I often run into paywalls and move on, but I didn’t see one here.

Not saying you’re wrong, but I wonder if it’s regional or something?

On weekends, we hear fireworks occasionally on the weekends. We assume it’s for whatever sports game is in season.

But I always check the headlines real quick

It’s a form of exclusion, of othering people. I understand that may not be the intent, but it labels them as “not like us”, with contextual hints that we’re probably better off without them.

One of my kids decided to be a Pokemon card this year! They’d already found one of the custom card generator websites, so he designed the card, and we got that and an upscaled image of a pokemon card back printed, and slapped those on some foamboard with a ribbon harness!

He got a ton of compliments for it, he was very pleased with himself! Lot more adults than I expected recognized it right away, too

I honestly think the intent is both. It’s funny because we can recognize it’s a bit ridiculous, and still see ourselves in that position

Wearing metas?

Iirc, that particular Thanos poster was an incel talking point for a bit. Don’t think it’s just Thanos, it’s that particular image of Thanos

Mine have kept theirs in good shape for multiple years. Both are under 10

Not necessarily - they may just not have genuflected quickly enough, or refused him for their own ends

As another GURPS fan - do people really get into the settings? I always saw them more as cool worked examples. I guess Traveller took off

Our kids defaulted to this when they were first learning, because they were excited to see and then remembered they needed to wipe too. Teaching them to wipe before standing took some extra time, I wonder if that got skipped for you? Or your parents, who passed that on?

…dammit, I don’t have time for a new fixation right now!

Nah, she was having fun poking at him, I think he just ran a lot farther with it than she intended!

My wife always hated milk, ever since she was a kid. The thought of drinking it just turned her stomach.

Wasn’t until she was an adult that she found out she was lactose intolerant

You just gotta cook it up yourself! The store-bought stuff is never fresh anyway

You’re right - you can’t expect it to last forever. You gotta maintain! Keep the fire burning! Keep flirting, keep finding ways to make them happy!

UEVR works with it, and there’s a mod to make the controls more VR native. Still struggling to get that all working on my Linux install, though

Someone else pointed out, the current hierarchy also actively maintains itself, including sabotaging any potential threats

Sadly, they don’t seem to me to be the type to drive from state to state

Wow, that’s a pretty compelling case.

…didn’t think I’d actually get interested in seeing Insurrection again! :D