MrBobDobalina

Exactly this. I think I remember an interview with the woman (yep) who originally coined the term for herself and her online support group of sorts for people who wanted to better themselves. She has had to watch it morph into what it is now.

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45284455

If you had infinite possibilities for interactions, then you would have an infinite number of outcomes that would require the game to do something it doesn't have code or assets for. You would have to funnel the infinite possibilities of the conversation back down to the handful of options that feed into the planned game, which would have infinite ways of being awkward and making no sense.

This might be possible for an AI driven text adventure game I guess, but I can't imagine it would be good... Or bad, or interesting, or anything at all because the artistry would be non existent

If every sneeze was a brain damage dice roll, I bet we'd see this kind of post about sneezing indeed

Which would only make sense if every human body processed every molecule ingested in the exact same way

Not on hand, I'd just be googling for it at the moment. I did recently save a super informative comment about the history of the training schools of thought, I know it's not an actual source but it should provide enough to search for if you want to go deeper. Comment link: https://possumpat.io/comment/2354604

Not gonna call you a dumbass when you're open about this being anecdotal only, but yes, all of the 'assert dominance' stuff has been pretty thoroughly debunked. At best you'll get a dog who fears you just the 'right' amount to behave how you want them to when you are there, but they don't have any actual skills and the behaviour does not transfer well to other people and situations. And if their new anxiety does overcome their fear, the resulting behaviours will be much worse than what you started with.

The suspense is killing me...

I was watching Generation Kill, absolutely immersed because it's amazing, then all of a sudden I'm hearing the baby cry from an interlude track on Ænima by Tool. I've listened to that album countless times so that was very very weird and distracting

"Why are you eating that ice cream?"

"Because I enjoy it"

"your justification for eating that ice cream also fits well for why Ed Kemper murdered and dismembered his mother and other people"

^ this is not pointing out a mistake in a comment, this is insane.

They found your modifications to be against the rules, and now you're buried pantsless