You’re kinder than me, I’d grab the pellet gun from them and use it for some serious blunt-force trauma until I was forcible restrained. I do not react well to people attacking me. I’m normally a very nice person, but if you piss me off, and it takes a lot to do that, you’re probably going to be having nightmares…

I still use Pine for some accounts (actually Alpine nowadays). I remember first discovering Pine, it was a step up from what I was using before. (That would have been whatever e-mail client I used on the university VAX.)

I know a lot of people in California don’t flush the toilet after peeing to conserve water. While that’s understandable while in California, they tend to do it elsewhere as well, so that may account for some of it. I suspect, however, that it’s worse than that or housekeepers wouldn’t go out of their way to complain…

I like certain kinds of puzzles, but it’s not because of pain. I enjoy the feeling I get when I solve it, that satisified feeling that comes with it. If I start struggling badly with puzzles in a game, I stop playing it. For me making it too hard = pain = I won’t play your puzzle game. Make it tricky, but fair, and…

Most of them don’t realize that at all. The areas they’re based in, and where most of the employees live, has great Internet access available. (Often more than one great service in the area.) As a result they tend to assume that everyone has similar access.

Maybe they’ll go the Google+ route and let it languish undead for years before finally admitting they’re getting rid of it. Then maybe they’ll pull a MySpace and in a few years the stories will be about how they upgraded the servers and lost most of the games in the process. Totally an accident, they weren’t trying to …

I wouldn’t be interested in this either, but I could easily see people that are really into the streamer and the game he/she’s playing wanting to buy the game and play along with the streamer. In that case, starting at the same point the streamer’s at would make sense. It would still be stupid, because they haven’t…

Your comparisons are off, because that’s $72,000 for two people. Each of them is making only $36,000 a year, below your new teacher stat and a bit above your average EMT stat. But it’s actually lower than that, because they have to spend some of that money on game development expenses. If we’re generous and say…

You’re vastly uninformed on this subject. The average internet access speed in the US was 18.7mbps in 2017, based on the most recent official figures I can find. (Since it’s the same speed used by Wikipedia, that’s likely the latest ones available.) It’s very unlikely that’s gone up to 25mbs in two years, as that’s an…

Maybe they could add an entire Bollywood song and dance number between rounds for India. That’d definitely lower the amount of times the kids could spend playing the game!

In GTA, if you did it out in the open, the cops would come after you. So the cops in GTA’s world do a better job than India’s...

While flawed, Alexa site rankings are a good way to compare to websites. Deadspin has a global ranking of 2,796 and a US ranking of 570. Barstool Sports has a global ranking of 5,032 and a US ranking of 855. It seems clear that Deadspin’s a vastly more popular site from that alone.

The weirdest thing is that if the burger comes with the condiments already, the restaurant doesn’t go overboard like that. I’ve had better luck (but not perfect, so I mostly gave up) asking for a burger without the topping I don’t want. For example, if it comes with ketchup and mustard, I ask them to hold the ketchup…

Demand to see a manager, and if necessary do so by having another employee get the manager for you. (In my experience, most asshole servers will not go get the manager for you, because they know they’re going to get in trouble and are stupid enough to think you won’t be able to get the manager some other way.) Unless…

My experiences suggest people are doing so. I like burgers with mustard on them, no other sauces. I no longer order them as mustard only because every fucking restaurant I’ve ever eaten at decides that “mustard only” = “enough goddamn mustard to kill an entire bus load of adults via mustard overdose.” I like mustard,…

I’ve worked drive-through at a fast food place, no one ever tipped me or any of my coworkers. Sonic doesn’t provide a way to tip if you pay by credit/debit card at the stall or using their app. The system doesn’t ask, or make the option available in any shape, form or fashion. Same thing for every fast food place I’ve…

Yeah, how dare those streamers bring all kinds of attention to the games, resulting in more game sales and/or microtransactions purchased by the stream viewers! Game companies don’t want all that extra money for free!

The comparison you probably want is a car running into an unyielding object. (I wanted to say brick wall, but cars have crashed through brick walls on numerous occasions.) The momentum dies off as the object absorbs it all, potentially heating up a bit from the energy, but not budging because the car doesn’t have enou…

If they can turn it into something like the racing in the Speed Racer movie, I’d actually start watching racing. Movie wasn’t all that great, but damn were those racing sequences fun to watch.

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