The Mongols aren’t depicted as savages based on their military capability, which was heads and shoulders above anything the European/Southwest Asian cultures had ever seen beforehand.

Maybe a decent metaphor would be a steak (or other applicable meal).

Depends on a few conditions. For me, from the ages of 13-19 it was very common to have one pop up totally unintentionally with no real prompting. I probably would have multiple classes a week in high school where I would be basically thinking it down and just hoping it would be gone before the bell rang to change…

The mid 90s George of the Jungle live-action movie with Brendan Fraser.

Self-delusion is a hell of a thing.

What you’re seeing is the cream of the crop.

That’s unfortunate. I had a guild get bogged down once with a similar situation. The wife of the guild leader basically got first dibs on all content/priest gear. She was good enough in vanilla (or maybe was covered for in the big raids), but she had a kid about when TBC came out and she seemed to get distracted…

WoW TBC: I was looking for a pug shadow labyrinth run to get something for my healer Paladin. Not a big deal, I’ve healed plenty of pugs in there (and at the time was successfully healing gruul and kara) and any halfway competent group can run through it in 30-45 minutes.

Go to Bozeman in the summer, it is absolutely perfect. I went there for a 4th of July 5 years ago and there are no bugs, no humidity, highs in the 70s, and gorgeous mountains in every direction. Also, a great dinosaur museum.

Evangelicals are lumped in with Protestantism. This when coupled with less European immigration to those areas in the 1800s (which brought lots of Catholics, Jews, and some Eastern Orthodox to the northeast) results in a higher proportion of “protestants” in those areas. Being a person baptized in a Lutheran church,…

Kenny Brack’s wreck at Texas where he broke his back peaked at 214 g, which is the alleged highest ever survived.

Sorry, I’m just curious as to what part of the country this would be where a “Chinese Person” would be such an oddity.

The thing is, with this group of Republican contenders, if you’re able to throw just enough red meat to the base and attract big money while avoiding shooting yourself in the foot* then you could very well end up with the nomination despite being very mediocre.

I agree with your overarching concerns about the pitfalls of this type of tourism.

The double standard doesn't seem so bad to me in this case.

Yeah, and this can produce some hilarious results.

It’s auto racing, so its not a “play” per se. Kevin Harvick passing Mark Martin to the line at the 07 Daytona 500.

Yeah, I went kinda mentally blank for about 5 minutes after reading that.

I called my local gamestop and they said no pre-orders, just first come, first serve.

Ah, good old av turtle-ing. The alliance on my server (daggerspine) actually fought the horde every step of the way before getting to their base and hanging on for a few hours. A normal match would last 3 hours, with at least 1 hour dedicated solely to getting the two towers under control at the front of their base.…