I was completely unaware until today that we had the opportunity to submit our names (real life or character) to be put into the End Credits.

That would’ve been cool, but considering the craziness of my life back in 2013, FFXIV, regardless of iteration, was the least of my concerns lol

1) As an original player of FFXIV (the collector’s edition no less), I believe it was a little over a year where they halted subscriptions. Further, us veterans got ARR for free, and we had a discount on our monthly subscription for ARR.

Leaving aside the corporate issues, the fundamental problem that’s facing WoW is one they’ve never faced in the 17 years the game has been on the market: two consecutive expansions that are held in rather low-regard.

Starting from the heights of Wrath, it’s been rather topsy-turvy. Cataclysm was less well-received than…

I had version 1.0 FFXIV (the Collector’s Edition no less), and make no mistake, it was a bad game where seemingly every possible design decision was the wrong one.

That being said, SE realized their mistake early on, and basically allowed everyone to play for free for the rest of the game’s lifetime (or a significant…

Counterpoint: James Bond.

Many of the same fears were raised when Lazenby took over for Connery. Lazenby floundered, but Roger Moore flourished, Dalton was distinguished, and both Brosnan and Craig reinvigorated the character and the series in both Goldeneye and Casino Royale. Further, even though plenty of people…

Very true, very true.

It is interesting, however, that videogames have relied on that stereotype you’ve posted, yet when you look at movies, particularly action movies and their stars, there’s a much greater physical diversity.

Sure, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, Lundgren, and Ford (amongst others) are white, but ph…

The French Connection belongs nowhere on a list of movies that include some of this drek.

You said you weren’t 100% sure it’s his info to tell, not that you felt it should’ve been privately stated to a therapist. If it’s not his info to share, then whose is it? Is it Jennifer’s? She’s not the one dealing with the alcoholism. Is it the kids? They like don’t know the details (and, of course, they aren’t the…

It’s about his way of dealing with a marriage and stresses. He’s the active participant in the story. While he (or anyone) might choose to not share the story publicly for the sake of their ex-wife and their kids, it’s a bit silly to say that the active participant in a story they’re recounting about themselves…

It surely was.

You’ve got some years on me, but if you had told me what the Tampa area would become back when I started at USF (in 2009) just under 13 years later, I would’ve called you a bold-faced liar and laughed in your face. The degree in which it’s become a destination city (and the associated rise in housing…

You’re right in general.

However, in this case, they’ve told on themselves a bit when they refer to her as having fallen through the cracks and being on the verge of a prison sentence. Presumably, in this fantasy realm that is sufficiently distinct from her own realm, none of those things have any relevance to the…

Nice. I used to play rugby in Wesley Chapel since I’m just a bit south of there, and Lutz, in Temple Terrace.

There’s a potential folk etymology that places the usage of the term cracker (as a catch-all for white folks, particularly southerners) from those very same cracker barrels. And, not for nothing, it’s both a term and a particular item that’s distinct as Southern that regardless of the source via the founder (who,…

Almost any descriptor of a persons race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, and so on, can be used in a negative, pejorative way.

Do you think Neo-fascists use the term Jew to speak of the amazing history of the Semitic peoples? Do you think Christian fanatics use the term “gay” to speak of homosexuals in…

The problem with your N-word example is that being dark-skinned, contextually, was automatically seen as being inferior. It wasn’t innocuous whatsoever. Being called things like swarthy implied that someone in your parentage or lineage there might have been some non-white admixture. It’s why in a myriad of languages…

It’s less about the fact she’s convicted murderer and more about the willingness and the perceived hypocrisy to directly profit from your portrayal of a real-life person, who is still living, and claim that you wrote an 80-page biography of this real-life person for...reasons, yet you’ve had no actual interaction with…

Exactly.

I’m from Florida (Tampa, to be exact), and there’s Cracker Barrels all over the place, and a museum called Cracker Country which, ironically enough, sits near the Seminole Hard Rock Casino.

Cracker originally denoted the early non-Spanish European settlers of Florida. Even it’s use by non-white people, it was…

The real overarching issue is that the term Cracker was long in use to denote settlers of Florida, and wasn’t at all derogatory. It’s even used in the name of notable restaurants such as Cracker Barrel and a museum here in Tampa called Cracker Country (I’m from Florida so I’m familiar with this from upbringing).

Cracke…

My father preferred the term peckerwoods, which is used so rarely (except, notably, on the show Mayor of Kingstown) that most people wouldn’t know it’s a slur, nor would they know the meaning.

Nevertheless, I don’t use Twitch so I’m not particularly familiar with what they determine “slurs” to be. Considering that the…

Depending on the particular franchisee, it’s quite possible for the in-house delivery prices to be more expensive than using a third-party app. Also, especially on busy days. using a third-party app might be the only way to get a delivery in a reasonable amount of time.

It’s much quicker for a Pizza Hut or a Dominos to…