Very much agree. I’m probably not their core market as a casual gamer with a bad internet connection (I’ve spent about an hour total in the Crucible, through D1 and D2, because I’m dead before the enemy loads half the time) but I was buying every DLC. But that hour or so winding through a story mode or running…

This always bugs me as a fan of Trek and sci fi generally. As long as there have been humans, there have been people addicted to something. Trek has never shown us that they’ve fixed the physiological and psychological enough to eliminate addiction. So, sure, synthehol may exist in Trek but that doesn’t mean people…

The thing that boggles my mind whenever there’s outrage like this: NBC made a business decision that keeping was more problematic than firing. But the same people that foam at the mouth about less government regulation and more business-being-business will yell at NBC for this. 

My student loan debt from undergrad was about $15,000 from the early 1990s. If I’d stopped there, I’d have paid it off before my 40s and I’d probably have a very different view on student loan issues. I expect most of my classmates and our cohort mad about free/subsidized college will feel very different in another…

I wish I was assertive enough to stand up. But no, I’m not. And no, my spouse doesn’t support my desire to limit contact or establish any sort of boundaries. Any description of my actual mental state would need trigger warnings and be behind a cut that I don’t know how to put in place on kinja. It’s bad, kids. 

sad but true

I’m sorry you’ve have to deal with much more than annoying relatives. And I have to see them at least four days a week. 

Maddening as it is, that’s the perspective of my SIL and MIL—both actual women, licensed counselors and card-carrying trumpies. Unless he’s got a knife, a ski mask and maybe roofies, it’s not rape or assault and all claims are just money-grubbing.

I still enjoyed the show, but...yeah. The racists have shown they aren’t leaving the NFL and this is an attempt to appeal to a demographic the league desperately wants.

My in-laws complained that there was too much Spanish and that it was racism there weren’t white backup dancers. In other news, I hate every part of my life. 

I think this every time our local priests get up to blame the media for creating such a spectacle instead of letting the church (bury) handle this. They are all complicit in trying to obscure and hide. 

At one point, before giving it much thought or hearing about how bad the biology is, I watched because it seemed aspirational to see people with serious weight (and mental health) issues doing something to fix the problems I was struggling with.

I’m currently only about 50 pounds heavier than “ideal” and, back when this show was a thing, I sometimes hoped for a series I’d fit on, because I will go work out 24/7 and learn to eat healthy but I can’t do it with two jobs and a household to care for. 

I am very sorry you had to go through that. 

I have many, many words and usually end up with my foot in my mouth. Which is why I recommend everyone now take a break and go watch some quality tv. 

I’m an old white man and that was just a good show. Recommended for anyone that likes the genre. 

I’m sorry you went through that. I’m dealing with elderly relatives with similar views. The willful ignorance is really eating at me today in light of all these new disclosures. 

I tried not to go for a while, for many different reasons. Then my MIL brought up that I couldn’t be mad about the abuse scandal because I watched the USWNT play soccer and they were all lesbians so I was a big sinner and I was picking and choosing what to be moral about.

That’s exactly the sermon we get each week. Mixed in with the “people who demand diversity are really the intolerant ones” and other Fox News-style headlines from a 70something white man who never held an outside job or had a relationship.

I haven’t explored the brainstorm at all, but each week when our local priest gets up and blames the media for the scandal, I have to think he’s participating in a conspiracy. I’d love to see RICO involved.