MediaStore recreating the standard Android library folder layout on my SD card no matter how many times I deleted them was infuriating.

And sometimes the good memories become traumas when you realize the circumstances behind them are gone forever.

Skittles: “We doubled our output with this one weird trick!”

There actually was a famous mod for an Elder Scrolls game that made it look worse: Oldblivion for Oblivion. The game had high system requirements for the time, and the mod did things like removing the 3D foliage/grass so crappy GPUs could run the game.

“It’s tee-ah-tim-eh!”

(I know this is a shitpost, but I couldn’t resist lore-dumping)

The Dark Sign is actually Gwyn’s curse on humanity to seal away their potential (the Dark Soul being the only fragment of the First Flame that can be shared and passed on without weakening, he feared humanity growing powerful enough to topple the gods through sheer numbers). That’s why the Dark Sign appears as a flame encircling the Dark. When the First Flame weakens enough, his seal becomes visible as the Dark within humanity begins breaking free.

The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.