Yeah, I played Ingress pretty intensely for a while, and the user base is large and passionate in Japan. Near my station (and it was not a major station) you would frequently see quite a few people at night obviously playing. Met some new friends that way, too, just on the street.

I was talking to one of my childhood friends the other day about some of these high profile rape cases. We both drank plenty, way too much, plenty to be way out of control when we were younger. Somehow even when being young, drunk, and stupid we managed to never rape anyone, never to take advantage of someone else’s…

Jesus, that sounds like some Eastern Bloc, 1980s shit. People pay extra to be able to live in an old spy novel?

I’ve had just a few balls, one game I got several due to there being a constant cold drizzle and only two of us in our section. We took turns grabbing fouls.

I never flew much alone when I was a kid, but when I was 12 or 13 a school group of us flew to DC. Me and my friend sat next to a man who proceeded to get drunk and look through rather explicit pornography mags the rest of the flight. Greasy awkward teen Smorkula at the time thought it was fucked up, even, adult…

“Never touch anyone without their consent” should be basic human knowledge, right?

Obviously he is kissing a sleeping girl because he knows it’s inappropriate, but sleeping girl means he can probably get away with it.

I’ve seen some airlines that are quite vigilant about watching everything going on the seats - for a variety of reasons, not just related to unaccompanied minors. OTOH last time I flew next to an unaccompanied minor the attendants never did anything special to check on the boy.

ACADEMIC source, eh? What a weaselly way to ask for documentation. Any link I can provide you is going to be rejected because it’s “not academic”.

It’s not revisionist history in the slightest. Hiroshima was a prime target specifically for the opportunity to test the effects of the bomb over a wide area, something that wasn’t really known. It was a poor military target. Nagasaki was an even poorer military target. These are not facts in dispute here.

I’ve spoken to my family members about it many times (my parents were young then, not my grandparents - I’m An Old). This myth that keeps getting propagating throughout the years of the bomb being the ONLY way to end the war without mass casualties is simply a myth (not to mention demonstrably caused hundreds of…

Nukes didn’t end WWII, it was already over. Nukes just killed a few hundred thousand civilians as a giant middle finger to Japan and Russia.

Shouldn’t everyone be anti-nuclear weapons? Are there people who are PRO-nuclear weapons?

he was renting a place, which is usually for people who can’t afford to buy a house

“Hit King” is a phrase coined by Pete Rose so he could make money off merchandising. Nothing more.

You do realize “hit king” is not a real title, right? There aren’t defined rules.

I’ve played a metric shit-ton of spades in my life, rarely heard it called anything but tricks.

But that was like 10 years ago! No excuse for it now.

I’m not sure if it’s the weirdest first pitch at a Fighters game in the past month.

What do you mean by “how their police behave”?