People used to play female characters in EQ and UO just to get free stuff from idiots.

I've been trying to see this and the only theater by me keeps changing the screening times.

I've been to a few that market themselves as retro arcades with bars. One had all the 80s classics and the other had all the stuff from the 90s.

That looks like he is wearing someone else's face.

Of course no mention that the killer was a Muslim.

George "Luke and Leia were always meant to be twins" Lucas.

This may also be the administration telling them not to fail people. A friend of mine is a professor and he was telling me the administration forced out the head of the science department because he was failing too many people in inorganic chemistry. The administration's view was that those students wanted to be doctors and they shouldn't be locked out from med school because of a class and med schools offer remedial programs to get people up to speed.

So far not yet. But I'm still only 5 hours in. Haven't even made it to Baldurs Gate yet.

I just got up to this part and yeah it was like a "wtf" moment but then quickly turned into a "Lol".

It does seems the journalists really did hype all the sex stuff. I'm only five hours in but so far this was the only explicitly sexual thing. The rest has really only been innuendo and that has pretty much only been confined to the flamboyant vampire.

Obviously this might all change as I get further in but so far it hasn't hurt the story.

So basically Greco-Roman society was stifling to technological advancement but didn't keep it at a net zero advancement.

The main thing holding back technological advancement was largely based on the slave economy. If a steady set of hands exists to do the work there is no need for you to improve your production methods.

The other reason is rather philosophical. Greco-Roman didn't believe in the scientific methods, it was very much based on thought experiments. Many of the scientific principles at the time could have been easily tested for truth but no one ever did it because of social reasons. Things wee just accepted or were to be argued philosophically instead of through actual experiments.

This philosophical method though could have possibly fallen out of favor over time to a more a scientific method.

But that's not discounting the medieval model which heavily encouraged development because it was very unique. You not only had the external factors of kingdoms who were all relatively on the same level technology wise looking for advantages. You also had the internal factors of nobility, royalty, church, the guilds, all competing against each other for dominance.

Yes and no. In some ways fudging is more rampant and some ways it was less.

More rampant because it was so much easier to cheat since most teachers just used google forms for tests. A lady at my local bar hired me to take her kid's high school tests because I'm the "smart guy"(read: I read books therefore smart) at the bar and would pay for my bar tabs in return. Completely laughable tests.

The other way numbers get fudged is disruptive kids. If you're a terrible kid the teachers don't want to deal with you and they pass you just so you don't get left back and they don't have to deal with you a second time. But if it is virtual these terrible kids aren't going to log in so the teachers don't care about promoting and forgetting and instead just fail them like they should have been.

Also there is also the just the terrible teaching principle in some of this. Under normal circumstances a supervisor can pop into the classroom to see what is going on. With zoom there was very little oversight and lazy teachers just completely slacked off.

Friend of mine's kid was a 90+ student. Suddenly dropped down to failure level. So he set up the computer to record the zoom classes to see what was going on. The teacher literally did nothing. He complained to the principal and at first they tried to deflect it and then he showed them the video and suddenly they decided to act and moved his kid out of the class.

Not donors. Donors send their kids to private schools which operated throughout.

Longer than that. So publishing for the most part is rather low paying. It mostly attracted women that wanted jobs but didn't need jobs. You come from an upper class background and/or have a high earning husband then it makes it ok to take a job that on its face seems glamorous but pays terribly because you literally don't need the money.

Basically the YA market for teenage boys no longer exists. You will not find a book with a male protagonist older than 12. At that point they either stop reading or jump to adult books.

Most YA is all female dominated. A large portion of this is because the average reader of YA is women in their 30s and 40s. The same crowd that reads romance novels reads YA.

Legit. Bud light is the "I don't know what to order" beer.

Racism of low expectations.

There needs to be a Sabaton song about this.

Single motherhood is just an all around failed state.

They are. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find them in print in English but you can get them all as digital downloads.

And if anyone knows of a print book in English please point me to it.

The best stage of leftism.

Great series. I discovered it last year.

Words have no meaning.

Evil already did this when they had the episode with the competing catholic priest and Islamic iman.

Circle of life, Simba.