I’ve been a huge fan of Eddie since I was like 12 years old and was first introduced to the “Church of England, Cake or Death” bit. Kind of nice that Eddie is a gender neutral name (as all names should be, honestly). I noticed a bit of dancing around it here, referring to her only as “Izzard.”  Has there been a given…

I honestly think “man” as a synonym for “human” has very little to do with the patriarchy. I get that I’m on the losing side of this argument, though it does bug me when people say “workman’s comp” rather than “worker’s comp” and such. Maybe it’s because “mankind” or the gender neutral “man” seem more inclusive than…

Sorry. I didn’t mean to criticize, actually. I just thought it was interesting that because literally is used as an intensifier so often, it actually somehow makes figuratively seem like it does the opposite (at least to my brain) even though it shouldn’t.

I try not to use “literally” as an intensifier, too, but I’m struck by how underwhelming it sounds in comparison when you read that something figuratively exploded, even though it’s correct.

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It actually really works for me in a way that watching people play video games doesn’t. Jared Logan has a pretty fun Twitch stream called Stream of Blood where he plays horror RPGs like Call of Cthulhu and Vampire with Ashly Burch and Thomas Middleditch and others.

I’ve heard that most people prefer the paraphrased clue that leads to an expanded response, but I also dislike it, especially when the paraphrased clue really doesn’t match what is to be said. I played Fallout 4 with a mod with full dialogue responses just because it frustrated me so much that Bethesda put like a…

I liked RDR2's voiced protagonist, but I also wasn’t really expecting a ton of depth of character customization. It was either honorable or dishonorable, and you just picked whether you wanted to be a villain or an antihero.

/checks infinite pockets for Honningbrew Mead, breathes sigh of relief.

I’m one of those weirdos who’d kind of prefer we go back to voiceless protagonists. I’m basically just looking for an interesting world and interesting ways to interact with it. I’ll do the heavy lifting in terms of telling stories. (I’ve played Skyrim a lot, easily 1500 hours, and I’ve never finished the main story.)

Spitting semen in someone else’s food is fucked up and sexually abusive. It’s not about whether or not it’s technically worse than spit. It’s about the feeling the letter writer’s husband got when he did it and about how the people who ate it would feel if they knew.

The fact that they’re including skateboarding is the more exciting news to me, but breakdancing is cool, too.  

I mentioned it in another comment before I saw this, but Ezra Pound was, too. At least E.B. White appears to not have been. He’s one of my favorite old dead writers.

Next, I demand an apology from the family of Ezra Pound. Also, it wasn’t odd that they were “putting a positive spin on [it].” It’s good to identify silver linings and learn from mistakes people have made before.

Yeah, this seems pretty cool of her, honestly, and I get that she’s trying to discourage people without the qualifications from doing it. Still, say “Don’t do this at home!  I’m trained for this.” This article is basically a wall of disclaimers saying that what we’re seeing is not what we’re seeing.

Methinks the wildlife rehabilitation specialist doth protest too much.

But more than anything else, it sounds like someone accidentally mispronouncing the name of a board game.

Fleet enemas are definitely the Kleenex of enemas. I worked in medical transcription for 10 years and never heard a doctor refer to any other brand of enema, though they’d sometimes just order an enema.

Thanks for your understanding. I really do think it’s a pretty threadbare argument, but I guess my point is that it’s not an altogether ridiculous argument. I just want to preserve the ability to accept something other than our own dogma for at least a moment here and there, not because we’re grossly wrong but because…

These are all really great points. I will say, I’ve never been someone who believed that “freedom of speech” as a right extends to a prohibition against social opprobrium, but at the same time, people who have internalized the ethic that people are free to think and feel and believe what they please are my people.…