It's more about variety than length for me. I hated Skyrim because, while an even casual run can near the 100-hour mark and a completionist run is quit your job, break up with your spouse levels of dedication, it felt like 90% of its content was the same cave full of skeletons. Compare this to any number of RTSes,…

It really is the best JRPG.

If you can't figure out that the content might be NSFW from the title "Sex Games" God help you.

You might as well complain that porn is unrealistic because the pizza guy never really acts like that.

I wonder if it was a deliberate pun that multiple VNs have used literal steam to censor their images.

I have had three Seagate hard drives, a 1.5TB, a 2TB, and a 3TB, all fail on me.

How stashed away something is - that is, the amount of time and attention you devote to retrieving something - should be directly proportional to how frequently or likely it is you will need it. Something you're using every five minutes should go on your desk. Something you use once a day or more should be within easy…

All kidding aside, balancing a box of Kleenex on the trash can like that looks nice until you knock it into the trash can every time you grab a tissue (I imagine that's for wiping the desk off after writing on it...or at least that's the official reason!).

Hmm. Well, I'll try to find the study somewhere without a paywall, and I suppose I should have a think over how well one can accurately estimate something nebulous like understanding of a safety hazard without some kind of objective test (since I doubt most parents are insane enough to actually test their kids on a…

I knew a lot of freshmen when I entered college who just were utterly ill-equipped to handle life without Mom and Dad enforcing the rules. It was shocking to me, to be honest. I knew someone who ate practically nothing but pizza and ice cream, going so far as to make fun of me for having a salad for lunch once. Yeah,…

Thanks for the input! I do appreciate hearing the perspective from "the other side" in things like this.

Try reading the actual article before skipping down to the comments section, please.

So while the instances of both the poisoning and embedded needles are not zero, they are virtually zero when you consider the many millions of kids that have trick or treated since the early 20th century. And if you want to include guising and souling, we can go back several hundred more years without a…

The truth is, I don't know. I know I spoke to multiple people in the guidance office from time to time and I didn't actually know who all of them were. I think one or more of them were CPS. I was pretty sure, at the time, that they didn't work for the school, but again this was middle school and I was only a child at…

What is your take on my own experience, then? Do you think that's something children facing difficulties commonly have to put up with? How common is it for children to be interviewed like this - repeatedly (it was about once a month for me, for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades), and without parental knowledge (my dad…

There has never, ever, been a confirmed case of a kid being killed by tampered-with candy on Halloween, except for cases where parents tried to harm their own children by framing Halloween candy. That's a rumor, a myth, that comes around every year. Hell, even Lifehacker's fellows over at Gizmodo ran a story debunking…

It really isn't, especially when you consider that the classes right before standardized testing all all going to be reviews and cramming for the tests, and the classes right afterwards are either an easy day, a movie day, or at the very least a "Now, where were we...?" class or two. You really wouldn't miss much.

Clever of them to omit an important part of the objection...

That's an argument for changing the funding standards, not changing the rights of parents to decide on parenting decisions like how their child spends their time. It's ridiculous to pass more bad laws to support previous bad laws.

The fact that it's all about the money and that authority takes no personal interest in you - that the world only cares about you if you are useful to them - is a harsh, but important lesson for kids to learn.