While there certainly are Republicans who are true to the “small government” ethos that they claim to follow, in practice, most of them that find themselves in a position of governmental power use that power to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees. Some Democrats are just as bad, but at least they are more…

“A local governmental entity may not, whether by law, ordinance, regulation, rule, policy, or contractual agreement, prohibit persons with a valid concealed pistol license from carrying a concealed pistol in any stadium, convention center, arena, or similar facility, or on the grounds of any such facility.”

Counter-counterpoint: even if they do win, watching them win will still be indistinguishable from watching them lose.

Standing at another sink, trying to wash my hands, utterly dumbfounded by what was happening next to me.

After. It would have been in the early Nineties.

I will do that.

Years ago when I was in the video rental business, I used to go to the annual Video Software Dealers Association conventions, which were generally held in Vegas. I was visiting the restroom one year when Dan Haggerty walked in. He went straight to the mirror, pulled a comb out of his pocket, and proceeded to “comb”…

Thank you. That really does answer my question. Again, I probably expressed my question poorly, but you got right to the core of it anyway. It really is not the excessive save scumming that bothers me; it is the failures of some games to convey the necessary information to the player that requires the endless…

Yeah, I know, and I am guilty of it on any game that allows me to do so. There just must be some arbitrary but invisible line that I keep wanting not to cross, which is entirely irrational. But being irrational is also a core skill set for us!

I see how I messed up that post. Sorry. I was replying to Luke’s comment, which was referring to Shadow Warrior. I meant to ask how the need to save scum in that game compared to the the likes of Commandos, which I did play back in the day. I do have the Commandos games in my GOG library (along with Desperados)…

I keep staring at the game on GOG, thinking that I need to pick it up, but getting scared off by thinking about how so much unavoidable save-scumming can really drag a game like Commandos down. Does it ever get tiresome like that?

Indeed. Er, so I am told.

Slicing chillies and then going to the bathroom without properly washing your hands first can have a less than salutary effect. Er, so I am told.

I had the exact same thought. You might as well hone it on a chalkboard instead.

It would be the cheapest M car you could buy if you could actually, you know, buy one. The only dealers who have any in stock for hundreds of miles from me are upcharging over MSRP. Which makes or not such a cheap M car when you start bumping up against a real M car.

Is it totally wrong that as a lifelong Beatles fan, the first thing that I thought of when I read that quote about “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was that exact same clip of Prince literally shredding Eric Clapton’s work on the original?

Generally speaking, men who consider forcible anal rape to be not just sexy, but the sexiest, may not be the the best prospects for a relationship. Generally speaking.

I wish that it was that simple, but I already sleep on my side.

Fortunately, like I said, it only happens during cluster cycles, and only on certain combinations of medications, so they are fairly infrequent. As I have gotten older, my cycles have gotten fewer and farther between, so the same is true of the sleep…

Sleep paralysis is a different subset of hypnagogia. No version is pleasant!

It is difficult to explain to someone who has not experienced things like that, but knowing that it is a dream actually makes it worse. The dream is still as vivid and unpleasant as a real experience would be, but knowing that it is a dream and that you could escape it if you could just move — but you cannot — makes…