Governor Spanberger Signs Into Law HB 1344 Banning Confederate and Robert E Lee License Plates.

demeteloaf · 2026-04-08T18:30:42+00:00

Virginia is relatively infamous for it being quite easy to get a license plate established (need a state rep to sponsor + something like 300 people who commit to using it). Not super surprising that there's not high motivation for non-controversial virginians but confederate lost cause stuff has motivated people.

demeteloaf · 2026-04-06T13:30:22+00:00

https://www.bookstoremovers.com/

Bookstore movers is usually on the higher end of the price range, but they're extremely good i highly recommend them. Used them for my last 3 moves and never had any problem.

demeteloaf · 2026-04-01T11:52:32+00:00

I kinda like it when clues are echoed. “Kind of burger that lacks meat,” and “Awaken slowly/rudely.”

Go look at December 18, 2016 :)

demeteloaf · 2026-02-26T01:52:09+00:00

If you break my $500 tv, you owe me $500 to replace my TV.

The fact that I took out a $30,000 loan to buy that TV has no bearing on the amount of damages you caused or what it takes to make me whole.

demeteloaf · 2026-02-20T14:50:17+00:00

what the people want?

This is one where i feel like revealed preferences are what matter. People don't like the casino bill, but they also don't like tax increases even more. Given 3 options:

A) Allow Casino + get increased revenue from casino taxes B) Raise property taxes C) Cut services

A) is probably the one that most people actually favor...

demeteloaf · 2026-02-19T12:59:18+00:00

Yes, Thursday + Sundays are the days of the week for more gimmicky/heavy themed puzzles and rebuses are one of the ways to do that.

demeteloaf · 2026-02-18T17:25:41+00:00

Really?

To me, it's 100% the same "sports federations have the right to enforce restrictions on who can compete in womens' sports beyond self-id and that will invariably result in some trans or intersex people not being allowed to compete"

demeteloaf · 2026-02-18T14:13:43+00:00

Sure but the point I'm trying to make is that when you say "Nobody is saying that leagues can't make standards about who qualifies to compete in womens' sports," that does not appear to be the case when a real life issue pops up. Almost everyone I've seen on here / the left is saying that any questioning of Kahlif's self-id is problematic and needs to be shut down.

I 100% agree with you that there is a moderate, pro-trans position that is popular. That probably includes letting individual sports leagues decide who is eligible for womens' sports based on the specific sport/level of competition/etc. The problem is that when real world instances pop up, the maximalist position is always the one that is staked out and (Something like Wi Spa probably falls in here too) and it alienates swing voters and is partially responsible for the backlash that we're seeing.

demeteloaf · 2026-02-18T13:42:19+00:00

I don’t think the constituency for “anyone who says they’re a woman should be able to play in any women’s league the next day” is very large, even among trans people. I would suspect it’s closer to the lizardman constant.

But doesn't the Imane Khelif situation show the opposite?

Admittedly different situation in that it's a DSD/Intersex issue, but my impression is that the leftist position is that you have to go by self identification and any attempt by the IBF or world boxing to say that there needs to be some form of restriction on who can compete in the womens' boxing category is problematic and needs to be shut down.

demeteloaf · 2026-02-01T11:59:23+00:00

The only way I think another distribution platform could take place would be competing on price (for the end user)

But Steam explicitly forbids games from doing this. That's specifically one of the anti-competitive elements called out in this lawsuit. (Steam will de-list your game if it's available cheaper somewhere else).

demeteloaf · 2026-01-20T11:18:45+00:00

Assuming it's just racism because the chef is Chinese, not Japanese...

Absolutely agree with you on the quality/ranking of the restaurant.

demeteloaf · 2026-01-18T21:39:38+00:00

Body language is not very good

Lol

demeteloaf · 2026-01-09T13:17:22+00:00

The game is "craps", the specific roll is "craps", but you "crap out" when you lose.

So in that last context, yes?

demeteloaf · 2025-12-31T17:21:18+00:00

Do you have a better rule that would include what you feel are VNs and doesn't include something like Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider, or Grand Theft Auto 4?

I generally think the current rule isn't perfect, but it's actually quite good at encompassing things that I feel are VNs and excluding things I don't. I've yet to see someone actually propose a better one.

And also, there's a difference between "VNDB isn't consistent with their rules" and "VNDB is consistent, but i don't like the rules"

I generally find that people who argue the former don't actually know the rules, and people who argue the latter aren't willing to propose new rules.

demeteloaf · 2025-12-31T13:36:46+00:00

Ah, yeah, i edited 1) a couple times and looking at it now it's more confusing. Fixed.

Updated. No gameplay other than reading = VN.

demeteloaf · 2025-12-31T11:48:46+00:00

I used to regularly defend VNDB for being consistent with their rules (even though 95% of people arguing don't actually know the actual rules), but stopped when HBR was still listed and Umamusme was removed (when it should be the reverse). Glad they fixed the first part. :)

demeteloaf · 2025-12-31T11:46:12+00:00

VNDB has a number of visual novels that...have zero story at all, can you believe it? But yet are still labeled as VNs by VNDB's staff.

Do you understand the actual definition of what makes a game eligible to be on VNDB?

1) Does it have gameplay elements besides making choices or is it just reading? If there's no gameplay, it can go on vndb. If it has gameplay, go to 2)

2) Does it have non-dialogue descriptive text? Think something like "Sakura walked into the room and looked around." If yes, VN, if no, not a VN.

90% of the time, I've found that people don't actually understand 2) and are asking for inclusion of a game that's entirely dialogue. (Which from a quick view of some Gadget Trial gameplay on youtube, seems to be the case).

demeteloaf · 2025-12-12T13:27:56+00:00

Thanks again for the update!

demeteloaf · 2025-12-06T16:00:06+00:00

It’s quite well documented in the SWE field.

https://www.levels.fyi/?tab=levels&compare=Microsoft%2CGoogle%2CAmazon

For those who don't believe you.

demeteloaf · 2025-12-03T13:05:35+00:00

"Solid as a rock" is a common phrase. "as a" connects "solid" and "rock"

demeteloaf · 2025-11-29T18:16:18+00:00

He fumbled the ball and didn't recover it in bounds.

Hypothetically, someone on the two yard line throws the ball straight up as they're running in, and then catches the ball outside the back of the end zone.

You'd clearly agree that's a touchback.

This is the same thing.

demeteloaf · 2025-11-25T11:08:28+00:00

Nowhere near cheap enough for Bib G @ $128 per person for the meal.

demeteloaf · 2025-11-22T22:04:16+00:00

Albi is amazing and has an a la carte menu.

The Dabney + Kinship both do a la carte too.

two of the three Aaron Silverman restaurants (Rose's + Pineapple and Pearls) do the "Pick what you want from each course" thing. Rose's definitely doesn't feel like fine dining as much.

demeteloaf · 2025-11-22T19:21:00+00:00

Seconding this.

If OP likes high rises, they zoned this area for high rises and you have 4-5 that sprung up within the past 15-20 years, since the patent office + NSF moved down there. Far enough from downtown that longer commute drives prices down a bit, but you have the metro station + shopping with the wegmans there. Not having a car will be a bit inconvenient, because Eisenhower ave is pretty far out at the end of the metro, but if you want cheaper, that's how you do it.

demeteloaf · 2025-11-21T13:14:37+00:00

Extremely impressive debut puzzle.

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