The primary motivation I have for watering my lawn regularily is to curtail ant infestations. And I mean infestation. Left alone (as I did one year when we had a baby in March) there were dozens of anthills). Maybe infestation is the wrong word to describe this but they were fucking everywhere and started coming in…

The text book says if a marginalized populace is protesting we give them deference. So I’m onside with that.

I’m wildly speculating as both of these stories are a little light on details, but if my guess is correct and the neighbour is focusing on the legal definition of “maintain a retaining wall” I could see that ambiguity slipping past permiting (e.g. the city viewed replacing the wall as consistent with the easement).

Wild…

At some point in the past two owners of the properties in questions got along, and an agreement was hatched. Such agreements are made as the deck-side owner is going to spend a bunch of money and needs legal protection from the other side just changing their mind.

Now, it’s not like TMZ is a comprehensive brief. But based on their summary this matter seems to turn on the decision of the neighbour to believe the terms of the easement were violated. That the easement existed could very well have been enough to get through the permit stage. It sounds like the other party to the…

Where I am sitting I kinda think you earn the right to go for the dick angle by being accurate about the rest.

Eh, the Josh Radnor story recap is really failing to capture the matter at hand.
-Previous owner had an easement with conditions
- Josh purchases house and is alleged to violate the conditions of the easement in rebuilding his deck. The deck doesn’t seem to be alleged to be unsafe or anything. Indeed the wording is…

Is it just me or is there more than enough uniquely identifiable information in that interview?

“They can’t take me anywhere unless my mother is called,” she said. “So I said, ‘I apologize; I can’t go anywhere with you unless my mom is called.’”

SCOWLY, HELLO. IT’S REGIONAL BUREAU CHIEF GORDON COLE HERE. I WANTED TO CALL YOU AND LET YOU KNOW THAT THE TESTS ARE BACK. TURNS OUT YOUR OPINIONS ARE BAD AND LACK LINKAGE BACK TO REALITY. YOU KNOW, THE WORD LINKAGE REMINDS ME OF SAUSAGE. NEVER CARED MUCH FOR THE LINKS, PREFERRED THE PATTIES, BUT BREAKFAST IS A REAL…

...who?

Anyone else find this sketch completely flopped for them? I just had like zero lols. You need to balance lols with dark if you want to hammer the point home.

Oh, savage.

This column is awful.

TIL famitsu has a pretty small readership

I am perfectly satisfied with VO I can understand. CAN I PLEASE TURN THE SUBS OFF?

....so people who prefer the Japanese VO in games, how can you tell if that VO is any good at all? Or is it just good *because* it’s in Japanese?

But the developer didn’t back away from it because they felt it was an improvement to the game; the Japanese version still holds the original text. They did it because they didn’t want to offend people, which isn’t even the same as wanting the content to carry the same meaning in the West as in Japan.

This is the key and why I used such volatile language instead of fact-based arguments (which someone else chastised me for). Once the full details were made apparent to me its just so black and white that this is a guy in a position of influence attempting something nobody at all agreed with, most especially the…

My reaction was visceral and emotional. It still is. Sure, I have an argument, and it relates. But that’s not what I posted.

That does not explain WHY they didn’t fire him. I assuming he has some redeeming qualities. None on display here.