Blarghagh

Closing this for length. I'll let redtarting it up to Agiel. Wouldn't feel right otherwise.

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Hm, time for a refresh. Brb.

Not you tekno, but someone on the road to bringing that comic to us was a real ***hole as they removed my buddy Sam Logan's signature and a link to his webcomic, Sam and Fuzzy. It always pisses me off when people do that.

Vaguely wonder what caused it and if it's what ruined his filmmaking.

In all likelihood, you've eaten plenty of bugs in your processed food. :shrug:

I'm going to assume there was liberal spicing/saucing going on there? Central asian cuisine is generally based on the art of making awful stuff taste good. Not that I don't believe you but it's a pretty well-researched subject. Even without changing species you can find it - pigs raised on meat instead of general pig feed (mostly maize iirc) are said to have significantly lower quality meat. Also, I read an article once that said bear meat is awful, but not if the bear spent its life eating mostly roots, berries and honey rather than salmon and carrion as then it became delicious, like a bacon steak or something. Even omnivores apparently became terrible meat animals once they eat more meat. I like to believe it's a kind of evolutionary revenge from plants - let's see how you like being delicious. I can't personally confirm that though, since I haven't had any. Although if I were to spend time there, I'd definitely try it at least once to confirm since I've eaten everything else at least once. I'm sure that if I didn't flinch from ostrich, kangaroo, crocodile, a host of insects, an entirely intact squid on a stick and shark I won't flinch from that. (Insects are the future, guys.)

This calls for one of the oldest memes:

I like how that picture tries to make the choice look arbitrary when it just isn't. We don't eat mammalian predators because they taste awful, often contain more harmful bacteria and they are low on fat content.

Yeah I remember that one from Whose Line too.

Wait, hold up, I just read there was actually an armed resource officer stationed at the school the shooting took place, and he did nothing nor deterred it from happening? Then what the hell are guns good for?

Oh, wow. He had notes, how wierd. Anyone ever seen anybody with notes on a meeting? Crazy. Impeach! Either for a) having notes or b) not using them. Doesn't matter. Impeach! I don't think anybody begrudges people bringing notes, it's just the contents read a bit like "the zognoid field guide to basic human empathy"

Well, I did respond to a post about allegations in 2016. But yeah, even then I'm sure the 'outrage' now was just people running across that bullcrap and dredging it up for easy clickbait. It works too - I never see these kinds of things spread faster than when they trigger the angry internet nerds. Virtue signaling social justice clickbait wouldn't spread nearly as quickly.

I half suspect these allegations came up not because people were actually offended but because the lead dev was a rather vocal supporter of #GamerGate. I mean, I'm sure some people actually got offended. But most of them? Looking for ammo.

I think this argument would hold more water if it wasn't for every developer and publisher of note spending the last ten years selling the con that software is not a product but a service. :shrug:

Probably, words influence more than people admit. See; republicans rebranding family reunification as "chain migration" and suddenly people hate it.

Reminded me of a joke I saw earlier: “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Yes. The background checks are for the PEOPLE, not the GUNS.

I actually really like this idea. Outside of hectic lives, I have pretty severe ADD which generally keeps me from playing Death-is-Game-Over style modes because any simple noise or movement in the corner of my eye can mean all progress lost and that's frustrating as hell, even though I'd like the increased difficulty. At least PoE has pause though, that helps. I think it might be something for Obs to look into for future games, though I'm guessing its too late for Deadfire. Not sure why you're so angry about it though, OP.

I did specify community that I've ever seen, but CS bad reputation is legendary I admit. I don't even know what NS stands for in this case.

But there are so many toxic online gaming communities these days, how can you pick just one? I'd say it picked itself by sticking out like a sore thumb, even when among other sore thumbs.

Oof, gave up on Overwatch. Can't deal with the pubbies. I dunno what it is but that's the most toxic game community I've ever seen.

Not worth it unless you've got nothing better to do. But yeah like Humanoid said the price varies a bit as it's a player driven economy but generally about 300k gold for a month (or 13 euros worth of battle.net balance). US is about 100k less than that I believe. I'm not much of a gold farmer, but I've essentially hit all my goals this expansion (last heroic tier set, all the cosmetics I want) and I've got about 20 days left. Might as well make 'em count, as it will cost me less when BfA hits end of summer. I already pre-ordered that too, even though I never pre-order, because that I had enough gold to slash 75% of that price. Wish I'd realized we'd be powering through heroic and running out of stuff to do early, otherwise I'd have saved up enough gold to get it for free.

Preparing to take an end-of-expansion break in WoW by using my remaining gametime to earn some gold so I can buy gametime for gold instead of cash when I come back. About to start another playthrough of Pillars in preparation for Deadfire.

I feel like anybody who thinks their n00bie years are behind them is probably deluding themselves, but then I watch competitive StarCraft tournaments quite a bit so it might just be an inferiority complex I've built up over the years.