My mom got me a SNES for my birthday the next year (1992); of course to the chagrin of both my dad and I, we slowly learned it was more for her than for me :P, but fighting over who got to be player 1 w/ my mom actually made for all fond memories.

A Calvin and Hobbes reference in a Supreme Court dissent is next-level.

I think it’s “gender” that’s the construct. “Sex” has to do with chromosomes, like XX and XY and XXY and so on. But in everyday spoken English, we tend to use these two terms interchangeably and don’t realize they actually mean two very different things.

I feel personally attacked

On my iPhone it still says Gulf of Mexico, so maybe you did something wrong on your end 🫤

Read this a long time ago, but it’s one of those that sticks with you forever. Solid choice. Helped me navigate a lot of inner conflict at the time.

Are we completely sure they aren’t literally the same person?

No doubt, merry Christmas!

Fair enough, I was vaguely aware that historical the 2 Emps was a thing although I remember the context being different. The way I remember the 2 emps was they were completely unrelated and presided over completely different parts of the empire

The inbred twin emperors that came out of literally nowhere, for no reason with no explanation was just the worst. Rendered the whole plot completely meaningless.