I heard him defend it in an interview once. This is legit what he said: “Under Pressure goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum.’ But Ice Ice baby goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum tss.’” That’s a whole new work of art, guys! Like if I copied the Mona Lisa, but gave her like a strand of hair hanging down over her eyes. Artistically and legally distinct!

Exactly. RIP, George.

The idea of “the power of prayer” is stupid on the face of it. First, you’re presupposing a omnipotent diety that can and does directly effect the universe, changing the outcomes of events based on it’s desires, whims, plans, whatever. And you think THAT diety is taking requests? When “God answered my prayers”, you think that had you not requested it, it wouldn’t have happened. You think that God answers to your puny human concerns? That shit is arrogant as hell.

But furthermore, it also flies in the face of two other common beliefs about God, at least in Christianity. “God gave man Free Will” and “It’s All Part of God’s Plan™” (don’t get me started on how those are already two mutually exclusive ideas and hundreds of millions of believers just ignore that cognitive dissonance). Many of the things that one prays for, like “getting that job”, “winning that award”, “ending the war”, etc. directly involve altering the decisions and actions of others, which means that God would be stripping them of free will. Also, the most classic call to prayer is to heal the sick, or preserve one’s life. But surely if God has a plan for everyone’s life, at minimum everyone’s birth and death must also be planned. How can he answer your prayer to save your life if it’s his plan for you to die, yet still have an plan he’s always been following? The irony is that people like to pull the “all part of God’s plan” platitude particularly when someone has died before their time.

The one that really makes me annoyed, or even angry, is when something terrible happens, people are hurt or killed, and someone who was supposed to or had almost been there says something like “God was watching out for me”. It’s so self-centered and arrogant to attribute your simple dumb luck to God’s will in that situation. Because, not only does it assume you are God’s most special little guy that he’s constantly paying attention to and protecting, but also that God willfully condemned those others who did fall to this terrible fate that he supposedly saved you from. It’s all arrogance. I can’t stand it.

That was pretty clear. The apparent player character was a misdirect. The figure that comes in at the end seems to be the “her” referred to, and potentially the main antagonist of the game. I’m sure, just like in all other iterations, you’ll have a custom built player character of any sex/gender.

I took a principles of programming languages course a while back and got to touch on a lot of these old languages. My professor had huge hard-on for Lisp. Don’t get me wrong. The simplicity of the language is admirable. But reading and parsing that shit gave me headaches. No me gusta.

Yup yup.

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Is this guy Tom Segura’s cousin, the inventor?

I agree with this. Correcting one’s grammatical error is fine. However, additionally, correcting one’s grammatical error as a means to disregard the content of the comment in an argument and/or deem their opinion or perspective false because of said error? Not fine and asinine.

Oof.

Edit: Also, Avon Books… what the hell. How did you publish that as is?

Serving multiple data streams

No. Go on.

200: “I gotchu, bro. Here you go. Have a good day.”

401: “You’re not on the list. Get lost.”

402: “Pay me or get lost.”

403: “Everyone get lost.”

404: “You are lost.”

500: “Ooopsss.”

501: “Knew I forgot something…”

504: “I can’t do this shit all day.”

Oh for sure. He often used puns that his fans gave him in fanmail too. He’d take their ideas and try to fit them somewhere into the story. He credited them in his books all the time.

There is a series I read as a teenager, the Xanth series. The author, Piers Anthony, has been pumping out a book a year for the last 45 years, so there are a lot of them. I read the first 15ish for AR point in school back in the day. It’s not exactly the height of literature, but they’re pretty fun for children/teen fantasy books. The thing that really sets the series apart is that Piers fills his fantasy world of Xanth to the brim with magic plants and creatures based on puns. In one of the earlier books, there is a tree that grows fruits that look like babies. An Infantree. And when approached, the fruits drop and the babies start marching around and attacking the threat, like an infantry. It’s one of the most memorable puns to me.

I know. That’s why I concluded they weren’t American. I was just commenting on my thought process when I read it. Also, kind of crazy that there’s not a single holiday in the summer for you guys.

The 4th of July is the biggest holiday of the year in my family because we’re heavily involved with the stores. I was just confused how we were skipping that.

We do continue to sell fireworks on one end of the store after the conversion. We have them available year round, even if we have to come and open the store for a single customer in the off-season. But, no, fireworks aren’t common for Halloween here. Halloween sales are primarily costumes, makeup, wigs, prosthetics, props, decorations, and fog machines. Independence Day/The Fourth of July is definitely the biggest fireworks day here, followed by Memorial Day, New Years, and Diwali, in that order.

I’m assuming you’re not American? We still have another major holiday first, Independence day. Also smaller holidays, Memorial Day, Juneteenth and Labor Day. Though I do feel the sentiment. I married into a family that owns and runs a few fireworks stores, one of which converts into a Halloween store after the fireworks season ends. So it really is like that come July 5th every year. Time to rebuild the store for Spookums time!

Why is the student smug but internally crying about not knowing excel?