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  • I don't think that is how the song went, the guy who was afraid to fly ended up getting on a plane, which crashed just like he was afraid it would.

    Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly
    He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
    He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
    And as the plane crashed down
    He thought, "Well, isn't this nice?"

  • My family members complain all the time about how many robocalls and how much spam they receive each day. I have almost none.

    My phone, meanwhile, has only the barebone essential apps I need, while they're still in the mindset of "I need an app for anything and everything."

    I don't even know how they manage to find anything in their 10 completely full home screen pages of apps.

  • Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it's a lost cause.

    Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You've also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.

    The economy could tank, but I don't think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don't have too much hope.

    Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.

  • Yeah, I've definitely gotten looks for picking up bowls close to my face in the west. Normal for my household, but not normal elsewhere.

    Even for not-chopstick dishes like soup or pasta or something, I just find it easier to hold the bowl close to my face, rather than having to lean forward so much over a table just to not make a mess. That shit is how people learn bad posture.

  • Most carrot cakes I've had contained raisins. I don't think it's chiefly an American thing but it definitely seems common enough.

    I hate it. Anything that dramatically breaks up the texture of a food like that is a culinary mistake.

  • Those sorts of things can absolutely happen. Newer versions of games often either patch issues on older versions or there may be some glitches that are not as easy to take advantage of when the hardware isn't struggling as much.

    The Zelda Speedruns site even maintains a list of version differences for various Zelda games which make a difference to which version is optimal to run.

  • Yep, even going way back, there are differences between speedrun times for Ocarina of Time on N64, Ocarina of Time on GameCube, Ocarina of Time on Wii VC, and Ocarina of Time on NSO. And that's also not considering the native PC port recently assembled by the community.

    And that's why speedrun leaderboards always factor in game version/region and platform when measuring runs against one another.

  • I don't know if this is just Lemmy behavior or the decision of the specific admin/moderator, but I do wish that posts that get removed for irrelevance or getting off topic or whatnot would just get "locked" with voting/comments disabled, rather than purged. I hate participating in what seems like a good conversation only for the content to get irretrievably nuked just because it has a bad title or is considered off topic.