That’s fair, I may have been traumatized by spending 3 hours trying to get through the first section in Sekiro before calling it 😅

Sekiro? I guess it’s less of a difficulty “spike” if it’s just a difficulty cliff from the jump.

I loved BG3 but there are serious difficulty spikes. I couldn’t make it to the third act because the second act boss kept wiping the floor with me and I couldn’t adjust my party to make the fight winnable.

A good friend of mine from high school got his physics PhD at University of Texas and went on to work in the high energy plasma physics lab there with the Texas Petawatt laser, and a lot of the experiments it was used for involved plasma turbulence and determining what path energetic particles would take in a hypothetical fusion reactor.

This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.

I think the logic is “babies are innocent, these people have a choice and they made the wrong one.”

And then you get to a point where you look at that and think “clever but I’m sure it’s fucked up in some way that isn’t immediately obvious.”

My ex and I worked on a birth plan for our second child after her experience with our first was deeply unsatisfying. We discussed home birth but I insisted on a birthing center attached to a hospital in case something went sideways. She found an OB who listened to her, and we made clear what our birthing plan was, and that was respected by the medical staff. As it happened, the labor was smooth and relatively quick, and home birth would have been fine. I’m still glad we were at a facility where there would have been no lag between a problem arising and a doctor being able to address it.

“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”

Would. Both of them.