While I’m enjoying the fight, the drop rate for gems is shit. I think the weapon drops were added to keep people thinking they were getting something when the gem rate is such absolute garbage. This game is way too into grinding.

These days I end up making a female character whenever character creation is possible. This was not necessarily the same in the past.

The US allows this. Refugees, green card holders, and DACA recipients in every state that isn’t Arizona allow non-citizens to attend colleges and universities and to pay the in-state tuition for the states people are residents of. All these people are legally allowed to work and live in the United States, and they pay…

I’ve done it. It took me three years and over $2000. And I’m from Europe. It took my mother more than five years. People from less desirable countries/continents can have it take way longer and cost way more money. So this notion that DACA recipients should have already done it by now it almost comically uninformed.

“All that time” is a pretty indicative that you don’t know how complicated, long, and expensive it is be to obtain a US citizenship, especially if you came to the US undocumented. And they have to jump through all those hoops while at the same time jumping through DACA’s hoops. Most of these people are probably trying…

Yeah ok fine but let’s talk about the most important thing. How do I get that Palico armor?

They’re using the same arguments conservatives use. Pick a target, blame them for all their woes, say they’re too stupid to change, ignore the systemic issues that allow destructive cycles to flourish. It’s self-aggrandizing and it’s gross.

Plenty of drug addicts, under/unemployed people, single parents, etc, in cities, but they’re more likely to have a formal infrastructure to help (how functional it is...depends). What I mostly see separating urban/rural problems is that as more people move to metropolitan areas, the problems are harder to ignore.…

It wasn’t a surprise to see the promoted comment was, “We should secretly drug these people with birth control, for their own good.” Comments on this kind of article start dark.

Sold out. Obvs.

Well..this shit was going to happen. It’s already happened in a lot of places, although no one has aimed as high (heh) as this. But..as dumb and bro-y and eye-rolling as this is...I’m totally fine with getting drug dealers off street corners and into malls. Yes, absolutely change things so that people criminalized for…

100% into adding this to my woodland graveyard warrior witch aesthetic.

It misses for me because so much of the humor in the original series focused on calling out bullshit. The series punched a lot at upper class windbags who were both affluent and exploiting of the blue collar classes. There’s a whole plotline about a shady charming Tim Curry talking Dan into investing in property and…

I’m so glad he’s doing these again. Bless you Cody, though this is probably taking 10 years off his life.

What tipped you? The repeated use of “claptrap” or the multiple people talking about that horse the author rode in on?

Well that’s negative percent surprising.

Damn, Candy Candy. My very first manga. I feel like the US is the only place this wasn’t a big deal. My grandmother read them and passed whatever survived to me.

Summer Wars and the Girl who Leapt Trough Time are directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who spent most of his early years working on Digimon and Dragonball Z (but also the Samurai Champloo opening!). I probably should have been clearer separating those groups out. Hosoda’s stuff is definitely accessible to the masses but it’s…

I’d recommend looking up the few works of Satoshi Kon, who did several films and one series (all fantastic. I mean, damn, this Paprika opening). Also Summer Wars, The Girl who Leapt Through Time, and The Boy and the Beast. There’s Tekkonkinkreet too, a movie that is really unsually style wise but also really fun.

I don’t mind Trish’s arc, I hate that she got rewarded for it. She fucked everyone (POOR MALCOLM), assaulted her friends, murdered someone, and then still got superpowers in the most bullshit contrived way possible. She doesn’t feel bad about anything she did. I can only see her as the villain now.