Is the intent here that the Pixel 8 is like a long-term support device and it (and only it) will be supported for 7 years or is it going to be the new standard moving forward? Like, I’m perfectly happy with my Pixel 6 but if I end up getting a Pixel 9 next year that loses support before the Pixel 8, I’d be pretty…

Makes sense to me - I have a bike (a regular, non-e bike) and I really enjoy riding it, but I’m not in great shape, so it can be a chore. It being a chore (combined with the chore of having to drive my bike to a trail since nowhere near my house is good for riding) means I ride it less and if I ride it less, I never…

It didn’t even occur to me that the Japanese Pokemon cartridges would have used the boring grey plastic, the red and blue cartridges (and the later ones) are so iconic in the west.

It’s wild to me that they’re still promoting that. It was only ever a thing on the NES, not the Game Boy, and it was removing and replacing the cartridge that fixed things - blowing was actually potentially harmful.

I think the big problem with this data is it’s all “bulk” candy purchases by pound. That is going to immediately favor smaller candies, hence the appearance of candy corn, Hot Tamales, and Lemonheads (plus legit contenders like Skittles and M&Ms being higher than they likely otherwise would be). So when you see…

Technically, “Sith” was part of the novelization of the first Star Wars (identifying Darth Vader as “Dark Lord of the Sith” without saying anything else about them) and that mention made its way to various books, but you’re correct that it was first legitimately used in The Phantom Menace in 1999.

I don’t think I have the heart to rename any of them away from the names they had when I was a kid (except renaming Aeris to Aerith but that’s basically the same name).

Yeah I’m not here to justify their decisions, just giving another example of a “wrong” pronunciation that most fans don’t know about. If they did a fully-voiced FF6, they may well choose to go the Cait Sith route and keep it “sy-an”.

Yeah, I mean I don’t think they picked the name Cait Sith out of a hat, it was an intentional reference, but I’m just saying that they’ve always played fast and loose with their references. They keep as much of the reference intact as they want.

I can’t justify the decisions of localizers nearly 30 years ago. Given that they have six characters to work with, I don’t know why they went with Cyan over Cayene or Cyann or something. And I don’t know if they would pronounce it like the color or Cayenne like the pepper if FF6 got a fully-voiced game.

I imagine some younger players saw his betrayal coming because of the unintended “Sith” name.

The Japanese is “ケット・シー”, or roughly “ketto shi”. So they’ve been saying it pretty much right the whole time and had no idea that we weren’t. But now it’s retconned and we’ve been saying it righ too.

Just wait until people find out how they’re supposed to say Cyan from FF6. Think pepper, not color.

I think it’s funny that they almost certainly picked Shiva as the ice summon name because it’s close to “shiver”, which you do when you’re cold. Like, that’s the amount of thought they took when creating a recurring series character.

I recently got a Fossil Hybrid smartwatch - hands and a bezel like a regular watch, but an e-ink display. It certainly won’t give you as many features (or colors) as an Apple Watch (or Samsung or Pixel or pretty much any of the other big names), but it still has fitness tracking and it passes my notifications along to…

Legit I just like milk, so even if the end-product milk tastes the same as regular milk, I’m happy.

I love cereal, I’ve had it for breakfast most days for the last 35 or so years. But yeah, it’s always been a kid thing - it’s easy for a kid to combine cereal and milk in a bowl, you don’t have to worry about them burning themselves on the stove or cutting something with a dangerous knife or needing to go to a…

I’ve noticed my local store will put the family size boxes on sale, sometimes so that they’re even less than the regular size. So I get the family size just for me (obviously) but even that’s more than I’d like to spend (and now I’m eating the same cereal for 2 weeks straight).

The proper cereal to milk ratio includes enough milk to drink afterwards. If there’s only enough milk so that my cereal absorbs every drop of it, it’s not nearly enough milk.