I know several people in this boat, and they’re all making me question why dating sims aren’t simply mainstream releases. People don’t need to wait for enormously expensive, once-in-a-generation games if what they really want are the romance options (and not the gigantic tactical RPG they’re attached to). That…

I am not a big fan of the side plot romances, but it could be a side effect of my strange personality. I can’t stand peas touching mashed potatoes either, and this is basically the same thing! :)

“Functional Water” is bullshit and reminds me of a joke that probably predates Penn Jillette, but he’s the one I heard tell it.

The sugar one is the thing I always point out when places have vegan recipes, it’s not something that comes to mind. Similar to how, before vegetarian parm was more readily available, places would label dishes with tons of parm on it as vegetarian. 

Anise eaters, unite!

I tell you what: you don’t try to convince me that anchovies taste good, and I won’t try to convince you that black licorice tastes good. Fair enough?

Dune is absolutely sold as a series, the paperbacks I have came as a box set.  I always tell people the story doesn’t really pick up until God Emperor.

Dune was a weird experience because it seemed like it should have all the ingredients for me to love it but I found it insanely boring. I’ve tried re-watching it at home twice and I fell asleep both times.

Hilarious side story: When I originally saw it in theatres, it was in an area with several high schools so…

The general audience reaction to the first Dune seemed dominated by people largely unfamiliar with the books, since we got articles like “Dune needs to bring back Duncan Idaho” which is one of the (inadvertently) funniest sentences I have ever read.

That’s what’s funny about people who haven’t read the books getting really upset about the supposed glorification of the white savior trope. The books very much know that and go to great lengths to point out that what Paul does leads to the deaths of billions and millennia of brutal oppression.

This just remindes me how much I’m amused by the comments I always get when just mentioning that the Dune books are sexists and homophobic.

God Emperor of Dune is a book I hated the first time reading it by has grown to be one of my favorites.  It’s really weird and it’s just mostly an unhappy worm man talking about how great and depressed he is.  But it’s also that right level of weird sci-fi for me.  After that Herbert kinda goes off the rail into some…

Messiah and Children feel like brief interludes that set up the rest of the series — at best.

The religion was literally created to be co-opted, just by and for the Bene Gesserit. That’s literally the job of the Missionaria Protectiva. That probably makes it worse, not better. It’s really just another thing that they created specifically to gain power and control that backfires on them, like the Kwisatz…

No, other way around, its why Timmy’s has gone to shit in the last few years relative to previous days

We really need a better name for “you can spherify basically any liquid with sodium alginate and calcium chloride” than “caviar” when it comes to something from a corporation rather than a chef.

...Who is the person who would pay for this? Like I want a documentary about them and all the choices they made during their life.

Tweak rules! Mod! Use codes! Save Scum! Dust off the damn Game Genie! Life is too damn short to live with an outcome you don’t like or a game that doesn’t suit your ambitions or the narrative you want to see.

I mean, there’s enough stuff to legit worry about, more than how people I don’t know and will never meet play single player campaign games I’m not a part of...so save scum as your heart desires, I say.

This is a perfect analogy. “Woke culture” is a meaningless term, but inasmuch as it means anything, one of the bogeymen inherent in it is the ability for trans people to live normal lives without interference from the state or bigots. If you don’t like that, then you don’t like Trans people. Full stop.