Yeah it’s too bad that people think of Souls games as “misery porn” or whatever. Or that there’s this attitude of “you don’t actually like these games you just like bragging online that you beat some arbitrary challenge.”

I started reading your articles for the wacky sous vide and waffle concoctions, but ended up learning a lot of surprisingly useful stuff along the way!

Spent a while last week trying to buy a dumb TV, since I have my own streaming devices and don’t need the TV sending my data back home.

In my experience, LED bulbs kind of suck with dimmers. I have a dimmer in my bathroom for nighttime bathroom trips, and dimmable LEDs are pretty blinding even on the lowest setting, compared to incandescent.

I’m not sure I buy that the aliens thing is motivated by racism. The article briefly mentioned and dismissed stonehenge, but it’s one of the most common “aliens did it” artifacts, and was probably built by ancient white people.

I take it you’re the kind of person who only reads headlines, and skips the article, before rushing to the comments?

Really depends on your location and access to quality pizza. Dominos is easily better than most of the local places near me, and it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than the good stuff.

Those eggplant dudes are some of the biggest bastards in all of gaming.

Definitely high tier, but not allowed at a lot of places you’d take a backpack (some schools, airplanes, theme parks, concert venues), so kinda context dependent on the person.

Agreed. That’s the only one that doesn’t seem “wrong” to me. It’s slang/colloquialism.

I mean... I agree, but there are tons of situations where being openly hostile/hateful isn’t really acceptable. It’s not about getting on the person’s good side, it’s about surviving a dinner and making sure your wife has a good time even though you can’t stand your father-in-law.

Real life doesn’t require fake metrics. You don’t need to rack up XP, because you’re gaining actual experience. You don’t need a fake quest, because you’re on a real quest.

It’s especially funny because I had to show an early 20's coworker last week how to make a pie chart with excel. I’m not sure excel skills are an especially prominent feature among Gen Z.

Dunno how much you have to invest, but you could purchase land? If you’re concerned about the ethics, then do something you find ethical with the land - put up solar panels, let a friend or family live there for no rent or low rent, build some homes for wildlife, whatever.

I’m trying to figure out which crashes you mean and how you could possibly be a millennial.

I’m pretty sure that the whole point of this article is to say that the kind of person you’re describing is not an asshole cutting in line: they are in fact zipper merging correctly. You are supposed to fill both lanes, with cars, not form a single-file line.

“all you want to do is finish this experience so you can move onto the next one”

It’s not like that 1.5 million got vaporized. That money just moved from a very rich person to a presumably less-rich person who had a copy of Mario 64. Who can now use it to buy healthcare, or a house, or whatever.

Well, yeah I *could* do that but... *rolls eyes sarcastically*

Installed a MOCA network at home over the weekend. Bit pricey but very convenient to finally have full speed internet in my office and basement without having to rely on flakey wifi meshes.