I’ve been hoping for a grounded reboot since the third game. SR2 had my favorite story in the series. I didn’t need to see the gang turn into an empire.

Just give me a found family story about goofy assholes turned ride or die comrades fighting other gangs and maybe a corrupt local law enforcement agency or something. I don’t need futuristic fighter jets or superpowers, just solid gameplay, fun good guys and bad guys, and a good sense of progression that ends with the Saints being capable but not ridiculously overpowered.

I’m a system administrator and went to a conference a couple weeks ago. The first day was a Tech Track day meant only for the people who would be managing the application. We heard a lot of, “We’re not replacing the human being, we’re making their job easier!”

The next two days were more for the C-levels who were shopping for new XaaS applications and the tune immediately changed to, “Why have a 1000 agents when you could have 50?” There was some token line about how you could pay those 50 more and they could feel more like valued employees, but I knew the ears around the room had turned off by that point.

Always crazy seeing a The Big Hit reference in the wild

When I had my first dog, I drove a Kia Soul and would put the back row of seats down when I took him places. Depending on the circumstances, I might let him in from the rear hatchback or one of the rear side doors. One day I called him out to the car and was standing beside the open rear passenger side door. He came tearing down the path at full speed, rounded the car and leapt-- into the closed back door. He yiped, looked at me like he was offended, then hopped in the open door.

OP, I feel you pain. My current dog ate a toy, too. Only it wasn’t his toy, and I don’t have any kids…

$4300 emergency vet visit later, my girlfriend and I are much better about cleaning up after playtime.

I can snap with my right hand all day, but for some reason, my left hand just never gets the appropriate sound to come out.

even if those pedophiles were in his party

I disagree with you on this. I fully believe that Biden is enough of a status-quo type that he would withhold the documents if there were enough names to significantly damage the current Democrat hierarchy.

I respect the job he did while president, but Biden wasn’t rocking the boat any more than he had to.

I listened to an audiobook with a main character who had that name (The Rook by Daniel O’Malley) and the narrator pronounced it in a way that rhymed with Tiffany

Peak Road Rash was always timing your kick just right so that they crashed into oncoming traffic

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It sure as hell isn’t a Shower Thought

I think that’s a letter from the Yautja alphabet

They run good deals on audio books and Pathfinder material every once in a while. Otherwise, yeah, been a while since I saw a game bundle that was worth the money.

Yeah, I wouldn’t suggest it be your only approach, but they do work in some cases. I’m poly and met one of my partners on OKCupid and another on Feeld.

Dating profiles are like work resumes. They take work and refinement. Not getting responses? Try tweaking your profile and changing your profile pics. I find apps that don’t let you put more than a few minutes into your profile are a waste of time because you simply can’t figure out which profiles are real people and which are bots/scammers. I include everything in my profile that might be a common dealbreaker (poly, not religious, child-free, etc) so that anyone who swipes on me has already already filtered into a smaller and better-matched dating pool.

The other thing that has worked for me is to not chat with a person online for longer than necessary. You need those low-stake getting-to-know-you topics to fill the awkward silences until you know you them to the point where they become companionable silences. Once I’m confident that the other person is real and that we have the potential for a connection, I ask if they want to have a quick vibe check meeting. 30-minutes to an hour max, typically over coffee, minimal pressure. Just get that first conversation over with. Let them know you’re a safe person first, then hopefully establish a connection, build up some flirty energy, and schedule a real date on the way out.

Edit: Noticed a half-finished thought and completed it.

GitSpoke?

If we’re following the spirit of the original subreddit, YSK was intended for useful, static information. Like, “YSK sucking snake venom out of a wound isn’t effective” etc. It’s not meant for topical content like this, especially news articles with editorial post titles.

That first one doesn’t make any sense. Every processor has its own assembly language. The game would run on YOUR machine and any others running the same processors, but you’d have to build a custom version for any other processor you want to support.

That said, it could potentially be insanely well optimized for that platform if everything was hand coded.

The first season of Spartacus. My dad recommended it and I tried watching the first few episodes. Spartacus gets his ass kicked a lot at the start of the show. You’d get a glimmer of hope, then he’d fuck up and nearly die again. My dad insisted it would get better and I watched one more episode and he has his first victory in the arena. I stuck with it from there and thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the first season and the prequel season.

RIP Andy Whitfield. I tried watching the third season which picks the story back up after the first, but I just couldn’t get into it. I don’t think it was necessarily Liam McIntyre’s fault, the show just lost it’s rhythm after the setting change.

I’m poly, my girlfriend is married to a woman. They have been looking hard at contingency plans. One of them is eligible for dual-citizenship due to ancestry and is looking into that process, and they have confirmed with friends in another country that they could rent a room with them if necessary.

A couple weeks ago, she asked me if I would marry her in the event they felt the need to divorce and “go undercover” looking more heteronormative.

They are scared. They feel like they are not that far removed from the “kind of person” who might be next up for disappearances by our current government.

hrk… hrk… hrk…

The deal includes the teams working on the mentioned properties, but doesn’t go into what IPs are changing hands. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if all Tom Clancy series are lumped together