gippetto88
Gippetto88
gippetto88

I don’t think the writing was bad, just that as a whole it was weaker than the first four seasons. I suppose that’s subjective and also influenced by my reading of the books.

I think this is mostly correct, and I think GRRM got suckered into it in his own books and then Weiss and Benioff did as well trying to replicate those books (for as long as they did).

Dental insurance is the worst. I was born without 9 permanent teeth, didn’t lose them, simply never had them. This required my poor mother to spend roughly $8,000 for braces when I was younger and I’ve spent close to $30,000 in implants and crowns so I don’t look like someone smashed my face with a baseball bat.

This is an important point. EQ and WoW were so new in so many ways, the experience is completely driven by that, and not the actual quality of the game. Nostalgia makes you remember that, and not the down time, the grind, the boring nothingness, etc.

I wonder when one of these coaches will recall how getting screamed at by the AD or boosters has a positive impact on their performance.

Let me tell ya...the ability of the Demonrats to consistently rig these elections is getting out of control. If we don’t stop them soon, they might win one of these elections that they’re constantly rigging.

Yeah, it’s tough to embrace being the heel when no one cares.

I don’t disagree with either of your first two paragraphs and haven’t argued either. Nothing you said there should be diminished if someone climbed an easier wall or less challenging mountain.

I see a lot of people in the comments seem to be missing the point (or maybe I am, so if you have compelling justification I’d love to hear it).

I wince every time I watch him fight. It’s great entertainment, but anyone that can box even a little (which is asking a lot in MMA) makes him absorb so much punishment.

I couldn’t finish Manhunt. I just...it was too much after awhile and lost my attention.

It may have been mistaken identity. If we take the victim at his last words to his wife, the attacker seemed to be convinced he had said/done something to another woman.

He very literally does not understand fundamental economics and trade policy.

And of course Trump appears to have “saved” the funding when in fact Congress controls the budget and both sides of the aisle made it abundantly clear they would not approve the original cut to begin with.

It’s a difficult dilemma, much like what you see with North Korea. The actions of the U.N., say via sanctions or what have you, are for the most part likely to most severely impact the general populace.

She obviously tips her hand in that her ideal is, everything is privately funded. That is her sole purpose as the head of the Department of Education and basically admits it in her dumb response.

Yep, and that’s the grift. They sell you on “The Dream” knowing full well it fuels the reality that they always profit off of. Sometimes two of those actions intersect so perfectly it’s jarring.

The socially acceptable part of that likely will work itself out. My daughter (who by the way is rarely ever sick, but I’m not making the claim it’s because of this obviously) picked her nose and ate it until she was about 5 and my wife and I never really tried to stop her because it seemed harmless.

I used to do something similar with washing my hands. I’d literally turn the water on, then use the towel or get a paper towel or the hand dryer or whatever, and then leave. Like it was important I went through the motions, although I WAS ALONE in the bathroom, but didn’t actually do any of it.

Here’s the problem and it’s that he’s not wrong. He’s practical in how the American public responds to things. That’s an important thing to note because most of public policy is more about selling it. All he’s saying is, be prepared to answer the sorts of questions that will come up when you say M4A or GND. You can’t