You'd think musical theatre nerds given it's a musical, but some of these decisions feel like their target audience is children at the risk of hurting the musical aspects of... the musical...

For those of us who are slow on the uptake, I think this is the USCG reference... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

For the record, I just don't want to do the tremendous amount of world building involved in a decent political fantasy, but people are driving me mad falling for obvious political tricks. So. I might cave.

I'm sure some stuff is the writers misstepping... but I'm generally inclined to assume most issues in most games can be traced back to the suits. And usually, that is, in fact, the case.

Personally, I want nothing more than for them to prove me wrong about them 🫠

Being nice and polite is always great where you can make it work - but sometimes the message can only get across when the messenger is a mean ol' bitch about it.

*and none of this was stuff I trained her to do to tell me. The only training was what shake meant, I just sometimes made her do it before taking her out so now it's how she asks. No idea what started the lap thing though.

If you communicate with a dog a lot, they'll learn. Not only words but phrases. If I tell her we'll go outside later - she stops pestering me until later. If I say "after supper" - as soon as we're both done eating, she reminds me.
Dogs are smart as hell.

I talk to mine constantly and let me tell you, this dog knows exactly how to tell me what she wants 😂
Outside? Shake.
Water or food? Gets in my lap.
Wants her sheet in her crate replaced? Gets my attention and goes to her sheet.