Was thinking he looked like a prison guard extra from Shawshank, but Nazi stormtrooper #7 works just as well, you’re right.

To be fair, a LOT of those old 8 and 16-bit games needed to have a comprehensive manual and guide because otherwise you’d spend a week or two just trying to figure out how to get the first quest lines started or progress at all through the world.

Yeah, I’m just assuming there will soon be some kind of statement from one Officer’s Union or other that they’re no longer going to respond to 911 calls within the VA State Assembly hall or some bullshit.

A good friend of mine is a professor at Syracuse, and I was asking him if he thought his school, or any large university, was really ready for the fall.

Nobody should be able to leave any time in a NICU without a serious lesson in empathy (regardless of how much you may or may not have needed it).

More or less, but very loudly. They also say “fuck” a lot.

And here I always figured that Howard and Marion noticed signs Chuck may have been gay, or suffered from some kind of mental illness and did what the other upstanding mid 1950s families did when they could: locked him in his room alone, fed him through a slot in the door, and pretended he never existed in the first…

A really good, really fun pinball machine has always been the one thing on my list of “Totally impractical wants,” that’s really felt untouchable simply for the size and cost, but damn if it isn’t tempting to blow some cash on one of these.

I could totally see that as being a thing in-universe. Just weird enough without being completely insane (by the standards of Tamriel anyway).

That’s the thing though, you can essentially speed run the whole main quest and ‘save the world’ in just a few hours if you know what you’re doing, so the play-time invested can’t be the sole weighting factor since it is a sliding scale from a handful of hours up to a few hundred if you drag your feet exploring every…

I thought it may have had to do with some kind of Splatoon tie-in or something, but who knows.

This is still terrible work on the part of the HR person however, as it opens the company up to both hostile workplace and gender discrimination lawsuits. Beyond that, it is mind-blowing that this person couldn’t foresee the online blowback that firing her would cause, which has to be doing more damage to the…

Yeah, the old-school pro wrestling style announcer really makes the Hell House fight stand out. I love that he’s just as much, if not more shocked by the weird shit the house is doing during the whole fight.

It’s like almost anything else in these games, it comes down to knowing when/where you might run into any of these critters and making sure at least one character is ready for it.

She has been so much fun to watch I can’t even really put it into words. The potential for greatness just right there, pushing herself and her opponents every match. It is nice to see she is actually thinking about life beyond the sport too, and keeping a healthy balance in life.

Maybe “more bored”. It does highlight that for a lot (most) of these animals who were already grossly under-stimulated have now, at least temporarily, lost one major source of stimulus in their day.

Thanks for this. It feels really relateable right now too. With the kids both home and streaming 4k whatever in their rooms while I’ve been on skype meetings for work all day I’ve taken to listening to music off my media server (comprised of all the shit I’ve downloaded in the last few years, but mostly by all the CDs…

Yeah, vitamin B6, B12, and D deficiencies can all cause premature pigment loss, as can just about any autoimmune condition that effects the skin.

And, not for nothing, but your hair losing all its pigment in your 20's is not so much “very chic and effortlessly cool,” as it is often a case of vitamin deficiency or even an autoimmune disease.

Would you classify the ships/tech from the Stargate TV series as class 3, or class 4? Maybe a mix?