Jess G.

It is actually complex and layered, which is why it can do that. It has the opposite of something wrong with it.

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

Met my current partner when I invited him to my DnD table.

Worked out very, very well.

Large black male Akita panting anxiously in the back of a car.

Black Akita with his head tilted curiously.

One of these Akitas always lies and one always tells the truth.

Pumpkin grin for ear rubs.

Yeah, think he's found his Forever Home. He seems to be just starting to believe his life is going to be more about chilling in a living room than wandering in a desert.

I will forever stand in awe of Mike McMahan for successfully pulling off a message like "Sometimes what's truly worthwhile in life can be really dumb shit".

It IS.

Next time I'm going to point out I have online friendships older than both of them put together.

This is what I do to my partner's kids every time they try to nerd flex on me.

He's not wrong...

Can't tell how hard you're trolling but this is legit more inspiring than any of the HR human-performance trainings I've been in.

This. I saw a lot of people who could have retired years ago or made a LOT more money in the private sector and didn't because they believed they were doing a very important job fired unceremoniously because loldoge federal employees are all worthless sacks of shit.

Yup. This world has its own norms, though. The only time I've ever seen people fired same-day was once for harassing an openly bisexual dude and once for a race-tinged rant at a coworker.

One of the few places I've encountered no-shit country-over-politics patriots.

She went from a pretty normal looking Midwestern lady to one of those Japanese murder ghosts.

This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine

I have had more arguments than I can count with Akitas. I've even won a few.

Watching it hit my very conservative, very blue-collar workplace that not only does this administration not care about them, they have *absolutely no idea what we actually do and don't care that they don't*, has been interesting. Not in a schadenfreude way.

("We" meaning Department of Energy.)

The loss to the Texans in the wildcard round was so embarrassing I could never have faced the 8th grade lunchroom again. And they only got there because their division was historically awful.

Why are the Steelers this fiercely committed to mediocrity?

Last snowstorm of the season usually hits around Easter. There are rules of thumb like "not until the snow is off the firebird" that rely on knowing exactly which burn scar on which mountain as you approach from the west of Santa Fe resembles a firebird.

requiem for vanished birdsong

I get mildly depressed thinking about what Vegas or New York is about to do to that nice young man.

What amazes me is the NFL figured this out before Target.

"Okay, those are some big feelings bud. You wanna come to the Commanders game?"

"....yes"

"but I want them to be the Redskins again and for the Superbowl halftime show to be white people speaking English and-"

"No. :)"

Orcas are an education on what real, sentient intelligence looks like in a non-human animal. And it's unsettling as often as it is charming.

They are bright enough to understand, and sometimes enjoy, cruelty.

a cartoon character with big eyes is being held by a hand Alt: Mariner wants to know what the fluffy fuck was that

Wh...

what the fuck was that

And that something includes "becoming indistinguishable from right-wing stereotypes of leftists to own the fash".

"As a leftist in good standing I have had my sense of humor surgically removed."

I've been thinking about that a bit longingly myself.

I do not, in fact, have a couple of hours most nights or if I'm honest all nights in my week as my life currently is. Nor do I have a desktop or other machine capable of running the game.

But some part of my brain really wants to.

Any supplement that actually works isn't a supplement or a natural alternative, it's an understudied, unregulated drug.

Because they're not actually trying to impress anyone but each other, because those are the only opinions they listen to?

No. It involves a lot of Trying Not To Make That Face Out Loud. Especially since the same individual is extremely... concerned and involved... with making everyone else drive more safely.

The director of the DOE site I work at has an extremely distinctive Cybertruck with an iridescent purple wrap.

It's... a choice.

A sick-looking guy who hasn't touched grass or seen the sun *since* 2020 because he's been Online ever since.