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I mean, I'm the guy in the picture, but I'm not offended, I already know I'm terrible.

Do they look like the photo? I like the bulky frames look, myself. My (non-smart) glasses are rounder but similarly large.

I agree, it's not on her to withdraw herself from the competition. I don't think she owes an apology. If she won, she won. If it was unsafe for the other competitors the judges should have pulled her out.

Did they learn their training techniques from the handbook?

Phantasy Star Online (with the broadband adapter, and also local co-op with a couple of my high school buddies), Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (I had all A ranks!), Super Smash Bros. Melee (an especially big hit in college!), Soul Calibur II, Metroid Prime... there was some great stuff on the Gamecube!

But they didn't charge her with endangering him, that's a different thing.

Edit to add: And I suspect they didn't because he was, self evidently, not in danger. So I remain confused about why this became an entire affair.

I feel like I am in a Monty Python sketch right now. She "contributed to delinquency" because he could have gotten in trouble that he didn't get into if things had gone entirely differently?

Officials in the case decided to press charges against Parkinson, and last week she was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and placed on Virginia’s child-abuse-and-neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years.

I am all in favor of delinquency, but I don't understand what delinquent behavior she could possibly have contributed to in this case? Walking in public? Having an interest in waterfowl?

I can't remember which game it was now, but I've definitely played some indie game that has fake load screens because I remember someone modded them out and asked the dev why they existed, and the response was that the dev found the instant transition between scenes jarring. It's not crazy to think Big N would do the same thing.

I changed majors to anthropology because I hoped that it would help me understand humans and therefore myself. Now I know a lot more about how much I don't know, and every job in the field has hyper specific requirements that make it seem like they were written to guarantee the PI's grad student gets the position.

I don't like to say "good person" and "bad person" because I feel like it implies that there is some objective scale of goodness that people can be compared to, and I think that is simply not the case. So I would rather think of this question as "Do you have a positive opinion of yourself?"

No, no I don't. My opinion of myself is extremely negative.

Sort of, but I think "the night hours are just better" is a good enough reason. If I spend them sleeping I'm missing out on quality night time! It will suck during the day but that is a problem for Future Me.