Dennis Dyack and Derek Smart walk into a room. Who wins?

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*patpat* It's called sarcasm and comedic exaggeration, dear.

Must've been a young one. Send her to read about the Ford Firestone problems, or info on how SUVs do in tipover testing. :P

It's called "sacrifice." It might mean an extra 20 minutes with the personal trainer. You might need to send the nanny to Whole Foods, even though you love going yourself. Kids are precious.

God, I'm tired of the way the Poors run conversations in America. Wah wah wah. Look at my problems. Look at my baby. Someone should help me take care of it!

Absence of evidence != evidence of absence is a good argument when looking for something we have no explanation for or something commonly thought to be unknowable. It begins to break down when we have increasing evidence that points to alternate conclusions.

If fossil records did not exist because (for whatever…

Anybody want to pay to see a fat guy stare at his monitor?

Anybody?

Bones, dude.

We need bones.

Also, because while what we *call* dragons exist in mythologies, what those dragons are is variant to the point of incoherency. Some have wings, some don't. Some have lairs, some don't. Some are giant serpents, some are not.

They're trying to differentiate word selection instead of repeating "cup sizes" over and over. I agree that this should be a non-story — except for the ridicule, which is mock-worthy.

Nope.

In an absolute sense, yes. Better my house than under an overpass. But there's a difference between a tacit *knowledge* of a thing going on and lending one's approval to it.

As far as context is concerned, I think this is something where people decide *what* a thing means. Redskin had a far more neutral / descriptive beginning than some other racial slurs.

My friend's grandmother, who I'd met once before, at the age of 13, looked at me when I was 20 and said: "Wow. You really porked up!"

"be jellies!"

I really loathe that abbreviation. It makes me want to hit people with big catapults of Smuckers in their least favorite flavor.

Re-adhesion was a problem for you. It was not for me. Data says they're rare. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Doesn't mean it isn't a problem. But it's not a universal one.

Baby foreskin nightcream might be the most terrifying thing I've read in...well, days. This *is* the Internet. But be proud: For a brief moment, I boggled.

Gaming is iterative. I think Doom and Quake are the best examples of that.

Quest for Glory II remains one of my favorite games of all time, but I can't pretend it offers an experience equivalent to a Dragon Age: Origins. As much as I'd *love* to revisit the Hero's world, even after decades, I'd want the games to evolve in the process.

There is no ethical or legal reason why game publishers should be entitled to Gamestop's used game profits. Blockbuster didn't have to give the movie industry its used DVD sales. Used books don't make money for publishers. Used CDs don't make money for music studios.

I understand getting angry at a person. But you don't cancel something you love because of a person, or even several people.