t Cheney already take care of Bush’s dirty work?

In some ways that makes me feel worse. Optimizing for lighting resist is something I understand, but if I want to do that I have to backtrack two hours and grind loot another two.

Sen's fortress benefits heavily from pausing. It's impatience that usually kills you.

“I can’t believe it’s not murder"

I think it is valid not to go to that particular store anymore, though. Frequent bad experiences from a single location deserve a boycott.

Of for the love of...

This is a cultural case study. I think there’s a lot to mine here.

There is a lot of drek to that programming, but good stuff to be had as well. Certainly that thing with the blair witch-like drama where they were searching for a megalodon was utter crap. But I enjoyed the ones where they’re just trying to track specific large sharks to identify migration patterns and speculate on…

In my experience, nostalgia is best left in the recesses of the mind. It typically doesn’t work out well. New spins ultimately fail to appease either old fans or newcomers. Even watching the originals, rarely does anything hold the same luster as what’s in the mind’s eye. As much as I’d clamor for a few new episodes…

Shark Week would like you to believe otherwise.

This is a feasible tactic in Games Workshop fare.

I’m guessing that’s a clip from one of the “Sharknado” movies. So technically it didn’t jump. It was already up. Because of global warming and stuff. But luckily it adapted on the fly to breathe without water and feast on passing waterfoul!

That's pretty dark.

The biography seems weird. A holder of multiple degrees, member of a wealthy family, politically connected, marine... cheerleader? One of these things is not like the others. Did she become a cheerleader strictly for this moment to get her face on tv in a sympathetic tone? Or just because she can?

I’m glad he got paid to not have fun. It means I don’t have to pay to not have fun.

Statues. I’m a sucker for statues.

But you won’t have a pip-boy.