I’m not trying to diminish those struggles at all, this is just me trying to comprehend something completely outside my experience. Culture and race are often confused in this country as much as gender and sex are. Race is something you’re assigned at birth, much like birth sex. Culture is something you learn growing…

That’s a very good point. However, many native tribes had a practice of adopting people who completely abandoned their ethnic/cultural identity to become Iroquois or Cherokee. Iron Eyes Cody, the famous “crying indian,” was born Sicilian but lived his entire adult life advocating for native rights, associating mainly…

Really? I thought the chateaux fight was the worst. The Burly Brawl was just amazing. Sure, the conspicuous CGI looks dated, but I always assumed that they were stressing the engine of the Matrix so much, it hadto drop the poly count and switch to low res textures. I also loved how it showed how Neo still had limits.…

Well...that’s why it’s work. It’s basically my full-time job. It’s more to supplement my VA income, but I’m my own boss and it’s growing surprisingly fast. By the end of the year, it should be paying like a full-time job. I never was much for playing the game, but I love the art, the flavor, the thrill of opening a…

Not quite a hedge fund, but I’ve been making some money at it for a little while now, and have even taken cards as investment by friends. I trade expensive cards online for more cards of lesser individual value, but greater cumulative value, then reconsolidate their value by trading on a point-based trading site. I…

I’m partial to Lynk.

It’s one of those “unwritten rule” things. Rare drafting for value is generally frowned upon, so having a pro player do it at a major tournament, with the single most valuable card that still sees reprint, is viewed as a sort of abuse of the system. Like if a baseball coach brought in Peter Dinklage as a pinch hitter…

This card was originally printed almost a decade ago. It’s been reprinted twice, but only in limited-run sets. So if anything, they’ve actually dialed it back a little.

WHOO BELLA! Wait, did she have an official name, or did you just make that up? I don’t care. She’s awesome

Is 8chan doing some kind of false flag thing?

How much more wanted and loved they will feel when she tells them that they were chosen, that they are alive because she chose not to kill them.

Kudzu wouldn’t grow on that house.

Yes.

Right. This is my derail. Here, let’s bring it back in. I have no problem with her as a feminist icon, because she’s assertive, confident, knows what she wants, pursues it with gusto, and is flawed. What you call abuse, I accept as comedic exaggeration, but the fact she’s allowed to have a flawed personality is what…

...because the discussion of the moment is of this particular fictional character and her relationships. Thus, the fact that before I was old enough to know what a boner meant beyond “don’t get out of the pool yet,” I found her personality attractive and wanted to be in a relationship with her, is directly relevant.…

What does it say about me (male, hetero..flexible) that one of my first celebrity crushes was Miss Piggy?

As a recovering hermit, just rejoining human society after an 18 month depression...you say that like it’s a bad thing.

Sorry, like many I missed your tag. There’s always a tradeoff when it comes to genetics. There might be an unknown upside to such calorie efficiency as the barely eating obese have.

What about metabolic disorders? Cystic fibrosis is a good example. Someone like my late girlfriend could eat like this easily, but their body just flat-out wouldn’t digest it. It’d go through her like Sherman through Georgia in about two hours.