Who told you about my secret shame?

Slayers but Gourry isn’t a complete moron? (Iirc that was more Anime only, and LN he was smarter ). I’d even like an expansion of the verse like Lost Universe.

I’m new to my party and roleplaying in general (though I’ve consumed it as entertainment) and I’m having a slightly different issue. My character was intentionally designed to be a bit naive to match me as a player, and doesn’t have high skills in any int based stuff (at least for now) and instead has medical, nature, survival, etc.

A lot of puzzles or traps etc I can as a player try to reason through, but my character shouldn’t be able to sus out, and I feel torn between playing the character as it should be or adding ideas to solve stuff so we aren’t just sitting there twiddling our thumbs for ideas.

Most of the stuff that needs draining should flow mostly into the sink, but I do agree it looks like one could get where you don’t want.

As for knocking it over, the “feet” look relatively sturdy, so ideally that would be difficult to do.

It’s a sarcastic thank, like thank you for firing them, or thank you for driving them away from AAA studios.

The debugging tool?

I think Shen chose to make it ambiguous to both allow people to see what they want and avoid people getting upset about “much childhood” or being antigay etc. Also, Ash is a child. He should finger Alucard or something.

I work longer hours at home pretty often. At 5 I leave office to make sure my 1.25-1.5 hour drive gets me home at a decent time, and to make sure I miss the worst traffic which I feel happens between 5:30 and 6.

At home I can just keep working, load up a game on my other monitor but keep working open too,and switch between doing some minor game stuff and back to work. I have a game up now at 7 and wrapped up my notes quite comfortably.

I’m also more alert at home because I sleep in more, getting about an hour more sleep.

Opinion pieces abuse the legitimacy of the publisher to get out stuff like this, and that’s a failing on the media platform, just like native advertising. If they don’t want to be associated, make sure the tweet makes it absolutely obvious that it isn’t the Hill saying this, but just some nobody with an opinion.

Recycled protein.

My sister caught her 8 year old son talking to ai chat bots on a software like this and blocked it. She went through the history and said it was often trying to flirt with him, but he didn’t seem to be interested,and seemed to more just be looking to talk.

This may be an aim to get young kids, though I’m definitely not saying the pedo vibes aren’t intentional. I just think they’re going for more than one audience group.

It sorta sounds like she passed away, but could also not be that. I dunno.

Oh that I fully agree with. I believe in this particular case he wasn’t talking about complaints of sexual violence, but just sex in general. I personally have a huge aversion to media depicting sexual assault, and I avoid watching most shows that have it, even if it’s “important for the story” or “it’s really good despite that”.

Since I like anime/manga a lot, I’ll use examples there, but I won’t watch/read Berserk, Goblin Slayer, and DanDanDan, and I have a huge issue with how Rose is treated by the original Full Metal Alchemist anime series. The last especially because it wasn’t by the original author making the choice, by tv execs deciding it made better drama or something. There are lots of other reasons I prefer Brotherhood over the first anime, but the rape of Rose is definitely a significant one.

Weatern media is a bit harder for me to pull out examples I would have maybe watched but avoided because of this, but I guess I probably won’t ever watch A Clockwork Orange and I didn’t feel like watching Jessica Jones for those reasons. I’ve never followed Game of Thrones deeply either, so until looking up this quote I wasn’t quite aware sexual violence played a role( I think I suspected it, but heard more about red wedding etc). I was putting off watching it then everyones reaction to the last season dropped my interest, so I can’t claim sexual violence was the reason I haven’t seen it.

Iirc George R.R. Martin has a similar reaction when people complained about the amount of sex in Game of Thrones. A telegraph article that immediately asked me to login said that he was

always astonished that there’s always so much more controversy about the sex than about the violence," and that this reaction “says something about us that isn’t necessarily a good thing to say”

♪A text is not enough♪

I turned em off when my boss at the time noticed I was always playing FFXIV. I wasn’t always actually playing, I used to leave it open almost all the time. Why was my boss and I in the same discord? This was early COVID and we used a discord to shoot the shit. Also almost all of us gamed, including said boss, and I probably wouldn’t have really gotten in trouble anyway, but I just explained I leave it open a lot and he accepted that without qualm.

ALSHUALLY, 4WD drifts are less oversteered/less doublelaney than RWD (I actually don’t know if this is true, I’m just repeating what I understood of it from Initial D).

Not really a waste if it’s the entertainment you enjoy the most. I’m not sure what you envision as gaming, but there are all types. Some are violence and conflict, but some are stories, some are just cooperative, some are puzzles.

Do you view tv, reading, radio, podcasts as all waste of time? Do you think all entertainment is a waste of time? If so you’re at least ideologically consistent, but I disagree and think humans need entertainment in their lives, for stress release etc. Different people will enjoy different entertainment, and with the caveat of it not harming other people, I don’t think it should be subject to gatekeeping.

Or or, the fighting mongooses! That’s a cool name!

That’s somewhat incorrect. Their stingers have barbs that get stuck in skin and the like and pull out their organs when they try to extract, but that was because it evolved to pierce carapace, not skin. They can sting other insects without dying.

Also, as someone else pointed out, some bees, like bumblebees and carpenter bees,have smooth stingers that do not get stuck in skin.