Closed Gold Mine:

I realize that Trump is the poster boy for the Dunning Kruger Effect, so yes, he probably did think that he would get a rousing ovation - hell, he probably thought the bullpen was going to call and ask him to come pitchy a couple innings - but is everyone else around him so brainwashed they honestly weren’t expecting…

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I won’t begrudge anyone their dealbreakers. We all have them. I will say, though, that it can be disheartening.

I received Final Fantasy VI as a Christmas gift the year it came out. I was thirteen. I played the dog mess out of that game.

...then Chrono Trigger consumed my life.

I still play VI and Trigger at least once a year—and in my individual view, they represent the apex of their age in single-player JRPG design. There have…

I’m personally more a fan of Bernadetta, but Dorothea is right up there at the top. There’s some definite romantic tension between Dorothea and Edelgard that gets ratcheted up the more you develop their bond—sort’ve the same way that Caspar and Linhardt eventually couple up if tightly bonded and left to their own…

Ultimately, everything is political. I forget who actually said it, but the aphorism that we do not have to take an interest in politics for politics to take an interest in us is absolutely true—and it’s of vital importance to the present situation.

More importantly, Acti-Blizz (and the NBA, and South Park) took a…

I agree. My view is more the focus on the wife when from the letter what I get is this guy while dating her ignored how she valued her faith (or downplayed it), that he’s far more of an anti-theist than atheist (which he didn’t admit), and while the wife has made compromises to her observation of faith to make it…

I hate this idea that grinding is some vital part of gaming. It’s a terrible mechanic that just serves as artificial length for games. There’s nothing challenging about killing slimes or whatever for 10 hours, it’s just pointless tedium.

If half your team is unnecessary you have a terrible team, if you want challenge why not try fighting an opponent who is capable like a player rather than the AI that’s so bad you can beat it with three pokemon out of a terrible team.

1) Grinding exp has never been hard, just tedious.

Except it is just a ritual for many, many people. There are lots of folks who are culturally Catholic and go through the ceremonies without ever being interested in First Communion or going to services, just like how many non-observant Jews will still get bar and bat-mitzvah’d, even though they never plan on setting…

I’m not defending the church, I’m defending what the pageantry and the ceremony means to the wife. Plenty of folks take comfort or joy the ritual and couldn’t give a damn about the beliefs behind it.

The odds that their theoretical kids would ever so much as be sent to Sunday school is so unlikely that I wouldn’t…

Here’s my advice: take any words about the Catholic Church from somebody with the last name ‘O’Malley’ with a grain of salt.

You keep referring to it as manslaughter because you say that she didn’t intend to kill the man until she pulled out the gun. What you’re arguing is that it can’t be murder without premeditation. According to the article, though, premeditation is not necessary for a murder conviction in Texas. In order to be convicted…

As it turns out, due to high demand from folks who read Dan and Kat’s original social media posts about their adventure, they actually are selling the ID cards! https://www.etsy.com/shop/KatrinsCuriosities

Let’s just say that our political beliefs drifted further than simply Horde vs Alliance.

I got to 21 before I quit. I probably would have stayed if I could have got on the server I actually wanted to roll on with all my friends... but trying to level solo is such a boring grind.

I’m already seeing the comments, so let’s be clear about something here:

“Cancel Culture” did not kill Alec Holowka. We don’t yet have the full picture of how he died, but it sounds as if he died by suicide, and had been suffering from a host of psychological and personal difficulties prior to that final, tragic act.

No…

Yeah, there’s no way it stays this busy.  I have a BfA sub anyway, so I installed Classic out of pure nostalgia.  I’ve made it to level 11, and I think 90% of my play time has been me saying ‘Yeah, I didn’t miss -that-’.  I’m pretty close to done with Classic at this point.  Now, if they announce a BC progression…