And not actually interacting with them at all.

The number of native English speakers who can’t pronounce “specific” and instead say “pacific” is too damn high.

Schedule (sk- or sh-) differs between countries/regions. So you’re good either way.

It either rhymes with “nine” or with “fin” depending on the phase of the moon.

And we will root for the remnants of the republic that was replaced and the rag tag band of freedom fighters?

You know what’s nice? She gets down to his level to talk to him.

Smoking more cigarettes should sort that out.

Just average into average hero movies then?

Conway’s Game of Life gives me existential dread.

The above passage, for example, comes from Game Feel, a game design guide written by Steve Swink.

Steve Swink (and his editors) needs to be forced fed a copy of his book.

Being able to design games doesn’t mean one can write about designing games.

Or just get a bunch of your fellow evangelicals together, isolate your mark from their actual friends and gas light them for a few years, you’ll break them easily enough.

What does “voting ‘present’” mean?

I’m guessing it is a bit like abstaining but with some sort of special meaning in the house?

Shocked Pikachu.

If you think a game played by billionaires* is that important… then pony up the ticket price and watch the advertisements on the fields like a good compliant consumer.

* the owners of the teams are the ones playing the real game, the ball kicking is just to distract you while they empty your wallet.

Like persephone playing a saxophone.

Louder, for those in the south.

The main character from idiocracy.

IT’S ALL GOD’S PLAN

GOD MADE US THIS WAY AND GOD DOESN’T MAKE MISTAKES

even better if you can find verses to support you and throw them back at them.

Now do 5-eyes too.

There is a study that showed empirically that reducing the media coverage (and strictly avoiding coverage of methods and some other aspects) of suicides reduced the rates of suicide in the affected populations.

So there’s science behind the avoidance.

IMHO the media do seem fairly clumsy going about it though.

I have an 18yo dog. She’s very near the end of her life. Deaf, hair falling out, slowly losing motor control and strength, and can’t climb stairs anymore. She’s still happy, and doesn’t appear to be suffering even though she does require a bit of extra care now.

I can’t bring my self to euthanize her, because she can’t make the decision unlike a human could.

I hope that one day we wake up and she’s died peacefully in her sleep.