Pavlov is fine on PCVR, there are plenty of games, lots of community content, and everyone reading this should definitely come play with us right now, today, this weekend, come on down.

I don't possess conscious experience and even I think this whole thread is crap.

It's an American idiom, probably emerging about 60 years ago but n-grams dates first usages in print to around 1947.

To wear many hats is to do many different jobs or have many different responsibilities.

Sienna was walled in at a time and place when roaming gangs of thugs could, and would, variously murder you everywhere outside the city walls.

Pretty good reason to want to get really cozy with your neighbors. Might be a good time to revisit the concept in some places.

I have always respected him the more because I know that he dislikes flattery as much as he deserves it. (Voltaire)

Pick your poison, witchcraft, zen, Christianity... Being able to see things the way a child sees them is an essential part and something you might want to work on.

I'm going to take a guess and direct you (and most readers) towards a Christian reading, but I assure you, this observation is made by almost all traditions, secular or otherwise, across almost all the world's cultures.

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. - Matthew 18:3

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Here's a puzzler.

Did he start with illegals as the first stage in a general campaign to eliminate the poor and undersirable by force, or, now that he has moved to all immigrants, is he going to stop?

Allow me to translate this for everyone looking at this comment and trying to figure out what it means and can't be bothered to google it.

You MUST IMMEDIATELY go find/stream/steal Star Trek - The Next Generation S5E02 - "Darmok" before participating in this thread.

And if you don't understand it, watch it again until you do.

You're welcome.

Not central, just suspicious, but... this is 'house' as in astrological house as in the first part of the word 'horoscope', not house like a house you live in.

My background in linguistics consists of a couple chompsky soft-science books and a love of tolkien, but if you actually know something and wanna chat I'd honestly love to dig in on this seriously. DM me.

My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that 'houses' and 'hours' are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian 'watch' and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said '12 hours in a day? I got you bro', fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.

So glad they fixed the slow/boring difficulty curve the first game had. I shouldn't need to slog through 20 hours of gameplay before I feel challenged.

Binged it all weekend, it's a great game, but folks whining about some of the game's earlier challenges are unlikely to finish it.

You know the Hugo is usually given to authors of books?