The sensation of physically holding and reading a book made from dead trees.

Yes they take up space, yes I use my phone as an e reader when at sea or travelling. No I will not give up physical books at home.

Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. One last fun ride with a bunch of friends before the final reckoning.

For added gut punch: romance Thane.

I was in university and had just passed my midterms and as a treat for myself picked up both KOTORs. Mainlined that shit.

You can be proud of the good things your country has done or is doing. So long as you don’t forget the laundry list of dodgy shit it has also done.

I liken it to being proud of yourself as a person. You can take pride in yourself and your achievements but you should never forget all the times you fucked up.

Not quite. CAF is Canadian Armed Forces. The Air Force, specifically is the RCAF.

I miss crunchy keyboards that fought you every time you hit the carriage return. These modern ones all feel weak and listless to me.

As a member of the CAF, if the US Armed Forces are getting rid of LGBTQ folks, I would be proud to welcome them as my comrades in arms.

It is now no longer social suicide to not drink.

Basically it was a giant stew of small states of various religions, cultures and beliefs. Then everything changed when the English showed up. After the second world war, and the English were divesting their empire like a used coffee filter, the place was partitioned into its modern borders with the Islamics supposed to be in Pakistan while the Hindus and other assorted were supposed to be in India. Of course this required mass migrations of people which didn’t exactly go off without a hitch and so old grudges from before the British colonial days bubbles back up and there were a couple of casual genocides.

So now you’ve got enclaves in both countries, historic grudges and now (in the 1950s) you’re one of the many fronts in the Cold War.

That evolves into a shooting war every once in a while between the two countries with the Indians also squaring off against the Communist Chinese from time to time. The Chinese are still interested in keeping things going because if they can team up with one side, they get a good access to the Indian ocean.

Indo-Pakistani politics you mean? Somewhat. I might not be as up to date on it as some other situations in the world, but I’ve had the Coles Notes version.

Neither. Burma, actually.

Nope, but was raised by my parents to have an appreciation of our culture and heritage. Born in Europe actually.

Do you mean actually living in South Asia or just of South Asian extraction? I’m the latter.