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Seriously though, that place looks rather picturesque.

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He'll have his stripper friends do it instead.

THE SHAVER MYSTERY LIVES!

Well, wouldn't mind being this Took me a suspiciously long time to realise what the animal painted on the side was, wasn't expecting a Russian heli to reference the NATO designation. I particularly like how it looks like it's drinking from the minigun cupola. Until you said it was an animal, I thought it was a guy in a hood rising from a fire or explosion.

I dropped out of the quiz when the first question had only two options.

Marvel's Runaways full trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=115&v=plyJQG-nRN0

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution article has some further background to KSU that might be worth reading for some further context to this incident (I don't think its paywalled) - http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/24/anthem-kneeling-at-ksu-is-only-part-of-the-tale/

Yeah I'd found out because of Gfted's post. Was always partial to his "I'm Walking". And of course his The Fat Man is legendary -

Stupid question - you are logged in to your account? Other questions - What model is the device? Galaxy Tab 3, iPad Mini 4, etc. What is your PFID#? (Located in the settings menu)

I am 100% sure you can infer the meaning of my post. No I don't. But that may be because I think you're using the term "prologue" when you mean "foreword". Which would I guess kind of make more sense that way. But at this point, I think my only possible recourse is to abandon thread...

I'm really not sure what you're on about.

I sense a certain amount of cross-purpose discussion, so to be clear: foreword - introduction to the story the person is about to read, typically spoiler free prologue - part of the fiction that happens prior to the events of the story but are relevant or set up an aspect of a books story but not part of the story proper epilogue - part of the fiction that happens after the events of the story that may wrap up remaining issues of the story afterword - section that typically discusses the book, and sometimes the creation of the book, and is the section of a book that is most likely to contain spoilers for the book as it is intended to be read after the book. Sometimes written directly by the author to describe their own thoughts or processes on the story. In the case of academic classes, I think it also fair to point out that as the student isn't choosing the book, they may not be inclined to read a blurb or a synopsis or afterword since they're not trying to find a book to read for their own personal interest. YMMV.

I have no inside knowledge, but I suspect that if you sent it on the 22nd, it probably wouldn't even be looked at / queued for action until at the earliest the morning of the 23rd (Monday) with all the other weekend reports. Since you've emailed support, keep us updated here and we can see if we can attract developer eyes to the issue if you don't hear from them.

I liked Disney Infinity, but their initial insistence of not setting a made toybox experience where every toy could mixed and played in a full experience was a big mistake. Even if they did a "you have to play it once with the themed characters then it opens up to anybody" would have worked better. But I mostly wanted to play the Pirates ship battles with any character... ;____; Lego didn't start off with that handicap, but its interesting how quickly the Toys-to-Life stuff hit and collapsed as Skylanders is also on hold.

The psychologists I read (and its been a long time but I think at least one was a trauma specialist) believed avoidance led to depression and helplessness. I think at their best or most charitable, the Trigger Warning isn't intended to encourage avoidance, but approaching the material on terms of managed expectations. And that's where I'm a bit torn - not being an expert I can see why the experts would think avoidance is a problem and that trigger warnings could lead to avoidance (albeit in college classes, you can only avoid so far before your grades suffer), but I'm also not sure avoidance is the intent (even if its the outcome - which perhaps points to a need to work on the issue rather than scrap it, perhaps). Titus may not be his best but it is his goriest (even if Lavinia's rape and mutilation is off stage). That said, I think what you say may be the crux of the issue on this debate - I think - that it'd be fair to say that the intention of trigger warnings isn't that to protect people from experiencing a trauma that would send them to therapy, but to protect people from reliving an already extant trauma that they are still coming to grips with (with therapy or not). Or to put another way, its not the case of a sheltered man or woman being incensed at encountering a fictional rape and mutilation, but someone with PTSD who may relive their own rape by reading of a fictional one that is intended to be protected.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-18-the-sad-slow-death-of-lego-dimensions In unsurprising news, WB and Traveler's Tales announce that Lego Dimensions is being wrapped up a year earlier than planned, with no new content being made.

I think its a reference to Alanis Morrisette's song "Ironic". You know other than the trauma psychologists who I mentioned and their data/fear that trigger warnings might be counter-productive to healing, I don't really understand the issue with trigger warnings such that people have such a strong knee-jerk reaction to them.

I dunno, would you feel comfortable complaining to a guy about someone being mean to you on an internet forum (which is basically what the report function is for), when that someone thinks legitimate psychological trauma is something to be dismissed with derisive laughter? I mean, what kind of mod response would you expect from someone like that besides "boo hoo, man up you little bitch"? (Not that I actually have a problem with the guy on the mod team, he's way too lazy to ever actually do anything legitimately harmful by misusing his powers. Or, y'know, his job.) When reports are made, even in a forum where any particular forum level mod is a mod, the entire team sees it, including the global mods. So regardless of any issue an individual poster might have with any individual mod, one should feel comfortable reporting a post knowing that many eyes of people with many different perspectives will review the report. Well, actually, flaming and trolling is allowed against normal users, as per the rules (as the anti-trolling rule very specifically says that trolling is only disallowed against other game companies, employees, and moderators...and the anti-harassment rule is too limited to cover flaming), so actually, that literally does seem to be the prescribed response. An interesting approach for a game dev's forums - I have not seen its like anywhere else in the industry. It certainly has its pros, but uh, it also has its cons, as you can see. As far as I know flaming and trolling isn't allowed against normal users either. Just because the language in the trolling section doesn't specifically forbid it doesn't mean it'd be allowed (although I'd argue its already covered under 'harassment' - "We ask that the users of this board treat one another with respect, even when opinions differ." - or the general rule - "In general, our guidelines are based on the fundamentals of common sense, respect and tolerance."). That said, what one person feels is trolling, flaming or harassment may not appear as such to someone who isn't involved in the situation or who views it with a charitable eye. Again reporting posts is generally the best way to approach issues as it will be seen by multiple people with a consensus being formed. Also I think WoT - by its nature - is given somewhat more latitude to be conversational than the game-specific forums.

Ah, I guess that's good then.

G = No cursing PG = No nudity R = No penetration Not: "Hey, someone you know got crapped on and this movie shows someone getting crapped on, so beware. There's been a lot of debate about the arbitrariness of how the MPAA rates movies. Such as productions callously using the f-word once to guarantee a PG-13 rating. Also PG films (prior to PG-13) allowed brief, non-sexual nudity. What PG-13 did was ultimately sanitized PG to the point that its hard to determine what it allows that isn't in a G film, and allow more kids to experience almost-R films.

How finely granulated should this consideration be? If even one person has an issue? 5? 10? I'm not sure volume matters, like all discretionary warnings it'll take on the broadest necessary function if its done in a faceless way; if talking about PTSD it'd probably be a warning about content that correlates to the most common sources of PTSD (rape, abuse, war). I understand the argument that I think you're implying - unlike a peanut allergy which has a specific correlation between person an item - it might be impossible to trigger warning every possible source of PTSD without putting a trigger warning on life itself. I imagine - and again that is if ultimately trigger warnings are proven useful - that there will be some broad standard eventually adopted.

The best intention of a trigger warning is to try to allow the PTSD sufferer to prepare themselves as best as possible for something that may "put them back" at the point of their trauma (which may be terrifying, but isn't necessary a state of 'abject terror'). As I mentioned I think the psychological science on the subject is divided over it from my own (admittedly limited) reading, but I'm not sure in and of itself is a dumb idea. If a strict avoidance is helpful in recovery, then clearly it'd be the opposite of dumb to encourage. If - as some of the literature I've read is true - that it may not help the long term recovery of a PTSD sufferer, than I'd argue its misguided rather than dumb.