Book Aragorn didn't really struggle with that but I thought it was a good choice in the movie to hammer home his worthiness.

Oh goodness, were there any survivors?

Personally would give it to Animal Well.

I really, really don't get the character.ai thing at all, but is this really pro-anorexia? I have seen the fat acceptance crowd label anything remotely resembling calorie counting to be pro-eating-disorder

It's so cute though. I've always wondered why Burlington isn't the VT capital but Montpelier is such a cute place to drive through, with the state house in a lovely little green vale instead of in an urban area.

For a second I thought this was referring to Montpelier, Vermont. Which would be funny because I think you could cover that town with 2 stops.

genocidal

Look at this joker implying demons are people.

I probably already have a thousand spiders in my house anyway so I'll gladly take the cash for being their roommate. Maybe 999 so they don't get pissed that I'm freeloading.

1.2kg of cannabis would be like a lifetime supply for me. That's a cumbersome amount of pot.

Well, it's better to have them decoupled. For example, let's say you're trying to watch The Godfather in French, you wouldn't want the scenes in Italy to have hardcoded English subs.

You have a 1 in 2 chance of pulling a cursed arrow the first time.

If you pulled a cursed arrow the first time, the second arrow has a 4 in 9 chance to be cursed. Otherwise, it's 5 in 9.

Personally I'd have resolved this as a single d10 once, and rerolled a 10 on the second arrow. I haven't done the math to know if 3d6+1d4 <16 yields the same probability though.

If it's not malicious software like a bitcoin miner or whatever, yes. If people want to buy shovelware, that's between them and whoever made it.

I would generally describe a 17 year old as a young adult. Not defending Gaetz, who is a colossal turd, but I think it's disingenuous to call a 17 year old a "child".

Edit for posterity: Yeah, Gaetz sucks, no I am not trying to say it's okay for a grown man to have any kind of sexual relationship with a 17 year old. I'm just saying that using the same term to describe a 5 year old as someone literally months away from being able to vote is just... I dunno. Imprecise. For a community called "Fediverse vs. Disinformation" calling Gaetz a pedo for having sex with a 17 year old doesn't feel correct to me.

Why is it Valve's job to police game content? That's a shitty precedent for any platform.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. Whether it's ultraviolent stuff like Postal or Hatred, ww2 games where you can play as literal Nazis, or the opposite side of the spectrum where you have LGBT centric content.

Bear with me, that previous sentence isn't intended to equate those two things, but the reality is a lot of people find LGBT content objectionable. By putting the publish/not publish decision up to platform owners, you're setting up a system that getting your game published is according to the political whims of whoever is in charge of that process. Any system you make here can easily be abused.

If you think banned books are dumb the same should apply to games. I for one appreciate knowing that freedom of expression is alive and well on Steam, and if I don't want to engage with content I find objectionable, I simply don't. Why is that such a foreign concept?

I think i agree with the general premise that flawed characters are more interesting, and i also feel (with no data to back up that feeling, so bear with me) that these 'woke' characters sometimes fall into a pitfall where they're just so boringly written that it does feel like the writers are either afraid of being perceived as 'punching down' or (edit: finishing this thought) want to misguidedly write a perfect character for the sake of superficial representation of some group.

That said, for this show in particular (i have watched TNG/DS9/Voyager but not Discovery), is it a valid criticism for this captain that couldn't be applied to the older series? Picard's flaws are heavily understated - sure, he was a violent little shit off screen when he was younger, and he can be a little more of a hardass than called for occasionally, but I always felt he was pretty consistently portrayed as the voice of reason, and his flaws were only relevant in a couple episodes. I think I would say that's also true of Sisko and Janeway, though Sisko has a lot more nuance to his pragmatism that is really interesting as DS9 continues.

Hmm. I wonder what this one is about.

The number of declensions and conjugations are very much finite. Linguistically there were only three genders (male, female, neutral) but those pronouns had a singular and plural, x5 for nomination, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases. It sounds like a lot but it's not nearly as scary as it sounds.

Nuclear waste, bury in the desert for 10,000 years level take.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Animal Well, thought it was a stellar and unique metroidvania, but I don't recall any things that couldn't have been accomplished with Godot or Unity.

Sure but also, fuck you for blocking Bernie in 2016.