There are certain scenarios where it’s not an urge to fight, it’s a necessity. Be a victim, or fight

Man chiming in to say: literally do not understand this statement. I have, however, used other men in this mood as a weapon against them to make them even angrier at me, which is a hilarious way to quit your job btw

My parents both openly smoked weed in front of my from a young age. I was told that as long as I was home by curfew and didn’t come home in a cop car they were fine with me doing basically whatever cuz they knew I wasn’t a complete moron (my dad worked in the school system and knew all the ACTUAL problem children really well, they hated me because of that so I never got to be a hoodlum lol), though my nugs WERE taken from me at 15 because “you were dumb enough to let us catch you with it” which is fair but I say they were out and bumming off of me without saying so lol

As for sex I got a quick talk about using a condom after my dad caught my GF and I doing it, but otherwise it was left mostly unsaid cuz my sex Ed wasnt trash

Because they’re 2 different types of vehicle

You’re inside the moving vehicle and should you not be attached to it you’ll bounce around the inside or go flying out the window in a crash

A motorcyclist is not contained, and thus it’s dumb to attach them to the dangerous and heavy metal should a crash occur. We instead require protective gear (unless you live in a shitty state) so you get less injured if you go flying

Proton

Mullvad is good like the other guy said but Proton has port forwarding, which if you don’t wanna be a HnR jerk you wanna do

Or, alternatively, you can bootstrap into a fine red mist as you get stuck to it and violently flung about

Lathes rule

Fun fact:

Not all services that use “sign in with google” will respect that, though most will

Backblaze immediately comes to mind as one that always makes me include the dot or it gets pissy

I recall reading somewhere that less than 5 years is the average time it takes for most individual works to earn the majority of its value, tapering off from there

So I’d probably do a 2-tier system:

Tier 1: independent civilians. After 5 years any normal civvie can take your work and use it without your permission to do whatever they want with it

Tier 2: Companies. Life of the author. For as long as the original creator is alive no company can ever use their work without permission

couldn’t do much without being the slog A Realm Reborn was.

I agree with everything else you said, but not this. I’ve seen multiple people write out different mild rewrites of areas and bits of the story to make it more interesting, and it wouldn’t have been much more work to flesh out the MSQ into more than just “go here talk to person” to the extreme it was. It didn’t have to be a slog

Hell, had they just picked between the two completely different stories in this expansion (hi Stormblood critique from 2017) and kept with that for the whole epac they could have produced something far less of a slog at least, and actually really GREAT at best (just look at the content design after all)

Shit my queue just popped I’m off to fight THE BEST BEE GIRL EVERRRRR

Probably because DT has seriously damaged many people’s view on their storytelling ability

ARR->EW is a fucking great ride though

Yeah, thanking someone who’s genuinely offering you something is basic manners and to be expected.

I was more responding to the explaining part because I’ve been told in person that it’s perceived as rude (only by one person, even with a thank you) and I don’t want that becoming more common, for the reasons I already mentioned

Problem is this more often than not results in “awwww come on, why not?”

So many of us NDs have developed the method of explaining why we decline when we do so to just avoid the point. No, I’m not feeling that right now, thanks anyway! Works wonders

I wonder if that is in any way related to defunding the police so they have not enough resources

It doesn’t, because that didn’t happen

You’re free to Google police reform and read the incredibly large amount of material on that subject, as there are a lot of competing ideas in that regard

The MAGA street salesman I see on my way to work now has “KEEP America Great” merchandise and I’m super tempted to pull over and act super enthused that he supports Harris

Apparently, prejudice is fine when it’s against all members of a specific job!

I mean, duh? You choose to become a cop, it’s not forced on you in any way.

Much in the same way all child rapists are bastards, or the way all Nazis are bastards.

At an old employer: delivery driver for a fuel truck company parked his truck one day and robbed a bank. Got arrested, we had to go get the truck back from where he parked it a few blocks away.

At my current employer: literally last weekend the freezer in our storage area failed and a boar, some elk, and fish went rotten over the weekend. The smell in my office the last 3 days has almost killed people, this will not be forgotten

I know my dad and I played Ace Combat, Crash Bandicoot, and Independence Day when I was suuuuuper young, so it’s probably one of those 3

Horrifically enough I remember equating one of the power-ups in ID to the shirt Steve from Blues Clues wore (this might legit be my earliest memory period) so it’s probably that steaming pile of garbage

I think BDSM is immature really.

Wild take at the end of a comment about being overtly sexualy kinky in public

In the car: lady fully putting on mascara in a rainstorm

With a car: also raining, guy speeding doing 100 in a 65 with no lights on. Wife pulls the car onto the highway and he almost hits us, jerks left and 360s in this long, slow (in my memory it’s slow, probably happened in like 4 seconds) spin and comes to a dead stop facing perfectly forward and in the dirt of the median. Watched him turn on his lights and start to pull forward before we were out of sight

I forget what count is taken out of my check every 2 weeks, I think it’s like 50 bucks for vision/dental and my work actually fully covers medical?

Went to the ER 2 months ago due to severe dehydration because I was puking and having diarrhea everywhere almost as badly as when I was e. Coli poisoned. 2 hours in a chair getting a saline drip cost 2750ish, plus the ambulance ride of something like 3200? Wife got the special pass thing they sell for $100 that comes with 3 rides a year if you’re in our county, so we only had to pay 100 for the ride but still.

Just shy of 6k to be rehydrated and told “lol no idea what caused it buddy come back during normal hours and we’ll scan you” as my wife had been in earlier that day for the same issues, gotten an MRI (cat or whatever scan it is) and got told “lol idk”, but her insurance covered it completely

We could do it cheaper if we did it like any other civilized country but nope, it makes someone money