Bookmark the webpage in case your pharmacist hasn't heard and tries to charge you American friends: do you (like me) not currently have health insurance, or does your insurance not cover vaccines? CDC is paying until December of next year at places like CVS and Wallgreens. It's called the Bridge Ac...

May not be up to my usual meme standards, but something about it just screamed Friday to me

That'll require some biological adaptations which may take a while still. The following four step process produces the closest equivalent to the sensation yet discovered by man: ⋅ have skin allergies ⋅ expose an area really strongly ⋅ wait for the hives to show up &sdot...

I feel like random attack patterns can be okay as long as they aren't overly punishing.
It's fine for Zelda bosses that do Zelda level damage to your fully maxed out 20 hearts to be pretty damn random.
Not so much for Dark Souls bosses where face-tanking one or two combos is deadly.

To me it doesn't boil down to number of attempts required, but like, mechanics. What makes Malenia unfair, to me, is that she heals every time she hits you, even if you blocked the attack and took no damage. Even if you "dodged" the attack via iframes. But the fact is: healing on successfu...

I found Sea Spider more frustrating than Balteus. Not because it's harder, but because I didn't find it as fun to fight. Looked up a youtube pretty quick, and it's suggestion of dual Gatlings + dual Songbirds was extremely effective. So effective that it worked even though I only ground up enough ca...

The first item of Mongrel's most recent post reminded me:

I kinda disagree about AC6. Granted, I haven't finished it, but so far... Okay, so, Balteus was kind huge difficulty spike, but I had a lot of fun during my first four hours of losing to it repeatedly. Just the continuous flow of movement as I chased it chaotically all over the arena. When I started...

I enjoyed Akiba Maid Wars. The thing where it's doing a send-up of a different anime genre every episode is pretty great. When it first got to being a generic yakuza story, I found myself choking up at a character death, and then had to laugh at the fact that I was choking up over a story where ...

The Spartans, for all their extreme military focus, were even worse at war than the other Greek city-states

The Mason-Dixon line that has traditionally defined "the south" is what separates Maryland and Pennsylvania. It ain't Alabama but Virginia is certainly Dixie enough . I could have sworn it was between Maryland and Virginia, what with the whole thing where West Virginia broke off to remain...

There's gotta be some state on the eastern side of the US that isn't: 1. the south 2. florida 3. cold as fuck Is it Illinois? Virginia may fit the bill. I can only confirm that the northern (DC-adjacent) parts aren't the south, but those definitely are still cold as fuck (read: get snow) in winter....

That sounds pretty conclusive, thanks!

Has anyone considered the possibility that the plane crashed just because Wagner Group is terrible at vehicle maintenance? (Not saying that Putin wouldn't have shot it down eventually anyway)

I'll go to bat for the EWJ soundtracks. Sure, they're not my favorite 16-bit BGMs, but they get the job done and they're memorable enough that I can still summon them from memory. EWJ one's soundtrack was fine , but EWJ2's was memorable and fun and still gets stuck in my head sometimes. However, I ...

I've been playing Starcom: Nexus for the past couple of days. It has big big Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters vibes, but you get to customize your ship with modules that you research built from the resources you find out and about. Only complaints are that the module placement rules wind up stifl...

I think that it is possible for limited forms of capitalism to serve the public interest, and so I will sometimes suggest low-hanging fruit type reforms that could significantly improve the world in which we live by making a minor structural change. But I only do this because I believe it is signifi...

I did some research and Sh0e seems to have reformed somewhat -- switching from a trump voter in 2016 to a biden voter in 2020, and now being supposedly cool with the trans, and even non-binary identities... but is Vaush adjacent in a way that makes me hesitant to check out her stuff. She is a video ...

My great grandmother was actually a nurse who administered malariotherapy!

This thread is for video essays. Give me your RedLetterMedias , your HBomberguys , your Jessie Genders yearning to breathe free! Today I watched CJ the X talk about Bo Burnham for two and a half hours, and I could feel my brain chemistry change as a significant portion of my additional depressions f...