I’d go with ImAnEdgeLordXXXX, unless Sony can break the normal username length limits, then they can add two more numbers to have a much larger set available. It’d serve as a definite warning to the person’s potential behavior, even if someone was totally unaware of how they ended up with that type of nick.

Don’t forget the curly fries, they use those for handcuffs.

Exactly. I’m not very good at games, and I have to work hard at them to win a lot of times. I’ll usually try normal difficulty, but don’t mind switching to easy if I need to. I haven’t played any of From Software’s games, but as long as they were difficult but fair, I’d be fine with that. When it’s difficult and feels…

Which is really stupid in that case. I remember playing a clicker game on Steam for a while, and it was obvious that some of the achievements were only obtainable by cheating. I got all the ones that were doable legitimately, then cheated to get the others and uninstalled the game and said to hell with it. Also kind of…

That assumes we’d ever manage to beat the game without using free play or that invincibility cheat. That kind of assumption assumes that all players are equally skilled, or able to become equally skilled. It’s rarely true, for any number of reasons. There’s numerous games I never finished because I couldn’t beat them…

Costco’s Kirkland brand too, they have very high standards. Apparently some of the Kirkland products are better than the name brands that they’re based on, because Costco demands higher quality. (If I’m remembering correctly, laundry detergents were the example mentioned back when I read that.)

You can’t put much stock in those, as it varies from restaurant to restaurant in the same area. In some cases, it varies inside the same restaurant if they have one of those table-top tablet devices you can pay on. Two places around here that do that (Red Robin & Applebees) list suggested tip amounts pre-tax on the…

The requirement for employers to meet minimum wage for tipped employees is federal law. A lot of restaurants will do everything possible, even up to firing servers as you noted, to not to do so. In a lot of cases that means flat-out violating the law, by not telling employees the truth and hoping they won’t know…

You know, AndTrollingIsHalfTheBattle could have phrased things better, but your position is morally indefensible. They very clearly noted that going out to eat was a rare treat. You’re saying that poor people should never go out to eat, even as a rare treat, if they’re too poor to tip an arbitrarily large amount that…

I was searching for some space age pop albums, and Spotify had exactly none of the albums I have in my iTunes playlist. That’s a total of 16 albums, most of which are actually vinyl rips. They did have music from some of the artists, but none of those albums. I’m not going to stop using Spotify or paying for premium,…

I’m glad you did, I learned something new today. That’s pretty cool.

State and local law can’t override federal law when it’s an interstate transaction. Since that was in Connecticut and Amazon is incorporated in Delaware, federal law supersedes state and local. If the company the item was bought from and the shipping were both in Conneticut, their law could supersede federal. Even…

USPS tries very hard to deny insurance claims, definitely. Back in the late 90s, I had sent a SCSI card in for replacement. It had a lifetime warranty on it, and since it had failed I had to mail it in to the company, then they’d send me a new replacement card. (It was a damn good warranty.) Well USPS lost the…

I’m inclined to believe this was entirely a fuck up by the delivery company. I got an HDTV from Amazon back in 2012, and with items that large/expensive, you couldn’t use Prime shipping and they couldn’t be delivered by UPS/Fedex/etc. It was shipped by a special service that called and scheduled a delivery time once…

The problem isn’t just using a cheat code for the most part, it’s using the cheat code and saving your game afterward. If you use the cheats to play around, like going on a rampage, but quit the game without saving afterward it won’t cause you problems later. There’s also some codes that will break individual missions…

That behavior sounds exactly like what Comcast and other cable and telco companies have been doing: Advertise one price, then add on a lot of bogus charges so your final bill is much higher. (Like, why the hell are you charging an extra line-item for regional sports networks? Prices for providing content should be…

Much higher tax rates for the top 10% and especially the top 1% can help a lot. The top tax rate was in the 70% - 91% range for most of the history of the United States’ federal income tax. We experienced significant economic booms throughout many periods when the top tax rate was so high, so it didn’t hurt the…

It’ll be the (real) movie marathon equivalent of The Onion’s 9,600 mile roller coaster. (I remain convinced some roller coaster enthusiasts would want to ride that if it was real, even with the underwater segments.)

He ripped off other rich white people, and that’s what put him in jail. The unspoken limit for rich white people is “only rip off the poor and minorities, leave the other rich white people alone or we will skin you alive.”

They may be telling the truth for once. It was reported back in January that they stopped providing free coffee for employees at the NRA’s headquarters, because they can’t afford to do so any longer. A third party audit showed they were in the red for the second year in a row as well. Last year they lost most, if not…