Oh my god, it’s an omegaverse vampire BL VN, this is amazing. (Omegaverse started in English-language Supernatural fandom almost a decade ago and has slowly cross-pollinated first into pro-M/M novels in English and then into BL. And I’ve read one het omegaverse romance novel published by a Harlequin imprint. It’s been…

She went back to ambiguously gay vampires again and has not dialed back on the weird in that series a jot.

I got stuck for two hours in an airport terminal with a eight month old where neither restroom had a changing table. That was hell. Definitely used the sink counter and everyone was super chill about it. I gather it used to be that even women were expected to hide away in stalls for diaper changes while somehow…

No, that’s an increase of $0.44, not $0.0044. One yen is worth slightly less than one cent.

Designers have been taking it into account when crafting encounters since at least Wrath if not earlier, I’m pretty sure. There’s just been a level of complexity in encounter design (especially back then, when the average player was just as bad but didn’t have LFR to fall back on) that would have been outright…

Yeah, that was a dumb comment. Mostly, I was just thinking that I might be able to find some of the specialty ingredients in the local supermarkets in general because they’ve always been absurdly well stocked. 

Mmmm. I live near multiple well-stocked Asian groceries, plus a small Taiwanese community with barbecue shops. I should be able to find these ingredients pretty easily. We love char siu, so I’ll have to make this soon.

No, sometimes the problem is that for other reasons, like the presence of so many toxic knuckle-draggers in the gaming community, the pool of potential applicants is smaller than it should be given the percentage of the population a demographic represents, and that requires a different set of solutions. I know…

I think we might actually be in violent agreement about the desired ends. I’m not fatalistic about the possibility for change, I just think that you’re wrong about the extent and nature of the barriers to access such that events like this are necessary to begin the invisible process of change from the inside. Among…

Dude, Riot was hosting a panel about resume development and working in the industry. They weren’t hiring anyone at this thing or considering anyone for future employment

“Real change takes place when people who aren’t straight, white males can obtain employment through the ordinary channels, instead of being treated like special cases who are basically just there to fill a quota.”

My understanding is that the event was taped because the presenters understood that the information would be useful to everyone. They just wanted to restrict the live audience for obvious reasons.

This is literally untrue. https://www.ft.com/content/075d679e-0033-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5 is just one example.

Hah, yeah. I just kept getting stuck on Ninja Turtles every time I think “turtle power.”

The problem with the Modern Library list as a comparison is that it’s, well, modern. It only includes novels written after 1900. There are also valid issues with the 20th century split between popular writing and prestige writing for novels, which makes it harder to talk about what makes books truly great, and the…

I don’t think it’s really fair to call names from other languages unspellable/unpronounceable. They’re entirely spellable and pronounceable, just foreign to English speakers and therefore unfamiliar. One of the things 3 did right was take their research seriously and put care into the representation of Mohawk culture,…

If you can reasonably find them, both Maesri and Mae Ploy curry pastes are better than Thai Kitchen. I’m partial to Maesri, which makes 1/4 cup cans, perfect for using up before the aromatics in the paste lose their punch.

Yes, exactly. Although to be specific, it’s a Little Boy-style nuke that’s feasible, because the detonation system for the Fat Man was by all accounts a real pain in the ass to make since it required extreme precision of alignment to successfully compress the core. It was low-yield by modern standards, but it was…

It’s always funny to me to read about students like that, because my understanding has always been that making an atom bomb isn’t very difficult once you know that it’s possible at all and have the basic design theory available to work from, it’s obtaining the fissile material that’s the problem. But I grew up with a…

I was lucky and there was a full fridge/stove/oven/sink setup in the lounge on every floor of all the dorms. At least once a term, I got a bunch of friends together and made a real meal and rented a bunch of movies. Then I spent two years in a ten-person house with what’s still the best counterspace I’ve ever had in a…