First half of the headline, I thought I was about to read about firefighters trying to disperse protestors. This is far better.

Finally, some reptile recognition and representation!

So, there are no stupid products, only stupid customers?

Look how long it took Team Cherry to make Silksong, and look what we got for it. Maybe this is a sign that ES6 will be a masterpiece and won’t be a buggy mess propped up by a rampant modding community willing to put in the work to fix it all.

I have an Acer Aspire One (very low spec mini laptop from ~2010) with 2GB of ram; it runs modern linux distros with xfce with better performance than it had running Windows 7 when it was new (which is what it came pre-installed with). Doesn’t run much modern software obviously but it does work for web browsing (firefox). It’s noticeably slow, but it always was.

Huh, TIL! Thanks for the explanation!

There is a brand of peanut butter here that has “WARNING: May contain nuts” on the label.

Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.

In that case, I’d just pick either HG/SS or OR/AS as noted above and play one of those 4 games. If you’re just wholly unfamiliar with Pokemon: Each generation (i.e. new entry in the series) is divided into two different games. They’re generally very similar but have a few small differences, including a few pokemon exclusive to that version. The original purpose was to encourage friends to trade pokemon with one another to complete their collections; nowadays I’d wager it’s to encourage diehard fans to buy each game twice, more or less.

The two generations recommended above are broken into HeartGold / SoulSilver, which are updated remakes of Pokemon Gold and Silver, and Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire, which are updated remakes of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Pick one of the two games in one of those two pairs and give it a try. If you enjoy it and want more, try one of the two games in the other pair.

Every generation is basically a standalone story and game map, you don’t need to have played previous ones to get the full experience.

Have you never played Pokemon specifically, or never played creature collector games as a genre?

Pokemon has value in a competitive setting, and it’s a well-known IP. As creature collector games, there are others with far better gameplay and storylines.

Which Pokemon game you get recommended will depend very heavily on the opinion of the person making the recommendation. Personally, I’d recommend HeartGold / SoulSilver or Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire as a great starting point, but they’re older titles and don’t have some of the bells and whistles of more recent ones.

If you just want to try a creature collector game in general and don’t care about it being Pokemon specifically, I’d recommend Cassette Beasts, Temtem, Monster Hunter Stories, or Nexomon over Pokemon, but it’s all personal preference.

It’s pretty hard to lock only specific apps with this one, though.

Draft-dodging, in the US?

All I could think of. Maybe they’re using statistics from 1973.

Has Kamigawa vibes.

Someone a long time ago pointed out that they likely do it on purpose just to bait engagement from people saying basically exactly what you’re saying, and I think about it every time either the ridiculous censoring, or this style of objection come up.

Fair enough.

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No more paywall.

That price is certainly not representative of what was actually available when I was booking. There were $99 tickets but only if you wanted to leave at 5AM or arrive after 4PM. If you want to leave between 8-10AM and arrive at a reasonable time, there were no coach options and business class was $200+.

I went and checked JetBlue before posting that and they had $101 flights that were listed at 1h 14m, so that’s what I was basing those numbers on.

Can’t find the Boston->NYC confirmation, but here’s one from around the same time from Penn Station in Providence. This was the cheapest seat available on this train; the cheaper ones were only available if you left before 6AM or after 11AM. This train got in at about 1:30 PM, so 3h 45m from RI.

Train stations definitely have less bullshit, but it’s a 5h trip vs a 1h trip in this case. I could have spent 3 hours in the airport before the flight each way and added 30 minutes to get from the train station to the airport and back, and still saved time by flying.

We don’t have high speed rail, either, so that trip would only take you (by my understanding) about 1.5-2 hours.

I could have sworn that it also included language that applied the tax if they leave the state, too, but even if that’s incorrect, who cares? Let them move. The more states that do something like this, the less places they’ll have as “safe havens” and if they move out of the country, cool, again, let them. It sends a clear message: If you won’t pay your share, we don’t want you here.

Once everyone collectively agrees that billionaires should pay their share, there will be nowhere left for them to run. It has to start somewhere.