“What’s this in your holster?”

“Wow, that’s a nice piece you got there”

No.

My personal rule is that I do not consume any media where I have to see or hear adverts.

When I’m in someone else’s car that’s an exception and they can listen to whatever they want, it’s their car. But if I’m driving? Absolutely not.

Thanks for the correction.

Regardless, an impartial third party does it, and that’s the key part in making you less likely to be scammed.

Yes it will.

When you sell your house “normally” through a real estate company it is the real-estate company who acts as an intermediary in the transaction. They collect money from the buyer, then pay you, and the transaction completes.

The real estate agent takes a cut for their services, but there is less potential for fraud than if the buyer sends you money direct. The real estate company has a vested interest in making sure the sale goes through properly, because they won’t get their cut otherwise.

And if you could afford private legal counsel you wouldn’t be considering selling to this kind of scummy service in the first place.

They know exactly who their “customers” are.

Boobs like PS1 Lara Croft

I love the passive-aggressive move of Ēostre intentionally getting Becky’s name wrong in return

Bro, don’t hit goats either

I’m not even going to beat around the bush, it’s straight up the opposite of an appropriate choice.

Made me absolutely confused reading the comic, to the extent I couldn’t understand what it was telling me until I forced my brain to override the meaning of that icon.

You can only intuitively use a battery bar to represent a good thing where the full state is desirable (mood, energy etc) not a bad thing where the full state isn’t.

*can’t ;P

Edit: And now you edited it

Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender and sexual orientation.

Be like a shark!

I can never understand why the tier list meme template starts at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.

I wondered if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be “cold” blue.

Is it just completely arbitrary? Does my life have no meaning?

Is “lava buckets coming up the stairs” a Minecraft-inspired hallucination?

Looks like Madoka Magica

Literally just “Take whatever we have, and call it a doctor playset” lol

Possibly controversial take: I get super turned-off by any content creator who seems to be in it mainly for money.

There are lots of people out there who decided they want to be a youtuber as their profession - and best of luck to them! - but I feel quite safe in saying that almost every youtuber I truly love began their channel not because they wanted to make money, but because they had something to share. They had a passion, or burning thoughts, or knowledge that was too good to keep to themselves, and youtube was a way to voice it.

And they might be profitable now, but that’s not why they started.

So yeah. As soon as I get a smell that the content someone makes or the way they act or the things they say are dictated primarily by dollar signs, rather than by being the thing they truly want to do, I very quickly lose interest.

Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn’t tolerate it.

Exactly.

In around eight years of using a dashcam I’ve needed the footage maybe three times.

Putting an SD card in my computer three times in eight years isn’t anything I could call a major inconvenience.

I bought my dad the same camera. High quality recording, dead-simple, no frills and no hassle.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that finite consumables are bad game design.

It’s bad design because it fails to account for that exact psychology you described - we humans are loss-averse creatures, and so we hoard them without any benefit.

Much better systems IMO are those which have consumables that naturally replenish over time like mana, or that you fill between fights like the estus flasks in souls games when you rest at a campfire.

These are better because they still challenge the player with managing limited resources, except it’s only limited for the duration of a fight or area, not across the entire game like finite consumables are. It encourages players to use them because they know they’ll get it back, and indeed if you don’t use your mana pool when it’s right there to use, then you’re underperforming.

So yeah. Finite consumables were a natural addition in the early days of gaming which model how real life works, but these days we’ve got much better and more engaging ways of handling the same problem.

The more “corporate” the job is, the more the hiring team will expect a LinkedIn.

My last dev role was like that. My current role is one I found through a personal connection where the ‘interview’ was a chat over some lunch - and they wouldn’t give two hoots if I had a LinkedIn or not.

So yeah, it depends. If you want to play the corporate game, you have to play more by the corporate rules.