Yeah, I totally get why Kidani’s comment is problematic, I’m with the others on “so why is a little brother an issue?” for the original controversy.

I loved watching a program (or two?) on the Smithsonian Channel a while back showing films of Elizabeth II’s coronation, including stuff she herself I think commissioned - and in at least one of these programs, they had the Queen herself watching some of these, like possibly for the first time or for the first time…

“but perhaps Manfred’s leadership on this matter isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”

Everyone else thinks Buckner lost the World Series for them.

Yeah, I knew the situation. WisconsinRob above actually better makes the point I was - the Cubs won 2/3, so....

Mad that they “didn’t try”... what, in the last game of the season?

Ahh, thanks. Suspected it might be something like that, but wasn’t sure. Sounds a lot like one of my favorite sci-fi series (Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Vorkosiverse” for the curious), which occasionally makes reference to “vat-grown meat”.

Wait, wait, I’ve been working extra for the last few weeks, so maybe I missed it, but what are these “cell-grown chicken nuggets”?

I lived in Milwaukee for 9 months a little over a decade ago, for my first job until I got laid off. My impression was that unless it was actually precipitating, the sky usually was pretty blue. Not like here in Syracuse, NY, where it’s often grey and rainy (or snowy). What a difference it makes being on the…

Yep, I did get it. Went back and checked my Amazon orders, I had it pre-ordered, lol. 

I got through Xillia 1 & 2, I enjoyed them okay. 

Oh yeah, Vesperia. Did they release the PS4 port yet? I honestly can’t remember. I am/was going to/already did get that, but for the life of me, I can’t recall what the status is there...

I still haven’t finished Zestiria, let alone started Berseria, so I don’t mind the delay. Of course, I was doing them a couple hours a week at a time with a friend, and we’ve been too busy for that for, well, years now honestly. (And my solo gaming time is also limited. Stupid adult responsibilities.)

Two of my favorite scenes in this vein:

Reminds me of...

I once had somebody do a counter withdrawal for $400 where they had a brainfart and switched the last 3 digits of their account # for mine (different permutation of the same 3 digits). They lined that out and corrected it, but it still got put through from mine anyway. (I could see the scan of the withdrawal slip in…

Mine now has an ultrasonic cleaner that they use to do most of the work. It’s still a bitch on the sensitive areas (I too am having enamel issues and thus cold sensitivity, and pressure sensitivity - fresh pizza should not cause shooting pains, yo - and all that fun crap), but it really minimizes the actual scraping…

Oh god, PNW - this might be the beer I accidentally grabbed out of the downstairs fridge at my grandparents’ once as a kid, probably 7 or 8 at the oldest? There was a fridge downstairs for when we came in from the pool, and we could have the soda... and I was a dumb idiot kid who thought “a deer, cool looking soda can!…

We live 1000 miles away from both my wife’s and my parents. The last several years, my wife and son have gone for roughly a month in the summer to see the family. Especially these last few years, I absolutely get Drew’s description, cuz that’s roughly my life while they’re gone. Like, I’m so helpless I can’t even shop…

The Buffalo Wild Wings near me* has a guy who comes in and does “music trivia” (actually, I think it’s just Bingo with the correct answers) on Wednesdays, we’ve found out, and the last 2 times we’ve caught it, the last game of the night is a Weird Al one, where you have to get the ORIGINAL artists. I actually played…