A new Baldur’s Gate game? I feel like I should have heard about that before now.

I’m so sorry.

I’m starting to realize that.

That would be boring as heck, and the screams about microtransactions would reverberate into space. Unless it was an MMO, and that would be impossible to keep family friendly.

Mid 20s, will gladly whip out my phone for this. Am contemplating actually getting the smartwatch because POKEMON!!!!!

I can’t really say that Pokemon has deep gameplay. I love it, but the actual gameplay is pretty shallow. There’s only depth in the competitive battle scene, and that’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Outside that, Pokemon is a collection-building timewaster with some simple stats management and a basic story pasted on top.…

It should be? But I think a lot of older dudes who are in denial want to pretend they’re college age. Or really are mentally college-age and get intimidated by women who actually are adults.

The best part is that they almost never realize what they’re saying.

We can only hope.

And people wonder why we need protections from government intrusions into our personal data.

Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner said a very stupid, sexist thing about Black Widow/Scarlet Johanssen. Evans manned up and actually apologized after people got upset. Doesn’t excuse his completely unacceptable statement, but at least he apologized for it.

I imagine previous eras insistence on chaperonage/supervision and censoring knowlege of sex might have lowered the number of rapes though. It’s a complicated question.

Good point.

Zika has been around for a while in places in Africa, and those populations didn’t seem to have increased risk of microcephaly.

Other places are addressing it. There’s very little known, and a lot of speculation because scientists were just as taken by surprise as the rest of it.

Previously infected populations had immunity built up before women got to a fertile age, due to exposure as kids. Microcephaly is triggered by being infected while pregnant.

Yes. I’ve talked with several hard-core right wingers and with several libertarians on this issue. They are, one and all, young, white males who do not have the experience or willingness to understand that other people may be stuck in crappy circumstances and have to make crappy choices.

This is, for the first time in my life, I’ll be voting for a Democratic candidate for president.

I think it’s usually handled by having a time-limit in the draft and workers in some industries are exempt?

Definitely. It’s their mess, they clean it up.