lmao dude I know how journalism works, thanks. I’ve worked in a newsroom before. none of the coverage of Depression Quest was due to Quinn’s relationship. besides, even the friggin NYT specifically says that having a connection to something you mention in an article isn’t immediate grounds for recusal.

It should be, yeah! At the very least, Hermione inviting you to Quidditch is, but my memory is so bad that I’m not sure about Ron’s bit.

Does she? She doesn’t say she’s a PoC. Yes, her music nowadays leans more into genres pioneered by PoC, but she also involves them in the creation of it every step of the way. A cursory Google search even shows she’s stated outright she’s Italian.

It’s an ethical violation to have an upcoming Steam Greenlight game on a list of upcoming Steam Greenlight games? Is this about positive coverage of the game, or any mention of it? He didn’t review the game; he barely even mentioned it. When he did mention it, it was within a list of 50 other games, and solely with…

No, she didn’t sleep with a game’s journalist for good coverage, because the person she slept with didn’t report on her game.

Holowka wasn’t fired from anything. He’d already stopped working with Benson, wasn’t getting paid by Benson, and was working on something completely unrelated. Hell, Benson talking about other victims came from literally talking to other victims, not to mention his own experiences with Holowka. That’s not…

Not all of them are terrible! Some of ‘em seem to be quite kind.

There’s definitely criticism to be made about how the internet will dredge up old problems in attempts to discredit or cancel someone, no matter how clear it is they may have changed. There’s also something to be said about the intensity people will bring to minor slights that are things we have to actively try to…

I mean, Italian people can and do get deep tans when they’re outside. It wouldn’t surprise me if, when she was on that Nickelodeon show, she basically didn’t go outside much. Genetics can differ ridiculously even in people of the same origin. (Even just Googling childhood photos of her, you can see straight hair…

I need to play more of Overcooked 2, but man, I gotta echo the complaints about the first game’s difficulty curve. It’s the lava zone that really does it for me; when we hit the stage with the rotating stovetops, it was constant game over.

The majority of the explanation is in the first major room, the one where Harry, Hermione, and Ron are at the top of the stairs and come out from under the Invisibility Cloak. It’s pretty sparse, but the gist is that Hermione wants you to sneak out to go to a Quidditch match, and when you get on the ride vehicle, Ron…

Customers have ZERO SHAME. The ones that are super embarrassed almost always have easy orders; it’s usually “oh my gosh, I’m sorry, this is gonna be complicated, I want a chai, but I want coconut milk. Oh, can you make it half-sweet, too?”.

To be fair, a lot of Starbucks drinks default to “super sweet”. Alterations can mean removing stuff too, haha.

Huh? A large caramel blended drink at Starbucks is ~500 calories, large caramel macchiatos run you around 350 calories, and a large flavored latte with whipped cream is 420ish. How is that more calories and fat than a full meal with ice cream?

Short is always around for hot drinks! :)

Chiming in, it really does depend on area. The Starbucks that I worked at (Tempe, AZ, middle of downtown) pretty much had a policy of letting homeless people do whatever they want as long as they didn’t cause a disturbance, didn’t make a mess, didn’t steal, and left space for paying customers.

It’s not as much “dying” as the flavor changing (and in the case of Starbucks, the espresso not being of great quality), as much as the Siren likes to teach that it is. Honestly, in my 4 years there, I never encountered someone getting shots of espresso just to let the shots die for free drinks.

Eh, it’s completely possible they do mind but can’t say much. Most Starbucks locations are super beholden to corporate’s rules and will sacrifice things to appear kinder to customers (even if customers are being jerks). (It’s also possible they really don’t mind! If the customers in the area don’t tend to take…

I don’t think it’s a problem in the first place. The first link you shared has nothing to do with names on cups, and the second is most likely an issue of someone making mountains of molehills (“Aziz” could easily be heard as “Isis”, especially because Isis is a name, Starbucks can be noisy, and if the guy had an…

The vast majority of the orders at Starbucks aren’t that ridiculous, lol. Unless you get solely a hot brewed coffee or tea, everything has to go through the queue anyway. It shouldn’t take very long unless there’s a line :P