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@Coin: You don't play with me anymore, so!

@surreality I feel like I just witnessed some slam poetry

Some of the documentation isn't terrible, but a lot of it is, and what's worse, the available indexes for commands are so random. If you go to the commands page on the game's official website (I hesitate to call it a wiki), they're not in any kind of determinable order - sure, they've got category headers, but putting those commands in say, alphabetical order would be nice. The category headers are not intuitive.

The help files list commands often do not explain the context of various switches, or how the command it's explaining applies in context to the game itself. I genuinely worry that it's a big turn-off for newbies.

Why does no one show love for Into the Badlands? It's an amazing show, and I'm super bummed that this is its final season.

Some people are just barbarians.

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Got called a racist today because I told someone they were using the word "triggered" incorrectly.

I wouldn't mind if there was a game that had the kind of Greco-Roman fantasy world a la Hercules and Xena.

@Pandora said in Game of Thrones:

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Slow-clap for Lyanna Mormont. She was amazing, she died exactly the way she lived, sticking it to the man who thought he was bigger and badder than she was. Fear just wasn't in her soul and Westeros is worse off without her in its future.

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I think a generational colony ship game would be really fun. A giant colony ship that's been traveling for a couple hundred years or more, and the people living on it have just arrived at their colony planet.

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@fatefan: I played there for a little bit, but there was just no plot movement at a pace fast enough for me so I kind of faded out.

I just learned something mind-blowing - although admittedly it has no real relevance to my life, unless I go to a convention and meet the guy.

My 11th great grandfather is a fellow named John Harington, who many people credit with the invention of the flush toilet.

You know who else is a direct descendant of John Harrington?

So I can be all, "Hey, cuz!"

(Does this make me a Stark or a Targaryen or both?)

Robotech?

I don't care which, but the first game that lets my character pilot an AJACS gets me.

In the parking lot at the local mall, there are pedestrian cross walks with the usual black and white stripes. As my friends and I are crossing, so are a pair of women, who both get about three quarters of the way across and stop to consult their phones. And stand there, in the crosswalk.

"Hey," I say, "You might want to get onto the sidewalk."

Hey, I think, you inconsiderate twats might want to stop blocking traffic.

One of them looks at me and smiles, all, "Even though we're standing in a crosswalk?"

"People are crazy." I reply with a smile as my friends and I walk away.

I walk away secretly hoping they get run-over.

Can we all agree that Minmei needs to be shot in the head tho

Fuck Minmei, for rlz

I never thought I'd say this, but...

SANSA FOR THE IRON THRONE.

I kind of feel compelled to point out that this isn't a static issue. Thrax IS evolving.

1. Several members of Thrax and their vassals have either openly or quietly indicated their desire to remove the institution.

2. Political and trade alliances have been made to aid in releasing significant portions of the thrall population.

3. Vassals now have the ability to modify the institution in a variety of ways, such as no longer imposing the debt of a parent on a child, minimum age requirements to be placed in thralldom, etc.

The goal with this is to abolish the institution without destroying Thrax economically, as well as be able to guide those in thralldom slowly into their rights and freedoms. And it is happening at a measured rate. Whether it's happening fast enough for all parties is a matter of IC discussion.

@Auspice I have been ga ga for James McAvoy since he played Leto Atreides. I'm super happy with anything he's in.

Plus,. LMM is Lee Scorsby and I am 100% down with this.

@mietze said in Changing Breeds: Durgar's Blessing:

Please can it initially heal as a little baby arm that has to grow during the next stage of combat wangery? Please?!??

(Someone was going to do it.)

I think I may have mentioned here that I started with a nutritionist this past March. To be clear, my goal wasn't about weight loss. I wanted to eat better to recover my energy and get my blood sugar under control. I also wanted to learn how to eat properly, in terms of the foods I should be choosing. The physical therapy clinic I was working with for my hand introduced a nutritionist at one of their other branches, and since I really liked my PT team, I decided to give their nutritionist a shot.

I am so glad I did.

When we started she stated outright to me that her goal was not about weight loss, and that wouldn't be her focus. She also told me that she would never shame me for something I chose to eat, but she would encourage me to talk about why I might have chosen to eat something. And during our sessions, more often than not she would commiserate with me over how good different things taste. She took into account what kind of flavors I enjoy, reviewed menus with me of restaurants my friend circle frequented to pick items that would be better choices for me, etc. She also started giving me goals...small ones, gradually building on them, as weeks went by. I started with sessions each week, and now I'm at 6 weeks between each one.

I did a weigh in at my last one, two days ago. I'd dropped 14 lbs from my initial weigh in, without "dieting" being one of my goals.

Some of the stuff I've done:

• B12 vitamins, for helping convert food into energy.
• 48 oz of water per day. Most liquids could also count as part of water intake, like milk. She didn't cut me off from caffeine, but I began to need less.
• Eating breakfast. I wasn't when I started, but now I do, and the fuel it provides gets me further through the day without feeling drained.
• Switching most of my bread products to whole or multi grain.
• Increasing vegetable intake by introducing in terms of color. As in "add more color to the dish". The greens, reds, and yellows of vegetables make your plate prettier.
• Portion control. This, along with eating time, are definitely the hardest. Training your body to understand the proper signals is hard as hell.
• Eating time. I used to just gobble my food, and now I try to be more deliberate when eating. No counting chews or setting down my fork, just taking the time to process what I put on my tongue.

I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of, but LSS this experience has been great and profound and I'm hoping I can keep it up.