Yeah, who would put a minotaur with a drake in any sort of serious story? I doubt they’d be compatible egg types, and there is no way that fur and scales rubbing against each other is going to be good for the health of the surface epithelial layers.

Ugh. i can’t tell you how many times I had to hear this asshole while growing up. I hate remembering that my early sex talks were guided by and likely narrated (thankfully I don’t really remember) by him and his hatred.

I’m not saying I tried it as a teenager, but I’m also not saying I didn’t. Eroticas should be more careful in how they describe some of their more ‘fun’ beginner forays into bdsm, eh? ;)

Clearly the poor knight forgot to take the great cleave feat. Otherwise… 1 -> 2

See, that’s just idiocy. Sure, test the device to see if it suddenly gives you spiffy new armor, but ya’ll are freaking adventurers, ready to cut and kill and slay anything in your path! SET UP A TRAP FIRST! Put a hot tub of holy water where the first spawn location was! Scatter circles of salt in eighteen strategic locations around the room! Write the verses of ancient positive energy across the walls! Summon the ancient daedra of yore, hallowed be their sigilic runes, and let fly the chaos of the universe into the demesnes of horror where cometh light’s foe, wherein the bane of life finds new fears etched prebirth into the slaverings of its blasphemous mental cavity!

Because I fucking hated getting grease all over my hands, pants from accidental brushing, and just everywhere else. The rusty ball still works for more than 20 years, so I took the tradeoff.

Use libredirect, or just manually replace fandom with breezewiki or some of the other helper sites.

Holy shit, I’d wear that baby hjolster. I would absolutely get chaps and dig my dancing boots out of the closet for the outfit.

Jeez, at least make the fascists wait for the language model to spit out ideas for them to steal.

I think you need one more. Hexagons also just are inherently blase. They’re a lamer circle.

Whaaaat? Triangles are the best angles.

I think, if we are taking the message at face value (which might not be the best idea with a religious dude, but whatevs), it’s not sad that it is being shared through narrative and myth, but that this is the best we can find with values we care about.

Which, sure, is great, but not what I or most want to do. My first car had a 50mpg rating, and a 14 gallon tank. You best believe I could get to my destinations with less than 2 fuel stops most of the time.

So what I’m hearing is, there are a bunch of police who can, at the will of people who don’t like them, be ‘forcibly’ moved into certain areas.

Let them escort you. Get the political credit of an assassination attempt and get rid of some actual factual totally not anything but government bootlickers.

The youtube link alone was enough for that.

If your books need real world themes and connections to be good, maybe you should try improving their writing instead.

I think my love for it came from the spiderman comic. Peter was great in the ultimate universe (and was the only comic I read through the entirety of). And yeah, grimdark is probably the right fit for it.

No seriousness here, but if the patient was in the doctor’s office, I’d ask the same question. Maybe not as the first question, but it would be in there. She’s not in any significant trouble if she came to the appointment on time, so let’s check and see how her epic battle has affected each system, from neurological to reproductive. That is why she’s here, right? For a followup that every single (/roll_eyes) discharge paperwork always says to get?

I’m just curious, based on knowing how women’s symptoms aren’t always taken as seriously as a man’s during diagnosis.

I just ask it as part of the standard ‘check everything’ mentality. It’s interesting to me how it can be taken as women’s symptoms not being taken as seriously as men’s, because ignoring the downstairs leads to a lot of fuckups in the field. Heck, the paramedic who trained me used to say that you would (and I’m doing my best to remember her quote, but it’s been a while) “miss a significant portion of issues if you fail[ed] to consider the reproductive system in an emergency.” Put another way, the entire reason I’m asking about it is because I’m trying not to lump a woman in with the males and ignore their health.

As you should be. Kids books should be just as good as adult books. Maybe not for the adults, but for the kids reading them.

Having lower standards just because ‘it’s for kids,’ is ridiculous.

It’s not like disney or dreamworks to half ass their kid oriented movies. They’re often masterpieces in their own right. There’s good reason that the lion king, the land before time, the road to el dorado, etc., are all viewed fondly even today. Hell, take it out of animation, even. Secondhand lions, wizard of oz, charlie and the chocolate factory… great stuff.

Writing for kids can be just as complicated and well done in characters, setting, and ‘elements’ of a story like tension. Compare the hobbit to harry potter. The words tolkien chose may have been simple, in comparison to his the lord of the rings novels, but everything else was pretty damn good.