No, actually, I didn’t call anyone a professional victim, and that article was in response to people griping about how a video game’s graphics engine changed from its reveal at E3 in the final published product.

This is what I always say when older people (and even people my age) start grumbling about “kids these days”: They are what we have made them.

Agreed, up to the point that you say it’s a “tough adjustment to make.”

Wow, a whole eight replies in (not counting sub-replies) before somebody talks about how lucrative being a professional victim is. I’m proud of you, Internet.

Oh thank you SO MUCH for pointing that out.

But then you couldn’t seek help from other players, or offer to help others.

You think Geralt has to pause and mentally switch between what spell he’s about to cast?

If I understand CDPR correctly, Heart of Stone takes place during the main story of TW3 and Blood and Wine takes place after it. That’s the way I’m playing it, anyway. In fact, I was going to hold off on finishing the main quest until I played both DLC, wanting to truly “finish the game,” but having learned about the…

“I’m not going to publicly announce that something discriminates, which is agreeing with their letter, because we’re really talking about a letter in which they’re trying to define gender identity,” McCrory said in an interview Sunday with Fox News. “And there is no clear identification or definition of gender…

That is my new favorite and I will be stealing it from you.

Probably because both medical care AND labor is so messed up in this country. :-/

This whole quest line reminded me of The Two Towers, where most of the film (and book) is spent preparing for this big battle against impossible odds. The only difference is that in the moment where all seems lost in the film and its source material, a savior shows up and turns the tide. In The Witcher 3, not so…

Not a lawyer, but having been fired from a job I can testify that yes, we are indeed an at-will state. Your employer can fire you because they don’t like the way your face looks, and they’ll get away with it too because they don’t have to give any reason. Just tell you to pack your shit and leave and not come back.

Hard for me to get excited about this. The current NC state government would rather lose all federal funding—education or otherwise—than back down on this. Take it from somebody who lives here: this is the only thing people care about. The legislature has done such an amazing job (I mean, they’re the bad guys, but…

Allegedly.

Once I saw that this game was on GoG, I no longer cared what happened the rest of the day.

Here’s what I go through every year.

A lot of my debt is because of emergencies and unexpected costs, but a lot of it is because I simply was bad managing my money. I would see something I want, tell myself I’d pay it off in 2 or 3 payments, and never did. That accumulated over time. A lot of that was because I was struggling with depression and looking…

Don’t feel bad. They were not tears of sadness. They were simply tears.

You just made me cry a little just now.