Rob Pait

You know, that is kind of the crux of it for a lot of people. There are so few of us Jews remaining that many people will never meet one of us in real life. To them, we seem less like real people, and more like mythical beasts that show up on TV when something bad happens.

Have you read "Spear of the Emperor?" It is written from the perspective of a woman who is a chapter serf, and who has come to the realization that she is effectively a slave.

My workplace is dropping support for OpenAI, with the two endorsed products for use in house being Claude and Gemini.

I saw it last night. I felt like it had ended half way through, and when I was wondering why it wasn't wrapping up, I was like, "oh yeah, they introduced TM Opera, but haven't done anything with them yet."

CCA really needed the part from Beltorchika's children, where fairly early on, Amuro has the sudden realization that Char is doing all of this to get his attention.

It's funny because I have been a card gamer for three decades, and I have been thinking a lot recently about how that was the start of everything being gambling in a proverbial paper bag. Like, why shut down a slap house, when I can pay entry for a tournament to effectively win lotto scratchers?

As a base rarity warrior, I paid for entire AAA games by selling off every loot box I have gotten in counterstrike. Same with the virtual trading cards they issue for games.

California is a weird spot, because we do make a ridiculous amount of the domestically grown produce for human consumption, when it would make more sense to grow it in the states where they make food for pigs.

Hasal saves the penalty for LAFC, and suddenly, I am glad we had him over Lloris.

Boyd takes a free kick for #LAFC in the 63rd minute that Tafari would convert into a goal! I would like to say that with the 3252 dyed into his hair, Tafari looks like he walked out of a sports manga, and I wish I could get a clean picture of the look from my seat.

The first half of #LAFC vs Real Eapana end 0-0. It feels like LAFC is using this as a training match, and that Son and Bouanga are focusing on passing to the second stringers.

Sitting down for #LAFC vs Real Espana.

I think a lot of the discourse boils down to "people don't like mentally ill people engaging in anti-social behavior in public," and rather than deal with that it is a difficult problem, tankie grade leftists insisting you are a bad person for not tolerating it.

Still waiting on a release date.

There was a match with the exact same scoreline last night in North and Central America's regional championship league, with LAFC tearing apart a club from Honduras.

There are a lot of modern, but nonetheless, defacto ethonostates across Europe and Asia that love to claim to be more progessive than America because of healthcare and gun control, but then have 4th generation illegal immigrants, and gender relations that we considered backwards in the 80s.

Not to drive you too nuts with another weeb reference, but given how many of its members show up in right wing, blue anon, and other weird extreme online cultures, GNAA must be your research's equivalent of the Rocks Pirates from One Piece. One member even made it into the Biden campaign briefly!

Funny because he got it after he got out of prison, and was advertising his "good bye jew S A" party before leaving the country.

Ironically, the OGL has been a disaster for ttrpgs. It has produced an entire generation with no idea how to create original mechanics, just reskin D&D.

This is also why there is panic whenever WOTC suggests revising it. The entire industry, design upwards, requires D&D be made as a public good.

I remember reading that Japanese curry was based off a British approximation of Indian curry, and I was like, "this makes it make so much sense."

My personal, "did you really believe that?" moment with that type of post was when John McAfee died. Queue myself, and everyone else in the tech industry who had encountered him saying, "no, he would absolutely say that and then kill himself."

Sometimes it is just a sign of delusional thinking.

I am hoping once Gang of Dragon comes out, we learn that Nagoshi took the credibility with him, and we keep getting classic Yakuza style games from him.

Also Cascadian flag color blocks.

Ok, the weird one that really got to me, and I believe this is even in the novel, is despite everything is supposed to be a 70s or 80s reference, the Mechagodzilla that appears is the 2000s version.

How do these children expect to get ahead when they are buying loss leaders?

Only if she kidnaps him mid bender.

My worst was texting the person in charge of approving sick time where I worked that I needed to take dick time that night. After one very confused text, he realized where s and d were ont he keyboard. The only time he didn't fight me on it, and decided I did not need to be in front of customers.

A lot of the leftists making anti electoral arguments, also seem to think that the minority party has abilities that they would in a parliamentary system, that they just do not have in ours.

In a row?

I just recently learned that I no longer have to apply to be Canadian, but am Canadian due to this law, have a parent born there. Getting together the paperwork. It was a bit confusing when I was like, "how do I activate my claim for citizenship," and the site was like, "You are already Canadian!"