Glad to hear it! Personally, I’m waiting to see if they unblock the people they’ve blocked. This judge didn’t issue an order for them to unblock them, just strongly advised it, but if they don’t unblock them then this judgement could be considered precedent for a class action suit by those who have been blocked.

This ruling seems to suggest that while the President and his staff can ignore whomever they want, they cannot prevent anyone from commenting or viewing his tweets. So no, he would not be allowed to curate what appears to others, though he can curate what appears to him.

In brief, muting someone means you don’t see them, and blocking means they can’t see you. If you’re muted, you can see and reply to my tweets, but I won’t see the reply or get any notification that it happened. If you’re blocked and I make a tweet, you won’t see it or get any notification that it happened. Hence…

I LOVE Next Wave! Oh Dirk Anger, always trying but never succeeding to kill himself

My kingdom for a Timber Wolf!

Minor quibble from a fellow battletech nerd - 3025 is quite a bit before the Clan Invasion. This is still during the end of the 3rd Succession War - Davion and Steiner haven’t merged to become the FedCom, which sparked the 4th Succession War, which saw both the creation of the Free Rasalhague Republic and the…

Honestly, this is the first I’d heard of Palmer’s, but you’re probably right. I’ll admit that I don’t have super refined tastes when it comes to chocolate, but I feel like most people don’t. Like with wine, beer, and almost all other types of food, I think that the differences between “good” and “the best of the best”…

Kratos in the first God of War was every bit a hero from a Greek tragedy. He was not a figure we are supposed to admire, or emulate, but rather a window to experience catharsis and a character from which to learn. He’s a lot like Achilles - in fact, the first line of the Illiad is, “I sing of the rage of Achilles.” I…

I live in Germany now, but I originally come from Texas, and I have to say, while Rittersport is great (I’m literally eating their Edel-bitter chocolate now), it’s not vastly different from good chocolate that I can get in the US. It’s cheaper and more widely available, but that’s about it. Now, that being said, I’ve…

Awesome, glad to hear it! Most people don’t really know much about juries outside of what they see on TV, so I thought I’d point that out.

I definitely agree that the death penalty is absurd here, but you’d have to perjure yourself in order to be on that jury. During jury selection for crimes for which capital punishment is a possibility, they ask the jurors if they’d have any problem voting guilty for someone if the punishment could be the death…

Thanks for the conversation then! Your position is definitely a valid one, so it seems like we’re just coming at this from different angles. When each of us thinks about how this would all go down, you imagine all the positives, and I imagine all the negatives. I guess I’m just more afraid of government regulation…

That’s actually a common misconception about gambling. I mean, the luck component is certainly part of it, but if it was just “a game of chance is gambling,” then Bingo at church would be gambling, as would school raffles, or hell, even the McDonald’s Monopoly game, but none of those are regulated as gambling because…

That’s a perfectly reasonable position to take, but I hope you understand this may not just affect RNG reward mechanics. It may end up with the entire gaming industry regulated strictly as though it were ALL gambling. After all, once precedent for allowing government regulation of video games is created, it becomes…

Is anybody else bothered by how willing the gaming community is to label loot boxes as gambling? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I understand: predatory practices are way out of hand and I think there are far too many examples of loot boxes that are exploitative. But I think people don’t realize just how much legislation…

I love Subnautica - I’ve played it through twice, spent well over 60 hours in the game thus far. I definitely agree with Riley’s tip to carry around a few beacons with you, as (especially early on) it’s easy to stumble across something while hunting for resources that you don’t have the time/space to explore right…

I’m not so sure I agree with your assessment of the soundtrack, Jason - while their choice of instrumentation seems a bit odd, I don’t find the examples you gave jarring or grating at all. The boss soundtrack is still annoying and repetitive, but I rather like the new version of Into the Thick of It, which is one of…

Almost certainly due to a translation decision, it practically confirms it at one point in the English version. When you first go to the mountain where you get Shade and meet Sage Joch, if you go north of the town there’s a temple that has these video orbs left over from before the War of Mana, and one of them is a…

I’m so sorry that happened to your mom. My mom had the same problem - my father had been married before, and his previous marriage was never annulled, so my parents’ marriage was not valid in the eyes of the Church. To top it off, I’m pretty sure my father never actually loved my mother. There was never any physical…

In fairness, I’ve lived in quite a few apartments in the US, and I never saw a key that looked like that until I moved to Germany. Even then, only the very first place I lived had a key like that - the others have all had “normal” keys.