Don’t target the immigrant neighborhood’s churches, hit the rural ones 4 hours away from any major city. Just imagine the ice gestapo sending a convoy of agents out that far and getting nothing.

They’ll grow on you.

Apparently the moonies don’t help things.

Winters in LA or LA

You… I like you.

Also, you’re sliiiightly overstating how little you can do in the summer hot times. It’s not a “risking your life” scenario every time… Recreation just switches to an early morning or post-sundown schedule. I usually still get 3-4 hours of sports activities on a saturday or sunday. Plus you get fun things like all the animals that are crepuscular being out and about, so you’ll have ospreys flying over your heads with a fish, or squirrels doing races around the fencetops.

I mean, I think mcdonalds food is already shitty as hell, but why let it get even shittier by letting the moisture parts seep into the dry, the moisture parts dry out, and the meat parts get cold? Insulated bags keep food sort of hot/cold, but the only correct way to eat food is at the moment it is done. Otherwise it just gets nasty. I don’t care how you reheat your fries, ninja air idiots, they aren’t anywhere close to fresh. Repeat ad nauseam for everything else.

Also, if you’re eating a mcdonalds burger with a fork and knife, your life has gone off the deep end. Or fries, if you’re already eating a burger.

Meh. I think it’s pretty accurate. Try meeting up with a friend* at a random public place, like a grocery store, and then pretending to lose them. Describe them to a security guard or employee and I guarantee the clothing description you give will be better and more detailed than you trying to describe their bodily features.

Now imagine you’ve only met the person once, and you were in a delicious haze of alcohol, whatever drugs they used in cinderella’s time/local, and the raging sex hormones of being a prince that was pursued by many different ladies. He might have the dawning sense of familiarity upon seeing cinderella’s face, but if she was dressed completely differently, like a common scullion ordered about by her wicked step-family, and thus had her hair done differently, covered, and demeanor and bearing were changed, because again she’s basically being beaten down by her step-family… well, I wouldn’t be surprised he couldn’t immediately tell who she was.

*a child, 4-10, is much better at doing this with for the experiment, but good luck getting the child to understand what you want without spoiling their ignorance for said experiment.

I don’t think it was even anything to do with being ‘libertarian.’ His dad was a cop. He had likely been indoctrinated since birth into thinking that criminals do crime because they’re bad, and would stop doing crime if the punishments were bad enough / a certainty. He’s obviously self-masturbating by telling himself how much good he’s doing for society, much like a very certain type of government worker we all deride tells themself…

I can see trump believing something so stupid as that, and putin might saber rattle about it, but the majority of the world, and china/india especially in this situation, probably would not go along with it. Europe still has functioning nuclear capabilities. Putin does not want nukes hitting his country, full stop. China does not want a nuclear situation kicking off with their neighbor to the north, and knows that the US under trump would likely turn on them despite a war ruining both countries. India no more wants china controlling the waters to their east than the countries immediately around those waters do, and would likely cause issues, which china also doesn’t want. As we’ve seen in the modern times with ukraine and some of the middle east conflicts and the india/pakistan border, nuclear powers tiptoe around anything that resembles direct conflict. The recent dogfight over the border was a pretty good idea of how reserved even ‘open’ conflict is.

So putin is likely not going to do anything more than a symbolic grunt at his western border, and china will just slowly weather down taiwan if the u.s. is withdrawing its influence. The idea of reunification isn’t THAT taboo in taiwan, and the candidates for it gather a decent chunk of votes. If the u.s. starts acting like a bitch around the world (oh, gee, just look at what’s happening right now), the sentiment towards it and china could easily see a rapid shift.

I mean “get away with” as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don’t just throw in sad music and expect the audience to ‘buy into’ the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you’re just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.

The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking… but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn’t make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.

40? Don’t quote the old magic to me, not-wizard. I was there when it was written… and can probably dig out the year 2007 or so meme to prove it!

Only with your consent.

Because otherwise the cops get called when I get that good hit in.

As a kid, I always preferred the knex. Something about the blockiness of legos has always seems… I don’t know, just boring to me. I want the long spindly plastic not-tubes that barely resemble the stick figure drawing I made of crap!

F you.

The method of death can be specified, and it never says that you can’t summon a moderately sized bomb, or a virus that only kills under very specific circumstances. We’re dealing with the supernatural, let’s go a little wild.

…honestly, it never said you can’t make the deaths wicked cool, man, so why don’t we have a pile of gold fall from the sky onto our hated enemy that just by happenstance happened to be near me. Strange how the gold is mostly gone, officer, but I swear, it was like a dragon’s hoard or something.

The dog loves me, my blankets hug me, and my hair ties itself in knots. One day I’ll get to that picture’s level.

/whoosh

I think the tactical issue should have been the giant flashing neon sign.

It’s interesting to hear how people’s experiences differ so much. I couldn’t get endeavor to work on my laptop (absolutely nothing would launch after the install), but manjaro was the definition of ‘it just works’ for me. I’d love to stop having things break because manjaro holds back updates for a week.

That makes me sad. Bazzite just refused to install on my new laptop (as did several others, amusingly) so it was back to manjaro for me.

Less if you replace your tongue with a snail’s radula.