Presumably leaving the root on also makes the onion harder to peel though, unless you’re just removing the whole outer layer instead of the skin (which is usually what I do out of sheer laziness.)

Metro Exodus just jumped to the top of my to-play list.

Microtransactions do not in any way pay actual developers.

Adding lootboxes to a game not originally designed to have them, for the sole purposes of pressuring players to spend more money, is doing them the right way??  This article feels like the microtransaction equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome.

There was literally a Simpsons episode where this was Mr. Burns’ dastardly plot.

You’re probably right. Still, it feels a bit hypocritical to suggest that this guy should just suck it up and put up with unwanted physical contact with another person, regardless of the genders involved or his personal reasons. If genders were reversed, we would never advocate forcing a woman to participate in a…

Regardless of WHY this made him uncomfortable, it clearly made him uncomfortable enough to want to accept a loss rather than go through with it. You don’t force a person into unwanted physical contact with someone else, full stop.

She will indeed be missed. I always enjoy showing and discussing her work with students in my 20th Century Art course. Many of the most visceral reactions (of both shock and awe) come from my female students, many of whom have never encountered such works of feminist performative body art before. Between Schneemann…

To be fair though, even the wikipedia article you cited points out that the Williams sisters were legally CHILDREN at the time (16 and 17,) while he was 30.

Oregon is a case study in how excessive regulations and high taxes can stymie economic growth and development. The short answer is that it is prohibitively expensive to build new construction here, to the point where it is economically unfeasible for builders to invest in low-cost housing. This, combined with the…

Oregon is a case study in how excessive regulations can stymie economic growth and development. The short answer is that it is prohibitively expensive to build new construction here, to the point where it is economically unfeasible to invest in building low-cost housing.

Oregon resident and long term renter here and I have mixed feelings about this. While the restrictions on rate hikes and no-cause evictions are welcome, this law is ultimately a bandaid solution that does nothing to fix the roots of the affordable housing problem, which are the excessive regulations and high property…

Oregon resident and long term renter here. This law is a bandaid solution that does nothing to address the root causes of the problem: Oregon has overly restrictive regulations on building and excessively high property taxes. The combination of these two problems makes it economically unfeasible for builders to invest…

Exactly my thoughts. All that graduate level academic talk about “visionary organizing” means fuck-all in the real world if you can’t pay the bills.

Are the new cosmetic additions (haircuts, clothing, etc.) or the rebalanced weapons available in the single-player game?  I’m still not wanting to touch RDR2 Online with a 10-foot pole, but new clothes and haircut options for Arthur would be welcome.  :)

Bloodborne’s gameplay and main campaign are indeed brilliant, but the Chalice dungeons are utterly terrible. Bland, endlessly repetitive grinds with little real reward. It’s hard to call Bloodborne the best game ever when such a notable part of it missed the mark so badly. The fact that they’re basically required if…

I was only joking. I’m well aware of the history of singular they and its common usage. As to your question; I think it’s an age and public school English curriculum thing. I was in grade school in the early 90s, and we were explicitly taught that the only correct gender neutral singular referents were the phrase “he…

More singular they.  OCD fully triggered.

Makes sense. I just assumed that in the process of speaking to the player to write this article, Heather would have ascertained their gender (binary or not.)

Ah, makes sense!