I knocked back my Manhattan and looked to the end of the bar, where I saw Zzz'trak, with his arm (or foreleg or whatever) around the shoulder of that archly wry barista who always rejected Marcus' requests for a date. Leave it to Zzz'trak to date not just out of his league, but out of his phylum. She gave me a quiet…

Yes, but no, because you only see him from D.'s perspective, so he always remains a sort of external character.

Something to remember is that she doesn't think of her communication as ambiguous.

For lack of a better term, I like to go at it organically, somewhere between thinking through the game in an RPG sense of what the character I was playing would actually do, and thinking about the game as if I was actually reading or watching the story.

I was reminded of this thread yesterday afternoon, when in a discussion where several people who talked about how they liked living in Lincoln Park, all eventually got to the point where they had to sell their cars because they were too expensive to keep around.

If in Lincoln Park, you do not want a car unless you find an apartment with a parking space. You kind of have to try to find a neighborhood that's not easy to live in without a car. Between public transit and biking, you're in a major city. A car is only useful if you want to load up a big shopping trip or the like.

Wow, he ought to be embarrassed.

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Well, it's all about calories, to be specific. It's just that portion control is probably the easiest way to control calories. However, at least for me, it's much easier to create the deficit by taking it in both directions.

c.f. Stoicism, Taoism.

While I haven't been following it closely, as I recall it's Mojang who started by refusing any compromise.

See, I think that this is where Penn & Teller's cheating might prove a liability. Both sides are fairly cunning, albeit in different ways: P&Y are more sneaky and MB is more clever. But Penn & Teller are much more likely to be smug about how cunning they are, and Mythbusters far more self-critical. So they'd try, but…

Here's one where what sort of fight matters. Impromptu cage match? Penn & Teller. Back alley brawl? Mythbusters. Formal circle-up fistfight? Mythbusters, but only by a 'last man staggering' sort of metric: everyone's going to the hospital afterwards.

That's The Next Doctor.

All I'll say is, with a season that's been fundamentally all about families and children, if Susan doesn't at least get name-checked, I'll eat my fez.

In the old series (specifically, Attack of the Cybermen) the cyber-leader types have some sort of prominent brain housing, and if my memory serves me right in The Invasion, the cyber-leader equivalent is explained as somehow brain-oriented. Likewise, to some extent, with the conversion in The Next Doctor.

Nope, that was pretty much my first thought. I assume that they did it because "everyone knows" it as transport, but it's not like transmat is that hard to figure out.

Everyone has a sugar "addiction." Your body is designed to want sugar, and being "addicted" to it is perfectly natural. Accept it. Don't try and beat it like you might beat another addiction. It doesn't work like that.

Can't be done, so don't bother with it.

You're not a troll, but random pop culture references are not anything to be proud of.