The procedure wasn’t on her face. If you look at body shots, you can see she has several large lumps on her body due to the procedure.

Horse meat actually tastes very nice. That and donkey. I enjoyed both when I visited Italy. It’s too bad they aren’t available to be eaten easily in the US.

TBH this sounds great to me. I have an iPhone mini so I really don’t like playing games in landscape format. Any other one-handed/vertical format games for iOS?

So Kotaku’s just posting CCP apologia now?

This is bizarre. Men buy women drinks in bars all the time. It's a widely accepted thing. That doesn't mean that every man has ulterior motives of date rape.

Thank you from approaching this froma sensible viewpoint. Yeah, it’s a nuanced one and a very case-by-case basis. Knowing your target audience and their knowledge base is important, but I think it’s also good to NOT assume what your audience does or does not know.

So adding a sentence, making a short joke into a wordy one that over explains itself, is the better option? In some cases it may be, but localisation is a key component of translation.

A translator would also understand that different contexts and target audiences require different types of translation. In a contract negotiation where all parties need to be fully aware of what is being said, you don’t have much relay.

The weird thing is that Lindsay is a mathematician, not a philosopher. Later, he posted on twitter saying something like “Ah-hah, you said WE call it Vulgar Marxism? Who is ‘we’? Gotcha, you’re a communist”, not knowing that Vulgar Marxism is A Thing and widely accepted term.

Your vendetta against Natalie is unhinged. She was openly flooded with death threats. You think that’s not a consequence? You think that that is acceptable?

I think they even retconned his origin so that Bat and Talia never even had sex. Like she stole his sperm and grew Damian in a test tube.

There are plenty of adaptations that improve upon the source material. In fact, I think an adaptation that doesn’t consider the differences in medium and is simply a 1:1 copy of the original rarely justify their existence. (“It’s what you’ve already seen before... but with real people!”)

Someone explained it to me once that the semantic meaning of “girl” has changed to now also encompass the word “gal”, which nobody uses anymore. Think:

I didn’t like the book either but some of these criticisms seem in bad faith. It’s a Black Label book, and is long-delayed, its status re: continuity is irrelevant.

With regards to your murky “Are they Chinese? Are they Japanese?” question. To me, they have all the stereotypical signifiers of a Yakuza-inspired faction. You think Red is exclusive to China? It also has similar associations with Japan. The font? Less “chopsticks” more “Katakana” (a Japanese alphabet).…

It’s a food culture problem. Part of it is due to government subsidies (put corn syrup in everything!), part of it is food deserts, part of it is lack of access and knowledge about nutrition, part of it is advertising sugary foods to young children to get them addicted to sugar at a young age and the lack of oversight…

Yeah, you kind of hit the nail on the head.

Tons of Japanese people hate it because it tastes don’t disgusting to them. Don’t make it some kind of “ignorant white people” vs. Japanese thing. Tons of people in Japan think it’s gross too.

I love all the moral absolutism in the comments section.

“It should be absurd for Rittenhouse to claim self-defense for shooting and killing two people, one of them brandishing nothing but a skateboard.”