It’s pretty fun. It’s Slay the Spire but with a lot of new stuff. New debuffs, new bosses, new cards, new characters. If enjoyed the first one, it’s worth picking up even now when it’s still in early access.

I hate to say it, but you need to talk to the people you’re interested in. There’s a variety of ways to do this. You could ask one on a date, and then mention polyamory when having the “what are you looking for” conversation. Or you could bring up polyamory casually and see how they feel about it, outside of a “dating you” context.

But, at the end of the day, you have to do the hard work of talking about your interests, feelings, and desires if you want to establish and maintain intimacy with someone. If I were friends with someone, I might choose the “bring poly stuff up” tactic to get a vibe check before proceeding. If these are more strangers, then I’d ask if they wanted to grab lunch or coffee sometime and use that to break the ice.

It’s a rule that a president or acting president can’t pick any SCOTUS judges in the last year of their term, or the year before that, or either of the preceding two years.

I don’t know that couching this as many cases of personal moral failure and irresponsibility is productive when so many are affected. It’s like when conservatives discuss poverty - certainly, many among the affected group could make better choices, but shouldn’t we be motivated to understand what led to their failure from a systematic perspective?

I don’t think I necessarily like Harry, but I sure as fuck empathize with him. Playing him as someone seeking redemption or trying to put his life back together (and SO OFTEN failing) was incredibly meaningful. You put it very well.

I’m with you on both.

For RDR2 in particular, I found it so irksome how on-rails the missions were while the rest of the game was so free form. If you’re going to make me follow in the footsteps you planned exactly, don’t tease me with freedom between your set piece sequences. Ride-shoot-ride is also not super interesting to me.

I’ve come to believe that the Rockstar formula just doesn’t work for me after GTA4.

I tend to agree. We’ve seen a movement back to -

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more insidious advertising practices. They render the Internet useless in the same ways that incessant pop ups did in the early 2000s.

I’ve been enjoying Nordic Souls as a Wabbajack pack. It’s got gameplay adjustments that do change the difficulty curve but is closer to the base game in difficulty than many of the other prominent mod packs. It also has a smaller footprint (~100GB maybe?) as compared to some others. Skyrim feels more modern and fresh, for sure.

I downloaded it on a whim after I used Wabbajack/Nexus Premium for some Fallout New Vegas modding (went with Viva NV). I wanted to get full value from that premium sub lol.

There’s two definitions on the first page of the UrbanDictionary page for “bop” that refer to promiscuity from women. They’re from 2005 and 2008. I don’t know about the alleged acronym, but I’ve seen the use of “bop” to mean “slut” for years.

Adding to #2, I recently read this article: universityofcalifornia.edu/…/spoiler-alert-spoile…