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WCDT Strips 3266 to 3270 (18th to 22nd July 2016)
BenRG:
I'd say 'no'; Jeph actually describes it as a guest strip in his Twitter feed and says that the regular (canon) strips will resume on Monday.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Jul 2016, 00:31 ---
--- Quote from: chaospersonified on 21 Jul 2016, 21:57 ---Second degree burns, man. Burned through the skin and into the tissue beneath. People like to point and make fun, but once you've seen the photos of the damage that coffee did, you're not going to say anything about that lawsuit being frivolous, especially considering she didn't ask for nearly as much money as she got.
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Boo fuckin' hoo. I've had second degree burns over a good 10% of my body, at least three times, just from working all day outdoors without sunscreen. It was high altitude and mean ol' mister sun can get vicious if you don't have a good thick bit of atmosphere over you. And yeah, it sucks. My skin over that area was effectively all blisters, I got dehydrated a lot, everything that touched it hurt for the next three weeks, my muscles under it hurt like crazy all the time, and once it started healing it was itchy and I didn't dare scratch it. It left a little scarring, and even the part that healed "right" has a whole bunch of freckles it didn't have before.
I didn't sue anybody. I just stayed indoors for a week and cursed my poor judgment. Which, now that I think about it, is about the same thing my dad did when he got hit by lightning. Anyway, my dad quit fixing fences when a storm was coming in, and I quit going up into the mountains without a tube of sunscreen. Call it a learning experience and leave it at that.
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:psyduck:
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 21 Jul 2016, 00:44 ---Well that seems unnecessarily heteronormative. It seems like the people who make this thing could at least follow normal population demographics and make about 7% gay and another 7% or so bi.
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I hope you'll forgive my ignorance. But, isn't it ~8 or 9% that's bisexual? (Blame people who don't cite sources on tumblr.)
And out of curiousity, are there any estimates for asexual, and pansexual percentages?
cesium133:
I haven't walked as much as Marigold has. Just eight miles every day this week except yesterday, because I draw the line at walking in a giant storm when most of the city is flooded.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 21 Jul 2016, 09:11 ---Then again, this is a game about BREEDING monsters.
So maybe the people who wrote it think it doesn't count unless it produces offspring.
Pokemon Go is a mess. Bulgarian kids have been chasing them in minefields, a couple of people walked off cliffs while looking at their phones instead of where their feet were going, people after Pokestops have done breaking & entering, they've interrupted funerals, there've been car crashes where people were trying to get to monsters that had appeared nearby, the Holocaust Museum has had its lectures & ceremonies interrupted, some cathedral in Boston has continually had problems with people breaking in, a couple of trespassing kids got shot, somebody fired a rifle at a car in Florida where they thought the people inside were drug dealers looking for a stash of dope, (but he was a lousy shot, thank goodness; he only got one of the tires).
This game seems like about fifty lawsuits waiting to happen.
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At the risk of sounding like a crotchety old man, I'm pretty sure that the lawsuits with injured players as plaintiffs will likely be thrown out on the grounds of "you should have been paying attention to your surroundings."
Lawsuits against Pokémon Go players will likely stand.
Seriously people, think about what you're doing a little harder.
* Don't play while driving.
* If there's a locked door or a closed gate, don't bother with that Pokémon.
* Read signs before entering an area.
* Listen for lectures, services, and the like.
* Be respectful.
* And stay out of cemetaries. (At least after 4pm. Most lock their gates around 5pm.)
EDIT: I should specify that I specifically meant lawsuits against Nintendo/the Pokémon Go devs.
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