Recent content by Mannahnin

Nice. Alaska, California, and Nevada apparently do that, and Colorado but only after 12 hours. The other 46 just stick to the Federal standard of over 40 hours in a workweek.

Overtime usually has to be hours accrued over 40 in a week, but you have to be physically in the office for more than 40, no? I've had this happen many a time. Put in an extended shift early in the week which WOULD have brought me over 40 hours worked for the week, then had to miss a day and...

Xoth Publishing used to advertise theirs here quite regularly. https://www.enworld.org/threads/free-60-page-guide-to-sword-sorcery-for-5e-d-d.667490/

Some of this can also reflect local deities or powers being seen as benevolent locally but as malevolent by a culture the locals have been in conflict with. I remember hearing years ago that there were communities in the West of Ireland in which the Fomorians were remembered as benevolent...

Did get back in last night. Warm up set of lat pulldowns (narrow grip), three working sets with drop sets on the latter two. Three of machine overhead press with drop sets on the latter two. Three of face pulls with increased weight on the second and third, with a drop set on the third. Biceps...

There were others, with the term psychology being popularized in the previous century. Cranioscopy/phrenology was relatively recent and made a claim to be scientific by rooting psychology in physical causes. The term psychiatry was coined in 1808, the year before Poe was born, and the first...

Same, O brother.

Need to reverse those labels!

Dunk & Egg! I liked the couple of short stories I read about them... oof, many years ago now! :LOL: This grabs me more than House of the Dragon did, for sure.

Looks good! Cool to see Rami Malek; I'm in the middle of a re-watch of The Pacific, which I think is the first place I saw him. Haven't watched Crowe in anything since The Nice Guys and this looks like a role with some meat. Also reminds me that I need to get around to finally watching the...

After my book club did Bowling Alone we read Society of the Spectacle, by Guy DeBord. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, and it was both more Marxist than I anticipated and more philosophical. But some of the insights into our society, though nearly sixty years old at this point, were really...

Jumping around in time & space is also something that happens in at least a couple of V:tM's most immediate fictional influences- The Vampire Lestat and Time Enough for Love. Lucy sounds really cool.

Agreed, and I expanded on that in an immediate edit. Eh. Sexual violence as perpetrated is not quite the same thing as how common or accepted the presentation of it in media is. James Bond novels were still common and uncontroversial light reading when I was a kid. Fictional heroes (not just...

Certainly, although Danielson was also talking about a period predating the site by a couple of decades, and our present discussion by more than forty years. Selection bias certainly could be a factor between my, Ruin Explorer's, and Voadam's experiences vs what Fine observed 5-10 years...

Not that I disagree, but TBF their unusually spacious home/comfortable living circumstances is still pretty consistent with live action sitcoms and family dramas. Homes and living situations being unrealistically nice and big enough to shoot in, in TV shows, has been a trope for decades...