Obviously a classicist is someone who studies how the working class can overthrow their divinely mandated white men overlords.

Right? No other possible thing it could mean.

Nothing else. Nothing at all.

It was better than Cats

Gladly, they even let 30 truckloads into northern Gaza. The IDF made an announcement for it and specifically said that they follow international law. Completely ignoring the fact that they had to be threatened to do so.

NHL players not wearing full masks is the height of idiocy. Most of them have worn full masks for at least a decade before going pro so it's not like they're going to get screwed up by them.

The really scary thing though isn't the plastic shells. Those are fine as long as you have proper gear yourself. It's getting cut by a skate. Every year one or two players will die from getting cut. It's wild to me that Hockey literally has an acceptable death rate without talking about things like underlying medical conditions.

This is why Hockey is the best sport. The only breaks are when they have to restrain the players from continuing for TV commercials, ice resurfacing, penalties, and fights.

Meanwhile we have proof that we have leverage; Aid into Gaza went back up after we threatened to withhold weapons from the Israelis.

I wish. I got Starfield a month ago and everything is gated like that. Core space combat abilities from the tutorial are gated behind perks. Want to craft? You have to invest 15 levels for guns, then 10 for space suits, then 10 for ships, and on, and on. And there's no getting better just because you do it a lot.

Starfield seems like someone thought Skyrim was too freewheeling so they locked everything down way beyond what's necessary.

I'm not contesting that. Project 2025 has big goals that I don't like. But just because someone writes, "fire all the soldiers", doesn't mean it's that easy.

Unfortunately there's not really any way to stop that and have an announcement community. The best thing to do is just wait them out or ban them.

It can be too reactive as well. I love BG3, I did 3 full runs. But I never used the grease spell again after the first run. They made it flammable to the entire puddle. What that means in practical terms is every tiny candle can turn the entire puddle into a small amount of fire damage. The prevalence of flame sources also means this will nearly always happen. So instead of getting a bunch of prone enemies that are easier to hit, I have mildly annoyed enemies.

So now that question is in the back of my head whenever I see this. What kind of damage and reactivity are we talking about here?

Nah, you just described Starfield. They're going to decide that was too easy and gate building behind even more story/skills/tasks for less reward.

Not liking it does not mean it's outdated. There's a lot of us that like it as the success of XCOM and BG3 show. We're allowed to like things that you don't.

You have to go far left before RT is considered credible again. AJ's reputation is because they usually are unbiased in the American domestic section. They get as bad as RT the second it's international news though.

I figured, I have that exact same humor reflex.

I'm so glad you clarified that your daughter waits in the car while you watch Steve Harvey instead of going to therapy.

:)

The FBI straight up said they were looking to bring those charges. Not having done so yet is not a defense.

They're doing it because someone called their representative and asked them to bring it up with the DOJ.

Seriously, my wife and I road tripped Scotland for the price of a Disney vacation.

I don't block the bot because it's misinformation that deserves to be downvoted. MBFCs idea of bias is clearly from an anarcho right wing point of view instead of objective, which is why they list mainstream, fact based news, at the same level as libertarian extremists and GOP campaign websites.

So yeah. The literal first thing I do in a comment section is downvote the bot.

Turns out it was a small sect known as the "Morning People" oppressing everyone for millennia.