No no, those are features, not bugs. Japanese has the *best* language-based puns and double meanings ever because of the large range of nuance and differing connotation that the kanji have. And true, their “past tense” works differently than ours (being more based on whether something is finished or not), but that’s…

Currently posting from Kyoto. As it turns out, our house is only a few minutes walk from Fushimi-inari shrine. Today we went partway up, but turned back after a long detour up the mountain past many graveyards. Because the gion matsuri is tomorrow, and it was Sunday, it was very busy. We plan to go back before dawn in…

Currently posting from Kyoto. As it turns out, our house is only a few minutes walk from Fushimi-inari shrine. Today…

Just in time, three days to go! We will try to do all of these things! We were already going to do Fushimi Inari, but now I definitely want to check out that cafe as well. In a way, just wandering is what I’m looking forward to the most.

Just in time, three days to go! We will try to do all of these things! We were already going to do Fushimi Inari,…

As a long-time dwarf fortress alum, rather than scaring me away, I am now only more interested. :)

Never heard of it. But you’ve got my attention.

Maybe I’m imagining this, but I really thought I also ran into a lesbian troll at some point this expansion.

He probably will. Partially because they asked McGregor to box instead of Mayweather to do MMA. If it had gone the other way, the odds would be very different (not necessarily reversed.) There’s a reason we don’t pit basketball players against hockey players for the title of “best athlete.”

This is one of those trick questions: it is never too late to call off the wedding. But after the wedding, it is always too late to not get yourself into a marriage you are going to regret for years, decades, or the rest of your life.

Awesome! We are dividing our trip between Kyoto and Tokyo as well. In Kyoto we’ll be renting a house, and in Tokyo, we’re staying in a fairly standard business hotel.

Awesome! We are dividing our trip between Kyoto and Tokyo as well. In Kyoto we’ll be renting a house, and in Tokyo,…

Used my points to book a round-trip flight to Japan in three weeks, and also pay for 2/3 of the hotel stays. If you’re patient and save up frequent flyer points, with this card or another, it’s quite feasible for even people of modest means to travel abroad every few years.

Used my points to book a round-trip flight to Japan in three weeks, and also pay for 2/3 of the hotel stays. If…

Used my points to book a round-trip flight to Japan in three weeks, and also pay for 2/3 of the hotel stays. If you’re patient and save up frequent flyer points, with this card or another, it’s quite feasible for even people of modest means to travel abroad every few years.

Used my points to book a round-trip flight to Japan in three weeks, and also pay for 2/3 of the hotel stays. If…

It’s all part of the same problem. Part of society’s self-regulation mechanism is to push back on ideas that are considered unacceptable. Certainly Trump has had a lot to do with normalizing the idea of violence against one’s political foes, but Griffin isn’t blameless either. Once society stops pushing back, the…

You always gotta remember, it doesn’t matter what the other side did, or does. Their bad behavior is irrelevant. The only question that should concern you is, what are you going to do?

This is an atrocity against democracy. Regardless of your political leanings, violence has no place in a democratic government.

as one magazine put it when metroid prime came out: “Metroid Prime is like the Game of the Year from five years in the future.” It also solved many problems of third person platforming that had plagued the genre to that point. It was ridiculously ahead of the curve at that time.

Oh, I see. I think we’re arguing different points. I agree that 5 had poor single-player content, and a more limited roster. But, as a fighting game, I think it’s markedly better than any previous game in the series. The meter attacks and ultimates were very well thought out and implemented, which was my biggest…

Pretty sure 3 and 4 killed soul cal. 5 was an amazingly good game, but by then, the damage was done.

Actually I’m very much in favor of that law. It provides the absolute minimum amount of leeway for governmental abuse. Many court cases have been brought in an attempt to prosecute people for a variety of “attempts to incite violence” that we don’t currently allow for, including in books, rap music, movies, and so…

I’m a software developer by trade, and at the end of the day everyone at my job wants our customers to be happy. It’s important that they tell us, though, what they do and don’t like. I wince whenever I see someone advising others to just shut up and accept what they’re offered; we would never want our customers to do…

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