I turned off my ad blocker and now I can’t see any of the text. It’s relegated to a block occupying about 10% of the page width and 20% of the page height, and has a popup on top of that section of the page. This is on a 1080p monitor, with browser fullscreened. I’m not even exaggerating about any of that.

The letter theoretically would have worked in my scenario, given it was a long commute that I traveled 5-6 times a week.

Interesting. I don’t think it would’ve gone that way for me, at least at the church where I first had that experience. The officer told me that he had been asked by the church to monitor their parking lot at night to make sure no one was using it outside of service times. It was one of those big churches with what…

I took the “just pull over and nap if you’re too sleepy” thing to heart as a teen, but it’s not that simple...at least not in my experience. For several years in my early twenties I moved back in with my parents to go back to college, but they had moved while I was away, and their house was an hour out from the city…

Now you’ve got me imagining an Adult Swim show called Odie Coyote, the County Bounty Hunter.

I don’t like it either but our realtor insisted we should do it when placing an offer on a house last month, and I feel like it did make a difference. We got the house under list in a market where houses are getting sold within a week in many cases. And in the case of this house, we actually had a genuine personal…

When I was taking college courses online I opted to get as many books as I could in a digital format to save money, and flipped one of my monitors sideways to have the book open for reference on one side while doing coursework or research on the other. It got the job done, but setting the zoom level to include the…

I was confused by this comment until I realized you were replying to Mephisto about the webcam orientation specifically. You’re right on that front. But depending on your needs, it could be fine. Teams and Zoom definitely include options to rotate the camera image input, and I suspect the same is true of any other…

This is pure cringe. Not everybody loves Apple, and as others have already noted here, it’s not very convenient to receive an Apple product if you’re specifically locked into Android with every other device in your life.

I just realized there are going to be tons of kids who get PS5 games from their grandparents/aunts/uncles but “Santa” won’t be able to materialize the PS5 itself. At least most of the Xbox Series S|X games can be played on Xbox One with the same disc, but a ton of these kids hooked by the Sony hype machine are going…

Oh yeah you should give it a go with the external SSD if your PC can handle the game. I know on Xbox that load times are definitely constrained to storage speeds, which isn’t a given for all games (it can also be load-in to video memory, few other things), but I would assume the same game on PC vs. Xbox would have…

Dude I was playing the game obsessively starting from Day 1 of Early Access (I had every XP and Fast Travel board in under 24 hours), and I never had an issue with my VIP. You have to progress far enough to unlock the first player house, and then just check the map and claim the VIP house.

Ah, but it sounds like you have an Xbox One, either the original or the S. I’ve been playing on an Xbox Series X and Series S, and everything loads basically instantly. So I could get a million credits using the Willy’s exploit in well under a minute—assuming I had already racked up the skill points to buy the…

Same, but the reason I was able to get it from the Auction House was this glitch, which I learned about later. The only legit way to get it was by completing the Wet Season playlist challenges until you had enough points, but they were flooding the auction house before the season started.

You’re 100% right that you should never buy a house without getting an inspection. Yet...

I enjoy russet skins in my mashed potatoes. They don’t break down as much as the thin skins of other varieties, sure, but they taste good and add variety to the texture. I do cube the potatoes to about an inch or inch-and-a-half before boiling, so it’s small pieces of potato skin in the mash. Not sure if you’re…

I just buy one of these every March and save it for Halloween. Put it on the porch with spotlights all around and a sign that say “Take 1. First-come, first-served. While supplies last.”

I’ve never had green bean casserole, but have seen pictures that made it look appetizing. The picture used for this article, however, looks like a bunch of half-thawed frozen beans with sunburn peel flakes on top.

Actually, the origins of Mother’s Day are pretty interesting, and it wasn’t tied to any commercial marketing effort. In very brief summary, there was a woman who loved her own mom so hard that she started an annual memorial celebration in her honor, and then convinced President Wilson to make it an official holiday.

I think this is a case where MtWGA responded to an existing comment when they meant to reply to the main article. It’s pretty common and an easy mistake to make, especially on phones. Probably not necessary to be mean about it.