5, [tied: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7], 6, 8

Sweet potato fries are fucking amazing when they’re done right. Usually they’re overly mushy which I think is why they get so much hate, but they’re top tier when the cook knows what they’re doing.

Honestly if I had the means and skills to survive that semi-comfortably, I’d be down for making that an annual tradition.

The last 6 months have been a long 4 years.

The Pokemon games on all of Nintendo’s handheld consoles emulate really cleanly on a smartphone.

I’m a sucker for the Gen 1 nostalgia every now and then.

Best way to play this these days? I have a disk from the early 2000s, but iirc the last time I tried to use it, it just prompted an update that led to a blizzard launcher… idr if it wanted me to buy a new digital copy or what, but I ultimately decided it was more work than it’s worth and gave up.

…these days I don’t think I even have a CD drive lol.

Private servers with boosted rates can scratch that itch while severely reducing the grind. Every couple years I’ll poke my head into one, level to endgame in like a week, do some raids, do some PVP, then completely forget it exists. Couple years later, rinse and repeat.

If you liked Skyrim, check out Enderal - it’s a total conversion mod, but in Steam as it’s own game. It’s much more linear than Skyrim - the world still feels open, but it’s much more dense, and it’s scaled more like a traditional RPG, so if you wander off the intended path too far, you’ll get your ass beat by mobs that are much higher level than you.

Side quests are meh, with a notable exception of the Rhalata line, which is kind of like a combo of thieves guild and dark brotherhood. Main quest line is fucking wild.

If you skip the vast majority of side quests, you might have an issue with scaling, since you’ll be missing out on all that xp. If you run into that and don’t want to do the quests, just use the command console to cheat some in.

Did not know the painter’s name. That said, I stand by the ‘fuck Goya’ when that shitstain of a company is brought up, meme or otherwise.

They’re dissing the company.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-president-is-shilling-beans

The company. They’re affiliated with the bigoted domestic terrorists squatting in the White House.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-president-is-shilling-beans

Fuck Goya.

That’s one of those companies that shouldn’t get another cent from you, ever.

It’s the fried ones that are the problem: crispy = sharp edges = torn bowel = septic shock = dead.

The fresh ones with the squishy exterior should feel much more like a penis going into your ass. Choose the sauce carefully - your entire GI tract has receptors sensitive to spiciness.

We getting into strawman shit, or are you just not paying attention? The suicidal shit came before the military, not because of it. I’ve got plenty of real faults if you want to make a dig at any of them - no need to make shit up.

You’re missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I’m stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. …but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone’s too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I’m a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can’t control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won’t change anything outside of severely reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

I left “I’m a fucking idiot” in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn’t have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster… which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

Veteran here. It’s more like: “I’m a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice.”

Plan B was to kill myself, so I don’t feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.

You’d be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it’d be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.

That’s clearly a small segment of a Sith lightsaber blade.

Molten ice.

‘lol-butt-plug’ aside, bass is as much about how it feels as how it sounds. I wonder if bass generation from a rectally inserted speaker would cause that booming/fluttering feeling you get in your chest at a concert.

I mean… It’s a testable hypothesis at least. For science!

Availability is likely a factor here. House cats are everywhere, but professionally prepared cat meat is not. If it was in the cooler at your local walmart and priced comparably to beef, we’d see a lot more people eating cat. If the taste and texture are better than beef, we’d probably even start to see a market shift as more and more people start thinking of them as food instead of pets.