Oh trust me, while it may taste terrible on the outset, once you start drinking it, you stop tasting how weirdly artificial and vaguely nauseating and stomach-churning it tastes. But you have to drink a lot of it.

When I first switched, I was like 'ewwww' and vowed to just not drink pop anymore... but I ended up…

It's not just Barbie, but because it was in the news recently for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, it's definitely relevant to the topic at hand.

No one is arguing causation: Barbie is symptomatic of a sexist and misogynistic culture, but there is definitely a correlation between unrealistic (and…

Well, at least now Sports Illustrated will know who to put on their next cover for the Swimsuit Edition. :P

Mattel, you say Barbie doesn't affect the self-image of girls and women (not just physically but mentally), but I'm #NotBuyingIt

Well, I didn't get to play the Beta very long so I didn't really get used to it, so I wasn't doing very well. It's possible there was just too much going on for me to get used to it in time (compared to a game like BLOPS2 or Ghosts, anyway), and it will get better for me once it comes out and I have more time to play…

I kind of know what you mean.

On the other hand, if you look at the cannonfodder as being much like the killstreak bonuses in games like CoD, I think it becomes a little easier to accept.

But then again, I wish the bots had actually been made the same as regular pilots, instead of weaker cannonfodder: since AIs, no…

You mentioned you're Austrian: is Austrian German similarly lacking in spacing?

I know WWII-era German words (at least the ones I've read) tend towards compound words without spacing or hyphenation, but I don't know much about the differences between that and Austrian German.

Japanese children's books tend to have more spacing to make them easier to read, which I think also makes them aesthetically more pleasing.

The great thing about a pictographic character set is that it can drastically shorten how long a text has to be to say the same thing as in, say, English for example. The downside…

Maybe for kanji, but I find it helps for writing in hiragana because of the homonyms in Japanese which can confuse the issue without an accompanying pictograph. I'm sure it's an affectation related to English-speakers/readers, though. People on the internet who read English comments will often outright refuse to…

I think my post was misconstrued: the issue wasn't whether it should be 'neco' or 'neko' (I prefer 'neko' as the Anglicized spelling for the Japanese word for cat, but whatevs), or whether it should be hyphenated or not (I don't care that much), but whether it's 'mini' or 'mimi'.

'Mini' = small (even in Japanese,…

Oh, the issue was the typo/misspelling of the product name: it should be 'necomimi', not 'necomini'.

But yeah, I use hyphens and spaces in my Japanese, because I find it's easier to read that way, but my Japanese is heavily Japanglicized, because I grew up in Canada, even though I am ethnically (and to a certain extent…

I think using the 'c' instead of 'k' is part of the brand name, but it's 'mimi', not 'mini' (although I think that would have been a clever pun if they were little kitten ears).

At least that's how it's spelled in their video that is linked from the article, and on their official Facebook page for the company…

A slight typo correction: the photo caption for photo #5 should read "neko-mimi" (neko=cat, mimi=ears), not "nekomini".

I've bought pizza for that price. ;)

Heh, I didn't know this (about CS:GO).

I wish they'd had this for Halo: Reach multiplayer when I played: so many times I got stuck in a lobby alone against a full team of 4, because my teammates dropped out. At least I got bragging rights when I beat them, but it irked me that the game had no way of letting new players join the lobby if the starting…

I LOLed.

/same here ;)

That's actually a good idea for another reason: if you like sesame, you can taste it better if it's on the bottom (assuming sesame seed bun).

It does sound kind of fetishized. Someone's scent as a reminder of one's significant other could be considered sweet, but if it's merely an prurient fascination with the scent in and of itself, it does seem kind of creepy as a kind of objectification. Reducing a person to one specific physical aspect of themselves…

This explains Burt Reynolds' mustache. ;)

I don't know if it's pheromones per se, but I'm sure there's something to scents that makes it an important sense to have, not just in general for survival but for procreative purposes. Maybe it's to do with matching immune systems or some such thing (I'm not scientist, obviously). :)