Those self-checkout units can catch more fraud than people think they can. Back in November I was buying a few things at one, including a big aluminum roaster pan for a turkey. When I went to scan the pan, I found I couldn’t, because the UPC was on the paper insert down inside the pan, and the regular scanner couldn’t…

It will never cease to amaze me how one of those assholes gets passed by 6+ cards and still doesn’t get the message to pull the fuck over where they belong.

Back when I was going to college I had a Geo Metro hatchback, one of the tiny ones from when they were rebadged Suzukis. It only had three cylinders, but it did fine even on the interstate, as long as it wasn’t a steep incline. Even though I was driving well over the speed limit (on the interstate, 10+mph over) and…

When someone’s in a rage like that, thinking is in limited supply. Once they’ve calmed down afterward the potential repercussions hit them over the head, but during the rage all they can see is getting their revenge.

I think it depends on both the person and the places they’re driving. I had two cars in a row that were manuals, but eventually got sick of them because I had to deal with so much stop-and-go traffic. I was commuting to and from the university, with it being an hour drive each direction, and there was road…

Believe, but not unconditionally, be ready to re-evaluate based on new information. A good example of this is in the article, it’s clear that Justin Sevakis is the actual victim once you read his story. Unconditionally believing the woman in that case would help her abuse him further.

I think it’s because it’s more realistic now. Back when MK first came out, the gore was more cartoony, and less disturbing because of it. (Not that this stopped a lot of people freaking out over it.) Now it’s realistic enough to make more people uncomfortable.

In case the asshole decides to respond more to you:

If god’s real and decides to smite the US for this bullshit, I hope he/she only punishes the evil ones and not those of us who try to help others.

At least they’re largely unseen here in the greys, the GoFundMe comments are a total cesspool.

That’s good to hear, this sounds like something I would like to read, but wouldn’t enjoy watching as much. (Why? I don’t know, some things I just prefer to read, not watch. Some are the opposite, and some I like both.) I’ll have to check out the translations, thanks!

I’m disabled and need those spaces, and I damn will say something to the assholes parking in them if it’s clear they don’t have a permit. I’ll also call the police, who take the reports seriously, probably because they can hit the asshole with a very hefty ticket. There’s not a whole lot of things that will make me…

I went into it thinking I wouldn’t want to read all of the very long article, then couldn’t stop reading.

Try not to let it hurt your ego, it’s a medical issue, plain and simple, so you have no control over it. It’s frustrating to not be able to play games you want, but it doesn’t make you less of a person because of it.

Helping people can be quite rewarding all on its own as well. Back when I played in a text-based MUD during college, I spent a lot of time doing that. I was max level on three different characters (all different classes) and had all the best equipment already. I had a lot of fun killing monsters to get better EQ drops…

You seem to have missed part of the article:

I think Kotaku’s being biased in regards to Epic’s store as well, but that quote basically says exactly that. The only way to reduce fragmentation is to get rid of all the competition, and Discord’s drastically lowered the amount of profit they’ll earn to try to kill off that competition. (It’s notable that Discord dro…

Not a good comparison at all, since some channels you want might not be available from your cable provider, and some cost extra to have (HBO, Showtime, etc.) A better comparison is to Netflix before all the fragmentation started. You could find nearly everything you wanted to watch on Netflix at one point in time.…

I essentially can’t play first person games, and it’s gotten worse over time. At one point I managed to complete about half of Portal, now I can’t get out of the first room before I have to quit. I used to be able to play 3rd person over-the-shoulder games, like Grand Theft Auto III, completing all the story missions…

Origin didn’t even update the free On The House game very often, maybe 3 or 4 games a year at best. I wasn’t terribly upset about it, and honestly didn’t notice the change until today when a client update removed the page entirely. The only reason I left Origin running was to check for a new free game occasionally, so…