Exactly how I felt. Definitely somr battery extract in there.

Good post

Comedy movie pitch: Time Travellers are real and regularly attempt to stop 9/11 but are routinely stopped by time's most stalwart MCR fan.

Recently moved to China and I'm really struggling to guage how much I should pay for good quality things since we live practically within the factory so everything is dirt cheap

There's a really good bit of writing in Runescape of all things where you can ask this near-Godlike powerful being if he could beat a prior major antagonist in a fight and he's like "ah, humans always ask this trivial question of everything. but yes i would win."

There's a character ideology called "Traditionalist" in Victoria 3, they support reducing women's rights, and greater church involvement in state. Here's an example of a historical character given the "Traditionalist" ideology:

Really like the scene where all the men are talking over eachother in a meeting and Jeremy Irons makes a loud, cutting, undiscernable sound that shuts them all up

I dropped it around the 100ish page mark when it has that bit about the German Aristocrat in the police station which admittedly was probably hype moments and aura in its time