Salvaging gives you components to use in forging/crafting new items. The component given by the salvage depends on whether it's a weapon or armor and its rarity color. Generally, you need to salvage all rarity types as often as possible to get all components that will be needed eventually. It's better to salvage than…

Colorado: I'm very open to be disputed on this one, as I'm pretty much limited to the southern/south-central part of the state over the course of my life, but I can speak from the experience of knowing for absolute certainty that everyone around here trumpets their own Green Chili recipe as being the best. I'm kind of…

Don't even get me started on the Google News aggregation selection algorithm. Surely, there's other news sources more relevant to my interests than the Aspen Times. But not according to Google. I get my state's news from the Aspen Times first, or I don't get it at all, apparently. I have utterly no clue how it came to…

Littering on its own is a dumb and miserable practice, but the worst in my mind are those who go through the trouble to actually hide their litter, like under a bush or up in a tree (walk any popular mountain trails around here, and you see this a lot).

And also utilize the ultimate garden companion plant— Marigolds!

It took a while to grow on me, and it's certainly got its share of irredeemably bad moments, but it also has a lot of incredibly inspired moments. It can even go from one to the other and right back again in a single episode. I find it helps to keep in the back of my mind that it's going to be cheesy and stupid fun,…

Pardon me as I go full pedant here for a moment: That's a picture of Sovereign.

One of my first and favorite Enix games from back in the day. Haven't played it in ages but it's always stuck with me, especially its tunes. Take a moment to revisit the brilliance that is this game's soundtrack. Gotta love that jazzy funk!

Calling it a 'trip' does severe disservice to the word as I found almost nothing trippy about it, myself. More like being way too stoned but without any of the fun parts of being way too stoned.

You gonna pick up the dry cleaning bill? Some of your sarcasm dripped onto my shirt. At least.... I hope that's your sarcasm that just dripped onto my shirt...and not... nevermind.

I have very few major regrets in life.

Looks like the unholy love child of a guinea pig and an isopod.

People moving down have greater spatial awareness and wider vision as moving uphill capitalizes a lot of attention and field of vision is limited. An uphill hiker could almost walk over the top of someone moving down before even seeing them. It's the downhill movers that are better able to see approaching people and…

He's going for a crossover of sorts, as that's definitely a Swiss-Army knife that encountered the Allspark.

I don't necessarily disagree with the position that conflict is deeply ingrained into the sum total of human history as it would be foolish to do so, but I do find the invitation of and desire for conflict to be disturbing and often not well considered, especially in this instance that started this conversation. I am…

I'm afraid I do not follow.

My my, we're being very presumptuous. And wrong on all accounts.

I'm very well apprised of history, thank you very much. It's a large part of the reason I'm fucking terrified of a war on my own home.

I am very sorry that the thought of going to war with your own coutrymen 'fits your world view.' That's a world view I want no part of. I am very ashamed for you that it is presumably a part of yours.

Absolutely agreed on every point. I get very heated over this topic because I don't think many think too deeply into the gory details that such events entail before fomenting thoughts of war.