Eating the Garnish

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If I say "X is infringing on people's rights,"

And your response is "Excuse me, but X is perfectly legal,"

That doesn't make it fine.

In many cases, that makes it much worse.

This is the worst day of the year. Black Friday when you have the day off:

The first thing that really stood out about this anime was when Satoru and Kayo discussed "being a fake" to fit in with others, and it wasn't talked about as something shameful nor as a duty, just in a straight-forward way of this is how some people get through difficult situations. And the friendships Satoru first made in this way went on to become genuine and close. The anime brings up a range of real, difficult topics from single mother families to domestic abuse but it doesn't use them to be gritty or edgy but takes them as challenges to be met optimistically.

Yahoo! Answers shut down over a month ago but you can still get your own personal data about what you said on the site. Yuo can start by going to: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/request-download-yahoo-answers-data-sln35643.html

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People make fun of Yahoo Answers but it was the first social media style platform I felt comfortable using. When you asked a question, the answers were, well, as good as the other people online cared them to be. I learned which categories and what time of day were the best. I came to know other friendly people on the site. I saw it as both a place to learn about new topics and others experiences, and being in high school and later college I saw it as an opportunity to spread what I was learning and challenge myself outside of the pressure of school. Of course, I've hardly set foot there in the last 10 years. The internet really has changed in that time. I suppose its time came and went, and other sites became popular with formats that more people find useful for what they're looking for online.

So, so long Yahoo! Answers. You have your own little corner in internet history.

"Google, what's the difference between arugula and kale?"

"People say arugula is a delicious leaf that tastes like lettuce and has more calcium than kale."

Okay, let's try some of that.

Get home, put it in my mouth.

I’ve been looking forward to trying this game for about a year now.  I like how the gameplay and character progression is structured.  The deck, equipment and artifact setup is unique enough to give the game character without trying to fully rewrite the genre.  It's very satisfying to have so much customization control over your character an playstyle, in a way where you don't need to level up ten different characters.  The challenge feels very well-balanced, which is impressive in a beta release.  

So far after completing the first location there's not much storyline to speak of, which can on its own be fine.  My issue here is that the game manages to quickly shaft you from one character and objective to another so what little storyline they have is also hard to follow.  I think the guy who brings you into Tazeem meets you for one or two quests later and then just disappears.  The storyline also occasionally intersects with team events, and since nobody but me wants to read the actual dialogue, I either have to speed-read through it or it gets aborted before I can (and if I do finish fast, am I stopping other players from finishing?)

The graphics are nice.  The landscapes are fun.  They're nothing that I would expect to greatly tax my 2-year-old gaming computer which plays it proficiently but hisses like it's going to melt down after just ten minutes.  The "low" graphics setting unloads major details like torches and bricks in all but a couple paces around my character, which is a very bizarre experience in a third person game with a fixed camera distance.  There were also issues with lagging for many players in the first couple nights, possibly due to high server load.

(Edit: The strain seems to occur only when I’m around other players and events, like in overworlds and especially Sanctum.  The game seems to have trouble filtering out what ungrouped players on the other side of the world are engaged in from my own activity.)

Tackling some after-story content I managed to get into a situation where I almost completed an overworld objective and then someone possibly three times my level came by and decimated the last part of it and, oh that's fine, I thought, until I received absolutely no loot.  Likewise I knocked down quite a few of these trying to get the big boss to spawn, arrived in time with the other players, gave a good battle and walked away with absolutely nothing.