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Pretty sure the newer F1 games have a story. Pretty sure a lot of the old Need For Speed games had a story.

I would consider an RPG to be something that has a system that means a character can be good at something that doesn’t necessarily correlate with player skill, and tends to change as the game goes on such as through level ups or whatever.

Like the SPECIAL attributes and other skills in Fallout. You can be good at gunplay as a player, but the various interactions between equipment, skills, and attributes determines damage during any particular battle. It doesn’t matter how suave (or not) you are as a player, your character’s charisma attribute and speech skill (possibly reputation also) determine the success of that speech check.

Contrast with Mario, in which things like mushrooms and fire flowers only give some cushion for power skill. It doesn’t matter how many mushrooms you have, if the player is incapable of beating Bowser, they’re not beating Bowser.

Putin is going to reassert his power.

Prigozhin dies within the week?

Pretty sure flexibility can atrophy if it’s not maintained aye

I’m pretty sure the “were-“ part means man, so how does one become a werehouse?

I fell into the wall yesterday and proceeded to bounce off it and graze my knuckles on the other side of the narrow hallway, should I be worried?

No idea if she’s still doing it (it wouldn’t surprise me) but the “immediate” resignation of Nadine Dorries is being delayed so she can figure out why she isn’t getting her £300 daily allowance I mean her peerage, because I imagine her constituents’ priority is indeed her completely naked ambition.

Another reason for it is also so that the Tories can’t get the by-election(s) over quickly, possibly with the intent for it to run into the party conference season in a few months time. Because Tory voters in her constituency presumably want to make it more difficult for the Tories to win these by-elections? That one might be the case though. A touch divided as a party they are, at the moment.

Pro-tip: DO NOT EVER FLY THROUGH NEW YORK. For having the busiest international airport into America, they sure seem very surprised by the volume of passengers. Spent two hours standing in various queues in a sweltering hot airport, and the staff were being very bloody draconian about making every single person go through their miles of ropes off queuing areas.

Also don’t fly with a baby. Coming from the US two weeks ago, all the little fluids and such we brought for child were fine. Evidently we either got rules Nazi or it was asinine application of the rules day when we came back. Can’t take the bottle clearly labeled CHILDREN’S TYLENOL because it is 4oz instead of 3.4oz, and you can’t have the ice pack to keep the not-breast-milk-but-still-clearly-milk cold, which you should know is normal milk ‘cause it took you 10 minutes to put it through your stupid machine (I think it’s a spectrometer) which presumably told you it was milk. Turned out not to be a problem because the tyke went through 18oz of it on the six hour flight… ‘cause his teeth were sore.

Now we get the other side of jet-lagged baby, probably waking up ridiculously early instead of staying up ridiculously late.

In my experience it describes an incredibly ugly person.