That’s fair, I may have been traumatized by spending 3 hours trying to get through the first section in Sekiro before calling it 😅

There’s a second factor at work, which is that the institutions targeted by more “extreme” actions also don’t want those actions publicized.

Consider an action like the one depicted in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” If they don’t have a perpetrator in cuffs, the oil company and the cops would not want to admit the action happened at all, because it makes them look vulnerable.

Sekiro? I guess it’s less of a difficulty “spike” if it’s just a difficulty cliff from the jump.

I loved BG3 but there are serious difficulty spikes. I couldn’t make it to the third act because the second act boss kept wiping the floor with me and I couldn’t adjust my party to make the fight winnable.

To clarify, “Stockholm syndrome” was coined in regard to a woman who was held hostage by bank robbers in Sweden. When interviewed later, the woman recounted that neither the police nor the mayor seemed concerned with her safety, so she buddied up with the robbers to maximize her chances of survival.

It confused me at 34.

Look up Jaime Loftus’ excellent podcast “My Year in MENSA” for an in-depth look at the organization.

I miss the old Onion where they had an occasional column written by “Christopher Walken” called “Walken in LA.”

This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.

I think the logic is “babies are innocent, these people have a choice and they made the wrong one.”

Who used those triangular pastel buttons? I remember seeing them on some friends’ computers but not on any Dells or Gateway 2000 machines. Maybe Compaq? Or Packard Bell?

I saw Slackware running on a similar config, although it was probably a 486/50 or 486/66.

I remember my dad’s friend upgrading our PC clone to 640K. He used a soldering iron.

My ex and I worked on a birth plan for our second child after her experience with our first was deeply unsatisfying. We discussed home birth but I insisted on a birthing center attached to a hospital in case something went sideways. She found an OB who listened to her, and we made clear what our birthing plan was, and that was respected by the medical staff. As it happened, the labor was smooth and relatively quick, and home birth would have been fine. I’m still glad we were at a facility where there would have been no lag between a problem arising and a doctor being able to address it.

“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”