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There's a series that has faded far out of public consciousness...apart from the theme song, anyways. I can barely remember anymore.

adjl posted...

You're assuming those enacting this ban care about being logically consistent.

Oh, not at all. It the same as DeSantis going after Disney or even the unending conservative focus on abortion: they think it wins them the support of their base. I was just responding to the "is it a good idea". It just particularly bugs me that we are so insecure as a nation that we scared of a rival nation's video clip app stealing our credit card information...or whatever exactly we think is going to happen.

On the other hand it would probably be good to have a threatening rival again so we can apply the 'us vs them' mentality that seems to be required among a large segment of the population to something other than culture wars. Have at it, fearmongers.

I think TikTok is trash, by and large, but you cant logically ban it without banning about 100 other sites for the same reasons. There are plenty of real things to be concerned aboutlets worry about those.

I live deep in the burbs but we still get one once a week or so. Not really enough to be annoying, but vaguely weird and creepy.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

"The country"?

This. Everything has a dynamic/happy undercurrent if the country feels as if it's on the rise/improving/admirable. Everyone living there (unless discriminated against, of course) feels like they are contributing to a whole that they want to be a part of.

If, instead, the country feels like it's incompetent or just existing to make the rich richer...then everything has an undercurrent of dirty pointless selfishness. Things have been sliding towards the latter in the US for quite a while: you could pick many start points, but I'll go with Reagan and the end of the Cold War in the 80s. We won, but we lost our righteous purposefulness in the process and Reagan greatly accelerated the path towards greed. But everything has felt outright dirty since we elected Trump. Before him I never would have thought the country was SO gone as to elect an obvious, obvious con man President. Now I sadly know better.

My personal finances/etc...whatever. If my life fits into a greater purpose I can at least somewhat happily fit myself into it. If not...gross existential crisis.

And while I'm at it lets add nuclear war also. Do we think that we, as a species, are going to be able to avoid using those on ourselves again? It's a matter of time.

captpackrat posted...
For those who don't remember the details of the coffee lawsuit, a 79 year-old woman suffered third degree burns over 6% of her body and required skin grafts when she spilled an entire cup of coffee that McDonalds had served at nearly boiling (190F). She initially offered to settle for just the cost of medical expenses ($20,000), but McDonald's only offered $800.

I am sympathetic to the old lady: coffee is going to spill on people from time to time, container or not, and especially in a car. It doesn't need to be boiling/scalding hot.

Upon reflection I can be sympathetic to the kid as well: Happy Meal food is going to fall on kids at times. It can and maybe should be served lukewarm given its likely customers.

But I don't want to pay more to make my food lukewarm to protect adults from themselves. The packaging needs to be reliable/safe, but after that personal responsibility comes in. Sure, some adults are more functional than others, but the world has small dangers to navigate. If you choose to buy deep fried foods this is one of them.

Keep in mind that if we passed a law saying that fried food needs to be served at 150 degrees or less (or whatever) McDonalds would figure that out...but local businesses wouldn't be able to comply/buy the equipment nearly so easily and would be at that much more of a disadvantage. We don't hear these "got burned" stories when they relate to small businesses because they aren't behemoths, but there's no way it isn't happening even more often per capita with them given the lack of central policies/equipment.

IIRC Homer aged from 36 to 38 a while ago. Not really sure why as thats a drop in the bucket for a 67 yr old.

At this time of year, at this time of day, at this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen...?

Very well off.

I got a bottle of isopropyl alcohol for cleaning NES cartridges after a guy at Radioshack (yes, Radioshack) told me that's all that was in the game cleaning solutions in the late 90s sometime.

The bottle ran out last year. It worked great to the end.

I could go on forever, but no: food often comes from boiling water, ovens, flames, etc. It is hot. As long as the entity distributing the food takes reasonable and effective precautions (i.e. placing it in a reliable container) the consumer (or consumer's parents) are reasonable for eating it non-stupidly.

What is the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning?

shadowsword87 posted...

Well what about if the aunts and uncles feel left out, we should go over and say goodbye before we leave. Oh of course we should talk to my cousins, they're right there. Now that that's over.
Oh before we go, of course I need to say goodbye to my dad. Oh did you hear?

You missed the last step: the first aunt you said goodbye to has heard something interesting in the meantime so you need to discuss that. And by then it's been so long that you need start a round of the REAL goodbyes because you can't walk out the door if someone sees you there an hour after you said the first goodbye.

I live in MN and this is the bane of my existence. My wife's family is huge and she has to say goodbye to each person before leaving. It quite often takes an hour or more.

I try to get her to set a target leaving time so she can start saying goodbye for said hour while I do something other than hang out by the door, but that is apparently a ridiculous thing to think.

In general I agree: critics tend to focus on wonky tech issues and hold up their nose at the concept of "fun". You can typically get a better sense of a game by reading a few fan reviews and separating out the mindless fans & mindless haters.

captpackrat posted...

Sauteed is generally the best, though some people have good luck with grilling or roasting. If you want to boil them, just save yourself the trouble and toss them right in the garbage can.

This. If they retain some firmness, they can be great (especially with bacon, yes). If they're boiled/soft, then they're as awful as everyone says. It seems that everyone boiled them in the past and that's why they have such a bad reputation.

TimeCrisis posted...

does it contain (nearly) all of the content from BotW

I haven't played it, but I am certain it doesn't. I am sure they didn't reload all of the same shrine puzzles, robot 'dungeons', sidequests, etc: it's a new game that needs to have new versions of all of those things.

wwinterj25 posted...

I wouldn't say you need to play Breath of the Wild(based on trailers for TotK) but I also don't know why you wouldn't. With that said maybe you would get burnt out if you tried going through Breath of the Wild first.

This. BotW is a pretty great game and it still holds up: I don't know why you wouldn't get all of the enjoyment you can out of that one first. IMO there aren't a bunch of games better than BotW sitting around that should be demanding your gaming time such that it's skippable.

BotW doesn't work for a few people, to be fair, but I assume those people wouldn't like Tears either.

It sounds like you might need to talk to them rather than throw things away in the background. They will continue to buy similar things for you until you make it clear you don't want them. Unless you really think you've been clear and they're buying it to spite you...?

I'm on year three of working exclusively at home after being sent home one day in March 2020.

It's pretty great overall, but all of the sitting at home by myself is speeding up my midlife existential crisis. What exactly is the purpose of all this? :)

Dikitain posted...

I was honestly fine with that because if you have seen the ending to one Zelda game, you have seen them all. They really don't differ by that much. Considering this game was the one to try and change the formula for Zelda, having a brief ending worked out better than seeing the same one for the 1000th time.

I mean, they could have changed the formula in the other direction and made a more interesting ending...that would have been OK. Or at least made an ending that didn't seem like it was waiting for a DLC better ending, which might have been the original idea for Tears? That said, yeah, it wasn't as if it was unexpected.

SwollenColon posted...

If you're not reaching climax you gotta persist and maybe switch up your technique

So: start actually reflecting Ganon's lasers rather than just abusing Urbosa's Fury? Got it. :)

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Beating it was pretty anticlimactic. You could go do it, but the ending was...brief and non-interesting. Considering the time it took to beat Ganon/watch credits it was generally more fun just to quest around some more.

Is this supposed to be reminiscent of the photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore, or is that just a bonus?

Chiropractors are closer to masseuses than doctors. They can make you feel better for a while by straightening things out, but there are very few problems they actually solve. If you go to one consistently (like they want you to do) they can keep you straightened out a good percentage of the time, which has some value, but it's similar to how getting a massage regularly would keep you feeling good.

And then to add to that: almost all of them are convinced that they are accomplishing more than they are...and many/most add in a lot of pseudoscientific nonsense as well. Most problematically they aren't bound by the Hioppocratic oath so "do no harm" isn't hard cooked into what they do (especially the pseudoscience-prone ones). The overall package isn't worth it for most people, I say, although they do enough good in some situations that they can/should exist.

The eternal homeowner challenge (outside of rock/etc). If you have neighbors watching you/HOA rules/county rules there really isn't any alternative to taking care of it.

I suppose my advice is don't skimp on the equipment cost. The better gear you find the faster it will go. I have a battery-operated Ego myself: it's environmentally friendly (but not really any different in effort from a gas powered mower).

If you have the space, though, consider buying a (used?) riding mower...even for a "normal sized" yard. Those get the job done QUICK and the cost isn't a big issue in the long run (certainly compared to paying others to do it). Better yet get together with your neighbors if you're building at the same time and buy one together: maybe four of you can agree to trade off on each others' lawns such that you're only actually mowing once per month or so. They're gas users, but they're more efficient than push mowers so they're probably not much different environmentally (and you're further from it so you don't smell nearly so gassy). If your yard is flat and uncomplicated I very much doubt you'll regret it.

My parents have a cabin with a flat 1/3 acreish yard and a riding mower. It seems like a ridiculous thing to own, but it's so nice to whip through the chore and relax that I would buy another one if it ever breaks down. If you can find an electric one these days...better yet.

Lokarin posted...

Seemed normal to me, but is that actually weird or no?

Every day is weird: what's so important about noon? Was there some big industry there such that that marked the shift change? Once a month seems like (more than) enough.

Anyways, no, mandatory evacuations aren't a Minnesota thing. Our freeways get shut down by snow sometimes and we CAN'T leave small towns for a day or two (particularly in the southern part of the state) but the Twin Cities just keep rolling. Except for all the cold days kids get now. In MY day...!

Boaty McBoatface

Nope, although my son is. He's technically red-green, although he has the most trouble with purplish shades.

Nothing wrong with that, certainlyit just wont have everything. Like, say, reliable instacart. :)

PK_Spam posted...

Thats a big thing for me too. I dont even know how Im going to style it. And how can I? I wasnt allowed to grow it long enough to even need to style or comb in any meaningful way.

Weird. Grow it out a bit, yes. Don't go full rebellious mullet - that won't help anything - but you deserve to see what a "normal" hairstyle looks like on you.

agesboy posted...

a 10k city is definitely beyond rural

Ehhhhhh...borderline. 20K+ I'd agree. 10K...is going to be missing some things if that's the "big" city.

When my wife went back to working full time we agreed that we would instacart whenever it felt convenient to remove a chore, and we have. We might go to the grocery store 60% of the time and instacart 40% of the time. Like someone said if you want to be certain that you won't get the weird produce you need to go yourself, but otherwise it's pretty slick: whatever you order almost always shows up in 90 minutes or so. She'd know how much it costs better than me, but it's on the order of $10...not bad considering gas and time and all.

So...yeah, online is here today if you're in the city/'burbs.

I would not have thought that would have been the biggest peeve, BTH. I would have thought a mini-mystery to solve would be more fun than ringing up Coors, myself. :)

Making a short walk from a computer screen to a console/TV does make a rather large difference psychologically I think.

Pick up a Switch or a PS4-5 depending on what you like to play.

Did anyone ever think well of him/the show? Even people who liked it seemed to like it specifically because it was trash.

faramir77 posted...

I'm tired of most nostalgia because it seems to drive most new movies and games these days. We live in really uninspired times.

Agreed. There were a few things worth bringing back, but we've REALLY gone overboard with it.

He-man, although that's coming as I understand. And I probably won't watch it. Most 80s cartoons were pretty terrible, TBH, even though I was there for it and should be nostalgic.

Can I ask for a second Simpsons movie?