I don’t think this is a hot take. People valued Halo because it brought the PC multiplayer experience to the console, not because it really innovated in any way.

I had a couple of friends who gamed on PC and would come over for LAN parties before Halo came out. After Halo came out? I hosted a Halo 2 launch party where we wired together 4 XBoxes and got 16-player games going. So many more people had an XBox than a PC, and they were much easier to travel with and wire up.

When I was in college, I got to show this movie to someone who had never heard of it. I’m so glad I got to see their reaction when they figured out what the movie is about.

Red meat in general. Even pork has gotten out of hand.

My family is eating poultry two or three nights per week and entirely vegetarian the rest of the week just to cut spending.

There’s a lot of people clearly using red lights as opportunities to check their phone. If I can see a phone in their hand when the light turns green, I’m honking immediately.

I remember when I started at UPS back in 2015, starting wage was $11/hr, hours were capped at 25/week, and as part of the onboarding HR would show you how to sign up for SNAP.

No, based on patch notes, headline is 100% on the level.

Both bodies are valid

Actually, I think that first guy really needs to drink some water.

I’ve discussed compensation with a couple of coworkers at my current job, and my big takeaway is that they’re all really bad a negotiating and self-advocating. I’ve got coworkers in the same responsibility band doing a much better job than I am and genuinely making ~20% less than me. Because they never counter-offered when they got hired or promoted, just accepted the first number they saw.

Dean Cain actually was in Smallville, but only as a guest in one episode. He played an immortal doctor who was kidnapping and killing women to harvest their organs.

When I was 20 years old, I took everything I had and moved to New York City. I was unemployed and squatting at a friend’s place. On my birthday, my grandmother mailed me a check for $100, and I realized I’d need a bank account to cash it. So I went to Washington Mutual, opened an account, and deposited my check.

Then the clerk asked if I wanted a credit card. I told him I was unemployed. He said that was fine, and they’d just give me a “starter” card with a low limit.

So that’s how WaMu effectively gave me $1,000 for opening a checking account and all I had to do was not answer my phone for about a decade.

I’ve got a similarly older vehicle. I ended up buying a little Bluetooth dongle that plugs into the aux jack for, like, $10.

It absolutely can be texture. Have you seen a History of Violence? The film has two sex scenes, and they’re crucial to the tone of the film, the characterization of the protagonist, and the narrative tension of a marriage in crisis. Would the film work without those scenes? Maybe, but it’s a much tougher sell to understand Viggo Mortensen’s character and emotional journey without them.

As for fat and ugly people not having sex scenes, that’s a selection bias. Most celebrities are not fat or ugly. The few celebrities that are may also be self conscious and unwilling to do such scenes. But they definitely happen. Off the top of my head, Kathy Bates and Woody Harrelson have both done sex scenes despite not being conventionally attractive.

One on the left line line Mike Bloomberg.

The Baileys would probably be discouraged.

I think you mean Tim Robinson. Tim Robbins is a different guy.

I love your confidence, but people have been charged with both criminal mischief and disturbing the peace for much less flagrant actions in the past. Given the nature of the crime, either charge is conceivably applicable. But that’s hardly relevant, because this gentleman literally climbed the building; he wasn’t standing on a public sidewalk in view of a hospital.

I’m almost 40, and I only know one person who bought their house without direct and significant help from their parents. And that person only managed because they married an older doctor who could afford to buy a foreclosure when prices crashed in '08.

I heard an interview with Bruce Blakeman this morning where he argued that New York shouldn’t be fighting Kalshi because Kalshi provides jobs.

Yes, there are, like, 100 people working in the NY office. What a masterful job creator this company that lets people bet on the longevity of cancer patients’ lives is. Those finance bros couldn’t possibly finance bro for a slightly less evil business model anywhere in the state. How foolish of Hochul to target such a community staple.

Republicans have no morals or beliefs. Their only values can be measured in dollars.

Edit: auto-correct auto-uncorrected the spelling of Kalshi. I fixed it

This happened in Wales, so it would be real weird to get a payout in dollars.

But if this did happen in America, almost every charge OP listed would be valid, and this guy would have a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting half a million for being arrested.

Currently only 5% of arrests go to trial. Most are resolved in plea deals, which is what almost any lawyer or public defender would tell this guy to angle for. Better to pay a fine and do some community service than pay more to a lawyer for a worse outcome in front of a jury.

And to be clear, if this guy did play the longshot and try to get a trial, it’d be very difficult to win. The prosecutor would need to convince a jury that scaring the shit out of sick people is a bad thing. The defense is what? That it’s not that bad? Or that this guy mixed up his candystriper outfit with his black robe, whoopsie? I don’t think Atticus Finch himself could turn that jury.

The American legal system is already heavily stacked to crush innocent people. Imagining that there’s some sort of Uno Reverse card for someone maliciously intimidating sick people is delusional.

men competing in every single K-12 female sports event

I kind of do want this, though? Like, not every event, but every once in a while let’s have a soccer match of a team of 6 year old girls versus a couple of middle-aged men. Just to see what happens.