Not always true (never long enough is true, I mean the other part). I can attach to an animal but what I don’t want is to be put in charge of its wellbeing. That’s a lot of work and responsibility. I hated every second of that growing up when we got animals and suddenly I was in charge of their care and feeding even though I never asked for a pet.

So I can love your dog/cat/rat/horse/whatever. You may find us both snoring on the couch together or heading out on adventures or I may bring it a treat/toy on its birthday. But I do not want to be the guy making sure it’s alive.

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you.

I’m a hair older than him.

I hurt pretty often. I get tired more easily. I have hangovers now. If I jump out of the bed of a pickup my knees make noises. I could go on for days about it.

And it’s great. I don’t worry about what people think and I have adventures. I do what I want outside of work. And I have stories and hobbies and old friends.

I have a memory foam Texas King. It only remembers the Alamo.

Or we can all just assume that since Steam hasn’t released the price these guys are just misleading people for views and put them on our permanently do not watch list. Couple that with someone being smarmy about the content rather than talking to people and it seems like something I wouldn’t personally enjoy.

Well, teenagers scare the living shit out of me.

My buddy has one. “To threaten someone” would be a valid response. I’ve seen him take it off after telling someone he’s going to put his foot up their ass.

That looks really cool! I’ll likely pick up a couple of the new controllers, but I’ve currently got a few mini PCs scattered around the house for gaming so I won’t need a steam machine until one of these craps out on me. But I’m very excited for the folks who will be able to get and enjoy it!

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

I’ve got a stack of old 14.4 modems I’ll sell them if they’ll grift on that for a bit.

You’d think they learned their lesson when Starz did it to Torchwood. It strips out a lot of the charm.

I thought at the beginning they didn’t. That was the biggest complaint I heard at the time from my bartender friends. But it’s been that way for years at the least. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t intuitive at the time and they didn’t know they could skip.

Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.

Absolutely not. It’s 20 minutes away from going in the freezer for 8 months with the promise of gross banana bread that will never get made, and the banana will be found and they’ll make a special trip to buy new bananas which will also go in the freezer with the promise of gross banana bread. Repeat every 8 months.

I don’t fucking get it. I love sex. I love having the extra money that comes from not having kids. I love the fact that my vasectomy means I ain’t getting anyone pregnant. I will never understand the desperate need to try to impregnate every woman you come into contact with.

I only comport myself with liquor.

I’m a white dude who has never been called Hitler. But I comport myself with empathy and dignity. Well, empathy anyway.

So the people who know better are mad and the people who are fucking whacky are mad. This seems like a low percentage move.

I want to speak to this a bit because I enjoy a lot of flawed things, SNW included. I also don’t spend time complaining about entertainment I don’t like because if I don’t like it I just don’t talk about it at all. I used to spend that energy but it got old.

Side story: A friend of mine is a huge Wheel of Time fan. He has reread the books dozens of times. He started a book club where we worked at the time just to have someone to discuss them with (which i joined). This was in the days leading up to the final 3 coming out, so quite a while ago. It’s flawed. 90% of the plot could have been fixed by saying “then they actually talked to each other”. Women characters weren’t generally treated with care. Hell, dudes weren’t either in a lot of cases. When Brandon Sanderson took over the character voices changed. And I have bitched about all the issues with the books. But only because I really enjoyed them.

So when I come out and complain about yet another Spock romance, how the women aren’t being treated right, reversing the polarity of the jammy dodger flow (oh, that’s Doctor Who), Trelane vs Q, or whatever else it’s because I genuinely like Trek. I don’t talk about DS9 or the later seasons of Discovery because they’re just not my cup of tea. I’m going to let the people who like them have their own conversation without my negative opinion tainting the conversation.

I actually assumed it would take the place of art for money laundering.