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DBZ taught me that all problems can be resolved by exponentially increasing the force being applied.

Well there were sharks, but they were just the ordinary kind. I do as well (which frankly has a lot to do with structural issues outside of the university) but the meat grinder must grind.

My school experience was being bored senseless then going to work part-time, so I can't completely relate to that. I do remember [redacted] on the weekends and staying up till 3 in the morning playing videogames or watching movies, neither of which I regularly do these days. I didn't know the former, I knew the latter due to being familiar with a horrible phrase roughly translated from German to English as "work makes you free". Same boat, the feelings of guilt for not living up to my potential combined with seeing the work I was doing as useless and irrelevant was very distressing for me. I pretty much sailed out of high school because of my test scores, and could have failed due to not doing projects and busywork. Maybe this all shows how the school system is ****ed and how current working hours are too much. But that would be in politics and something something the market can never be wrong in its divine wisdom bootstraps. Anyways I guess dinosaurs exist in Sailor Moon because of course they ****ing do.

I think the point was to show that Mamoru is a right douchewaffle. They succeeded. But before we pass blame around, at this point in time neither of them were super mature characters anyway. It's hard to forget but Sailor Moon R somehow plays concurrently to Sailor Moon (no other way Usagi can stay 14 for two years unless they weren't reincarnated as much as there was a time-reset where for some reason they and Luna kept their memories, but perhaps I am overthinking that). Talking it out would have been the mature approach. You're right, Ami was the most popular character of Sailor Moon by far, at least in Japan. I think in the West that might have been Makoto (also Malcador's favorite), but Makoto comes without the burden of all the cultural issues she represents for us (it's not just that she's tall, she also wears long skirts and has wavy hair, everything that's not normal for Japanese women, and it stands in the way of achieving her dreams so much). Poor girl. Not gonna lie (and as I already mentioned that in the metal thread anyway): But Ami represents much, much more than that for me, and it's mostly identification and not "I like what they've done with the character", although admittedly I am looking at this from a perspective of having seen the entire run (mostly, apparently, because I definitely missed some SuperS stuff). I might go into more detail on that later (if any of you are really interested, but that's going to become super long winded and might up reading as if I'm trying to come across as... better than I am? I don't know..., it's also probably better served as PM, but hey, uhm, what... completely lost track of what I wanted to type here), but today's super busy. Man, if there's one thing I miss about school - and that's not a whole lot, to be honest - it's having f*ck all responsibilities and virtually endless free time. Meh.

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-voyager-bryan-fuller-behind-the-scenes/ Made me laugh

Bethesda fixed past mistakes by implementing Broken Steel, a DLC that allowed us all to continue playing past the end of the story (with a modified ending). I think this is a great idea and should be considered by Obsidian, since there's a lot to do that can't be done once the main story is finished (like the DLC, for example). Please consider implementing post-game content

Ah, the old memes. That was handy in school though, ended up working hard to an insane degree (two weeks once without seeing the sun). Now I just have a fun habit of only being productive past 2100 for the rest of my life

Oh crap, was there really not a monster in that episode at all? I totally overlooked that. Hell yeah to dinosaurs then! Sometimes, I get the feeling that the whole 4 year and beyond university system is a complete joke for the majority of fields. Well, would you look at the time, seems like it's just about time to send the next generation through...

Exactly my sentiment. I loved everything about Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies except the fact that setting my motivaiton for the character wasn't enough for me to actually ever finish a run. I played for hundreds of hours though. I'm kind of hoping a visual novel by Failbetter will have more of a classical story structure. It probably won't, but anyway, I threw 50 pounds at Failbetter, which earns me two keys once it's done. I'm assuming none of my friends would want to play, so if you're still interested by then you can probably have my second key. edit: Assuming the Kickstarter actually goes through, which seems like a nobrainer, it's 60% done a few hours after the launch.

Yeah, the level of abstraction and fiction in projects made them both very hard and very easy for me. Like if I'm gonna make **** up I'm going to go big and wild instead of copy some real world problem to solve with an ideology laced solution. Despite this I managed to graduate magnum **** laude which I'm told is impressive but I don't feel like I accomplished anything and my acquired knowledge is either really dumb or fake and I don't use it anyway. Should have just gone to film school or majored in anthropology but I had to go for economics and bizness lmao. Dinosaurs definitely exist in Sailor Moon, if only because the episode in question was actually fun and didn't revolve around killing a monster. Canon be damned.

Hunie Pop 2: Double Date - I'm playing it for the articles.

^ I'm not usually into visual novels, but a VN from Failbetter in the Fallen London universe? Color me interested.

Republican Congressman Ron Wright dies from Covid after contracting it from the insurrection while refusing to wear a mask.

Oh boy, projects were always my kryptonite. It's not that I'm necessarily anemic towards actually completing something functionally useful - I work on and complete projects of various technical degrees for my own purposes all the time, after all. It's more that I can't...roleplay and make up imaginary problems fitting ultra-broad goals and criteria and try to react to and solve them as if they're real. Give me something concrete that I actually need to fix or solve, and I can at least put mind to it and probably get it done. Alas, that's never how they ever went. Nevertheless, I did manage to finish four years of college with a 4.0 GPA...and I don't feel like I actually accomplished or learned a single thing the entire time. It takes real talent to be given so much and do so little with it, . I'm not sure if dinosaurs actually truly exist in the Sailor Moon universe. I can only assume that particular episode was total filler, and the writers went on a bender.

Now we wait for the conspiracy theory that it was all secretly edged on by Wall Street entities in an attempt to cause the moderators of WallStreetBets to implode in just such a way.....

GAO probably, not IRS.

Resident Evil Village. How could you missed that?

All just because of that stupid $GME. Man people lost lots of money over this. Some spend more than they could afford, because "it is a safe bet" ... and now some sort of cult formed around it and people are *still* buying into this garbage. It's unbelievable.

Nuts to that. People will starve to death waiting for the collective to take care of them. A persons welfare and that of their family is their primary responsibility. You have to look out for yourself. Because nobody else is going to. That does not mean you’re not part of a community and don’t have a duty to help in one way or another. But I’ll pulling out in the 1930s a hell of a lot of people starved to death in a country where food production was a collective enterprise

I don't know what drugs they take at WaPo but they shoul cut it by half

Would have been a better game if hitting your receivers in the face with the ball counted as a catch

STING OF DEATH (1966) - low budget regional horror film. More literal WTFs than I've experienced in awhile. Sloppy filmmaking, goofy scenes, people not seeing things in front of them or hearing things near them. One scene apes the shower death in Psycho, because what that film needed was someone in a wet suit with a giant jellyfish on their head as the killer.

I was very happy with the Halftime show. Amazing set design for sure, and The Weeknd was great. Honestly I didn't know much about the guy before the performance, but I thought he was stronger than Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga.

Halftime show was better than expected but still suffering from the curse of whatever team I root for losing.

Yeah, because I think we discussed seasonal lists. But works for me. Given the confusing way this episode hopped from one locale to the other without explanation I'm now more convinced than ever that some sort executive meddling lead to this being recut, retooled and rewritten in some way somewhere down the line. Edit: Sadly that's somewhat hard to piece together. I can't find the original release dates of the manga chapters in their monthly form, only for the chapter collections. That means that the first chapter collection came out half a year after SuperS began airing. If we assume a release schedule of one chapter per month and give them a month to create the collection and print it before distribution* - that would mean the anime was airing up to two (maybe even three) months before the manga actually came out. That seems wrong, and I presume that there was at least a bit of pre-production that went into creating SuperS. *The chapter collections seem to have come out once every four months, each of them containing three chapters, so I didn't pull the monthly release and a month break for distribution entirely out of my arse as it were. There might be overlaps though, especially later on, and the December issue had only two chapters and side stories that were also made into episodes (at least I think so, not there yet with my reading). Well it's of course also possible that the mangas came out way earlier, but in that case the anime would have not incorporated chapter one Dream arc storylines in such a confusing way almost at the end of the season.

Almost all castles have a ditch or a moat, or are on top of a promontory/ hill. It's just about the most basic- and earliest- defensive measure there is; indeed one of the best ways to find sizeable early human settlements is to look for the ditches/ ramparts that were often built around them. Once you're getting to the level of city walls it becomes a bit more difficult due to scale*, but for forts and castles it would have been unusual not to have one. *kind of, Hadrian's Wall had 2 ditches and 2 ramparts (excluding the wall itself) for much of its ~120km length, but then it was also garrisoned by a lot of legionnaires who needed to be kept busy and would be paid anyway.

Miranda butt shots were utter cringe even back in ye olde times, and won't be missed. Retrospectively hilarious how inordinately proud they were of having body scanned Yvonne Strahovski given where Bioware is now- plus cutting the Jack romance for femshep because they were worried about Fox News of all people...

Yeah, they're aiming at fixing more with the next bigger patch, which I think you were reading about. Also fixing the sector-auto management AI, include auto-migration between planets, etc. And yeah I agree, the 2.2 patch was kind of a one step forward, two steps back -case. Most of the problems in the current game stem from it. I personally only get end game lag when I try something ridiculous, like beating the 25x end game crisis on Huge galaxy, so I'm making fleets worth of 10M fleet power... If you play on smaller galaxies, don't go for ridiculous end-games, and/or have a good comp, the end-game lag should be about non-existent.

Way of the Wrath Turn-based tactical CRPG set in a "prehistoric shamanistic world". I tried the demo they had up on Steam awhile back. I thought the atmosphere was great, it reminded me a lot of Expeditions Viking.

...hers?

I'm fine without the butt shots as long as they don't then shift the camera to her uncanny valley face.

Quite a list to sort through with some great ideas and some potential game breaking ones. This is a long response numbered and labeled for easier digestion. 1. Hotbar and Inventory - So while in some ways it would be nice if we had extra equipment we could have not take up inventory space there are some items that would need to be restricted for this to work. Some examples would be food in the hotbar if we used the same rules as the equipped gear not taking up inventory space if you locked an item to the hotbar and did not give it a capacity limit one could theoretically carry an infinite amount of food in the space of one hotbar item. 2. Equipment and Armor - In some ways there is merit for what you want here where we may have a base set of armor but then still be able to equip utility style equipment i.e. gas mask and miner helmet. The biggest challenge here would be whether or not the devs want to expand equipment slots as there is honestly a nice simplicity in their approach to gear as every wearable is considered armor and you only need three armor pieces. With the specific sets of three giving bonuses. Currently the gas mask has the most importance moving forward when the eventual haze section gets updated while the bubble helmet is kind of important at the moment and in niche situations is the miner helmet a good utility gear and combat situations specifically bow usage its now a toss up between marksman cap or full be armor. What would be nice and is progress already are future creature additions as well as future armor sets so one day we may see a full set that is intended to be used in the haze and even better gear set for the water. 3. Human occupants - This in a way has been done with the boot prints you find near the mysterious machine as well as the destruction of the hedge lab. Which has brought its own challenges for players who consider themselves day one players as the change to the landscape has challenged the way preexisting bases work in the modified landscape. This challenge would be further amplified if we had full size npcs that periodically roamed the yard. On the other end of the spectrum the roaming npc can become repetitive as they may only be given one or two roaming paths so as to not completely disrupt our ability to build and expand bases and outpost throughout the yard. 4. Weather, Queen Ant, Glitches, Multi Saves - the idea of an ant queen I believe is already in the works. Weather is planned for a future update. Creature glitches has a hot fix in the pause menu to fix creature locations and can be used once each time you load your save. You are already able to have and be a part of multiple saves with the ability to change between using a save for single or multiplayer on the same save. The one thing you currently can not do with an existing save is change the difficulty or switch between survival and creative which I support the potential to change the difficulty of the game but not switching between creative and survival.

So Miranda will loose the little remaining "characterization" that she had . Shamelessness of butt shots was quite hilarious on my latest playthrough, though.

Worst remaster ever.

Deltro's Cage Helmet:

But Zora surely you realize how important it is for the United States to have all the information ? You must agree that their can be no doubt that he profited from his exposure of the NSA's protection of us all, making us less safe and putting hundreds of informants at risk. You can't agree that this is a good thing ! I mean, yeah. It's probably both, an opinion stated as fact that conveniently is slander. I guess when you're too deep in the game you can't even begin to imagine other motivations any longer. I've seen simiar things in the news here about the Gamestop shares. Investors talking about how risky it is to invest in Gamestop now and that the people buying Gamestop stock stand to lose money. They don't even mean that as silly counter-argument against what is happening. They genuinely don't understand that there are large swathes of people who don't care if they lose a hundred bucks on Gamestop stocks, as long as it hurts the fatcats, because in their world view there exist no reasons to invest other than profit.

HA! Good Fun!

Oh, I have a question for USA members. One of my bothers told me that the majority of medical aid options are provided for people from the company the person works for so if the person leaves the company he loses the medical aid options ?