I got about 100 pages or so into the fourth book and it’s now been sitting on my nightstand for like 2 years.

Does it? GoT has a lot of history and backstory involved to really understand what’s going on.

Not one braid tug...

I’m much more excited about than plant-based “meat.” Not that I oppose plant-based “meat,” but I find lab grown meat more exciting and I imagine it will better replicate the real thing.

I’ve never had a bad Honeycrisp that was ripe. Honeycrisp for life.

Even succeeding in some cases turns out to be an actual failure and some failures end up as successes.

Only if you succeed on certain checks. It’s possible to entirely miss the bullet wound and think he was hanged.

How far have you gotten? What is the wall you can’t seem to get by? Is it just not gripping you? Don’t know what to do or where to go?

You have a spoiler warning partway through this piece, but in your opening paragraph you mention the location of the “second” bullet, which is a bit of a spoiler. Great article though.

It sounds like it was supposed to be Ken Jennings, but then enough people got upset over a few of his tweets that they thought it was too risky.

I was having a really hard time noticing anything different.

Would never work. He has to ask the questions in the form of a statement.

You mean a slopper doesn’t involve pouring a glass of water over a steak?

PhDs in philosophy are smart. MDs are smart. I would not expect a philosopher to be able to understand and analyze a medical journal and I wouldn’t expect a doctor to understand and analyze a philosophy journal.

I think you mean “M4trix.”

I misread that as heelys.

Well, that’s just his premiums, which don’t necessarily cover other treatment he might need. Depends on his max deductible.

It makes perfect sense!

Or or OR... a twist the fanboys will love: that’s not Dr. Strange. It’s Mephisto in disguise and the misfiring of the spell is intentional!

I tried Cocoa Puffs as an adult and they were disgusting. They may have changed the recipe since I was a kid though.