Some serious thread necromancy, but I just started playing again and I'm totally down for more folks to send gifts to.

@derp Look, if ET's glowing finger can fix my back like that dead plant, I'm fine with it.

et

Tossed what I could over to him. Good luck to Vinz, I hope he gets that job!!

If it isn't Vitas, I can't be bothered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWVc-xVZxho

@insomniac7809

It has some rough moments owing to the poor transition from novel to film, but it is easily in my top 20.

@ominous said in Potent Potables:

Some of us can only afford a few over $100 whiskeys, and Johnny Walker Blue sadly must be cut from the list.

$250 a bottle, and that was a deal.

I was mostly being facetious.

Begun the clone wars has ...

Russian Defense Minister wants to make a clone army

@kestrel

This was the exact position I was in for many, many years with my siblings, and it's a horribly lonely place to be. I am really sorry.

But I made my peace with it and eventually the evidence was just too much to ignore, and they each came to face the truth when they were pushed too far. Not trying to say that's bound to happen in your case, but who knows? And if not, you have still absolutely made the right choice. You're not alone and we're proud of you, the whole "blood is thicker than water" bullshit is one of the hardest manipulations to overcome.

Double posting, but one more. I didn't catch this one until today, even though it was on the local NPR affiliate, until it rolled up into the national Consider This podcast yesterday afternoon.

Oxygen for India

This is being run by several Indian doctors in the Philadelphia and New Jersey area who are buying oxygen concentrators here and shipping them over to colleagues in India that they have personally worked with or went to school with, in order to bypass bureaucracy and red-tape wherever possible.

Tracking updates are posted so that donors can see progress and apparently the Indian Embassy here in the US is covering freight charges and putting pressure on customs to fast-track them through the system.

If you're inclined to donate, this seems to be the fastest way to get supplies on the ground and in hospitals that need them that I've been able to find so far.

@arkandel 'The Nearness of You'. Love that story as well. Plus 'In Dreams' and 'In Dreams, 2015'

Another great thing about Astro City: the characters are allowed to grow older and change. Seeing Astra (basically Franklin Richards) go from 9 years old when first introduced to a college graduate in 2015 and dealing with growing up in an intense media spotlight was great. And 'Lover's Quarrel' has a whole different feel when you read it as you're pushing 50...

My absolute favorite arc is 'The Tarnished Angel'. It's an ode to the pulp fiction origins of Superheroes, it's a fantastic noir story, and it's a prime example of how much a great character design contributes to and enhances the storytelling.

Avoid Maryland. It's crazy expensive, and medical weed only.

Thank you so much to everyone who has filled this out!

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@kanye-qwest said in Mercenary Entrepreneurship:

no one pays someone to write things that they can't read

You sure? We've got lawyers in this thread, too.

@wretched

It looks so goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood. Nice job!!!

@ganymede said in The Challenge of 2020s:

@lotherio

Cat lawyers.

Haha, right?

Was Cat Lawyers, Emmers flipped it!

@too-old-for-this said in Tell me what you want -- work edition:

this past year, I was expected to use my own personal time, off the clock, to finish my PMP

This. If you're expecting someone to have some sort of ongoing training/certification as part of their job don't expect them to do it all on their time off.

@aria said in Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab:

@reimesu This reminds me of my review of their Jacob's Ladder release, which is one of their more common Yules.

Skin chemistry is weird.

Man, you're not just whistlin' dixie. I've had so many scents I've made go great for everyone BUT me.