It’s really sad.

From another introvert: you’re completely missing the point of smalltalk, and that’s derailing your social life.

Misogyny is a heck of a drug. 

I know at least one. 

re: not quite being yourself

That’s what a crate or harness are for.  Do people where you live not use them? Cats go in a crate and dogs either in a crate or a harness that can be buckled with the seat belt. 

The cognitive dissonance is really astonishing. As is the sloppy journalism. The article keeps trying to blame air quality issues on the current work and ignoring the last 50 years of this place sitting there being radioactive.

It’s NIMBYism at its finest.

This was a working nuke facility starting in the 50s. I strongly doubt the air quality issues only go back a few years. It seems like people are just now buying and setting up air monitors - what were they doing before?

“one of three plants it was using to enrich uranium and develop the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal. Now, the agency is trying to clean it up.

Lackey writes iddy fantasy hero quests with tissue thin worldbuilding, and Weis writes D&D adventures. They’re both good writers! Just not in the same genre of grimdark semi-realistic political thriller as Game of Thrones.

If you liked grounded, detailed military fantasy, have you read Elizabeth Moon’s Deed of Paksenarrion? Great epic fantasy, written by a former Marine. 

Other big omissions I haven’t seen anyone mention yet: Andre Norton and Martha Wells

Talking about female fantasy authors and not mentioning Andre Norton, the GrandDame of scifi and fantasy? Tsk tsk.

Tamora Pierce is good fun, but I wouldn’t go as far as you. She’s really prone to white saviorism and other racist assumptions. 

FYI, claiming that DRM isn’t a problem and then admitting that you use emulators to get around the restrictions DRM places on your use of software seriously undermines your argument.

I will never stop being sad that the Mazda 5 was discontinued. It’s very nearly my perfect car. 

Shut up and take your star.

This is exactly it. I’m one of those unfortunates who manage to want a less popular configuration of pretty every product. Corporate overlords don’t care about my money because there aren’t enough people like me to add up to a big enough boatload. It’s rough,but that’s how economies of scale go. There’s no conspiracy,…

But many PC games can’t be backed up because of DRM. Also, DLC is still a thing on PC games. I don’t think PC vs console or offline vs online is the real key issue here. I think it’s DRM vs DRM-free. Installing and playing a game without any connectivity is what we’re losing, and I think that’s a bigger loss than many…