A Phlaming Phoenix

The character Pie’o’pah from Clive Barker’s Imajica has a sort of “third” genitalia which can both penetrate and be penetrated. Through the story, the main character is kind of magically seduced by this, initially revolted, but it becomes a point of personal growth which helps unlock his true potential. It’s a really cool and weird (and long) story with some pretty ahead-of-its time pontification on trans and non-binary identities.

Look around to see if I can rummage up the necessary implements to brew a pot of tea.

women are so obviously not sure about the situation but they are not done with my partner

There’s one I see around town often enough. I was parked at a red light next to it the other day and it was remarkable how shitty the panels look up close. They’re not really flat and planar. They’re sort of wobbly like corrugated tin.

Yeah, that was the dominant form of music distribution at the time.

So you haven’t seen, for example, Cowboys From Hell by Pantera or Weathered by Creed, then? I don’t think Vs is a particularly bad album cover, especially by comparison to those. The photography is fine. Maybe it’s not your average Hipgnosis cover, but it’s ok.

Yes and no… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_Unicorn_Ranch

Yes, media portrays coming out as something you do once and then you’re out! Really, it’s something you do over and over again with every person or group you come out to. Some people are easier to come out to than others. Whether we do it and how we do it depends a lot on the specific circumstances.

Edit: I once heard this terminology reversed and it really resonated with me. That is, it’s not about who you are out to but who you let in. It’s a privilege to be on the inside, not an obligation for you to be out.

Custom built. Right now we’re running around the Nebalich area. Before that we were investigating a million-year-old tree in Ephremon infused with nanobots and the nefarious religious leader who sprung a cult up around it.

I’ve been running a Numenera table for a few years. Love it.

It means what you’re building fires a projectile. The instructions are warning you not to shoot your eye out.

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Jorch is only 17 but sometimes he can score you a six pack anyway.

For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There’s one in every failing mall in the USA.

And you gotta dump your potential explosives out right in the middle of everyone else bundled up close in the security checkpoint.

Here’s what I’m talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox#Comparison

The XBox One came out in 2013, but then starting in 2016, they started releasing a series of other XBoxes with incremental upgrades. The “One S” and “One X” within a year of each other, then the “Series S” and “Series X” in 2020. It looks like the CPU and GPU get upgraded along the way, but none of them is nearly as powerful as the PC I’ve had through that time period, nor as capable considering I can do more than play games on it.

Didn’t they release several different versions of the Xbox in that time? Like technically the same “generation” or whatever but upgrading a few minor things like storage and such?

What if my $1500 PC built 5 years ago has been more capable than multiple generations of consoles that have been released since? My brother has bought like 3 XBoxes in the same amount of time and my PC still outpaces it by a pretty wide margin.

I would be happy to at least read that resume among an ocean of dull ones that all read the same.

Same. I’ve hired for a number of entry level DevOps type jobs, have read through hundreds of resumes, and have never once clicked on a LinkedIn profile. I don’t know what point it would serve, considering I expect it to be every bit the carefully manicured presentation that the resume itself already is. If you give me a GitHub link I might take a look, but I don’t hold it against anyone for not giving me that either.