I couldn’t get into XV myself.

But XIV… if you can get through the first 50 levels, it is truly incredibly. I get that is a huge ask. And skipping it is a bad idea, because it really builds the setting and story. Possibly watching a youtube video of, like, all the cut scenes in order maybe.

But seriously, the end of Shadowbringers (the third expansion) is my favorite end to a video game I’ve played, the music is awesome (particularly in Shadowbringers and Endwalker, though I got to the end fight for Heavensward and had to just stop and listen to the music before I queued for the final battle as well).

And more importantly, there is just a ton to do in the game. You don’t run out of things. You might get bored of leveling all 33 jobs on a single toon, so you can take breaks to gamble at a giant mini-game casino (complete with chocobo racing, card tournaments, jump puzzles, a game where you ride in an airplane-on-a-track ride and shoot targets, and having your minions fight on a small battlefield, for example), make outfits (glam is the real end-game), fight and level in separate instanced battle areas, PVP (only if you want), set up your own private island and farm, and I can’t even think of what else. There is no FOMO because there’s always more available to do, you just pick what you feel like doing at the time.

Sorry, I just have a ton of fun with this game, and having come from WoW back at the end of Shadowlands, it feels like it succeeds at everything WoW failed at (you don’t want to do Mythic Dungeons? Well I guess fuck off until the next patch).

So yeah, I’d recommend XIV, I guess. If you can get through the first 50 levels (which I maintain are still better than WoW).

“Manhandling”?! That’s not man-handling, that’s assault. The Senator was assaulted. Chuck Schumer is such a spineless lick-spittle, even when it concerns the physical assault of those in his own Party.

Also, if they all collectively called it out, call it the “Pro-ICE Bill” or “Pro-kidnapping Bill” or whatever. Make the vote about that. Call the Republican who sponsored the Bill a coward for trying to do it, and a fool for thinking it would work.

“Why did you vote against the Bill condemning attacks on Pro-Israel protesters?”

“I didn’t. I voted against a bill that supported the mass deportations and unconstitutional actions made by ICE, which we are absolutely against because we support due process. The bill was a cowardly and foolish attempt to get us to support this despicable practice by pretending it’s about something else, but we’re not fools or cowards ourselves, so we won’t fall for it.”

“But the Bill is called…”

“Sycophantsayswhat?”

"What?

“I guess that sort of trick works on you.”

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Yeah, I’m pretty torn. In my small community (on an island), housing and rent are insanely expensive, and also pretty scarce. There are people who have full time jobs living in tents in the woods or in their cars (in Alaska) not because they can’t afford a place to stay, but because there are no places to rent.

It’s also a major tourist spot, and the population more than doubles regularly on days during the summer, and for those that fly in, the hotels book up quick. So there’s a huge AirBnB market. Which means houses are getting bought up and then set up as AirBnBs instead of renting to residents, so housing becomes even more scarce. So I hate AirBnB.

But… I just bought a 4 bedroom house, where one of the beds is in a built in 1-bedroom apartment, with its own kitchen and everything. We wanted a 4bedroom house so we could have a guest room for people visiting, as well as just have extra space for us. Well, once I retire, one of our plans is to rent that out as an AirBnB during the times we don’t have guests staying. It doesn’t deplete housing in the area (we wouldn’t be renting it out anyway), and it helps pay our ridiculous mortgage.

So I hate it… but if it’s used properly/ethically, I feel like it could be pretty good.

Tuba.

Gotta have that sweet bass. Maybe some Flight if the Tuba Bee or Tuba Polka by Canadian Brass. Chef’s kiss.

Okay, look, as a parent, I can tell you you have to tread a fine line. If you don’t “force feed” your kid (specifically, aren’t allowed to leave the table or eat anything else), they’ll end up eating nothing but chicken nuggets, fries, mac & cheese, and apples. That is not a balanced diet.

However, forcing them to eat absolutely anything and everything is extreme, too. I don’t like everything. I wouldn’t want somebody to force me to eat mushrooms.

So at any given meal, they can choose one and only one thing they don’t like and don’t have to eat. And I do try to avoid giving them things they obviously don’t want to eat (not even going to try putting broccoli on their plate even though it’s delicious).

Plus it’s a sliding scale: if I could get my 3-year-old to eat, and it wasn’t junk food, I was happy. When he turned 5, he had to start expanding his food out a bit (turns out he’s basically vegetarian except chicken nuggets, but he loves cucumber, carrots, salad, oranges, apples, etc because we made him eat them for a bit). Our 11-year-old, hoever, is expected to eat what we eat (minus spicy or overly spiced things, kids’ palates are different), but can make small exceptions. If she’s like “I don’t like any of this,” that doesn’t fly, though.

All that to say “Force feeding kids is so fucked up” is ignoring a lot of necessary nuance.

OneDrive crashes not only the original computer I had the problem on, but the replacement computer that I got (upgrade) as well. Then when I moved to a different office, it crashed another computer and then created the same problem for the one other person using the computer.

And by crashing, I mean the second it tries to do anything everything freezes, and the only way to get out of it is a hard reset.

So OneDrive.

I have never thought dropping a cast iron held concern for the skillet, but whatever inevitably stopped its fall.

We do what we must

Because… we can.

It’s not soup if they discard the water after cooking, leaving only the vegetables.

So… boiled vegetables. That’s still already a thing. Not a particularly good thing (to my tastes), but been a thing for a long time.

That’s fish.

Probably the same types who don’t get how a promiscuous person can be raped, or that their promiscuity somehow invalidates it.

It’s like “if some people want it, it’s okay to force it on others. If some people want it under certain conditions of their choosing, it’s okay to force it on them in other circumstances.”

Just deliberately ignorant of the autonomy involved.

I don’t know, running for a lot of us is just having our bodies start breaking down and want to avert that.

sllllurrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp

exaggerated: Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

2 (as long as that means I can’t go past my current weight, not that every time I poop, sweat, or pee I lose weight I can never regain) 5… and I guess 9. I’m doing okay, and I’ve never had a strong need for “a lot of money.”

5 isn’t even because I want to have super strength, it’s more to be able to compensate for my jacked up joints and being overweight.

I would trade any of the three of these for “cure my sleep apnea” though.

1 sounds tempting, as long as it’s just the insulation, you know? I don’t know a whole lot about biology, but I feel like if you immediately removed all fats from your body, your cells would just die (all the lipids disappearing). But if you could remove all the fat listed in the “body fat percentage” and made it so I could still get some fats quickly (for a healthy amount), I’d take that over 2. Once it’s there, it makes it so hard to get rid of, but I feel like if it was gone in one go, I could keep it off.

Wow, my decisions for “magic pills” would be kind of depressing to 20-year-old me. At least with the exception of my health I’m reasonably content.

It says you can’t gain weight. I’m already overweight, and about max for what I can be to keep my job (military) and not totally break down. So if “can’t gain weight” means this is my max weight and no matter what I do I can’t go past it, that makes a comfortable hard stop for future efforts toward dieting.

C, I call it the Jethro Tull.

Also, not having information is not a plot hole. We don’t know why they didn’t, and it’s safe to say that considering how intelligent Gandalf is, he would have thought of it, and found a reason it wasn’t feasible (where sending the eagles after the Eye falls was the best choice).

We can speculate various reasons it might not work (The Eye would be able to spot them and archers shoot them down, The One Ring might be too tempting to the eagles, giant eagles lack the dexterity to keep track of a ring, or eagles are willing to make a contribution for a moment, but aren’t willing to really bear the burden and seriously risk their lives), but it’s completely irrelevant. We don’t need to know why. Just because we weren’t offered a reason, doesn’t mean there wasn’t one.

…naaarrrp?