Or if her caterers had dropped the ball and thought “vegan” meant “this person wants three sad leaves of iceberg lettuce,” then yeah, pull out the Tupperware QUIETLY. But the whole ostentatious parade of prunes there was waaaay too “all about me.”

Ugggghhhhhh. I also get a bit annoyed with people who ask if we have vegan cheese (we do not, because it’s super expensive/tastes like goat balls) and then ask if they can bring their cheese into the store for the cooks to put on their pie.

THIS. Similar situation at my job with the lone vegan complaining after someone went out of their way to procure a vegan option just for them. The day the vegan quit we all celebrated that we can go back to ordering meat and vegetarian food without her turning up her nose at everything anyone eats..

Most potatoes are, I believe, grown from other potatoes. So yeah, it’s definitely underground potato-sharing networks.

At first I was impressed—a considerate, respectful vegan actually went out of their way to not inconvenience anyone else, make a fuss about everything, and make it all about themselves? Wow, that’s a man-bites-dog if I’ve ever read one.

On a day that is supposed to be about someone else, a vegan makes it all about them. Color me shocked.

The article indicates that the caterer was a BBQ place, and mac and cheese is a really common side dish for BBQ, which isn’t an uncommon food choice for a wedding.

I guess you've never been to a wedding?

It’s pronounced ros-é.

This. I guess Conan is supposed to scour Twitter every night, and make sure his staff hasn’t stolen anyone’s jokes?  

You know, the three jokes you gave as examples are kind of generic, “late-night monologue” jokes that anyone could have come up with, so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary if Coco (and his writers) and the gentleman in question wrote similar jokes. Just sayin’.

Bernie will make things better even if he never passes a law.   He unionized his campaign staff.   You ever think you’d see a politician stand with unions that hard? 

Coming back to this in the morning and seeing a lot of “Heather, leave this this to us hardcore gamers if you can’t beat it.” or whatever and I just gotta... like... remind folks who I am and what I do for a living:

We can talk about difficult as an aesthetic choice all we want and I’m down for that discussion (failure and death are big things for FromSoft games) but easy is relative and I place my trust in designers to build these modes such that the particularities they want to stress still exist.. If combat cadence is a design…

Add an easy mode and he won’t have to settle for watching someone else have fun, friendo. And the good news is that you don’t lose anything in the process either.

That *is* harsh though because you’re all but asking players with disabilities to go elsewhere. In this example, an easy mode or even a series of toggles that allow players to customize game experiences is about allowing them to participate in that experience. It’s inclusive, and not in the dime-store way that word is…

It’s this sort of thing that makes me reconsider the notion that the world needs to be purged by fire. I still think it should, but stuff like this gives me momentary pause.

I mean I can be mad at George Zimmerman being found innocent, hundreds of cops not facing any murder charges, and still think that Jussie was guilty and deserved jail time. It’s not all mutually exclusive.

I never saw the adaptaion of Never Let Me Go, but the book isn’t YA and has very little in common with most YA literature.  Sure, the characters are kids/teens, but that doesn’t make it YA or in the same vein as YA.