SSJMarx

If they put up a fence and mowed the lawn as they claim, then that’s more than what they legally need to do to not be considered absentee owners.

Okay but while this is true in a general sense it is most definitely NOT true that in the area immediately surrounding the Mediterranean the people there discovered steel working, began living in a feudal society, had stirrups and full plate and all of that and just forgot how to do it all. I get that Tolkien was a pretty serious Catholic but appending the birth of Christ onto the timeline is really dumb, unless this is some Fantasy equivalent to Jesus and not the one that was born in the Roman Empire.

edit: or maybe some apocalyptic shit goes down in the Sixth Age and the Earth gets replaced by our own?

Best controller I ever used. The last one I bought got smashed when I was moving and I wasn’t able to fix or replace it, and I’ve been using a Hori fighting game controller ever since, but it’s just not as good.

Not my tailbone, but my hip, specifically where it joints with my leg. Fell while ice skating once as a teenager and every couple of years since I’ve gotten sharp pain in that joint that makes me almost immobile for a couple of weeks. Best I’ve ever gotten from a doc is a steroid shot to “hopefully” boost the healing.

Hasn’t happened in a while… knocks on wood.

The poster you’re replying to is talking about something else. There’s a point where the terms you can get for loans using your stock portfolio as collateral are so good that you can count on your stock value growing faster than interest payments on the loan, enabling you to take out loans that amount to free money and live off of them (or use them on more investments that grow faster allowing you to take larger loans, etc).

Banks don’t mind because they reliably get their interest payments, can count on settling the account when the person dies, and of course there’s the social capital of being the institution that ultra wealthy people bank with. For an ultra-rich person it’s how they can have the liquidity to live an ultra-rich lifestyle even if all of their wealth is tied up in the market.

This is true, but it’s not like Bethesda’s past few games inspire a lot of confidence.

That was my first thought too. This has “turn based tactics character class” energy.

I used to have a phat PS3 and for years I told people that I was gonna install Linux on it and turn it into an arcade setup. Then when I finally had the inclination to follow through on it, I found out that it had been given away by my mom while I was living in Japan.

The Emotion Engine! The later PS3 slim dropped the EE chip and switched to software emulation of it, which meant that like 50% of PS2 games no longer functioned because the emulation wasn’t as good as having the actual chip, which was a shame but I bet it represented a significant amount of the price drop.

I think people in general are attracted to people that look similar to themselves. This isn’t universal obviously it’s just a common correlation. And since you have your mom’s genetics a woman that looks similar to you will look similar to your mom.

There’s a funny consequence of this where, if you separate siblings at a young age, they will never develop the revulsion towards each other that most siblings develop, and will be more likely to dig on each other if they meet as adults.