No, they really don't. HIPAA covers health care professionals. They have no case at all on HIPAA grounds, so please don't spread that false information.

Pretty sure it is just skill based matchmaking like in the first sentence. Stats used to justify matches within a certain tolerance.

You joke, but I had a barbarian with a full library in Dungeons and Dragons once. I wanted to shatter the idea that barbarians were just wrecking balls of subhuman intellect. He was well enough rounded that the qualified for two freaking languages and had a higher intellect than the party rogue, but people still…

I have to disagree entirely. A lazy costume is a lazy costume no matter what you look like. I don't think comments on the person's body are EVER needed in a cosplay discussion. They add absolutely nothing. Cosplaying does not and should not have the single goal of being a body double for the character. That can be the…

I never meant to imply that you thought those things, just that allowing comments on the body of the cosplayer would foster those kinds of comments. But I absolutely disagree that a physical match is important at all. Some of the best cosplays I have ever seen have been by people who didn't match the body type, race,…

So you feel like the cosplayer needs to fit the character, or not bother at all?

Ok, it's a troll post. Gotcha.

I honestly can't tell if you are agreeing with me, or trying to say that they are bad cosplays.

I can understand that idea, but I don't feel that it is necessary. If you say that the costume is gorgeous, or that the gown is radiant, or that the pictures look like a fun time, these all send the same positive message that you want, without making the message about the coplayer's body. In a perfect world we…

Sorry, no. Because then all you do is feed into the idea that people can only cosplay characters they look like. "Tits aren't big enough to be Morrigan!" "WTF Peach isn't BLACK" etc etc. A good costume is a good costume and as long as it evokes the character, what the cosplayer looks like doesn't matter at all.

Except Steam just implemented a whole bunch of region locking that keeps people from gifting across regions. All signs point to the ecosystem becoming even more locked down, not less.

Yeah, I don't think they'll give you concurrent credit.

Was he held the whole time? It wasn't a violent crime so he probably got bail.

jeez. Egg on my face... I obviously mean isn't. I blame mobile kinja's broken nature and auto correct. My sentences don't show up until after I stop typing, so I need to basically touch type out whole paragraphs and pray they don't get kinja'd.

Dude here. I like breasts, even big ones, but my line has always been set firmly at "looks humanly possible", so these do absolutely nothing for me. I'm ambivalent on the natural/fake debate, but they have to at least look like human breasts instead of exercise balls or bowling balls. But she's happy and presumably…

I really want to believe that you were just waiting for someone to reply with a comment like Bestinslot's, but the 6 minute gap makes me thing it wasn't premeditated.

Maybe he just doesn't photograph well and would have been better looking if I was watching live, but I have not seen a single photo that makes Sean Douglas look hot. Awkward, weird facial twitches, etc but certainly not hot.

So often on the internet we lose sight of the fact that the other users are people, not just dissenting opinions, so I'd just like to thank you for a very humanizing response and real discussion.

Kids still count as a full guest, and therefore count against your guest list. That directly and significantly impacts cost and venue choice by 25 to 50% considering how many kids the average couple has. If you are well off enough to absorb that cost, then all the power to you, but even basic weddings are too…

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