It might be more accurate. "Alleged purpose" would be fine too. However, it'd only be better if you stop believing the lie. It's just a silly over-indulgent "lets give ourselves a hand for doing a great job" party.

The latter half is true. The first half isn't. It'd be nice if it were, but you're kidding yourself if you really believe it.

Nah, with a Masters' you're overqualified for an establishment deserving of the title restaurant. Folks with Masters' get stuck at feed-bag type places. And heaven help you if you've got a PhD.

Sure, it follows Spanish rules, which is why most Americans will take time to get it.

The Mars part is a fair gripe, but it's not fair to say that "you just say all the letters that you see written down there" because many Italian ones have silent endings. If they said Mascarpon, I'd say they erred on the side of caution.

That's another one I cut people slack on. Ciabatta itself is barely 30 years old. It didn't make it to the US until 1987 and that was through Cleveland, land of trendsetting. It hasn't appeared commonly until the last few years and still hasn't reached a critical mass of proper pronunciation. Until there are enough…

Yes. You probably should. There are the gross mispronunciations (Em-PANDA for empanada), there are ones that are due to the way different languages have different proununciations of the same spelling (quesadilla pronounced like armadillo, or the way that most European ending e's are silent (by any reasonable English…

I give people a lot of slack with that one. It's only recently popped up and mostly in the usual "super food" circles; plain and healthy foods don't integrate themselves onto all ranges of menus the way a simple spicy add-on does. I'd get used to Kween-oh-ah, Kin-oh-ah, qui-eye-noah and all range of possibilities with…

This. I really don't understand why the story didn't end right there.

So she slipped him the ol' long form?

It sure sounds like somebody is hot

You were in Vegas. Open-door AC is but a gnat on the back of the great hulking beast of wastefulness that is that city. The infrastructure required to build that place in the middle of the desert and keep it supplied with water is absurd. Eventually, when droughts get worse, that city will just have to close up shop…

A great many mice* are ambidexterable (I'm sure it should be a word) and most control schemes are customizable. WASD not ideal for you? What about OKL: or IJKL?

B&W can be functional, but shades of grey often make things hard to clarify as well, and heaven help you if you use half a dozen varieties of hash-mark fills. I'd still vote for color if only because it's easier to refer to "The red bar" or "The blue line" than "The 65%-dark-grey wedge" or "the bar with the hash-lines…

I think the crayon is meant to reflect the light passing through ocean wave crests like a pale sea green, not the Styrofoam and sewage run-off perpetual bubble layer at beaches you'd not want to be near.

That, is a legitimate way to cut the 10% down. I'd been responding to Dolemite who figured that of the colorblind people (which he'd cut down to 1%) maybe half play games.

When I was really little, I evaded detection for years. My color descriptions seemed off, so my parents started informal testing by holding up a crayon and asking me "What color is this?" However, I was a good reader, so it was easy to call the brown crayon brown and the red crayon red (and likewise with blue and…

Even if you're trying to retrofit a game, it's hardly "all new programming". It's choosing colors with a little more care or allowing them to be changed by the player. The former option is really quite easy to do.*

That the whole world looks this way doesn't make it easier. We're used to not seeing something, so when a game expects us to see it it isn't fun. When games use Red indicators for enemies and Green indicators for allies...I find another game.

He uses "ya know" like a valley girl uses "like". That, ya know, hurt, ya know, to watch, ya know.