Welcome to capitalism. It works quite a bit differently than the barter system I assume you were using before you were frozen in a glacier thousands of years ago. It’s not ideal but it’s what we’re stuck with. Probably why the glacier you were frozen in finally melted and let you thaw out.

All 20 of them.

Take your top down, player, take your top down.

Oh yeah! New Picross!

That’s weird since I saw a preview for it in the theater a little bit ago... That being said, it looked kinda like Teen Wolf (the movie, not the TV show) and I was wondering if she’d get good at basketball and go van surfing.

Maybe she chooses to stay with a guy that cheats on her because the resultant gossip keeps her in the limelight. Maybe they’re both fine with it, in an open relationship, and played it this way to make drama to keep people’s eyes on them. Maybe it’s all a reverse Truman Show where the participants are in on it and the…

The 90s, when Taz was the most popular Looney Tune? 

Well, I grew up in Minnesota where it was all about lutefisk eating contests which, while contentious, rarely led to violence or destruction of public property.

It’s all about suspension of disbelief. It’s a fantasy story set in a world very like our own. Would it be easier to swallow if there were giant sand worms or lightsabers? Not saying you’re wrong to not like it, but it’s just a matter of being able to accept the world as they present it or not. Because I think if you…

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LOVED Heaven’s Vault. So good, and with the changes between play-throughs, I played it twice back to back. And started a 3rd.

Oh man! Finally somewhere I can use my Smooth Love Potions! /s

French Dispatch was my least favorite movie of the year, and I saw Here Today, but at least that was comically bad and could be enjoyed on that level. French Dispatch felt like a satire of Wes Anderson, so incredibly twee only the pixiest of dream girls could enjoy it. Perhaps it means something different to writers…

“On second thought, no, he really did die. And we killed him!”

Consider Phlebas is the only one that kinda left me cold.

Ha, just replied to a different comment saying those were my two favorite Culture books before I saw your comment.

Really? I *loved* Player of Games. That and Use of Weapons are my favorites.

I’m a Beatles fan. Not a huge, super-fan, but my parents were Beatles fans and my dad looked a lot like George and was 10 years younger than George. So I grew up listening to the Beatles and developed my own appreciation for them. It’s fascinating to think they were ~25-28 at this time and they recorded all their…

*She* did watch the 2 covid specials, but who cares? You seem fragile.