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bluffing a threat to the plane by snapchatting your friend would be a weird move. No one on the plane even knew a "threat" was made.

It seems like "we have no details at all about the threat (because it wasn't actually credible), so let's just be prepared for every situation" is the logic.

I think that's definitely not a rebuttal (edit: we're in agreement about things): You've put a lot of thought into things and you can pretty eloquently explain exactly why you have the preferences you have.

Perhaps "attraction" was not the right word for me to use. It might be more of "what you want out of a relationship, both emotionally, and physically"...

If you weren't looking for a long term relationship, and kids weren't even in the question, these things still apply to a potential one night stand/FWB. This is more the angle I was thinking of when I say attraction.

I think the trickiest part is that trans people generally have spent a lot more time thinking about their sexuality and identity than most cis people. Most cis people (or at least cishet) have put basically 0 thought into it. They cant articulate better than "straight", and if you probe further they would just say "I like men/women". They cant fully identifyor explain what it is about the opposite sex specifically they are attracted to because they often havent had to think about it ever. And if genitals are a factor in that attraction, then it may be pretty important. Some people may be able to see past that. Some may not. But we shouldn't force someone to date somebody they arent attracted to, even if they cant eloquently fully explain why they arent attracted.

I like to think of it as a vote for literally anyone who isnt Trump.

But that wasnt the threat. They were going to stop him from blowing up the plane by.... blowing up the plane.

And with brother there is a "ignore low toner warning" option that lets you keep printing until the toner is actually gone.

Yes. And that is the point of ads. And we can agree that it's not great to manipulate consumers.

but "you can never save by buying something. I save if I don’t buy" is NOT identifying the presupposition, and therefore not rejecting the presupposition. It's just stating that the original statement has a logical flaw. Which it doesn't have any logical flaws if you accept that language has subtext.

"I dislike that the implication is that you can only compare to buying at full price, when there are other options like not buying (which saves 100% vs full price)" identifies the presupposition and rejects it.

For sure. An implied sense of false urgency is the point of sales in general. There's all sorts of psychology around manipulating people into buying things.

I just think that acting as if there is some sort of grammatical error or gap in logic is missing the fact that in language, people imply things. And an ad implying "you're going to buy this, so you better do it while costs less" isn't too hard to follow.

You're playing a semantics game though. The assumption is that you ARE going to buy the thing. Society has decided that "save 77%" is a valid shortening of "save 77% compared to buying at full price" because that is the most logical comparison to make. Yes. "Save 77% compared to not buying the item" makes no sense, but that is clearly not what is being implied here. Implying and inferring things is a normal part of human communication, and refusing to accept the implications doesn't make you clever.

That said, I agree that "pay 77% less to not even actually own the product that we will eventually lose the license to" is dumb.

It's a good thing League of Legends is adding Vanguard so it can't be run on Linux anymore.

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Yeah. Auction House.

Great parts about GW2 AH/TP(trading post?)

• you can place buy orders. Put a bid for item X at price Y. Someday that may be fulfilled.
• Because of buy orders, you can just instant sell things if you just want fast cash
• Other games do this now, but GW2 was one of the first MMOs i played that had a unit price listing: if i have 20 gold ore. i list it for 10 gold a piece. and someone might buy 13 of my ore for 130 gold. Its not an "all or nothing" ordeal (like early WoW auction house, though WoW also uses the unit price listings).
• Indefinite buy/sell orders. No having to re-post your items on the auction house every 2 days.

But overall to answer the OP question: i don't really have a "favorite" MMO. Everytime I play WoW, i think I prefer the GW2/FF14 fashion systems over WoW's. Everytime I play GW2 I'm just underwhelmed by the classes and combat and dungeons. Everytime I play FF14, I'm slightly frustrated with the UI and the movement feels, i dunno, floaty? Having the context of other MMOs sometimes makes me appreciative of good parts of a game, and sometimes makes me wish the game had stuff from other games.