The edutainment games were great! I still remember one where you would fight robots through a factory to build your vehicle that you would race against the villain. It was all about bigger engines being more powerful but weighty, larger tires and their racing characteristics vs. smaller tires, airplane wing styles… I think it’s why my brother is an engineer now, lol.

Fucking red alert, man. Our computer couldn’t handle it, so it would take 20 minutes to build a single refinery as the individual frames t. i. c. k. e. d. b. y. Meanwhile, our parents’ rule was we had to switch who was using the computer every 30 minutes. That fucking sucked.

My personal theory is that if I hole up even more often in my room and tell myself I’m going to start a workout plan, pick up an instrument, and talk to people, when I die I’ll be reincarnated as a better person that can be deserving off love.

AND use at least an adblocker, and even more important, something like noscript where you can see what the website is trying to load onto you. Ublock origin lets through an ungodly amount of crap on those streaming sites.

Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.

the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.

Isn’t that because the attachments are placed on the cable side, purposefully, because changing cables is easier than replacing parts of the phone/device? I think that’s one of the more noticeable issues with the iIdiot lightning chargers: Once the grabbing parts of the port are borked in the device, no cable ever stays in.

The issue with that is the old cables had the same problem, they just were less noticeable because you didn’t expect them to do what the USB-C is capable of. I had some USB micro cables that would pass power only, and it drove me nuts if they ended up near my computer.

If the edge crust isn’t as much a pleasure to eat as the center of the pizza, you’re doing pizza wrong. There’s a local place that brushes an herb mix on, and I swear to god they could sell the edge crust as a bread appetizer and make more money than the pizzas. It takes you right to the edge, I swear to god.

In the same breath, I hate when people tell you they want to meet in the morning, or call you, and then wait until 1130 hours. Fuck that shit. We need terms to describe portions of the morning just like we do for afternoon, evening, and night.

I do get my evil grins on when they do that to me and then I call them at 0530 hours the next time we’re scheduled for ‘morning.’

No, it’s morphed into one of those pearls of wisdom that people pass down and truly believe. They all have their ‘true story’ of blipping the throttle and “suddenly the car that was moving over to smush me stopped!!!” The assholes who know it isn’t true can be discerned from the true believers by the humor they find in their tales of blasting people with sounds.

Legitimate? Sure. As good as other options? Hell nah, brother. I’ve got too many other delicious options that take up cheese space to waste on pineapple.

Spoiling milk is all about the ratio of the fat. It’s why cream is used in alcoholic drinks. The higher fat content of the cream means it can take more without spoiling. Try yours with skim milk vs. whole and taste the difference.

I definitely got the cornucopia from the saccharine depictions of ‘the origin’ of thanksgivings. I always thought the logo came from those.

The best thing about the fixed gear was the quick and sudden slides you can do with the rear wheel.

But most people would say that single speed has none of the disadvantages of fixed.

The incessant pedaling even as you’re slowing or cruising can be horrible though. The single speed definitely fixes that.

I think I’d prefer my preferred hand in the place of high precision, which is changing the gears… and especially the very precise twist of the volume knob if I’m messing with the radio. Honestly, the preferred hand is mostly training anyway, so by the time you learn to drive a manual without grinding your gears every other shift, you shouldn’t have an issue steering with your ‘off’ hand.

got a shower

That made me shudder. Are you a dog and being showered by someone else, or was it a gift granted to you for hard work that day? ;)

Them’s just the facts, ain’t they? Though I usually say chicken strips because they’re often not one-bite sized.

I have the other issue. I get up early and can’t go back to bed because I feel the call of the void. High rise life, yo.

Where can I find these submissive puppy boys? It doesn’t seem like it should be hard to convince one of them to wear one of those rape prevention reverse condoms, just in case…

You know what the real nightmare scenario is there? You’re locked in the head, sort of half screaming because you don’t have to be doing all that shit anymore… and they start succeeding. They put a little effort in at work, they get promoted. They focus on a single hobby (or two!), and get good enough at it that others ask them to start a club and teach about it, just once a month or so, but the friends they make want to hang out more often. They smile at the person across the bus row, and a conversation starts, and suddenly there’s a date planned for friday night. They reach out to your parents, and your parents not only respond well, but admit they were conned by conservatives and want to reconcile.

No troubles… no difficulties. They slide in and simply become the better you that you couldn’t.