That’s what I’m saying. I ate it too, or at least took a bite and started chewing before trying to figure out what was off here.

EDIT: LOL, now I have no idea whether I misread, or if @MajorHavoc edited their post to change “hate” to “ate”. Probably the former, though I stand by my opinion that The Onion’s best gags are always the headlines. 🤣

That’s pretty cool, TBH. Not sure the GIJOE USS Flagg model was quite that seaworthy, LOL.

I don’t hate it, but 50% or more of the average article’s value is in the headline. They could go to lorem ipsum text and have minimal reduction in quality.

Moving this out of the contrext of the onion pushes it from “haha, WTF?” to just “WTF?”.

Completely agree with this. If you don’t follow the specific artist, and I don’t, it just looks like a right-winger cartoonist clumsily satirizing “wokeness” with a bad pastiche of an R. Crumb or Charles Burns “comix” style. Maybe the joke’s on me for not going another layer deep and seeing how vapid the “satire” is and realizing it’s meta, but the creatives on the American right are not known for their subtlety.

I can’t really imagine the appeal unless it was a standalone device. The tactility and self-contained nature is the only thing that would make it feel like something “real enough” to bother with.

Nah. a 2.5 meter aircraft carrier is not really any more practical today than it was in 1986.

Is “college town” agreed to be a denigration? I’d take it as a fairly complex descriptor that could be good or bad depending on your situation. I loved living in college towns. I’m not desperate to move back to one, but I could easily see myself retiring in one, and if you want a small town with more cultural and sporting options and a better educated populace than its peers, then putting up with some rowdy undergrads and a quirky mix of available businesses could be a perfectly sensible tradeoff.

cultural things that similar-sized other towns don’t have

Exactly. Similar sized. College towns punch above their weight when compared to their population peers, but that only goes so far. I have no doubt Pullman, Washington is cooler and more cosmopolitan than Walla Walla (despite the presence of two very small colleges), but it’s no Seattle, for good or for ill, depending on your perspective.

The Office (US) could have ended with the proposal in the rain.

It probably should have ended with the wedding in Niagara.

It definitely should have ended when Michael left. Don’t give me your Robert California bullshit either. The series was already on fumes and the last two seasons were garbage.

The Marvels is not bad at all. Better than Iron Man 2 or 3, Thor 2 or 4, Ant-Man 3, Black Panther 2, the Ultron movie, or any standalone Hulk movie (not entirely fair, I know), and equivalent to the “good” Ant-Man movies or GotG 2. It’s also better than Captain Marvel, and Brie Larson is finally making the character her own. Good chemistry among the leads, the switching dynamic is visually interesting, and the entire cast brought in from Ms. Marvel remains endlessly enjoyable. The “need” to have watched everything is there but dramatically overstated in complaints I’ve seen.

Now, to be fair, the plot is too episodic and disjointed, and the villain is once again an underdeveloped cipher with tantalizingly nuanced motives that aren’t explored, and the movie certainly is more cohesive if you’ve kept up with your homework. Honestly, though, if you watched Captain Marvel and caught the trailer for Ms. Marvel you’d be fine, though again, you’d be missing one of the more delightful (if still a bit uneven) recent Marvel projects.

Okay, my ten year old loves these two games and has occasionally mentioned people playing them on emulators. She has no complaints (possibly because she’s ten), and TBH when watching her play on the living room tv they look… fine? What is so terrible about the way they run natively? Legitimately curious.

I am a left-leaning suburbanite dog-loving dad who fancies himself a versatile and practical can-do type who prefers function to form, but also has a little disposable income and sometimes thinks jeeps look fun. Subaru marketing execs were damn near salivating.

Oh well, best of luck at Mayo!

I’m 45, and I agree with both of you. There seems to be a bimodal thing with lots of folks who are still young enough to think that screaming THE TRUTH™ to everyone they encounter will be what fixes the world, but a very large chunk of active posters who actually want to communicate seem to be a bit older. My personal theory is that the API exodus left year gathered in a lot of people who had seen previous social media sites (e.g. Digg) blow themselves up, and that by definition will skew older.

I mean, it’s unironically worth a try if you can try it risk-free. The munchies are a real thing, and many people find marijuana helps with nausea, though some find the opposite. Personally, though, smoking made me paranoid (I’m still VERY sure those two guys in Amsterdam were laughing at me, but wife is convinced otherwise), and edibles made me sleepy, not that edibles would be much of an option for you.

All that said, the only real medical advice is to keep getting medical advice. You’re clearly not dealing with something normal, so keep an eye on it for your and your family’s sake, but if it’s not killing you, then maybe you just ride this thing out. I’m of a similar age, and while I don’t have anything nearly as dramatic, dealing with the lifestyle changes forced by aging is just sort of our lot in life now.

Hang in there, [email protected]. Rooting for you.

G2 is less sweet. Hell, that’s a whole market segment at this point, so maybe there’s something that hits your palate better. Pickle juice is probably still around somewhere too.

For the shakes, maybe look up various protein smoothie recipes if you get sick of Ensure. You can add milk or water to get the protein powder to a consistency you prefer.

So, maybe I’ll backpedal a bit. I used to argue vigorously against pro/rel for CFB, and I still don’t think it works particularly well for the American mindset and not at all if you have rosters that have (1) players early in their development curves, (2) limited player movement and (3) literally every player cycling out of the “league” in 5 years. In the older system, it causes the exact problem, competitive imbalance, it meant was invented to combat, because what is more classic than a team of seniors overachieving or one full of freshmen taking their lumps and learning on the job?

In the old days, annual Euro stlye pro/rel would be a disaster for any “interesting” newly promoted teams and an unsatisfying romp for many relegated ones. You’d eventually settle into yoyo clubs but to an even less satisfying degree than in England now. Latin America style rolling performance relegation could work, but it rarely goes smoothly in practice, and is basically dead (or at least in a coma) in Mexico. Hell, the Superleague is rearing its head again in Europe, because Real Madrid and Juventus have somehow decided that a world where they can’t outspend their opponents is the same thing as soccer “dying.” We might see the end of pro/rel in Europe before we see a large US organization adopt it.

Still, In the new world order of CFB? Who the heck knows. Pro/rel could work. Playoffs aren’t going away, so base playoff participation (but not seeding) at least 75% on conference performance, ban contracts for advance OOC scheduling (it’s sports… the “need” to schedule 10-12 years out is overstated), let players go part-time and hang around for 7-8 years if they don’t have an NFL future. Rework the TV deals with parachute payments and revenue sharing. You could craft a scenario where it works, and it could be an antitrust dodge the biggest schools are willing to stomach. I don’t THINK SO, but nothing makes sense anymore anyway, LOL.

Mostly (though not exclusively) Alt-country/Americana, because that’s what I always listen to. As long as I’ve already heard it a few times, I don’t typically find lyrics distracting. I’m a Contracting SME for a software company, because it’s better hours and fewer crazies than being lawyer.

Seems I’m an outlier in this gang, LOL.

Ahh, got it. Never got very deep into Westworld.

Always a good time for Corb Lund.

Hurtin’ Albertan .

And more melancholy, Alberta Says Hello.

Unexpected Shakespeare. Nice.

And yummy.