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When talking about the date with another human, DD/MM (+YYYY if required); when doing anything related to the sorting of files by date, YYYY/MM/DD.

It's been 5 years since they pulled that reprehensible shit on RedCandleGames and their game Devotion, and I still haven't spent a penny on their store because of it. Fuck them. Tankie cunts.

Same here, either Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 would be the dream (why not both in a fancy new Orange Box?)

Hell, a non-VR version of Alyx would make me happy! I do have access to a headset, but I get very sick very fast when I use it. Pounding headaches, nausea, it's really bad 😒

Good for you man, that's a really great watch 😊

Sad little men like that are most hurt by you not being offended by them. It's like with internet trolls; non-engagement is the best weapon. It also happens to require the least amount of energy or time. So easy, but so devastating to their ego.

Why are they so excruciatingly slow to release patches? This patch doesn't even cover game-breaking issues, such as the bow's paralysis perk crashing the game if you trigger the perk twice in a row. There's a workaround where you edit .ini files to set the chance of paralysis to 0%, but most people aren't gonna do that.

I got 100% of the cheevos and logged 110 hours in doing so. The game crashed for me literally hundreds of times (maybe close to 1,000), and I submitted the bug reports for every one of them. I had to quicksave every minute, to avoid losing too much progress. It's the most unstable piece of software I've ever used, game or otherwise.

The game itself is great, but fuck me... almost 2 months later and they patched maybe 0.2% of the crashes and bugs every player is encountering 😒

RIP Discord.

What exactly happens to salt that makes it "expired"? Some sort of mould from the air growing on it or something?

Kids. Thank god I'm not attracted to kids. Or animals. Anything else is fair game. Feet attached to a consenting adult are fine. Don't see the big deal. I like to spit-shine the rusty sheriff's badge, so why the fuck would I care if someone likes a boring regular appendage like a foot? 🤷‍

Unless there's some angle to this non-foot people don't understand? Like, maybe being turned on by feet is comorbid with an uncontrollable need to blast rope over any uncovered foot you see? Now that would suck.

I think everyone secretly yearns for the opportunity to reenact that tired old movie cliché where someone half-heartedly says "yeah, I know how you feel" which causes the other person to angrily respond "NO, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL, YOU CAN'T KNOW HOW I FEEL" and for the first person to sheepishly agree and apologise for the presumption.

It makes every character who has ever said that seem like an insufferable cunt, and in real life it's a thousand times worse. It sounds more like you fear that someone is trying to crib some of your weirdly-beloved pain as though it's currency, and to wear it on themselves like the spoils of a war you just lost. The difference between thinking that, and thinking "this person wants to be with me in this moment and share the burden", is so slight that it's easily-missed, so I don't necessarily fault people for the mistake. But you can literally just choose to go with option B in future, and in doing so improve your overall mental health and general vibe.

The Montreal part has me laughing like a hyena, and I don't know why.

Bel Throat, a condition of the larynx where the sufferer is unable to speak because of nervousness/anxiety. Often suffered by brides and grooms at the altar.

I was on a leash as a kid in the early '80s 😂 I forgot all about it until I saw this post. It was just when we were out shopping or something, it wasn't like I was tethered to a post in the back garden. But honestly, a leash on young toddlers just seems like a good idea to me, especially if you have 2 or more kids and you're all out together. Lots of tragedies could have been avoided if little Willy and his new superpower of self-determined locomotion wasn't able to suddenly take a sharp 45° turn and sprint headlong into oncoming traffic. Abductions would be a lot harder to pull off, too. Thinking of James Bulger, specifically 😔

I also think it's way nicer/less "abusive" than placing the kid in a buggy/stroller and wheeling their grumpy asses around like yer bell-ringing fella from Breaking Bad. They have zero freedom in that case, whereas on a leash they can at least walk around a bit and expend some of that crazy fizzy energy.

As a kid, I thought he was singing "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard" and I have never been able to correct it in my brain. I know what he's actually singing, but the misapprehension is indelible. I don't even know what I thought it meant, like he's a demonic sideboard? A sentient set of shelves that Beelzebub stores his malevolent vases on? 🤷‍

God: Obviously I'm not able to stop the gunman from becoming insane and buying a ranged hypodermic lethal injection device, he's way too powerful for me, but maybe I can use what little power I actually possess to slightly nudge this bullet away from a man who is objectively awful and into a man who saves lives for a living. Yeah, I'll do that.

Christofascists: SCORE!

As a kid trick-or-treating in 1980s' N. Ireland, we used turnips. Carving those fuckers was an insanely dangerous and difficult thing for a child to do. They're rock solid all the way through. Brutal. And ugly as fuck, which is at least in keeping with the spirit of things!

If you don't wanna read Irish Central and have 20TB of cookies stored on your system, the Wikipedia article is better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o%27-lantern

Making the raindrops... chubby??

We have hot shites to show you.

Boots should really come with an exhaust so that with every step you're pushing air/moisture out the back end. Nothing like a big pipe or anything, just a wee hole and a sort of bladder that fills with air when you lift your foot and pushes it out again when you step on it. Sure, you'll sound like you're stepping on farting mices everywhere you go, but if you just cough with each step you should be fine.

SOMA still lives in my brain 10 years later.

It's a very dark part of conspiracism in general. The same tactics, both conscious and unconscious, are used to evangelise these ideas - and defend them despite being indefensible - as are used in all conspiracy theories and "alternative" views of established fact.

So, it has less to do with the available evidence, and more to do with personality flaws. It's not even about reasoning skills or intelligence - the more intelligent you are, the less likely you'll be to change your views because you're so good at generating narratives that support your position. It's a deep flaw in human psychology that can't be reasoned away, and trying to combat these ideas with facts just reinforces them and gives them credibility (which is why no one with any sense debates Holocaust deniers anymore). It's like when a schizophrenic person hallucinates; you don't want to do or say anything that makes the hallucination seem real, you don't want to say "where is the creature? Here? I'm stamping on it, is it gone? I don't see it!" you simply accept that they're hallucinating and don't engage with it beyond that. Extreme example, but the logic is the same.