We're here - might as well make the best of it.

Look me dead in the eye and tell me that people being able to sit at home and watch The Game -- the fandom that encourages, the ongoing investment over the years, the memories and traditions of Watching the Game with family and friends -- harms the ticket sales of real live go-to-the-stadium sports. Of course it doesn't. Of course all that *is the reason* that people care so much about sports they'll invest a small fortune on not only tickets but often travel costs to be part of it all in person. And the people who aren't doing that *can't* do that and weren't going to regardless, but their at-home participation and investment still boosts the profile of pro and NCAA sports as cultural institutions.

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

"You know how it is with the Valerius family," said another woman who sold inferior vegetables at the market. Everyone murmured sorrowful agreement. "Hope Lord Marius hasn't snapped and murdered his mother and sister."

"Surely not. He is so honorable. And his eyes are sad."

"I could fix him," said the man who sold the best eggs.

...

"Anyone can see the Emperor is wild as weather."

"It's the harlot's fault, leading him astray—"

"I can fix him," said the egg-seller.

"What, both the Emperor and Lord Marius? You would be most assuredly and extremely murdered."

"What a way to go, though."

All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan

First, figure out what you want as a cursor. I'm going to be changing mine to a Skyrim mouse.

So first you get a picture of whatever you want, as clean as possible:

Open your favorite art program and clean it up, then save as a png:

Then go here and convert it to a .cur file. Make sure there's no gap between the corner of the arrow and the corner of the png.

Next you go to Control Panel:

Select Mouse from the list:

Then go to the Pointers tab and pick whichever mouse cursor you want to replace.

Click "Browse..." and find the .cur file you made earlier:

And voila! I now have a Skyrim cursor.

You may have to tinker with the size a bit to get the point to be accurate. If that happens, just resize your png and convert to .cur again.

and then here comes an accident, an elevator like the hand of god delivering him the man who caused him pain, a bystander, a child, and a gun. he gets shot. and the pain exposes his knee-jerk reaction, which was always, always to take everything he could. instead of saving lives, calling an ambulance, he took one life, ruined another, and started the longest revenge game ever.

shane: "fuck off"

hayden: jesus what a dick