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... no, no, it's probably magic if that "anywhere" is in fact literal and they can make a 3 point shot while in the 2 point zone, too. Probably some variation of enchantment or charm, to convince the refs the rules have spontaneously mutated themselves.

Even failed baking is usually still baked goods, assuming it's not burnt and/or an inedible puddle of yeastgoo (as opposed to edible and delicious puddles of yeastgoo, as occasionally happens when you tinker with pies or puddings). Improvisation in baking works out fairly decently fairly often.

Yeah, chucklefish has published more than they've developed, iirc, and more than one of those titles (Risk of Rain, the Wanderlust stuff... no clue about the other ones, but they at least seem to have fairly positive reviews) are at least decent. They've got a pretty alright record for publishing, imo, so far.

And yeah, they don't seem to be the dev(s), or at least not the primary ones.

Heh. To be honest, I half think it'd be easier on the political side of things to implement meaningful gun control than better mental health services. We already have disability services and whatnot (covering mental health as well) in a lot of (all?) areas, they just tend to be pretty woefully equipped to do... anything, really, and often pretty hard to get into (Florida, ferex, basically requires something like two years of documented and crippling mental health issues before disability assistance services start kicking in, and it can be kinda' difficult to reach that point, nevermind the folks that are having substantial problems but aren't sufficiently disabled by it.). There's less extreme venues via social services as well, but again, insufficient resources, support, overstressed with what it does handle, etc., etc., etc.

And considering improving the mental health arena would by and large perforce include general health service reform, which is arguably even more of a loggerhead between the partisan sides of things than guns are...

Well. It's worth fighting for, obviously, I'd just be hard pressed to call improving the mental health side of things as something more likely to change than gun control, heh.

True, if we can just assume a can opener of lavish funding, many problems are easy to solve.

*shrugs* It being difficult to get the can opener doesn't make the problem itself more complex. Just makes getting the resources (be it fiscal, work hours, or public sentiment) to fix it more of a slog, and even that is usually pretty bloody simple, just frustrating and time consuming.

And @strife, I'm well aware of that. I've actually gone through, y'know, a concealed carry course, gun safety training, etc., and something like half my bloody family has seen some degree of either direct military service or contract work for supporting operations. You'd also do well to note the mass shootings on the noted sites and the armed and train folks getting gunned down were separate things. Still, if you have any idea of a better example than those, you're welcome to give it. You're pretty much guaranteed to still find people getting gunned down, probably at least a few times en masse. Armament and training only does so much (that is, basically nothing) to stop a gunner before they start killing people. Most of the time we actually see someone stopped before an attack, it's not by a bullet.

Also would be welcome to note that I didn't say a damn thing about cutting into gun ownership in that statement. Just noting that we do, in fact, have multiple examples of areas with multiple armed and trained individuals on site involved in mass shootings, and it does jack to effect the rhetoric involved. There are no counter examples to that crowd, just insufficiency and (notably rare) examples they crow as success stories.

Presumably winning the match when you're the last person left alive on your team.

... don't actually know, though. I've never played counterstrike.

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Think the point ree was making is that they brought the stories and characters with 'em, but they didn't bring the comics Fake edit: Though I guess I've been ninja'd, but eh. Already typed!

Kinda' falls in the same place with the franchise stuff, really. The comic material largely isn't what's getting attention, it's the movies and movie related paraphernalia. We're not seeing much of a comic resurgence or acceptance so much as people liking movies made from 'em while still, broadly speaking, being fairly disdainful of the originating source. S'less like the franchises have actually gone mainstream so much as there's a new mainstream franchise based roughly off an old comic one. Will say I guess I have seen more of the movie related stuff and conversation than I was thinking, I just didn't really connect the two in my head -- to me, the transformers or whatev' movies and the stuff surrounding those are pretty distinct things from the comic book material.

Would wager you'd see something similar with anime franchises if people didn't keep bungling the hell out of live action releases for 'em, ha.

Not for you, it isn't.