I've found that much of this advice is wrong.

I'm well known for my holiday cheer. I never buy anyone gifts, but I'll make you an amazing standing rib roast if you invite me over for christmas.

I return gift cards to the giver with an explanation on why gift cards are bad.

I don't really think that I'd be able to find a place for a deep freeze (even a small one) in my apartment. I suspect that a great many apartment dwellers will face similar circumstance.

I read your article while the source was down, so I didn't get to see that part.

This sounds interesting, but I think it calls for more freezer space than your average apartment dweller has.

I hate to be pedantic about it (who am I kidding, I love it), but the IBM Model M isn't a mechanical keyboard. Yes, it uses a buckling spring for a tactile response, but the keys register via a membrane, just like your cheap $5 rubber dome keyboard.

I agree, sharing is important. I have two computers side by side so I didn't consider it.

Yesterday, I wrote a small game for my son. You move two squares around the screen using the thumb sticks, the triggers increase the size of the squares, start and select clear the screen. I'm trying to decide what to do with the D pad and ABXY, I am considering making them change the shape or color of the squares.

I don't really shave. I do have a pair of clippers that I run over my face once or twice a week to keep that "I haven't shaved in 3 days" look.

Don't wear expensive fashion accessories in dangerous neighborhoods...

In this circumstance, the developers themselves are providing the game for free, so it isn't piracy. They are providing an implicit license to use the game without compensation.

Protip: downloading something via torrent does not imply piracy.

In the programming world, this is referred to as "A Duck"

Nowhere is it implied that you should just wait for large amounts of money to come out of nowhere. You gotta make that sorta thing happen. Try diving out into traffic, or watching for freshly mopped floors without a sign indicating it as such.

The Steam sale has been pretty weak so far, I've purchased the following:

I would somewhat agree with the overall sentiment, but the middle class also violently participates in this nonsense. This phenomena isn't limited to poor people.

Slow cookers are a really cheap product that retailers can put a massive cut on and people perceive is a great value. Almost everyone has one, despite most families never using them.

As a general rule, if a game doesn't want you to play now, you should just not play the game, ever.

My sister was horrified the first year I did this, but I like to quarter my turkey and cook it in two roasting pans in a convection oven. When the breasts are done, I pull the pan with them. When the thighs and legs are done I pull em.