Someone had money to pay for her canteens apparently.
This is the comment I came here to read.
Stellar Balds?
One of the best things that Rush Limbaugh used to do was his media mashups. He would take about some issue of the day and then would play a series of about 5 second long clips of all the different cable, radio, broadcast, etc., talking heads who were literally saying the exact same thing. Same words, same phrases, same intonation, everything.
Journolist was a very public example of collusion, but it's there, it's been there, and it's been there for a long time.
Media in all of its stripes, is the enemy.
True story. In ~1998, in highschool, I was taking AP US History. We had a book report assignment where we had to go to a local university library to look up journals that had reviewed the book(s) we were assigned. Yes, this was a public highschool that had standards.
We also had to find other, non-academic reviews. I used Amazon, and I wrote something like "You have to be careful with Amazon reviews, because some of them are clearly bad faith reviews, either friends of the author or publisher or paid for reviews."
The teacher put a comment on my paper "Yes! You should always be careful to think about the source of what you are reading and WHY they are writing what they wrote."
This is what education should be like.
Amazon reviews being junk is nothing new, though I do agree the scope has gotten worse.
Nice site. You know what would be interesting? If it also tracked critic reviews (something like metacritic) AND steam play numbers. Then you could see -- are DEI games better reviewed? Do they get more or less playtime? And so forth.
I would say a couple of things about this.
First of all, this is a very female expression style. I'm certain you'll find soyboy malefeminists writing the same way, but they're copying women.
So, it's a relatively common female style. It's also been my experience, and this is from IRL as well, that women who talk this way and bring "queer" or "mommy/daddy" or "bdsm" into every topic, are as fucking basic as they come. It's like they get a high from feeling naughty and transgressive.
It's the fucking definition of arrested development.
I looked up Alyssa Mercante, senior editor at Kotaku as of November 2022. In her introductory article, she talkes about her "queer creds," her masters thesis in contemporary queer lit, etc. What does she list for her own personal interests? Three rescue cats. Favorite TV shows are "Real Housewives franchise, Love is Blind, Geordie Shore, and Bar Rescue." "Puck sluts for the [New York Rangers]"
She is just the embodiment of "basic bitch who wants to be special."
You can almost hear her biological clock ticking down...
So the Japanese is "Come out, come out Magic Lens. Open Sesame!" and the translators went with "Rub-a-dub-dub, open ya schlub"?
That's bizarre, unless there's a lot of context I'm missing. Wouldn't "Come out, come out, where ever you are" have been the more natural and slightly idiomatic translation?
Hirake-goma is literally "open sesame" and based on the English expression. I can imagine some self-important bluehair localizer sat there thinking "Gawd- 'OPEN SESAME?' Such an old meme... it's like something my parents would say! My Lian ain't got time for that cringe. Can we do something more original here?"
Does the Japanese in that panel rhyme or something? I was trying to figure out why they wouldn't just go with "Open sesame" ...
Don't blame this on dementia (which is not helping). This is being a straight up liar. He's done it his whole career.
The media-factcheck industrial complex will go to town on the smallest hyperbole and exagerration of Trump's but Biden can repeatedly say things that are verifiably false and never get called on it.
The media is the enemy. Not "your" enemy or "my" enemy, but the enemy. Everyone's enemy.
Halal (allowed) slaughter means cutting the throat of the animal and draining the blood. There's a bit more in terms of ritual, but that's pretty much it.
Carrion meat is haram (forbidden) in Islam.
Yep. My kids attend a uniform school. It's one of the things that I would have HATED as a kid, but I see the benefits with a few years of separation (and hopefully some added wisdom).
I, a man, was a kid who never struggled in school. I was well-behaved, did my class work, sometimes did my homework, never got in fights, and rarely found anything tough. I was a good student. My teachers liked me. I liked most of my teachers.
My perspective "from the inside" was that everything was fine.
When I had my own kids, I began to see just how difficult schooling can be for many boys. Not all, but many. Modern school is essentially an effeminate undertaking and it's geared towards girls. Every year the percentage of male teachers K-12 decreases. This is why you often see girl children outperforming boys at a young age (elementary school and into middle school). Girls both mature faster and generally do better in the rigid behavioral framework of school.
Once you hit highschool and college, you see the boys starting to mature AND be able to be independent. This is when boys start overtaking girls in academic performance in many fields.
I think there's a lot to be said for gender segregated classes.
You know the Mike Tyson quote? "Everyone's got a plan, until you get hit in the face."
The modern corollary is "Everyone's a strong independent woman, until you run into something that a man should handle."
It's a given that most media at most times sucks. But current day is really trying to up the ante:
Even before this adventure begins, Vecna has been embarking on a plan that’s many years in the making”, Hamon explains. “He’s been instructing his cult – which is across all DnD planes and DnD settings – to specifically extract important and powerful secrets.”
Every stolen secret serves Vecna’s “Ritual of Remaking”, which Hamon says will give him enough power to “remake the multiverse to his own will”. But secrets can be used to stop Vecna too, provided they’re shared freely.
So D&D is aping Marvel's multiverse and the infinity stones? How much more derivative can you get.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
Ditto. That's why I play World of Warcraft.
Turkish. Probably a Dönme.
"Beyond mere translation, we're diving into the art of cultural adaptation, preserving context, and inclusive storytelling."
"mere" translation
the art of cultural adaptation
preserving context
inclusive storytelling
One of these things is not like the other...
Man has always loved his barges, but, what happens when the barges say "NO MORE."
I played a couple of the Ultimas as a kid. For me, the interface is just too rough to play today. I've tried a couple times with Ultima4, 6, and even 7, and I just can't do it.
I still want to play 7 some day.
I've been playing old adventure games using Dosbox and ScummVM recently. I'm having a lot of fun. I've been point maxing some games that seemed impossible as a kid, playing games I wanted but never got, etc.
I'm thinking about trying some of the really old Gold Box D&D games. Pools of Radiance, etc. Not sure that they've aged well.
This is true for so many cultural things today, unfortunately.
"Wouldn't it be cool if there were new Star Trek movies and new Star Trek series with new special effects?!?!" No, it sucks and ruined my favorite characters.
"Wouldn't it be awesome if they made a Wheel of Time TV series! I can't wait to see my favorite characters! So cool!" No, it sucks, and they ruined my favorite characters.
"Star Wars!! It's going to be so cool to have new movies, new theme parks, new TV shows, new stories!!!" No, it sucks, they LITERLALY KILLED my favorite characters.
"Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a TV show about the history of the Lord of the Rings?! That would be so cool!!" No. Just...no.
I stopped watching Game of Thrones in the later season (I'm a book reader, still hoping to one day finish the books), but at least that show was a relatively accurate reproduction for the first couple of seasons. No insane race/gender swaps, no weird insert characters, etc. Early seasons only.
It's sad, but it would literally be impossible to make Lord of the Rings today. Literally impossible. The casting alone would make it impossible. Those movies are no 100% accurate to the books, but they are close, and they are always respectful. No director would be given the power to do that today. Hell, few directors would WANT to do that today.
Where I live, laws are based entirely on the value of the item- your neighbor cut down 100-year-old tree that was the centerpiece of your landscaping?
Interesting. Where I live it’s usually based around replacement value. 100-year-old tree? Replacement value (so $$$). In some places there are penalty multipliers for a malicious action, so think of replacement cost of a 100 foot oak. Don’t cut down your neighbor’s trees!
Definitely sounds like a purple monkey dishwasher idea.
"Women aren't meant to be with one man. They're mothers, and meant to have a lot of babies with different genes for the fitness and survival of the species."
That shit can go both ways.
A few older games I've been thinking about re-playing recently.
Alpha Centauri
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
Ocarina of Time
If you're in to adventure games, there are about a billion games that can be played with Dosbox or scummvm. I've been playing through a bunch of 80s/90s games recently. The hardest part is to not google when you get stuck! I'm on Legend of Kyrandia 1 right now, and I plan to go through the series. I never played the others.