I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

I always build my own PC. It’s only relatively easy if you’re used to the process, and even then it’s still substantially more difficult than gaming, because mistakes actually have consequences and many parts can’t just be sent back after you tried installing them.

TBF there’s quite a lot of time that goes into researching the right parts and the right shops to buy from, which depending on the person might be considerably less enjoyable than gaming and also requires more mental presence than many games.

A lot of disco was great. Listen to some Chic!

No, it’s GRRM.

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

It also helps that they have really wide streets compared to some other popular tourist destinations. Some of those old european towns have really narrow streets.

I’ve been to Barcelona, didn’t seem like a particularly cramped city. When I lived in a cramped, touristy city, my university was one of the attractions and right in the middle of the city center.

I guess everyone has their own cutoff point. I like works that are longer than movies but don’t go on for a bajillion seasons, especially if they actually seem like they want to tell a story. For me, it doesn’t even matter if the series is consistently good, I just don’t want to watch that much content for one show. Plus the longer it goes on without reaching a conclusion, the more likely it is that it’s just going to get canceled.

I suppose Andor doesn’t really deserve to get lumped in with the likes of Mandalorian here, considering that it managed to finish its story in two seasons.

I only remember him as a relatively frequent collaborator to Ben Stiller. Not even sure how many times they actually did that. And TBH I don’t think I’ve even watched any movie with Chris Pratt, he got famous way later than Wilson.

I always thought the games followed the show like that.

Game came first.

Asian tourists are almost invisible on how unobnoxious they are.

Depends. Those big tourist groups are definitely an issue when the streets are already cramped without tourists and you have places to be.

US election exit polls show that that they’re quite rightwing, yeah. Lots of people from any generation were never going to be left/center anyway, but the rightwing has a pretty significant working class voter base, and looking at groups like the Proud Boys they’re even able to style themselves as “rebellious”.

And both of those definitely got the “popular series that drags on way too long” treatment.

In completely unrelated news, German carnival season started last week.

Friends episodes are very self-contained anyway. There is very little context that can actually be missed if you skip forward. You can pretty much watch whatever amount of Friends episodes starting from whatever episode you want.

Not really. For most series, you miss important characterization, backstory and story elements if you skip ahead that much. For Parks & Recs, the first season doesn’t matter at all.

“it gets better after 35 episodes” for story-heavy series generally implies that you have to actually sit through those episodes, or at least read summaries of them.

You can pretty safely ignore that first season, though.

Big fan of controllers that get all their power from cables. Fuck Batteries! Though I can see how that’s quite inconvenient when you’re playing on a couch instead of in front of a desk like me.

Strictly speaking, German names aren’t supposed to have articles at all! Though it is absolutely a thing in colloquial/dialect usage to say things like “Ich bin der Bart” (I am the Bart).

There is “der Bart” as in “the beard”. Which would be an interesting choice for someone beardless.