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It only works if you forget about game stuff like “what’s the fastest way to the next mission”

I wish I could have done that, but it felt like at least early on, a lot of stuff is locked behind those missions.

But do you sá-sí, if you can speak no better?

Mickelson gets more ire

I havent kept up with golf since my grandfather passed away; what happened with Mickelson?

I was knowingly putting a toe over the line to make a point

Yes, my response should have very much been taken as a tongue-in-cheek nod to that. But tone is not always the same when read as when written, as we all know.

We know Americans had issues establishing air superiority over Yemen.

They sent one CSG and per US doctrine, spent a lot of time trying to shoot arrows (and sometimes even the bows!) while not so much the archers themselves. I'm not saying they didn't do things in a dumb way, or that they needed more will to win, but losing a few Reaper drones isn't really "having issues establishing air superiority", without even being pedantic over "superiority/supremacy".

Most of the complaints I see have nothing to do with dogs or vets, but are instead about the impact to birds.

Yes, my understanding is that detergent a) never goes bad, and b) everyone needs. It's a very safe sale to make.

I don't think any president wants to have to make the call of "Hey, this country just nuked a non-Nato country and wiped them off the map. Do we... respond?"

You don't want to set the precedent that there's no response or a limited one, and you also don't want to be the one who gets dragged into a nuclear/heavy-handed military response that has to try to force regime change.

The temple's gates were open in times of war, and closed in times of peace. The formal declaration of war and peace was a superstitious, religious matter for the Romans.

Weren't the gates open for something like a 400 year stretch at one point? AKA longer than the USA has been in existence?

Israeli Army command post deep underground beneath its headquarters

Isn't that like saying "there's a US Army command post/bunker deep underground beneath the Pentagon"? And yes, launch as many bombs as you want at the Pentagon/bunkers beneath it during a war; it's certainly not a war crime to hit any nearby civilians with a miss.

You're changing too many variables, I'm afraid. None of those involve irreversably claiming someone else's possession.

Smoke Jaguar

They were the opponents in MW3, right? I'm still waiting for any sort of modern platform re-release of that one... by which I mean the ability to purchase and play the OG on a modern Windows machine.

Oh, what the hell.

In a sort of "it isn't money that's the root of all evil, it's love of money" way?

LotRO and GW2 do it, but in separate ways: LotRO has the way you describe it, your cosmetic outfit vs your gear, whereas GW2 has transmog, which changes the appearance of thr piece of gear itself. I have a hunch FFXIV does something similar as well based purely on what I've heard of fashion in that game. I'd assume it's becoming more and more popular in MMOs in general, but I don't know how much it exists outside of that realm (other than things like e.g. BG3's camp clothes vs adventuring gear swap).

I would expect gang member conviction to carry a higher burden of proof than asylum proceedings, personally...

Personally, I think more about torpedoes. Some are very long range, with impressively hard to defeat terminal guidance, and they are absolutely ship-killers in terms of payload/mechanism, rather than just mission-killers.

right wing administrations are dominated by conservative Catholics

Catholics? Really? Not protestants/evangelicals?

I suppose the assumption is that companies will raise prices on imported goods dollar-for-dollar with the tariff increases.

The required advantage to get ahead in sports gambling is pretty small, right? Just slightly above flipping a coin?

If women were equally strong then societies would have an advantage if they encouraged women to be warriors to better protect and defend those societies, and women would be similarly self-interested in doing so.

Not necessarily. Even if women were better fighters than men, a nation would still be better off losing 90% of its men than half its women just for the purposes of replacement for future wars. Or similar -- I'm sure someone has done the math on the numbers for a world building scenario if nothing else.

Yeah, that's a movie/hollywood convention. Nothing to do with the books.

In some cases I think it does, but that's the exception, not the rule.

Oh, absolutely not. That's a major part of the conflict in the region, and the point of my mirrored statement.