Is... this one actually real? The others all seemed like they were at least attempting a clinical tone, but this one seems to abandon it almost entirely. It reads more like a high school or jr. high essay.

Noone ever said “traditional taco”. Unless it was in the video and I missed it. So no need to be “that guy” in the first place. I’d say it’s fair to assume the Americanized Tex-Mex style taco was the goal from Lay’s (though the submitter of the flavor idea may have meant otherwise). I mean... it’s pictured on the bag.

It’s true, Hasbro is hugely fan driven with its Generations line, granting tons of fan wishes they you used to have to pay massive amounts to “third party” companies to get. Are they always perfect? No, since Hasbro still has to market to kids and keeps figures to strict budgets. But given that it’s official product,…

Made me panic there and recheck my usage in my post. I used both of those words... correctly, thank goodness.

LOL, don’t poke the dragon there. I see what you did.

“Begs the question” bugs me too. I’ve mostly finally learned to live with it, mostly on the basis that it’s a useful phrase as used and makes semantic sense. But it still nags at me.

You might hold off on correcting people on that one. Just a quick online dictionary check suggests that both usages for the word are actually correct, or at least generally accepted as such. It’s one of those that I think you’re just going to have to grit your teeth and accept. The “study of” definition didn’t even…

This was the minifig that was “me” in all my Lego adventures. Definitely my favorite. It’s still a touchpoint for me in my scifi designs, many many years later.

I have never had end credits cut off without warning. Usually they shrink into a little box and give a prompt and countdown, which you can typically dismiss (but I’d rather I didn’t have to). It does vary a lot by platform though. I have 6 different things in my household that play Netflix, of various ages and levels…

I think Netflix does it because they presume people want to jump to the next episode, not due to bandwidth (or not ONLY due to it). I think if bandwidth were the primary issue, it wouldn’t automatically start playing the next episode of a thing.

I’m not sure why he’s not putting every word he says in quotes at this point. He seems to believe that when he uses them, the words he said can later be claimed to have meant almost anything whatsoever.

The key word here is “panic”. Totally short circuits the higher reasoning centers of the brain. Some people don’t have much of a handle on those to start with.

Dr. Z, you clearly have no conception of what some people will spend on a wedding dress. Weddings are nuts. A quick Google query gives an average price of about $1500, according to one source. Obviously some people spend much, much less.

I do genuinely wonder: can the men come to work in, say, unbuttoned polo shirts maybe? You know, tasteful business casual, etc. One of the complaints I saw was “it’s summer, it’s so hot”. Men are, I think, literally required to wear coats, preferably black ones. I have zero problem with the sleeveless dresses, and…

I remember telling my mom I was bored when I was young (9 or 10 onward). Later in life I was able to properly identify what I’d been feeling as a form of depression, which still is with me to this day.

Today my 3yo nephew and his mom were on Facetime, talking to us. The call was abruptly disconnected, and she playfully pointed out that he had hit the disconnect button. He indignantly insisted that he did not, but she did.

I am a regular user of SL. It could possibly stand to be replaced. But by all accounts, Sansar is not a viable replacement. It’s too different of a thing.

I’ve always been of the opinion that email should be plain text 100%, all the way. No fonts, no colors, no images, no formatting beyond tabs, space, and line breaks. It’s just text! Imagine the overall reduction in bandwidth used across the world if people weren’t padding out their 5 word quick replies with 100kb of…

No intention to undermine you generally well made points, but I do want to note that “trademark” and “copyright” are not interchangeable terms.

Part of the problem is that this is treated as a binary. It is either one thing or the other. Either it’s availabilty or it’s intent to do harm (whether due to social conditioning, mental illness, or any other reason). But it is both! The true ideal is to address both sides of the issue, so that those with the intent…