Aye. We’ve got one of those reversible rectangular things— that’s a griddle surface on one side and a grill on the other. It’s alright I suppose, but not nearly as good as an actual flat top or grill.

Yeah, this whole ad bit strikes me as meaningless because, well, pretty much no-one has a flat top griddle in their home, but it’s fairly common to have a grill of some variety. Both of which deliver superior burgers to just cooking them in a pan.

Yeah, I’ve FEHeros has never made me feel like I have to spend money on it. Which, actually, has caused me to spend a little bit, because it seems like the devs actually care about delivering a quality game and not just milking people for money.

I also just really enjoy ‘Tactics RPGs’ like Fire Emblem, which there are n…

America could really use a new Trust-Buster president.

Milka, Lindt, Ritter Sport, and Kinder are all great chocolate that’s pretty commonly available, I’ve found. Godiva, too, but their common-store stuff isn’t nearly as good as the stuff they sell at their own stores.

If there’s a place that commonly sells ‘Asian’ goods, there’s also some great Japanese chocolate. Meiji…

Ghiradelli is legitimately the only really good American chocolate I’ve had. At least, in terms of big-names. And yeah, I think it’s probably as good, if not better, than proper Cadbury.

That said, I’m not sure either are as good as proper Belgian, Swiss, German, or Japanese chocolates.

Yeah, US chocolate is terrible. Basically all the good chocolate you can get here is imported.

That said, though, the Brits are basically only one spot ahead of the US. It’s not the chalky, vaguely gritty product of the States, but it’s nowhere close to as good as the chocolate of pretty nearly anywhere in the EU…

Not going to reply to the asshole troll below, but yeah, Heroes is fine. Like, it’s a gatcha game with a pay-currency, but it’s the nicest one out there, from my experience. They give you more than ample amounts of free orbs (their gatcha coins) between bonuses, quest rewards, and map completion rewards, and hell, the…

Or, just hear me out here, you could create new regulations that apply specifically to ‘virtual chance boxes’ or even ‘virtual blind purchases’ entirely. You know, rather stuffing that octagon peg into the round hole.

Lootboxes need to be looked at. The need to have universal rules and regulations. But they shouldn’t…

Scratch tickets are different than blind-package items. When you buy a scratch ticket you’re not hoping you get the foil one you really wanted, you’re hoping that you can scratch off a match. Kind of like, you know, putting money into a slot machine and hoping you get a match.

When I buy a pack of Magic cards, I know…

This exactly. Trading Cards are pretty much always blind-packed, as are the numerous blind-box figurines and blind-bag items found in stores all over the world. And let’s not forget the coin-turn machines marketed specifically to children.

There’s a vast number of differences between paying for a product that could be…

It doesn’t fit the general rule of ‘starting with X’, but English is chock full of exceptions like it. That doesn’t really make it wrong, not anymore, at least, since language has developed to include it as a valid way to say the word.

Kind of like, technically, Caesar should be pronounced ‘K-eye-sar,’ but no one gets…

That this article was written by a Seen/Shawn is one of those fantastic details that I feel are often overlooked. Was that on purpose or a just a master stroke of the universe?

What monsters do you surround yourself with who say ‘Spear-a-mint’? It’s just ‘Spear-mint’, as written.

Soya’s just a different name for the same bean. So I can understand people who call the Soybean ‘Soya’ also calling the sauce that. Like rapeseed vs canola.

Uh, no? Lots of people named Xavier pronounce it ‘ecks/eggs-avier.’ Including literally every Xavier I’ve known (at least 6).

A quick search shows that ‘ecks-avier’ is the English/British adapted pronunciation.

You’re conflating different things. The 1st Amendment only protects your speech from the government, it has no bearing on other civilians. So... yeah, the constitution has precisely dick to do with the police presence.

On the other hand! The police are supposed to protect and serve, so, yes, they should be protecting…

That actually varies state-to-state (and city-to-city), there’s no national law against wearing masks, though it’s not an uncommon local law. In some places, especially in cold weather, it’s perfectly fine to wear a mask or otherwise cover your face, in other’s it’s technically illegal. Though even then, it’s rarely…

No.

Virginia is the northernmost ‘Southern’ State* and Maryland is the southernmost ‘Northern’ state [along the eastern seaboard]. The District of Columbia sits on land that was formerly split between the two, though mostly Maryland, IIRC.

More notably, the Civil War is usually used as the deciding Southern vs…

Anyone who regularly posts videos is a ‘youTuber’, which is shorthand for ‘youTube content creator’. Though even if you limit the field to just those making money off the platform, there are a hell of a lot more of them than three.

Off-hand I can think of about... six youTube and/or amatuer video content creators,…

There are plenty of people who make youtube content that aren’t complete asshats.

That said, for some goddamn reason, the epically monstrous asshats tend to have gigantic followings, especially among very young people (preteens and younger).