All true, but I couldn’t resist a cheap wisecrack.

I did something similar in the summer of ‘96. All I had for fun in my apartment was an SNES and maybe a half dozen games I’d managed to convince my brother to let me take with me when I moved out (he was 17, I was 19 at the time so he still lived at home with Mom.)

This was me in Fallout 4. I’d done pretty much every major sidequest and explored every point on the map, leveled up to 55 or so, then finally went and fetched Nick Valentine out of that subway vault and blew through the entire rest of the game in less than five hours just to wrap it up.

“I think it would have been -good- but not legendary good.”

One of the great what-ifs in film history is if James Cameron had been able to helm a third Terminator movie. Instead, the dude just went on to direct the first two films in history to pull $2 billion on the worldwide gross (Titanic and Avatar.)

“The idea that all the Black kids would have the same “dietary thing” and that said exclusively Black “dietary thing” would justify Black children having to wait while their white counterparts ate”

“when the franchise ruled”

I’ve had some of those newfangled “Ace-K”/various-blend artificial sweetener concoctions. They’re nowhere near as good as a bottle of fizzy high-fructose corn syrup (and tend to leave me in a supremely cranky mood if I drink them at work and don’t have an early lunch to fill my caloric tank, especially if I missed…

I’m with Claire. A few years back, I sat down to watch The Fox and the Hound with my SO...and we were both bawling by a third of the way into the movie.

That’s not a bad habit, it’s a good sign for your humanity.

Am autistic; can confirm that lack of internal consistency in a game’s rules or pacing or any other mindfuck of a similar nature can completely ruin a game for me.

“ I usually go way to bog standard good-guy paladin archetype”

I’ve had nights like that with Warband. Between it, With Fire and Sword, and Bannerlord combined, that’s over 700 hours of gameplay (according to Steam) since 2010.

Since times change, I think you’d need to update the tattoo for Western culture.

Amen to your second point.

“I don’t need to eat shit to know I’m not going to like it.”

“It took being blinded by love and marrying into a family of Iowans to at last open my eyes:”

No lie. Been eating more rice, beans, and pasta lately. I still love meat, and it’s still my first choice when money isn’t a question, but I’m starting to realize that maybe I wouldn’t actually starve to death if I had to become a vegetarian for whatever reason. Well, “vegetarian except for cheese” probably.

“I have this problem where I just talk at whatever game I’m playing: yelling at the AI, snarking back at the dialogue, narrating my actions.”

“Bargains on meat might be tough for consumers to find this summer. So my advice to consumers would be to stock up when you find a good deal.”