I gave up at the exact same time. High-five!

Wait, so is this anime Dark Souls/Bloodborne? Cos I’m getting a serious Dark Souls vibe (especially with that “prepare to dine” line), but dressed up in anime visuals.

Since your question didn’t specify whether or not I dined alone with them - a couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went for a movie with a female friend of ours, then went for pizza bagels. After that, we took her back to our place and the three of us fucked like rabbits.

One of my first job interviews after getting my undergraduate degree from one of the top universities globally was at a small local company; they asked me to prepare to negotiate salary in my interview as negotiating ability was a skill they were looking for. I opened the discussion by stating the average starting…

The NES was launched in North America in 1985, and the Gamecube in 2001. Today, the Gamecube is as old as the NES was when the Gamecube came out.

I’d wondered if there was a particular reason for this - indicators on motorcycles often make a similar noise, but it’s virtually impossible to hear with the engine running and/or with a helmet on - you only really hear it when testing the indicators at a complete stop with no helmet, so it didn’t really seem…

Junji Ito, yeah, but not Uzumaki. It was Gyo - or one of the side-stories/bonus chapters published with it named The Enigma of Amigara Fault. Junji Ito shakes me to my core. In a good way.

Those huge dangling earrings stretching your lobes made it... very difficult to watch and pay attention to what you were talking about. I’m not sure I can remember what you said about the cookies, but those earrings were fascinating.

My wife works for a charity that deals with people with learning disabilities, many of whom have physical impairments as well. They’ve just redesigned the square in front of their office - one of these new-fangled ideas where “pedestrian and vehicle space is merged” or some such bollocks.

Probably my final thing, but I felt this needed saying ‘cos I’m seeing traces of this come up in the comments:

OK, so more while I’m on a roll:

Here’s some “don’t”s from my most nightmare set of messages:

I always find the race thing here super interesting. My family’s from Hong Kong, and so there was always a rice cooker around when I was growing up - when I was seven or eight years old, my grandmother bought me a rice cooker that I still use twenty years later.

I use so many different kinds of shoes for workouts. For gym/weights stuff, I invested in a pair of Adidas Powerlift 2s, which were not prohibitively expensive (but pretty useless for running or walking any real distance in, so make sure you’re keen on weightlifting before splashing out). They seem to do the job…

So a bit like Infinity Blade? It played around a bit with some perma-death ideas (standard fights gave you the option to retry the fight or to make the death permanent, boss fights required you to win first time or the death was permanent). The second game introduced the feature that death was required to unlock new…

Man, what a way to ruin an expensive car. The tattoo’s alright, but the car looks like someone’s freehanded it on in Sharpie...

I always forget to reply to these things until it’s too late.

I certainly wouldn’t want to panic you, and this is a completely anecdotal and non-expert account by all means, but medical experts do occasionally mistake actual tumours for cysts. I had a small lump (about the size of a large bean) on the back of my head that caused me pain from time to time, and it took seven years…

Nowi says hi (and makes everyone in the room feel uncomfortable):

My ex used to live in Hiroshima Prefecture, and claimed that the deer of Miyajima would bow to passers-by. I never believed her, but the pictures she took of that place were amazing.