MisterFeeny

The layoffs were after Microsoft bought em.

Taste aside, some of y’all really need to learn the definition of obscure.

Dude, London Calling (the Clash album this song is from) sold over 5 million copies. They are in no way obscure.

I’ve never heard of this type of scam, but out of curiosity, what if I were to take their real looking fake check to one of those many terrible check cashing places? Would it end up being the scammers trying to claw back money from the check cashing place and those 2 groups fighting while I walk away with some cash? Cuz I’d be OK with that.

Nah, fuck that. If she had sick days they are hers to decide how to use em.

Damn I want that Gravity Falls box set, stupid out of print prices!

Yeah, I thought I might be getting whooshed there, but I also thought there might be people that saw the shit they were selling for real money and just assumed it was a free to play game, cuz clearly this sort of monetization has no place in $70 games, but well…here we are.

Uh…it’s not free to play it’s $70. So ostensibly it can make its money off its upfront $70 entry fee.

While I’m not familiar with all the books on this list they’re banning, the ones I am familiar with is enough to convince me they aren’t banning them because of “depications of sex”. (Not that that’s a reason to ban books in the first place.)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Beloved by Toni Morrison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Sure. You’re banning these for “depictions of sex.” Right.

The fact that A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah Maas is on the list but not A Court of Thorns and Roses especially cracks me up. Mist and Fury is the sequel to Thorns and Roses and both do indeed contain depictions of sex. A number of them! But in the one they banned, the protagonist learns that the dude she fell for in the first book had been gaslighting her the entire time and essentially holding her hostage. And then she forms a much healthier relationship with a different guy in the second book, but I guess that’s not a good thing for young women to learn about.

Did you just read the quote of what he said or did you actually listen to it? By the way he says it, it’s clear he’s using it as a name.

I would say the article even printed the quote wrong. They wrote, “Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good.”
They dropped a word and in my opinion got the punctuation wrong. I would quote it as, “Oh look at that, wow. Mercedes, that’s pretty good.”

While it does seem like something he would do, watch the clip, listen to his cadence. He is not comparing her to a car, he is using Mercedes as a name.

No Mr. Feeny. I’ll give it a B-

Mistborn, developed by Insomniac. I feel like they could really do a good push/pull traversal mechanic.

They did one playtest that was 5v5 CTF. Most playtests have been 12v12.

Wait, are you saying yes it’s unethical to give fake money to beggars and strippers, or yes, it’s ok to give them fake money?

Cuz…it’s really not ok to give either of them fake money.

Finally! A stylish shoe for the blind earthbender!

“literally”

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

However, the book DOES have “literary importance,” as determined by it winning the National Book Award, winning the Kirkus Prize, and being a Pulitzer finalist.

Though I notice elsewhere in the thread you refer to those as “literature prices” multiple times, and would like to point out that they are, in fact, “prizes”. Prices are the cost of things you buy at the store. Prizes are awarded for achievement in a given field.

As such, I do not believe you are fit to be the arbiter of what gets to be taught in English class. It is clear you could use a few lessons on the subject yourself, and besides, before espousing that a book should only be taught in one type of classroom (Social Studies) and not another (English), a person should probably read said book. You clearly haven’t.

What makes you think that because they’ve never had Taco Bell they’ve never had Mexican food at all?

I have this one, and it just saves the video to an sd card. The review I linked to mentions it’s lack of connectivity as a con, but clearly it’s not a con if that’s what you’re looking for.

Gonna work on my tannage, buuuuddy!