Seriously, the number of prompts you have to go through to get to a friend’s island is nuts, and many of them could easily be put on the same menu as the previous one. Even worse, you’re 90% there but then pick the wrong option and have to do it over again... ugh!

Speaking as someone who programs for a living, as long as the developers did a halfway reasonable job in developing their UI and making it extensible, it shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks to put together something usable.

Every damn time:
1) Step into fitting room
2) Check for new clothes
3) Forget what I already own
4) Step back out
5) Search Nook Shopping app for stuff I already own
6) Step back into fitting room
7) Make a single purchase
8) No I don’t want to wear it now
9) Repeat

Counterargument 1: There’s no point in gameplay if players tune out of it.

Man... these videos are so well done but they just make me sad seeing a way more enjoyable game than what we have. I’m sure most of this isn’t something Nintendo can just throw together... but it’d be nice if they committed to making, like, any of these changes.

I don’t frequent Lifehacker often enough. Now I know the relative size of a fart molecule and am forever thankful for the knowledge.

I love this place so much.

You listened to Morning Edition too? ;)

It probably will be for some.

It boggles the mind that this has to be spelled out.

Starting August 1 there will be hockey 15 hours a day.  Suddenly daytime TV will be ok.....

For whom is “spirit animal” a cultural term, though? The Natives i know (Northeast north america, mostly) have clans with animal totems, but they don’t hold those animals in particular reverence, nor do they equate “clan animal” with “spirit animal”, as the former is familial, and the latter, personal.

I want to…

No, there’s no problem. It’s a really dumb thing to be mad about. It’s about as significant as a non-christian saying “Jesus Christ” when they stub their toe. Who fucking cares?

To be fair, if anyone tried to tell me the phrase ‘spirit animal’ is “cultural appropriation” I’d probably yell at them, myself. 

A 12 oz can of soda has about 2.2 grams of CO2. Every hour you exhale about 50 grams of CO2 when healthy, and is capable of ramping that up a lot higher. That doesn’t include removal of acid by your kidneys. You would have to drink a lot of carbonated water to get acidotic from it. I suspect you would get sick of…

Yeah, and what’s the deal with “spices” and “a variety of foods”? All you need to survive is a plate of beans and rice.

Then you shouldn’t drink anything but water because it’s all flavored water.

Seltzer is probably the second least harmful liquid you can be putting in your mouth after regular water. Carbonation causes acid, which is bad, but not as bad as sugar, and about equivalent to the citric acid in most fruit juice, which also has sugar. So - water>seltzer>fruit juice>any carbonated beverage with sugar.

No way! What is the name of this dentist of yours? Dr. Pepper?

Bubly has 10 mg of sodium, La Croix is sodium free; might be the difference you’re picking up in the flavor.