This is part of my ongoing gripe about games. I get that hotfixes are a great benefit to today’s always connected technology, but if I buy a game and spend time playing it, I don’t particularly want or need the Man to come along and make changes to the game because “Well, we forgot to balance x, y and z before…

A Clone High snip. I love you.

Not wanting to be sexualized includes but is not limited to:

I mean, in all fairness, when people were getting eggs from their own farms and had the handling duties themselves, there may have been less risk. But short of cooking all my food to burned and never eating at a restaurant until the baby’s born, the whole thing’s a damned tossup.

It’s total bullshit. No underdone eggs, no rare steak, no this, no that. I’m like... fairly sure my aunts lived on nothing but bologna during pregnancy and now people aren’t supposed to have that, either?

I do, but only because what I really want is an over-easy egg, and can’t have it because I’m pregnant. So I crack the egg into the pan, stare at it for a second and entertain the fantasy that I can have runny yolk, and then I give up and mush it around. :(

Our houseguest/temporary roommate— who we’ve allowed to stay here as a favor— keeps taking off his fitted sheet, washing it, and not putting it back on before he goes to bed. He keeps sleeping on our foldout futon bed with no goddamn sheet. Every time I see it, I lose my fucking mind. Why do people do this?!

GOD, YOU CAN’T EVEN USE PROPER PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR. F-, WOULD NOT FEED THE TROLL AGAIN

Understood— that’s why I definitely agreed that I don’t find it appopriate to do in every circumstance. And I’m usually the type to naively give people the benefit of the doubt even if they have wasted that opportunity. But in this case... it’s tough to feel that way.

But you’re falsely equating conviction with actual guilt. This guy’s already hit this woman with witnesses and suffered no consequences. He went on with his career. It’s not necessarily justice in the most legal, cause-and-effect way, but... the man has definitely already wriggled out of punishment for shitty,…

In fairness, I don’t think it should apply all the time, nor do I think it necessarily does. But if you’ve established a pattern of behavior that makes it very easy for folks to believe you’ve done this very thing, well... I’d rather the damage be done in public opinion than not at all because you have enough $$$ to…

People would be comically uninformed if this story had cropped up out of nowhere. But given that the man has a history of documented domestic issues (with witnesses), a documented drinking problem (with his parents’ open admission), and a long history of other truly terrible decisions (again, all documented and…

Well, since you asked, what that means is that innocent until proven guilty means squat all in public opinion, so you saying it here means approximately nothing.

You do understand this isn’t a court of law, correct?

Nah, I get it. Hope springs eternal, though, you know?

The truly disappointing part, though, is that the very things that make people bitch and hate him (the dancing, the celebration) are the very things I took as positives in terms of how he handled himself and the game— with a good sense of humor, and just enjoying the game. And to see that the same lighthearted nature…

We tend to forget, though, that this is a job, and part of a job is handling the down times in a way that represents your team well. Is it fair? That’s debatable. But plenty of other players do it, and have been doing it for decades.

God, please let’s not. It just kept getting worse... and worse... aaaaaaaa

Why do you think this is? I’m genuinely curious. And why do you think it’s more difficult for men than for women? I had no luck with dating for decades, and I’m a reasonably attractive, intelligent, employed woman. (I’m married now. Purely, to your point, through serendipity, in terms of meeting my husband.)

I’ll back up now that I’m not knee-jerk and angry about it— but it’s very easy to say, from the outside, that the person in the abusive relationship seems stupid for going back. But (again, speaking generally, not about this specific situation) women in these relationships have often been drummed into low self-esteem,…