He got invited out to play it? Welp, guess it’s time for me to make a youtube account called RaymanSmashBro... and then I wait.

brb changing my name to DMC6

literally WHEN can i move in

And the book itself. And the person who wrote the book.

She has a right to write the book, and we have a right to criticize the timing of the book tour.

I wonder if she has a structured settlement and needs cash now

yeah! and if there were better signalling mechanism to say that, right? “i totally know this is weird! but...” like approaching someone out in public. 140 chars doesn’t help matters, on this one — that’s why I like the economy of this abbreviation a lot.

Thanks, Brian. This, to me, feels like such a nice case of how ‘manners’ (in this case, as you point out, culturally-driven ones) aren’t just about soup spoons or whatever, but a nice way to broadcast consideration for others in social spaces. I wish we had an equally efficient way to express this idea in English.

Worth noting, while I finished the game in 30 hours, there is still a lot to do. I left a good bulk of challenges untouched, and there’s also a co-op mode. Kingdom Battle also has post-game content that you can find scattered throughout previous worlds, and a whole new contextual action to open new areas at the end.…

Are you flirting with me? ;)

There’s like 5 dealership groups that own 95% of the car dealers in northern Illinois. All of them behave the same way towards their employees so techs can’t just go to another dealership, hence the regional issue. The only real small car dealers are the buy-here-pay-here lots, traditionally, even worse places for a…

As the article alludes to, the ridiculous hourly rate isn’t going to the mechanics. The dealership is pocketing the majority of it, and when they raise the rate from $95 to that $125, only ~$3 is going to the mechanic. The other 90% is going to the dealer’s profit.

To a greater extent these grievances reflect the whole of American middle class and poor. People are treated like commodities and there is always an upper level excuse not to give raises or cut benefits. The whole you are lucky to have a job bullshit has to be the worst. This is why America should realize that it is…