Those wings are awesome. To echo some other comments, your style has noticeably evolved and gotten really cool. I love this one: the framing, the color scheme, the angles, those badass wings. I can totally still see the unique style that oozes from your other simpler drawings, but with all this extra detail it’s even better.

The average utility bill for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers increased by about 67% over the last five years. (source)

I can vouch. My PG&E bills in 2020 averaged around $70 a month, now they’re regularly over $170. No change in my consumption habits. If I’m mathing correctly, that’s more than a 100% increase for me.

Not Safe For Work is a warning so if you’re browsing at work you know not to click on a link that might embarrass you if people are looking over your shoulder. It’s not about nakedness per se, but is more about what’s acceptable to look at in front of others in a professional setting.

I hope you wanted a serious answer…

The issue of accidentally losing your place in the feed is very common, and comes up here pretty frequently. I’ve posted about it and commented on multiple other posts about it. It’s super frustrating and affects me many times a day, but it doesn’t seem to phase the devs or at least is not a priority for them. They really have to change the behavior of that button, it’s getting a bit ridiculous at this point.

I get what you’re saying, and I accept that reality for most of us here who already understand these things. But blaming consumers for corporate surveillance is not a good way to get corporations to stop surveilling consumers.

I’m not sure how Epic internally finances these giveaways, but this may be the only way to play it without supporting her bullshit?

Agree though, this is a hard sell, even free.

Yuck. That woman is super creepy, and from your description it sounds like she’s trying to groom and exploit you.

You did nothing wrong, she did. She’s exhibiting pretty classic manipulative behavior, and you were 100% right to block her.

No need to feel guilty, but the fact that you do just shows that you’re more human than that creepster.

I moved to California about a decade ago, and I still struggle to fully grasp the scale of this place. Think about this example: CA grows 80% of the world’s almonds, but almonds are not native to CA and they consume an insane amount of water. I saw a statistic somewhere that the few thousand almond farmers in the state use something like 30 times more water than the entire city of Sacramento and all its residents.

I know farming is incredibly difficult with barely any profit margin, but crops like almonds simply aren’t sustainable, so the cost to grown them and the price to buy them should reflect that.

People, especially young people who are still learning what it means to be a person living in a society, deserve a second chance, and sometimes a third. This whole thing is disgusting, and as the grandchild of holocaust survivors I really struggle to not let these displays of bigotry completely ruin me, but your idea is also pretty upsetting.

People can and do change their beliefs, especially at the age these offenders are. I thought some pretty nasty things in high school that make me look back in shame. But I’m not that person anymore. I grew up, like most humans do. These students deserve to be punished, but that punishment needs to be serious education about why what they did was so awful. Putting them on a blacklist doesn’t help anyone, but it would help their hatred fester.

Yeah, for real. Let’s hope the Majestic Imperious High Court deigns to grace us with any explanation. They love their emergency docket…

Murdering a murderer for committing murder will never make sense to me.

Good on her for standing her ground. I’m a huge fan of her work and loved seeing her in Star Wars, but nobody should work for less than their worth. She’s not an A-list star, and actors like her may have a huge following, but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily rich beyond measure. This actually exposes a pretty serious problem in entertainment. People have families and bills, and even being a famous actor doesn’t mean you’re dripping in diamonds—despite most of the general public assuming that’s the case.

I don’t know what to tell you. Your experiences are your own, and I’m glad your lab takes care of you.

It’s a feedback loop. In order to raise your academic profile and potentially get a job, you need a solid CV full of peer reviewed publications. In order to get published in the first place, you often need money and institutional backing.

If you circumvent that cycle by self-publishing (a solidly logical idea btw), then you’ll have an even harder job getting people to take you seriously and will alienate yourself from “mainstream” academia. It’s messed up. Some open access journals have tried to solve this, with some success, but it’s a systemic problem.

In grad school I remember being encouraged to submit a paper to a journal that would have charged me a few hundred dollars to put it in for peer review, and I told my advisor no, I needed to buy groceries, I would not throw my money away for an extra line on my CV. He got all flustered and it was a great example of why higher education is so fucked. My advisor, who ostensibly understood my background and means, could not understand how such a relatively small fee would be so prohibitive. He was incapable of understanding that I was essentially unemployed while enrolled as his grad student, and every dollar of funding went to bare essentials so I could continue breathing. He had access to discretionary funds for this exact kind of issue (I found out later), and didn’t think to offer.

Without independent wealth and deep personal connections it’s incredibly difficult to succeed in academia, regardless of the quality of your research.

Fuck off, war criminal.

He has spent decades deliberately undermining—through murder, rape, and starvation—the possibility of a Palestinian state, and says there can’t be a Palestinian state. Sure, makes sense.

He has also spent decades propping up Hamas so he has a hateable enemy to fight, and says his one goal of this genocide is to eliminate Hamas. Sure, makes sense.

Same. The cat’s cute, but I hope no pregnant people like to buy juice in that neighborhood…

For those who don’t know, toxoplasmosis (a parasite commonly found in cat feces) usually isn’t serious for healthy adults, but for people with weak immune systems it’s no joke, and it can cause miscarriages and birth defects during pregnancy, which is serious as hell.

Yeah the studio that made it, Adhoc, was founded by Telltale people. I’m glad they’re still making this type of game in an industry that’s weirdly resistant to this kind of storytelling, despite its popularity.

Sure, it’s a time management sim insofar as there are time limits on the “daily” minigame, but I’d characterize it more as team/skills coordination and management. And it’s really just a telltale narrative with consequential decision making, broken up by the minigame. I hadn’t ever played a game with those particular minigame mechanics, so maybe I’m missing something.

Is there trepidation with critical role? How so? I only recently got into watching their tabletop dnd, so I’m a pretty new fan. It’s actually one of those things I’m shocked stayed under my radar for so long…

I don’t think it has anything to do with the weekly release schedule, or that was my least favorite thing about it. Maybe that helped sell a few more, but it’s a polished game made from unique IP with a strong story that knows what it is, and an incredible cast of famous voice actors.

I’m not sure if people realize how huge of a following Critical Role has. They collaborated on the game and did most of the voice acting. I found out about it through them, and I had a blast playing it. It’s short, but packs a punch.