soapy pennies, moldy shoes, cat pee, bug-infested bedclothes.... Seeing a variety of unpleasant descriptions in a quick search.

I’m very white, but I understand seasoning. My extended family compliments my cooking all the time, but when I try to show them how I cook, they always argue with me about using salt.

May need to get this just so I can play again without ruining my shot at the Go Outside achievement. I’m really close, but I can’t remember *exactly* when I last played.

America first!  *vomits*

I have a teddy bear named Belly Bear who is also older than I am. He’s got a giant hold in his left arm that I’ve thought about trying to fix, but I worry it might just end up making everything worse. My wife has a blanket she was given as a kid that has a teddy bear on it, and it’s exactly what Belly Bear would have…

I don’t remember the name of the show, but I was watching a late-90s, USA Network, Up All Night police procedural. The episode was about a radio DJ who was suspected of committing murders around town, only the murders all happened during his show. He claimed he always did his show live, so it couldn’t be him. Of…

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Yeah, that’s why I’m not sure how I feel. To be clear, I was on the side of the Chinese badminton team. If losing a game makes winning the tournament more likely, that’s a lousy tournament setup. Similar thing here: if the chess community isn’t happy this happened, then the rules need to be changed.

I think of the argument I got in with my father-in-law back when the scandal over the Chinese Olympic badminton(?) team happened. Competitors will always look to take the most advantageous route to victory. If losing a game (or in this case, drawing) puts you in a better position to win the entire tournament, the…

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I don’t think there’s a Good or Bad Place, only a Learn to Be a Better Person Place.

Here’s an idea: tax billionaires to the point where they are merely millionaires.  Bet that’d go a long way towards paying for some of that free stuff.

I find the skinning in this game less disturbing than in the original. I think it’s a matter of imagination always being worse than reality. When Marston skinned an animal and all you heard was squidgy knife noises, my brain filled in all kinds of gross detail. When Morgan does it, I can adopt a more clinical,…

“It’s unclear what Trump was so worked up about”

They loved the cover that Palin, Bachman, and Haley give them. The instant any of them stop being useful idiots, they’ll be under the bus with everyone else the GOP has used up and discarded. 

In other news, water is wet, all dogs are good boys, and the sky is generally blue.

Congrats!  We hit 16 years married and 20 together in September.  We used to play like that all the time.  I’m hoping this setup helps rekindle that.

I don’t have kids, but my wife is sort of hit or miss on big open-world games. She tends to like the stories, but not so much the random wandering I do. We’re going to try “Navigator Mode” in Red Dead as soon as we have some free time using the RDR app. I’m going to turn off the HUD (except maybe in firefights), and…

Evangelicals are the least Christian people on the planet.

Sometimes you gotta go out on a limburger.