Our cat loves to play fetch — sometimes it’s difficult to get him to stop. He’ll bring a toy or a torn piece of cardboard or something and drop it in next to me... and if I don’t throw it for him to fetch, he’ll start batting it around and probably claw me in the process. It doesn’t matter if it’s 3 AM and I *was*…

I remember LiveJournal less as a place for fandom, and more as a place where people actually wrote their personal thoughts and dreams and stories and... you know, like a *journal*. Only you could let people read it and comment on it.

The whole “community” thing of it (as in, fan groups etc.) was secondary to that, at…

Agreed, I want them as two games, not combined in any way.

Porque no los dos?

I really wanted to love Hellgate. It was so promising, the setting was cool, some of the weapons were fantastic... unfortunately there weren’t enough maps, the writing for later quests wasn’t even half-assed, the “let’s change up the gameplay” sections were painfully bad, and when the game got handed…

So the people in their lives stop misgendering them, stop making wrong assumptions? Because to not announce it feels like “pretending” to be cisgendered and is a source of guilt and stress?  Because people like to be understood?

For example, if you said to someone “Frank is a feminine male” we can all draw conclusions some of which may be wrong but it mostly takes care of passing on the message. If you say “Frank is gender non-binary” it tells me absolutely nothing and I can’t even infer Frank’s biological sex since Frank may be an assumed…

Worth noting: this does require a bit of human interaction to work—your driver is going to have to report when they drop off each package before yours

Or in city driving, people who rush to pass you, then stop in front of you because they have to make a left turn anyway.

I was going to recommend SpaceSniffer if someone else hadn’t first :)

Our dishwasher does not remove visible food particles from things. If we don’t hand-clean before running through the dishwasher, we’ll have to do so afterwards anyway. I’m kind of not sure why we bother with the dishwasher at all, to be honest.

Granted, our dishwasher is whatever the house flipper found for the lowest…

It’s been fixed already.

It’s been fixed already.

This was well thought-out and well written.

After one of 2017's many mass shootings, I decided I wasn’t going to play shooters anymore, or anything where guns were front and center. Like you, my enjoyment had fallen off over time anyway; I was already intensely uncomfortable with Borderlands 2. Real-world tragedies…

You can hate Junkrat, and I’ll go on hating Symmetra, Hanzo, Pharah, Reaper and Widowmaker.

I would argue that the Democratic Party establishment, ever since Bill Clinton, is also a gangster capitalist enterprise operating for the financial benefit of its patrons. Sometimes these are even the same patrons. They are less blatantly mercenary about it, and their attempts to appeal to voters are meaningully…

I’m reading The Forever War now, coincidentally... and there’s pretty gross sexism in there of the sort that was maybe trying to be progressive at the time, but doesn’t age well.

I’m reading The Forever War now, coincidentally... and there’s pretty gross sexism in there of the sort that was…

I wasn’t aware there was any other way to play Settlers of Catan. My game group went for the throat :)

I almost got myself thrown out of my brother’s house for the way I play Rummikub. They won’t play it with me anymore.

The other night I came across an NPC I wanted to question, and my persuasion attempt went very poorly. The guy was quite a few levels above my party, so I teleported him off a cliff. It didn’t hurt him at all, but gave my party plenty of time to disengage from combat as he took the long way around to his spot.

Wind has been a standard feature of SpeedTree for several years. The success of the illusion depends a lot on the tree design and on not going overboard with the wind speed. Also it’s nice to have gusts and some subtle variation in wind direction (or a dramatic change right before a storm)

(I’m a former HeroEngine…

I really didn’t like the OneBlade at all, and don’t get the appeal. I’ll stick with a Norelco Sensotouch 3D for lazy days and a real razor otherwise.

I really didn’t like the OneBlade at all, and don’t get the appeal. I’ll stick with a Norelco Sensotouch 3D for…