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"A man crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was supposed to be a comedy!"

The Justice Of Kings by Richard Swan

He's a friend of mine! This is the first time I've seen organic mention of the book - very cool!

Helps that Lemmy has orders of magnitude less content. After the third time refreshing with no new content, it gets much easier to put the phone down.

Every day this place becomes more like Reddit

I would never compare, being a sex worker is obviously incredibly more honorable

But...saying that something is more honorable than something else is comparing them?

EDIT: to be clear, her point is absolutely valid. This isn't (to misquote a replier) "But I must find way for sex lady be dumb". Her actual point is spot-on. This particular linguistic evolution just feels weird to me - feels like the new "literally".

They're not inherently insulting - there are ways to use those phrases appropriately, but they can be (and often are) used sarcastically, when the speaker had been clear in the first place.

TIL where the name of the Unsleeping City character came from...

My friend, that's positively milquetoast in comparison to Stewart Lee.

Ah, a fellow VX Junkie?

When a company actually exists that utilizes your view of DLC, then it might be a valid criticism of the phrasing

No, that's precisely the point I'm trying to make - "every example of X that has existed so far is Y" does not imply "by definition, X is provably and definitively always Y".

You can claim that all DLC that has ever existed is predatory and exploitative (I suspect there are counter-examples; but, fine, whatever, not relevant to my point). You can say that, because of past performance, you are disinclined to trust future examples of DLC or give them the benefit of the doubt. That is all reasonable. But you can't conclude "because all DLC so far has been bad, the concept of DLC as a whole is bad and can never be used well".

As a super-simple example - here are some prime numbers: 5, 11, 37. Are all prime numbers odd? I can give you a bunch more examples if you want!

They smell bad?

All but the last four were new to me, so thank you!