Glad I decided to play Paladins instead of Overwatch.

I was about 25-30% of the time for 15 years, with most trips in the 2-4 week range at a time, although I did have a few 6-7 week ones. I figured I spent about 4-ish calendar years away from home, but I did get to work in over 30 countries. I stopped traveling as a primary aspect of my job six years ago. There are some…

Counterpoint: I’ve been at my current company (now a Fortune 500, although it was far from it when I started) for the last 21 years (after several previous years at various much smaller companies). That means I now get 5 weeks of vacation a year (actually, I got that after 15 years here, but that’s where the “extra…

The Department of Energy was created during the oil crisis for the express purpose of lowering US dependence on foreign oil. That’s it. That’s the totality of its mission, which it then spent the next 40 years effectively not doing.

The international scouting movement is governed by an overarching body which requires all scouting organizations to profess a belief in God, with grandfathered exemptions in a few countries who were early entrants into scouting before this was a hard requirement (France being one of them, for instance). “God” can be…

TIL it’s possible for me to have never seen a single episode of a show popular enough to be on the air for 12 years.

You’re right. And this same thing happens routinely to every child in a military family (every three years or so when the parent gets orders for a new duty station). That’s what people who have signed up for those types of government service have signed up for. Yes, it sucks and is disruptive, but that’s the job.

Although he generally didn’t tend to showcase it much in the normal course of his own music, George Michael was also one of the few people with a voice that could do justice to a Freddie Mercury vocal. He was truly phenomenal.

I guess next time there is a pretty sketchy racial stereotype in the original source material, Marvel will just choose to leave it in, then. Maybe they can cast Margaret Cho in the role to make her happy.

Southwest pilots are great. I once experienced a fairly rough landing during what was probably a high wind situation. We came down pretty hard and bounced a couple times before the landing stuck.

Do you even League, bro?

“But all of this NYC-specific discussion is beside the point.”

We should probably keep this guy away from boats, too. Just in case.

For all of you looking for the place for “I’m too old for this shit” people, consider OTG (The Old Timers Guild). There are several thousand of us playing every game imaginable:

While the millennials have tablets and bike to work?

So why did you stop?

Because they can. On top of that, you aren’t taking into account that they have to pay for not only the parts, but the assembly labor, facilities, support staff for their customers to call, etc. The fact that you can personally be the labor, facility, and support staff for the machine you build for yourself is…

This idiot didn’t just put her own kids at risk, she put *everybody’s* kids at risk. Even the other vaccinated ones.

“In the matter of the playing competitive varsity-level contact sports”

“Steam has a sickness, and Valve is, at this point, the only one who can cure it.”