Is it because I once said I hope Gina Rinehart's entire family spontaneously combusts? Because I stand by that.

Me, seeing my name on this list:

That's old, I heard he can almost do a full rep with those dumbells now.

Oo I didn't know they had wombats there, I've been meaning to go for ages. This was a nice shitpost :)

unfortunately

Sorry, you think it's "unfortunate" that sex pests are being called out now? This isn't about someone being 100% good or evil at all, it's so much simpler than that.

compared to someone like Harvey Weinstein

I don't know anything about what Louis C K did, but the fact that you felt you needed to compare him to WEINSTEIN to downplay it doesn't look good to me.

I'm most of the way through Cat Mail Co, it's a nice time waster. I'm also trying to get into Medieval Dynasty. We've got a tiny group of 4 people so far, there's a lumberjack who collects like 1 log a day, a dude who allegedly gets buckets of water from the well, and a hunter I've literally never seen do anything. It's uh... fun.

I might start another run of Elden Ring. It's been about a year and a half since I last played, so a nice slow-paced game with a new weapon type might be a bit of fun. I didn't like the expansion at all, but for the most part the main game is pretty chill.

Oh no our chatbot we intentionally made to be offensive and horrible is doing exactly what we programmed it to, I hope nobody writes an article about this as though it's a mistake and gets people to come and see for themselves!

You're forgetting the secret bonus rule, which says everything can only be at most mildly infuriating when compared to Israel

Can't wait to get home and put on my shorty-dorts

Outside of the superficial stuff (they're both mages in the modern world who have a problem with authority and a large part of the overarching story is about power struggles within the main political structures and all that) they're pretty different. Dresden is a good guy with a ton of power so while he's always up against threats a lot bigger than he is, he's always able to fight back effectively and overcome it. In comparison, Verus doesn't have that kind of magic and can't compete, so by necessity he has to become much more opportunistic and ruthless, he's a very morally-grey character, possibly slipping down over the line and becoming irredeemable.

I really enjoyed it and strongly recommend it. It's even finished, so you don't have to wait years as the story unfolds! 12 novels and 2 novellas and you're done. One is set at the halfway point, but I read them both at the end and thought it was probably better that way than if I'd read it chronologically, up to you.