Kathryn Janeway and Ellen Ripley. Both for the same reason; leadership ability.
Throwing your hat in with Trump is absolutely toxic worldwide, and yet MAGA just doesn't fucking get it.
Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.
Except for the first one, which (let's be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.
I don't remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.
It's not that I didn't enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn't make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.
Why finish a game when you've already got the in game purchases working for you?
A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don't have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."
I know, right?!
Burn me at the stake for thinking that even in the pits of hell, there are some little moments of good, even if fleeting.
This morning, the guy in front of me at the Tim Horton's drive-thru paid for my coffee. Don't know him. Never met him. Never exchanged three words. He just decided to do it. I just sometimes randomly decide to do it as well. Made me feel good so I did it for the person behind me. I don't know how long that chain lasted, but hey...it doesn't matter.
The world might be shit, but that was a nice start to my day, and a nice start to the day of the person behind me. If I was "Mr. Realist" above me there, the response would be, "well fuck...what's the point? Sure, but the coffee's just going to get cold sooner or later..."
Screw me if I want to take some simple pleasure where I can, I guess.
Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact
For me, "like", "love", and "in love" are not separate emotions. They're the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.
"Like" and "Love" are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.
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You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say "hey...this person gets me and I'm happy being around them. I LIKE them."
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You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you're sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say "Hey...I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them."
"IN LOVE" is the one that takes work. Because "IN LOVE" happens long after you've started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn't have it any other way. It's like the old saying "Yes, we fight. But there's noone else I would rather fight with."
They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.
Or as Trumps puts it:
"Everyone wants me to. They all say what a great idea it would be. They say 'sir..sir...we need you.' Tears streaming down their faces, 'sir please...only you have the ability to make us great again. Tremendous ability, they say. Probably the most tremendous ever if I'm being honest."
The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.
Is it bad that my immediate thought was "Is the penguin okay?"
Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.
I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it's gang's weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.
Without muss, fuss or ego, she just takes control of whatever situation she finds herself in. And she's strong enough that everyone accepts it because she leads by example and proves that she knows what she's talking about every time.
Quiet confidence.
Very much reminds me of Tyrion Lannister telling his grandson that any man who has to keep saying he's the king is no true king.