I never really tried out Titan Weapons before the end. I've got a Titan/Willpower brute rampaging around Kings Row at the moment. It's rather fun.

*sniff*

May the Force be with you, always.

Could spell trouble? Scrabble rule change allows use of 'OK'

First "qi" becomes a word in the Scrabble Dictionary, then Donald Trump gets elected, and now this.  Seriously, it's the end of civilization guys. 

You might think that it's okay to invent words willy-nilly.  You might think that it's okay to play whatever you feel like, even if it's a Russian word.  You might even think it's okay to spell okay "O"-"K" in Scrabble.  But I don’t think it's okay. I think it’s immoral, I think it’s unethical, I think it’s unpatriotic, and yes, I think it's cheating the game.

Is it just my faulty memory, or did FFn just change the layout of favorites lists slightly, so there's now a <hr>-tag horizontal divider between each item? I'd almost swear they didn't have them up until I refreshed the page just now, but it's not something I consciously paid attention to before so it's hard to be completely certain.

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What you're looking at is about ten cubic yards each of hardwood mulch and (under the blue tarp) compost, filling up most of my driveway.  My after-hours job for as long as it takes is to spread all this in selected parts of the yard -- mostly in the front. 

Last year we had the grass and topsoil removed around the twin maple trees on either side of the driveway (one of which you can see next to the car) and replaced with richer topsoil and a layer of mulch, as part of a program to save them from dying on us.  These two small mountains are this year's installment of the process.  You can't quite see it because it blends in with the pile in front of it, but the visible tree and its mulched area has already been dealt with (so the piles really aren't 10 cubic yards anymore).  In comparison, the little grey patch to the left of the car is what last year's mulch looks like now.

Anyway, if anyone wants to know why I'm not a) increasing byte counts on various works, b) playing the revived City of Heroes, or c) anything else that I might do in the evenings, it is because I am either a) performing back-breaking labor or b) recovering from back-breaking labor by drugging myself and sitting in a HoMedics massage chair.

NRA in disarray: Infighting threatens gun group's future

So, is this yet another "looking from the outside and indulging in wishful thinking" piece, or is there something to it?

Although this part definitely isn't wishful thinking - it's statistics:

Quote:The United States, which accounts for just under five per cent of the world's population, now has 46 per cent of all civilian-owned guns.

Trump wants an immigration system 'like they have in Canada.' So, one without a border wall, then?

More seriously, I wonder whether it'd fly. Remember what happened when Lyndon B. Johnson made a similar suggestion?

And, hey, look - he waited until he needed to put together his re-election platform before suggesting this.

I dunno if this is a forum issue or something to do with the site(s) Rob's getting the images from, but I have to bring up the context menu, and click "view image" to see them. If I page back after that, the images show up in the thread, but they don't load until I've done that.

I have checked other threads (e.g. Lynn's Rec Room Projects), and they don't seem to have this problem. It's just the one thread.

Saw it (in 3D), loved it, thought it was great.  It did not feel like 3 hrs. 

Oh, and there was no end credit scene, so you don't have to wait.


Don't think there's much else I can say that doesn't spoil something, so I'll leave it at that