So what we’re saying is 1 phone call or google search to a rando isn’t enough research to reach an accurate conclusion. Lesson hopefully learned. Will it be though? Click this link for 10 reasons why!

Well written Nathan. You know the writing is good when you don’t particularly care about the subject, plot, or characters but still find it compelling.

Two victims of different species? Is that a double promotion or just extended paid leave before the transfer/promotion? I can’t remember how this works.

The soup containers *are* good, for all the reasons you mention, but they are in the end, plastic. Does anyone have a resource on this specific blend of plastic and what it emits under various conditions? The toxicity of plastics is still being researched but if any of the potential harms are true then glass is…

Now Gita too? Whoever is running this company, get rekt you fool.

Make them charge themselves and move in line themselves. Add a Tesla Cafe with free WiFi and Coffee and some people will want to get stuck in traffic. This doesn’t seem like heavy lifting.

Perhaps the next step is to create overly mundane holidays ... but then have the costumes be exceedingly elaborate.

I hold it in high regard, definitely in spite of it’s unevenness or hard leans on particular tropes. It completely captivated me probably because of those things as much as anything else. I don’t think one needs to excuse or apologize for being heartbroken that the show only had a single season. Some of you probably…

I tried making boardgames for this when I was teaching science and I can tell you it’s not at all easy (I failed), so I have a lot of respect for the effort, however it’s somehow always disappointing at where these efforts jump off in order to make their game actually fun to play. I’d generally rather have fun games…

As a biology nerd I am grinding my teeth that they have you Lamarck your ancestors rather than devise a system that would actually fit with natural selection. Why go to the trouble of devising so many rich behavioral and environmental only to end up gamifying everything that the game is premised upon?

Would be fun to time travel to those first session of Arneson’s Kuntz’s and Gygax’s. Thanks for a really epic essay Cecilia!

They could have done it better in fewer episodes. I don’t accept your premise that the length of the seasons is the primary reason they’ve been crap. Think about the last epic play you’ve seen. Did it run 8-10 hours? Did it manage to convey more in less time? Probably no, and yes.

Not petting Ghost: Just an amateur behaviorist chiming in here: Saying goodbye to pets just increases their anxiety. A good dog owner says a word from confidence, with assurance, then doesn’t look back. Sad goodbyes are for us stupid primates. I was really chuffed when Jon didn’t say goodbye to Ghost as in my eyes…

Gendry once again getting used with just about zero cares about what he wants. The passion in the scene was so perfunctory it felt pretty awful to me yet it seems like most are celebrating Arya’s happy funtime like it’s a wonderful thing for her. Like, you want to know what sex is like? If you’re going to do it like…

(Tongue in cheek here): That’s right “You should only cosplay as your own race.” because nothing will bring about harmony like fragile taboos that keep everyone focused on how we’re different rather than what we share. (you know, like love of video game characters of all different kinds of races).

No, no it’s not. Not categorically as you state and that’s the problem. You don’t get to decide what is and what isn’t the continuation of a practice done by someone else without (as you rightly point out) their context, not just the context of victimization.

As a single person who’s friends mostly all have kids I can tell you it often feels quite the opposite. I’m sure there are 100 stories we could tell from either vantage point but in lieu of that perhaps one could say that kids can change relationships between the parents and single people.

I don’t understand how you lot don’t understand Wicked Whims. You can turn off all the autonomy. Nobody is judging you for not wanting virtual entities to fornicate. There’s no need to mis-characterize the mod as ‘Interrupting’ or ‘Stop Blowing everyone’. The mod makes either zero, 1, or many changes. It’s either…

Ever notice that people who have not been beaten never advocate for beatings? I don’t suggest that indicates anything conclusive but it is interesting. People that grow up around violence quite often normalize it. I think things that have a 1:1 normalizing conditioning should be given a triple dose of reflection.

“a few fewer” is a better sounding “fewer”. It lets you into the fact of there being less of a thing slowly. AFAIK it’s legit.