If you still believe that's where China Flu came from...your check from Shi Zhengli is in the mail.
If you think that's what I said, you've got an excellent future ahead of you in modern pedagogy.
How about mixing different kinds of livestock in close quarters and poor conditions, increasing the chances of a disease jumping species and becoming more dangerous to humans?
No, that's still OK.
Wouldn't that be a kick, we finally get the Pendragon we need and he's born to this idjit.
Remember individual rights??
Dude, I remember "Believe the CDC mask rules and not your personal opinions."
Well, you know, he's not going to want to keep the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha one now.
Beat him like a red-headed stepchild half-brother.
I'm glad to see some people are finally not buying her bullshit.
"Works out": Puts on a workout suit and waves arms a bit for the camera.
"A good mother": Uses orbiters as free babysitting as much as possible, for as long as possible.
"Anorexic": I mean, come on.
Twitch staff have a category moving interface that can be used one-handed, I suspect.
Bullshit. They're addicted to outrage. You don't praise a crackhead because they only had weed when you were a kid.
Because it's not about simple changes.
It's about power.
I am reminded of a story from an article about one of the people who was working on Kung Fu Panda, about how he got into the industry. Could be apocryphal, I did read it in a mainstream internet publication.
The Jim Henson Company was hiring artists - after all, some of their work requires drawings of the Muppets. One of the prospective hires was not yet past being a teenager - some natural talent, but no formal training yet. And a BIG fan of the Muppets, it'd be a dream job - hell, it's why he applied. He went in for his interview and sat there in the waiting room with his portfolio in hand, checked out what he saw of the competition's portfolios.
And they were all better than him. Skilled artists with training and years of work. He got so disheartened that he gave up, sure he'd never make it. He left before his interview. But chance called to him - outside the waiting room was an open door leading to an empty boardroom, and for effect they'd propped up a set of the core Muppets - Kermit, Miss Piggy, etc. - on a table by the wall. He couldn't resist the temptation of having his idols sit for a picture for him, so he slipped in to the room, sat down, and started to draw.
Time passed. The kid didn't notice. The inevitable happened, someone who worked for the company entered the boardroom: The man himself, Jim Henson. And he saw this kid sitting there, drawing. So he pulled up a chair, said "hi".
The kid was scared, caught red-handed sneaking around the building, but Jim calmed him down and started a conversation. They talked about the kid's day, why he applied, how he left before his interview, why he left. Jim looked through his portfolio, asked some questions... and then offered him the job.
This time, the kid's shocked. How? Why? Why not any of the trained artists?
Jim Henson's answer? "We can teach you to draw the Muppets like they do. We can't teach them to love the Muppets like you do."
(And now, to see this article with this story in mind, I am deeply saddened.)
Back when Gloomhaven was new, it seemed like it was the talk of the town for lack of a better term.
Some hype, but a lot of it was earned. Gloomhaven is actually damn good. I've played through two full campaigns in it, one with a 3 player group and one with a 2 player group. In the co-op dungeon crawl category, it's easily the best game out there.
Something something tiki torches something.
God, I haven't winced this hard since the last pregnant Crossfitter I saw.
The fuck of it is, Gloomhaven doesn't have the standard fantasy races anyway other than humans, so you can build your own stereotypes. You've got Quatryls (sorta gnomey), Aesthers (sorta precursory), Vermlings (sorta ratty), Orchids (sorta monky - no, not monke, "like a monk"), Valraths (sorta demony), Savvas (sorta rock-monstery), Inox (sorta barbarian/Klingony), and demons (elementals, they're just elementals - probably why they're not playable).
Except within that always tended to shy away from the obvious. Most of the rock-monster Savvas are elemental mages (and not always earth - a Savvas Icestorm is a water/air expert), except for the outcasts. The horned-and-spade-tailed Valraths aren't very demonic at all beyond looks - hell, the paladin knockoff Sunkeeper is a Valrath.
Frosthaven was supposed to be about an inhospitable outpost being turned into a viable home. I guess that's colonial but it's also your classic man-vs.-the-elements kind of conflict. None of this is a reason to get triggered or hire some "expert" grifter who writes for Extra Credits, damn it.
Oh, balls. I loved Gloomhaven and I was eager for Frosthaven (Forgotten Circles was dogshit but he didn't work on that much - conversely, Jaws of the Lion was great) especially now that its main competitor, Fantasy Flight's Descent, has gone woke....
Damn it Isaac, you were the Chosen One!
(I got this from the critical drinker, but can’t find the video...)
Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis
Don't worry, I'm sure you'll like Mandarin just fine.
But I’m a bad person if I go off.
Because going off on random people is a sign of an uncontrolled temper.
Really, I'm a white dude and I've been asked for sales advice at several stores. If your shirt is even an approximate shade of the store polo you'll get that. Try wearing something nice out next time.
A miserable little pile of corpo-approved opinions.
Hey, Life in the Dreamhouse was pretty good.
If Trump was God Emperor, then now the Lupercal is starting his purge of loyalist space marines.
You leave Howdy Doody out of this.
Picked up "The Prince" after putting it down sometime ago. Still a slog but still good enough to keep reading.
I'm still banking on Indy getting shanked on a rope bridge before the final act.