The shirts thing is understandable, because damn near every manufacturer of T-shirts has non-uniform sizes. What one company says is a medium will be another company’s small, or even large. And even different shirt lines from the same company can vary greatly in size. We could really use a size standard that companies…

I know companies need to make money, and they want to push their fans to buy more and more stuff to push their profits higher, but they’ve got to realize that they don’t exist in a vacuum. Collectively they’re going to over-saturate the collector’s market and suddenly no one’s products will sell enough to meet…

Make that everything about themselves. If they were truly skilled at their videogame(s) of choice, this kind of thing wouldn’t threaten them in any way. It’s quite clear they feel personally threatened by the existence of “dad builds.”

I’m not going to reply to that guy directly, because they come across as a real asshole, but what I’m hearing from them is:

They should get a full refund from the crowdfunding platform in that case, because what they paid to pledge for has been changed since they pledged. (This is probably against the policies of all the crowd-funding sites and they likely require the campaign to issue refunds.) If the dev refuses to do that, then they…

Many Americans could use the “your president” phrasing, because Trump has made clear repeatedly that he only cares about and governs for his base. The rest of us could drop dead and he wouldn’t care. He’d have to be forced by someone else to issue a statement saying how sad it is that more than half* the country died…

It’s not worth a special trip, but if you happen to be near one it’s worth giving a try.

The biggest knitting forum has had their own issues with controversy, recently even. Wherever you have people, especially people passionate about a hobby, you’re going to see differences of opinion and tempers flaring occasionally. Because humans are like that in general.

I’m not remotely interested in this game, the only way I’d ever end up owning it is if it shows up in a bundle that I’m buying for other reasons. I’m not fond of Epic’s game store, because of the way they’re handling things, but I’m also not ranting against it. I even made an account and grab the free games each week,…

Facebook won’t be humbled as long as Zuckerberg’s in control, and removing him will be damn near impossible because of how the stock is structured. He’s shown an amazing inability to learn as his company careens from disaster to scandal to fuck-up and back to disaster to start the sequence over again. He still thinks…

Writing down your passwords so that you have unique passwords is absolutely good security hygiene. Don’t believe me though, believe Bruce Schneier , a very well known computer security expert. He’s not the only one that does, either.

I was at one today, they had signs at the registers saying that the digital ID would be mandatory in the future. I guess they plan to retrofit the pumps in coming months.

Crafting each level of a badge earns you a random item associated with the game: either an emote or a background. Regular game badges have 5 levels you can craft, foil badges only have one. Sale badges usually have no limit.

You deserve a cookie, because you were right, we just had to wait a while for it to happen.

Probably not as boring as the towns named Ducktown and Turtletown, both real towns in Tennessee. They didn’t even get around to building anything before naming those, apparently.

It’s like this, the pizza is $10, the delivery fee is $5, you tip $2. DoorDash guarantees the driver $4 for doing the delivery, but only commits to paying $1 of that. Here’s how much the driver gets paid:

There have always been idiots among delivery drivers, they just got fired more quickly in the past. When the restaurant themselves had to eat the total cost of replacing an order, problem drivers didn’t last more than one or two failed deliveries. I bet it takes a dozen failed deliveries, or more, before DoorDash and t…

One of the guys in the computer science program with me was in his 30s, not living at home, supporting himself and paying for college by delivering pizzas. He was not taking a full load each semester, but he was pulling it off. I can only assume he was getting a lot of tips. This was at The University of Tennessee, too…

I’m not part of those complaining (I think the cat’s just fine, although she should probably avoid doing that in the future because it looks bad to others) but I couldn’t take a cat in even if the alternative was it being euthanized. My allergies to cats are too strong, doing so could kill me, so I’d have to…

It would certainly be in his case, apparently he’s so seriously injured from burns that the police aren’t questioning him yet. Japan’s prisons are notoriously brutal, and being in one with severe burn scarring would make it even worse. He’ll almost certainly be executed (he murdered 33 people and all the ones injured…