Exactly. The saying isn’t “We’re here! We’re queer! Thanks for having us!”

It’s been decades since I’ve read it, so I wasn’t sure if I remembered that part correctly or I would have mentioned it. I recall another part where one of the princes gets raped that was really messed up as well. And just a lot of rape in general in that book that I thought was gross. I recall really being disturbed by it more than I was by The Clan of the Cave Bear because the latter presented the rape of Ayla (as a child) in an intentionally gross, traumatic and disturbing way, while Anne Rice wrote the rape of Beauty in an erotic way.

Anyway, both books frequent banned books lists. I read many banned books during my time at the bookstore.

You really don’t. Whatever you are imagining, it’s more than that.

Now imagine reading it as a 19-year old who grew up without the internet.

I suspect they are worried about weakening their current Gerrymander.

As a young man I worked in a bookstore and when I discovered the amount of smut in romance novels it was pretty shocking.

Then I read the Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

I was not prepared for that.

If you can’t even meet the low bar of an indictment, you are unprepared for a trial.

Literally being used as an intensifier bothers me less than inflammable meaning both flammable and not flammable.

Then why don’t you just declassify the video and let us all see how ‘righteous’ your actions were?

Back in the late 80s they were pretty legit.

Mostly because the model is incapable of experiencing remorse or any other emotion or thought.

That’s some dedication to fighting ‘woke’.

Considering I can barely get into the CostCo parking lot for all the people there, I suspect their boycott will amount to little.

Maybe they will ask their fans if they have phones.

It makes me nauseous that my government is responsible for this senseless horror. The military can make no claim to honor when they bomb unarmed men clinging desperately to the burning wreck of the boat that was already illegally bombed.

Don’t stick your dick in crazy.

Oh yeah, dad did say that he wasn’t taught anything like that until he went to OTS.

That’s what my dad always told me when I was growing up as a brat; refusing to obey an illegal order isn’t a choice, it’s a requirement. You must not follow illegal orders, if you do you are committing a crime.

AOW4 being the one exception for me.

I didn’t actually finish the 7.0 MSQ (I quit shortly after the awful “western” storyline), but the actual writing was painfully bad at every point leading up to that. For example, the way we know Wuk Lamat has grown as a person is because they say “Wuk Lamat has really grown through this adventure”. Most characters appear to have the motivation of dong things because the plot needs it to happen.

Finally, the prior expansions had strong themes, from Heavensword’s take on cyclical violence, SB talking about oppression and so on. Dawntrail doesn’t seem to have anything to say (or maybe it’s all at the end, idk). It was just really disappointing and I just couldn’t deal with it. It’s like it was written for children except it deals with dark themes. Like the worst of the YA section.

By contrast, I was a blubbering mess at points in ShB and EW. Especially the 5.3 stuff, holy shit.

And then turns to garbage at the 400 hour mark. Dawntrail actually made me quit due to some of the worst writing I have ever had the misfortune of experiencing in a game. Serious whiplash coming off the fourth expansion.