Fax machine I can see, some of those have overly complicated control panels that can confuse the hell out of the uninitiated, especially people who are worried they might break it somehow. Tuning a radio though? That one’s weird, all you do is turn a knob or push a couple of buttons labeled for the purpose and couldn’t…

It’s been many years since I worked at a Wal-mart, but we either made people pay for consoles in electronics, or we’d take it to the service desk to hold for them. Front checkout clerks would go get the console when told by a customer one was waiting, allowing the customer to purchase everything in one transaction. But…

They may have more cameras than you realize, too. The ones at Wal-marts in my area also have one up above the scanner, pointing down. I never noticed it until a register mistakenly thought I’d tried to put something I didn’t pay for on the bagging platform. When the employee logged in, it displayed the video from above…

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…