That is very much not a gila monster. I don’t know what a chuckwalla is, so I can’t comment on that, but both my partner and I (we both lived in Tucson for years) were immediately like “nah, that’s not a gila monster”. I don’t think it’s a gila monster.

I had hoped that we wouldn’t have to deal with you fucks anymore once the election was over, and yet here you are. Please fuck off.

I’ve been playing a bunch of Slay the Spire recently and have been having a blast!

The climb through ascension levels is definitely a slog (I’ve beaten A20 with all characters, but I haven’t beaten the heart at that ascension level with any of them), but once you’ve done the climb, restarting at low ascension levels is so chill and easy and fun!

I’ve been messing around looking for various infinites and it is so neat how many combos you can find that absolutely break the game! Watcher infinites are the easiest to get cooking, if you can manage to not die in Act 1 before you get the necessary cards, but there’s something pretty spectacular about Ironclad infinites too!

I just beat the heart on A5 with a double Dropkick infinite and it was pretty neat! I had Ornamental Fan to give me block, a couple of Offerings and a Burning Pact to get it rolling, and then all I had to do was play Dropkick repeatedly! I finished the heart with a Feed, just to flex on it. (Oh, I also had ~140 hp by the end, because of the Feed, but also Prayer Wheel+Singing Bowl.) Absolutely a blessed run, very fun.

You should, if all goes well, be able to win. I’d look for a defense drone, I’d upgrade shields to at least 3 bubbles (I know you have the Zoltan shield, that helps, but still, for the flagship you’re going to want more shields), and I’d maybe swap out a beam for a pew-pew if you can find a decent one. Or upgrade your hacking. That works too. And sell some stuff. I’d sell both the system repair and the anti-drone, but that’s just because I find the anti-drone downright useless. Sell one of your missiles, probably the breach, and sell a beam, you absolutely don’t need 3 of them. With that cash you can buy some upgrades, I would prioritize hacking and oxygen. A helm upgrade also wouldn’t hurt, but only do that if you have the cash for it, I wouldn’t make it a priority!

So you’re using some weird definition of “skinner box” where you simply mean “human inputs lead to various outputs”. Why use this definition? By this definition a fucking mathematical function is a skinner box.

I simply do not understand, in general, what you’re trying to say.

Goosebumps choose your own adventure novels.

But to take you a tiny bit more seriously, ok? So what? Why does “I have some agency in this story” make a story bad? What actually are you getting at here?

do you think a novel is a skinner box

All Vidya Gamez are fundamentally Skinner Boxes.

No they are not and I will fight you. If you mean multiplayer online games, well maybe, you might have a point, but I don’t play those games and so I will make no claims about them.

However. If you call Outer Wilds or Pathologic/Pathologic 2 or Disco Elysium or A Short Hike or Journey skinner boxes, well, you’re just wrong. Games are experiences, they’re stories that can be more immersive than a movie or a book and if they’re done well, holy shit are they good!

Games are (can be) amazing, and I’m sick of pretending they’re not.

Oh that’s neat! I didn’t know she was still making music. Very cool

i hate you

Went to Target like two hours ago, they were playing Lady Gaga Bad Romance. It’s now firmly stuck in my head and will be for the foreseeable future.

Don’t pretend to have empathy for me, shithead

This is such a shitty “joke”. Fucking hell. I hope you experience even half of the suffering a dairy cow experiences during their life. You won’t, because the world isn’t fair, but if I could imprison you and exploit your reproductive system until you’re too old and worn out to be worthwhile and then kill you, I would do so.

You are a disgusting human. I’m actually appalled reading the shit you’re writing. It’s not often that I read such concentrated evil. You don’t think death and servitude cause suffering? You think domesticated animals choose to stay in factory farms? You’re a fucking ghoul.

You’ll find that it’s not possible for the US to completely pull out of supporting them with military aid.

Why not? The US has supported Israel since its formation, no arguments there, but so what? Why couldn’t that change?

Am I reading the article right? My understanding of what I just read is that in 2016 some social media accounts with ties to Russia put out some pro-Stein statements and then a year or two later Stein was photographed sitting at the same table as Putin.

Neither of those two facts suggest to me that she is, as you put it, “another Russian tool”. Especially since the article itself says that there’s no evidence she knew about the Russian social media accounts boosting her and there wasn’t an interpreter sitting at the table with her and Putin.

Can you please tell me what I’ve missed? Is there more evidence that she’s a “Russian tool”? Because the evidence in the article you linked seems extremely weak.

Oh my, I literally read the comment you’re replying to backwards! I thought they said that carnists hate vegans. I’m glad you’re here to read properly and give a great response!

Yeah, good point! In a world without intellectual property rights, of course there would still be large projects, they’d just be, well, actually good and not shitty focus-grouped sequels.

Oh my, I literally read the comment you’re replying to backwards! I thought they said that carnists hate vegans. I’m glad you’re here to read properly and give a great response!