I feel like “Lincoln’s Repeater” in Fallout 3 should have been this gun instead. I mean, I get what they were going for, but this is way cooler.

Completely agree. That being said, they still have Masayoshi Soken, and he is easily in the top 3 modern Video Game Composers.

Hemeticism is certainly a philosophy, however the term hermetic monk is often used to denote a member of an isolated monastic group.

ex. Article on hermetic monks in Big Sur

A paywalled article referring to hermetic monks in France

A BBC article using “hermetic monks” to refer to isolated Christian monks in Ireland who at one time occupied a now deserted monastery.

None of the aforementioned monks were practitioners of Hermeticism. So while it may not be fully accurate to the origins of Hermeticism, the term “hermetic monk” does infact exist and is infact used to refer to members of esoteric isolated monastic groups.

Beyond that, the term “hermetic”, as cited by Merriam Webster, does apply to my usage. So if you would rather read it as a “monk who is hermetic by nature”, that would also get my same point across while avoiding confusion with Hermeticism as a philosophy.

Definition taken from Merriam Webster (note: I’ve removed definitions not pertinent to my usage)

hermetic adjective

1. b: Relating to or characterized by subjects that are mysterious and difficult to understand: Relating to or characterized by occultism or abstruseness

a hermetic discussion

2. b: impervious to external influence

trapped inside the hermetic military machine

c: recluse, solitary

leads a hermetic life

So in this context, I guess I’m using both meanings. As in they are isolated monks with knowledge of the occult and esoteric.

All you have to do to get my money is let me be a pirate, a jedi, a ninja, or a samurai. My inner child can’t help themselves.

So how can Ubisoft be so terrible that I have literally not wanted to play their Pirate game, their StarWars game, and now their Ninja/Samurai game!?

Perhaps. Though it’s entirely conceivable that the cost of revealing said supernatural proof would be detrimental to their life in such a way that no use of a $1,000,000 would justify it. Or, ala Mr. Manhattan, they have lost their empathy and/or worldly concern. Or they could just be massive dicks who could make $1,000,000 easier if their secret is kept, like Hayden Christensen in Jumper.

So I stand by my point that only looking at James Randi’s $1,000,000 prize as proof that “there are no supernatural claims that can be proven” is an example of sampling bias.

Assuming the correctness of a hypothesis without sufficiently disproving potentially valid alternatives is how we wound up with the acceptance of the supernatural. It’s just bad epistemology.

Regardless, I believe that James Randi’s offer, combined with the lack of any other provable and sufficiently documented supernatural occurrences means it’s more than reasonable to not hold any belief in the supernatural. I certainly don’t myself.

ETA: 3. I suppose a third possibility is they were unable/unwilling to travel or were entirely unaware of said prize. Something like a hermetic monk for example.

Let me preface this by saying I tend to go with the Null hypothesis until proven otherwise, and as such don’t believe in the unproven supernatural.

Regardless, there are two ways to interpret James Randi never getting proof.

1. There are no provable supernatural claims.
2. Those who could prove a supernatural claim have no use for some reason a $1,000,000 prize would not be sufficiently enticing.

Edit: Reworked #2 for accuracy and clarity. Added wording in italics.

I say we push them harder, hard enough that they mandate single person unisex bathrooms, with the fancy auto room washing function they have in Japan. Then I can finally crap in peace.

And we are very sorry…

What did Colorado ever do to deserve this?

Not that I specifically disagree with anything you said. But reviewers loved to call Skyrim “as wide as an ocean, but as deep as a puddle” as well. And while Starfield suffers from a worse case of this, it’s hard to argue this hasn’t been Bethesda’s main problem for a long while now.

Maybe this flaw finally caught up to Bethesda thanks to the march of time. But gotta hand it to em, they had a great run for a team the refuses to change with the times.

Should have introduced himself as .JSON, then the brain could have just made a symbolic link.

It was crazy that they got that to run on a SNES.

As some point Trump is going to have to pick someone who hasn’t committed sexual assault right? Like, just statistically speaking…

I dunno mate, reading all these comments instead of doing literally anything else is starting to make me question my own dignity…

How saying shit like this doesn’t immediately make someone think “are we the baddies?” is beyond me.