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From what I recall, it's all pretty straightforward, and a lot of it has tooltips (or... something. Forget, but whatever. Manual, if nothing else, and a straightforward one at that.). HoMM3 in particular is pretty easy to pick up, from what I recall.

... Siru hasn't been exposed to HoMM? I'd probably recommend dropping two more bucks on this, instead, or seeing if you can get it elsewhere for cheaper. HoMM 2 or 3 is probably where you want to start, insofar as dipping into Heroes of Might and Magic, and 3's general aesthetic is a bit more modern.

Power in this house has flipped right the hell out. Half the house is dead and intermittently flickering, the other half is fine. No warning, no previous buggerups. Just, suddenly a light started flickering, then a room, the breaker box starts doing beatbox with popping and whatnot and splat, half the house 98% dead. Seems to have got the AC, too (not that I'm complaining about that.).

... at least half is still going, and it didn't hit the internet room, but... eesh. First sign the house has had of this sorta' trouble, too...

It's not a time limit >.<

2 and a half hours is more than enough to complete a dungeon.

I had to specifically hack out (well, freeze with a memory editor, whatever) the day progression in ADOM in order to enjoy playing the bloody thing with anything approaching seriousness. My enjoyment of DCSS like, quadruples, when I just point Cheat Engine or whatev' at it and give myself infinite food. Done a lot of things like that, over the years. S'the presence of the ruddy thing more than its actual gameplay-level interference. As tim notes, more or less.

Though I'm not entirely sure anxiety is the word, per se. S'just... a constraint, when I'm probably playing the game to be free. Admittedly, there's other constraints as well, but there's just something about clock-like behavior -- time limits, food clocks... limits on number of actions -- that rub me the wrong way. It's not as bad with more focused things (puzzle games, particular levels or sections of levels... that sort of thing), but an omnipresent, always pressuring, limit in something I'm expected to be playing for quite a while, especially something that is ostensibly expansive or relatively freeform... no. Just, no. I do not like it, Sam I am. I will not eat your green eggs and ham. Usually, anyway. Occasionally, it can be stomached, but it's never been appreciated, never improved the experience for me.

And so I've never been able to get into Majora's Mask. Some day in the future, I'll hit it while I'm in the right mood, and be able to experience a good game. That day is yet to come

Put simply, the US does not guarantee paid maternity leave on a federal level. There are no laws or regulations to that effect. I couldn't say anything about on a state level (though, from what I understand, mostly not, still*) and individual institutions may or may not, but the overarching government provides for no paid maternity leave. Just 12 weeks unpaid, and even then there exists caveats (It doesn't apply to many businesses, and even then only particular employees). If your chem teacher is getting paid leave, it's not the federal government that's caused it, and it's probably not the state, either.

*Actually, looking at it, it looks like about 6 states do provide for paid maternity leave, maxing out at 8 weeks in the best case scenario.

Don't worry; when I run for President of the Earth and dictate to you all exactly how you may or may not go about hating each other over petty issues like the bigots you are, I will make sure to doodle my own posters.

For that, future tyrant, I will endeavor to make your assassination as quick and painless as possible. You may be intending to be a despot, but at least you won't be as wasteful as you could be.

they made an image based on it, though, yeah

Which was exactly what I was saying. That politician, apparently, paid someone to make a doge meme image. I could not vote for someone that would do that. Ever. I will not support a person for office that wastes funds on making something that takes like five freaking seconds with paint to make. That's a sign of either gross technological incompetence, mindbogglingly extreme laziness, or corruption (give brainless, skill-less makework, register extravagant hours, pay ridiculous amounts. S'actually a fairly standard means of attempting tax fraud, iirc.). And that's just one of the aspects of what's wrong with that. It's just. It makes me hope it's paid for by people that hate the person and are trying to assassinate their character. If so, it worked.