Half-Life 2 takes place in practically a different universe, it was so different from the first game’s setting. Seems like doing something like that would generally work, but there’s no way it’s going to be regarded as good for a very long time, just from the weight of expectation.

Well when your kid tells you a funny story about how they almost died doing something very stupid that they thought was funny, are you supposed to laugh along with them?

It’s common phrasing for somebody being made fun of. I assume that since the correspondence dinner has recently been a sort of roast of the administration by the press that she was using it in the “being targeted by jokes” sense, but who fucking knows anymore.

I eat asparagus rarely but I can always smell it in my urine. I drink black coffee regularly and I’ve never smelled anything of note in my urine afterwards.

*child

Unless there’s some Tourette syndrome going on I don’t see why anyone should have to tolerate hateful speech.

I started by picking a lot of indexers, trying to cover my bases, but every search would take forever because it sifts through every match to find the best one for your criteria. In the end I pared it down to just to just a couple big ones that even I’ve heard of and it’s been fine 98% of the time.

I’ve always heard the private indexers are best, but I don’t have experience with them.

I assume it’s UK/EU’s expanding social media laws that are driving this, in addition to Discord’s imminent Initial Public Offering coming in March. They’re trying to clean house to show how profitable they can be, the same way Reddit created their walled garden by restricting third-party connections prior to their IPO.

It’s bog-standard enshittification to please the shareholders.

The sharpening for these is particularly easy because you only really have to follow the angles that are already there. Even as a complete amateur I was able to bring new life to an old pair of Gingher scissors

And -40°F!

My first thought was a gun, that’s pretty American, and if you show them how American you are they are less likely to want to try to arrest you

Medical History Barbie with Character References, we can do differential analysis

I’m with you, I love arcades but I just wish I didn’t have to buy SpaceBucks (tokens, credits, chips) in order to play. Oh, Capitalism, is there nothing you can’t enshittify?

This is why online discourse is so hard! Beyond the anonymity, which causes its own problems, the absence of nonverbal cues and lack of immediacy in feedback leaves a lot open to interpretation, so anything can be taken in any way.

Opinions become accusations and idle musings become absolute certainty in the vacuum of supporting information that is text-only communication. I worry that the only real solution is for people to–like you–embrace the uncertainty and gracefully admit that their interpretation could be wrong. And it seems likely that the only way to collectively get to that point is to fuck it up a lot for a long time.

Yeah, the US and Europe do DST a couple weeks apart, presumably because of latitude differences but it could also be spite, I guess.

Just to make sure I’m understanding you correctly, you’re talking about an exchange like this?

Person 1: It sure is hot today.
Person 2: I know, right?

Thinking about some other conversational ways to respond, I think saying, “It sure is, isn’t it?” or, “Don’t I know it!” feel pretty similar. I wonder what it is that makes us ask rhetorical questions like that.

You don’t often see “US Secret Service” abbreviated like that. Maybe because calling them “the US SS” makes them sound like Nazi secret police.

I bet it has a few vibrate modes

I would have sworn you were wrong, but I guess I assumed that it was around long before I learned the “correct” term for it. Turns out I just learned it at the same time everybody else did, basically.

Well I don’t fly because I think it’s fun