Nintendo has often shown itself to be a conservative company cautious about plunging head first into new technologies...

This has got to be some kind of setup because cranberries float.

This was a great game. I actually never completed the final expansion, but I have great fun playing through the game.

Crafting was OP, though.

My local McDonalds has 6 or so massive photographic images hanging on the walls that are so washed out that I have no idea what their content is.

Grey’d on the Root?

Although it is not typical of my character, I am experiencing schadenfreude.

Kado?

Considering that my Ford Fiesta is one step above actual junk, this doesn’t surprise me.
I’d like to add that I was excited to buy a Ford as my first new car, but I’ve been disappointed like many other owners. Way to many things have gone wrong in far to little time.

I can try, but I didn’t give any examples because a simple scenario may not explain just how complex visa requirements can be. Moreover, even a simple scenario can be interpreted differently by the state department.

Going to the USA for business:

1) I work in Japan for a small firm that is considering merging with a…

I’ll just point this out here because I’m sure other people are going to attempt to say the same thing and because you’ve posted something directly from the source:

Citizens of several countries can absolutely enter the USA with a waiver for business but not for WORK. I am fully aware that this might be a confusing…

I’m not disagreeing with this; I’m very sympathetic. I’m just pointing out that this processes is not specific to the Trump era, nor to the United States.

By my moral beliefs, political positions, and social worldview, it is totally wrong. That said, it was wrong far before Trump was elected. 

A lot of takes already here, but Cecilia points out that the fault likely lays with the artists or whoever prepared their visas:

There are good books on the topic. Try this one: https://www.akpress.org/learning-good-consent.html

There are more interesting vans to find.

What can I say, it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

Agreed. There isn’t much to debate here.

But you can’t exactly rule out randomness. Trillions of monkeys on typewriters and all that. 

I walked into my house while NPR was playing and heard Terry Gross interviewing the guy that broke into my house 10 years ago discussing his transformation and new book: Moonlight and Mementos: Thefts of my Boyhood. 

I’m waiting for the audiobook, which will be read by Ethan Hawke.

I want to purchase a similar bike for my first, but out where I live people are insane. They want thousands of dollars for these bikes in unused conditions. 

I can’t really understand these kinds of games. They feel like a kids perception of Sex, bouncing boobs and panty shoots. Really nothing explicit about them, just hints.

You want a company to do something else because you don’t “get it?”

Oh wow. I nearly forgot what this music sounded like. I’m so unlucky I clicked play.