They’re only allowed to use a small percentage of their budget on military and it’s supposed to be for national defense rather than attack, so the SDF is the Japanese military.

Polearms work great in narrow spaces like hallways. For some historical precedent, Japan’s naginata wasn’t all that popular on the battlefield, with soldiers favoring swords and longspears, both of which are light and versatile, but was the weapon of choice for women who usually spent all day around the estate. The…

Necessary grinding gets me the most. I’ll put up with grinding for extra stuff I want, because I’m making the decision to go out of my way to do it, but shit like grinding for healing items or basic “common” upgrade materials, especially late in a game, really gets my crotchety old person engine revving.

Entitlement is sort of at the core of fraternities, though. They aren’t isolated groups within individual schools, they’re often massive national organizations that have been around for decades and use that as leverage—even long after people leave their schools. Whether or not you’re in certain fraternities can decide…

Fraternities and Greek life have a lot of problems aside from having a lot of rotten apples in their midst. They’re exclusionary by nature, particularly to anyone who isn’t affluent, and they have a disproportional amount of power within student bodies to just name two. I work at a University, and the fact alone that…

Judging from his videos, Jim Sterling seems to have a small legal team thanks in no small part to these guys. Now, he’s popular enough that he probably already had at least a legal consultant before that, but yeah, this sort of thing isn’t a new tactic by unsavory folk like this.

You also become a carrier, however, so even if it doesn’t mean the end of your life, it means the disease will have an easier time spreading to the people who do need to worry.

Probably not all that different than if you were a runner that had to compete against Bolt, or a swimmer against Phelps, or anyone who had to compete against Simone Biles this year.

All three could have above-average levels of testosterone, because everyone has different relative levels of most hormones. They may have…

In your defense, Brazil probably has that effect on a lot of people.

A dress code isn’t just some arbitrary thing for supervisors to lord over their employees, they should have some rhyme or reason behind them. Tons of actual jobs are done without a strict dress code—if you work in a large corporate environment, just ask your IT staff. Sure, they’ll dress to look somewhat professional,…

I’m sorry to break this to you, but Australia’s already figured this one out. Hunters check their weapons out a lodge when they hunt and lock it back up when they’re done.

It’s a lot easier to get up and leave from a string of 10 minute games than one half hour one. It’s really hard for me to justify anything that lasts 30-60 minutes that I can’t get up from if it hasn’t been planned for these days, and I imagine I’m not alone in that.

I’m always amazed at Texans’ supporting that nonsensical wall. Did they already forget the huge fiasco the border fence was? All the costs and land seizures and the creation of that awkward no-man’s-land?

I would guess it’s because the firing sounds were already heard by all players close enough, and it takes a lot less work to switch out a sound file than to add extra logic to, say, play a new sound on top of the normal ones only audible to the firing player, or have completely different logic for normal firing noises…

I’d guess a big reason is that a lot of disconnects at the start of a match aren’t from toxicity, but technical reasons. I haven’t played in a while, myself, but I remember the most common hiccup the client gave me was a disconnect/crash after the initial load into a game. It took a minute or two to get back in.

“The idea that a governmental agency will even waste a moment on people who want to correct language instead trying to fix actual problems is why these problems exsist in the first place.”

Because language isn’t static, and just because it was used to just mean “noncitizens/non-nationals” doesn’t change it fact it now has other meanings and implications. It should be telling that it’s most common political use is in regards to undocumented immigrants by those who aim to vilify them. It’s a rhetorical…

It’s just anecdotal, but that definitely seems to be how it works. You can slap around some heavy enemies all day while they’re just moving around, but once they start swinging they get harder to interrupt.

Sure, but generally speaking if you’re taking the time and money to upgrade your tools, it’s because you have good reason to believe the increased usability of the engine will cut down on development time in the long run. You don’t just drop all that time and money on reworking your game engine if you don’t think it…

These are all pretty much the same rules normal cabs (and indeed any related business) would have to follow in Austin. Uber and Lyft both fight hard to be immune to those rules all over the place, but if you’re a business operating passenger vehicles in a city, you shouldn’t get a pass because your business model is…