The “mixed feelings” in the title come off more as overwhelmed ambivalence and fatigue in the article, than like you truly have had a mixed experience with good and bad game elements. Again and again and again you bring up things that seem subjectively good, and then qualify that by saying they left you cold,…

Lots of misinformation in this thread, but the short version is: few if any agencies or employers are REQUIRED to test for home use of marijuana, even under current scheduling, but the prevalence of over-inclusive urine testing rather than saliva/blood testing leads to a de facto home use ban.

Yeah, but her “Way” is presented as total bullshit. After last episode gave us a clear “you have to keep your word to me even though it’s hard, because that’s the Way” moment, getting a contrasting “yeah I lied to you because it was convenient to get my way, this is the Way” felt like a pretty un-appealing…

That repeats a lot of what I’d read, and make mRNA vaccines exciting and cool... which still leaves me wondering why we haven’t been developing flu vaccines for them in the last few years, since (to my limited understanding) supply bottlenecks are such a big challenge to those every single year? Don’t we develop…

Yeah, “No mRNA vaccine has yet made it to market” had me googling to figure out why that would be the case, since I’m not going to watch a video on the subject at work (really, Beth?). Googling around it sounds like the technology isn’t widely used more because of efficacy reasons than any special safety reasons with…

I think I’ve partially played Brotherhood, Black Flag, and Syndicate... it’s hard to keep straight, because I’ve finished none of them. In each instance, some sort of bullshit modern office scene has been the point where I stopped playing and had no interest starting up again. Nobody gives a shit about this modern…

I was staring at the ceiling of my doctor’s office the other day, and it’s that type of foam panel with all the tiny little air bubbles? And really thinking to myself, god I’m glad I don’t have trypophobia right now, this would be really oppressive, there’d just be no getting away from it, it would probably feel like…

Can PS+ subscribers that don’t yet own a PS5 just grab a copy to add to their library of PS5 games, preparing for buying one in the future? I can’t recall there being any sort of gatekeeping/validation with PS+ or the PS Store to check what systems I do or don’t own...

It could just me being a poorly educated consumer, but I know I’ve run afoul before of having a base game before and having purchasing an upgrade for it be more expensive than the sales to purchase an entirely new copy of the game with expansions. Dragon Age Inquisition I think is what caught me up, left a bad taste…

I’ve tried getting into AC a few times over the years (I remember really liking the pirate one a lot while watching a friend play it?), but every single time I bounce off of the headache of trying to figure out which version to purchase. I tend to purchase games impulsively, and if it takes me more than one or two…

My YouTube recommendations have gone to hell since falling down the rabbit hole. I really wish there was a way to toggle a setting where you’re like “Okay, continue to show me videos that you already have correctly guessed I’ll watch, but please don’t FURTHER learn from those that I’m about to, cuz I’m about to binge…

Lawschool tests (in my experience) were almost entirely open book... because our Professors were testing our ability to understand and apply concepts, not regurgitate them. There might have been a dash of “ExamSoft in those days didn’t yet have the ability to police your bodily functions, just your screen” too, but I…

Doobie’s letter is excellent legal writing: concise, clearly stating the issue and their client’s position, making a clear demand, and avoiding any veiled hostility that might derail attempts to negotiate a resolution.

Murray’s response is a garbled mess of incoherent “jokes” which don’t really land. They’re so busy…

DA2 mechanically and aesthetically is bad and you should feel bad for liking it. :)

Here’s Rep. Jim Jordan at a lil’ Trump campaign office opening. How many masks do you spot?

This might be enough to make me re-install the game...  Most of the games didn’t punish my poor connection too badly, but over probably a dozen different tail games, I think I managed to succesfully grab like... three or four? While having untold dozens of grabs where the person would briefly slow when I grabbed them…

I checked my parents’ mail today, and saw red when I found an NRA letter to them with “NOTICE OF GUN CONFISCATION” printed on the front alongside some random code citations. My (elderly, conservative) dad is a hunting guide and a conspiracy theorist, having his guns confiscated by the government is something he…

Literally just change the white woman’s eyebrows, and this would clearlyl be a conservative cartoon poking fun at BLM and mask-wearers. I’m not surprised that Karens got offended by being called out, but also not surprised that it sounds like other readers got offended by the opposite interpretation, this panel seems…

Passive voice gets a bad rap, but there is a time and a place for it in corporate writing. Usually it’s the same folks banging outdated drums like redlining “themself”, the oxford comma, or one space after periods that make a big deal about it. Leave me alone, MS Word, I wrote it passively because I meant it passively…

This would be a pretty tough article to get through if pronouns were flipped. I get that the power dynamic is different when we’re talking about younger men that want to be in a casual sexual relationship with an older succesful woman versus younger women being in that sort of a relationship with an older succesful man…