The Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography

At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography

So I may shed my mortal flesh and exist as a shadow being upon the tapestry of the mind of another?

Sure yeah, I’m down

Brian Thompson is not a politician, nor did he have plans to become one, nor was he in the public eye. This killing was public but it was not specifically publicized beyond just being a broad-daylight street killing which happens literally dozens of times daily across America. There wasn’t even a manifesto until the police “found” one inside of the backpack that they “found” on Luigi without due process. Why would this be considered politically motivated?

And if it is considered politically motivated, while having nothing to do with politics or politicians, then where does that definition end?

This is partially me being snarky to make a point but this is also a real question. I don’t think there are any grounds to call this “terrorism” on account of being “politically motivated”. However, it sure is being called this in court. I know the reason why this is (scared rich boys want this to be a capital offense), but I do not understand the legal reasoning why.

I can’t imagine what might have given it away.

Hell yeah. I saw this yesterday when you first posted about it, immediately sent it to all my friends, and then I’ve been busy afterward.

Absurdism - How to Party At the End of Meaning

I very much love exurb1a but I think I particularly love this one most of all.

Oh sure, but they’ll continually claim until they’re blue in the face that everything they do is about money. So they should be continually exposed as the financially irresponsible idiots that they are.

For the people where egregious human rights violations and terrorism aren’t deal breakers, wasting money is. Frankly I don’t respect their opinion, however, they also vote, therefore their opinion does matter.

I’m expecting some obviously fake, maybe AI written “file” to be released and for the originals to be destroyed. Calling it now.

No man can hide from the ravages of Time. It (and by extension, they) can reach you no matter where you try to hide away, corners or no.

I love those in particular just because of how absolutely inescapable they are. If the Hounds are hunting you then you’re going to be found. Period, done, end of story. You can’t exist in a place that has geometry without throwing open a door for them.

I’m sure at least one mad wizard has sealed himself inside a perfect spherical prison with no corners only to find that the Cornerhounds don’t much care what corners they come from, and your knees and elbows work just fine if better solutions aren’t available.

I buy things in early access for just such a reason. If it looks like something I’ll like, I’ll buy it early to support development. If it’s great then great. If it falls through then I’m out a bad investment of like, $10.

I’ve got probably a hundred indie games in my library that I’ve supported in exactly such a fashion, from raw pre-alpha to 1.0 release to post-release content update or dlc. They aren’t all winners. But many of them were worth the cost of investment and then some.

Less AAA trash fires and better access to actual passion projects because they aren’t being drowned in a sea of mediocrity?

This is an absolute win on all sides

More than the doctors? No, absolutely not.

More than the bean counters who want to replace these doctors with unsupervised robots? I’m a lot more confident on that one.

From what I’ve been able to gather, it’s basically a sandbox. Imagine if F:NV had no main quest but allowed you to create your own faction. You’re just unleashed onto the wasteland to do whatever and let everyone else respond to it.

That is to say, much of the fun comes from building drug running bandit empires.

I’d argue DnD is no different and we only see it less because half the DnD player base is busy home brewing Pathfinder content into 5e

Kids do.

Their problems are smaller than us adults’, but they feel those problems with the same intensity we do. Being ostracized from your social group is a big problem even for adults. It’s worse for kids.

And kids, being kids, will bandwagon the hell out of anything. If somebody clowns on your shoes every day, give it a week and half the school will be doing it. Give it a year and you’re “that guy with the shoes”.

Is your brand of shoes important in the long term? No, not at all. Your social status in high school also, largely, doesn’t matter in the long term. But “the long term” is difficult to keep your eye on when you’re looking at 4-8 years of pointless bullying in your future.

All this to say - yeah I think this is pretty dumb, but it’s important to the people who are living it. And something that’s important to a child should also be important to their parents, in my opinion. I was the kid with the ratty shoes and the hand-me-downs. That stuff can really do some permanent damage to a kid’s psyche.

Does this mean that every middle schooler needs to have a fresh set of Jordan’s and a fitted suit every year? No, of course not. But if I can spend an extra $50 once every two years to make my son happy then why wouldn’t I?

Same, and I know this is true and not just me being crazy because I’ve heard it rather than felt it when my phone is sitting on my desk.

Second this. No idea how, why, or if it’s actually true. But anecdotally it feels true.

I’ve never met this man in my life and I am 100% confident it was the latter.