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I wish I could recommend the character creator for Phantasy Star Online 2, because in theory it's great, with the ability to mix and match clothing layers, recolor clothing, fine tune your body proportions, select from various customizable faces, etc. Most importantly, you can attach accessories to your character however you like and adjust their scaling and rotation in ways that let you repurpose them. For example, for a while I was using a head ornament, scaled down, rotated, and clipped into my face, as a pair of fangs, and it looked pretty convincing!

I can't actually recommend it though because the process of actually collecting outfits and accessories is FOMO gacha hell. (Gacha items purchased with "AC," the real-money only currency, can also be bought secondhand from other players, but you'll pay an arm and a leg for them, and you can't trade items bought with "SG" which is the premium currency that can also be earned in game.)

Yes, that too!

Did we watch the same movie? He didn't kill him, and didn't want to kill him. He felt the pain of all the people Ben would kill in the future, and rushed to their defense. And when he realized what defending them would entail, he turned off his saber. He was not willing to kill his own nephew, even to save the lives of many.

This is the dark side of the Force. It tempts you to be reckless, to act on emotion, and to let the ends justify the means. Luke resisted the temptation, this time. If he had been trained more thoroughly in the Jedi way, and learned to suppress his emotions from childhood, he might have caught himself before rushing out of bed armed and ready, and the vision might not have come to pass, but this is a difficult task for a mostly self-trained Force user. And, let's be honest, he is also the son of the legendarily hot-headed Anakin Skywalker.

Mark Epstein told Newsweek the individual was not Clinton. He did not provide any additional details about the identity of “Bubba” or the meaning of the emails.

From the article.

I guess it's not exactly the same, because it sort of is related, but I always get tripped up on "ancillary" because it is a totally inoffensive English word... except that the Latin word ancilla means "slave girl."

This doesn't jive with my life experience at all. If my family could have "programmed" me, I would have turned out very differently. Also all my siblings are wildly different people.

The development of living beings is a messy process and there are significant uncontrollable elements.

This image would be funnier without the caption, I think.

Does Gemini edit images? If it does my guess would be that at some point someone asked Gemini to obscure the identities of the original posters instead of doing it themselves (see: they have the same profile pic but different handles, and the reply has the wrong handle in the "replying to" section). I bet this is also why the color is all fucked up.

It depends on your sensitivity. One of my coworkers had the "genius" idea to test her pepper spray indoors and reactions from coworkers and customers ranged from "this is somewhat unpleasant" to "I can't breathe, I have to step outside." Some older customers who came in up to an hour later were still coughing.

Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually "burning" is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.

I use Youtube a lot. If I see a video from a creator I don't know, or from one I don't care that much about, and the thumbnail sets off my clickbait alarms, I just open the three dots menu and click "Don't recommend channel." I don't think it's a big problem, but it does annoy me and this significantly reduces the amount that I have to put up with it.

Sometimes if a thumbnail is borderline I'll open it in a new tab so I can entertain it for a few minutes and see if they pay off. If they don't, they get "don't recommend"ed.

I've also done this for creators who put the "like and subscribe" ask before I've actually seen the content they're asking me to subscribe to, if I'm in a particularly petty mood.

This is the second or third version of this story that I've heard in this comment chain and I'm having trouble searching for articles about the original incident, hits from the new one are flooding the results. Do you happen to have a link to more info?