I'm torn between "animated Sonic" and "Furby". Both were (probably) not originally intended to be eldrich horrors beyond human comprehension, but ....well ... y'know.
The trailer(s) had a lot of interesting twists and cool cutscenes, new characters, new "lore" elements ... all the good stuff that makes the audience curious for more. Well, it turned out that the trailers spoiled ALL the important plot elements, so the actual movie had basically no extra content other than filler scenes. If you had seen the trailer, there was no need to see the movie.
In addition to what others have said already, keep in mind that the items in this list are the ones that did NOT sell. If there were 100 cheaper offers and 30 that demand a batshit insane price, the 100 cheap ones will be sold eventually and disappear from the list, leaving only the batshit insane ones active.
Picture uploads are currently disabled since there was a recent attack of some A-holes uploading tons of illegal content. It is not a technical issue, and it is not permanent, but we will still have to wait a bit before the admins can safely enable picture uploads again.
You can still link pictures hosted on other sites, but not directly upload anything to lemmy.world ATM (banners, avatars etc.)
Exactly this. It's also the reason why images can currently not be uploaded to lemmy.world directly (avatars, banners etc), account registration got a bit more complicated, and a couple of other (temporary) safety measures all across the Fediverse.
By "bad" riddles, do you mean riddles that are so blatantly obvious that they're basically no-brainers? Or rather something like bad puns? Does the riddle itself need to end up in praise for the sphynx, in some "who is the goodest boy in the room" sytle?
I block all possible ads so I haven't been getting any random ones in ages, but my email provider has an ad for "Moorhuhn" on their page that always slips through the filter somehow so whenever I check my emails I'm asked to shoot virtual chickens.
The last time I "lost" an (online) argument it was about a gameplay mechanic that I was 99% sure about, but it turned out that the guide I had been using made some false assumptions, which might have ruined a challenge run I had done at the time. Now I know how that gameplay mechanic actually works, the challenge run went well, and both sides "won" in a way.
... also, I usually abandon arguments altogether if the other person is clearly not even willing to listen (like pedaling back to already explained / solved parts of the argument or outright ignoring proposed solutions, etc.). If it is a "me VS you" situation instead of "me and you VS the problem", then it is not worth investing time and energy into arguing as it will not lead to meaningful progress either way.
Pixar, Disney and Studio Ghibli movies. The cornier, the better - especially if the characters have catchy songs that get stuck in your head for days. The Last Unicorn has been one of my favorites since I was a kid.
I'm a grown ass man, big beard, 1,85m (6 foot) tall, and wear mostly black. And I don't give a rat's ass about what society thinks is "appropiate" for me to watch. If your masculinity is so fragile that it shatters when you have to look at an animated clownfish for three minutes, it can't be worth much. =P
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse might answer at least your first question, tho I have no idea how accurate those numbers really are so take all that information with a grain of salt.
Call center scammers pretending to be "Microsoft Support" and the like. Especially if they call again after I already told them to F off the first time. The last time one of them called I told them to wait a moment, set the phone next to my speakers and then blasted The Mermaid Sisters - F[$%&]ng Bullsh*t Song at full volume until he hung up.
Super petty and not at all mature, but soooo satisfying.
Reddit. I don't think I need to explain that one, but it was the most recent moment of that kind.
As for other such moments, I had a family member living a couple of towns over, who would only call or text to ask for favors, and once the favor was done, she went MIA again. Never repaid favors, never offered to help others with anything, but I put up with it because "hey, family has to stick together" (bullshit.)
The last time we spoke, she wanted to borrow a couple of DVDs so she had something to watch while being sick at home, and even asked whether I could deliver them to her, whining about how she was unable to leave the house and "everyone else" was too busy and all that. In retrospect, it was dumb to lend her the DVDs, because she never returned them. Two weeks passed, three weeks, a month ... no SMS, no calls, nothing. I eventually decided to call and ask when she wanted to return them. Her answer? "Well you never came to pick them up so I thought you didn't want them anymore and sold them"
Even to this day she keeps trying to convince mutual friends what a giant asshole I(!) was for cutting ties with her over some silly little banality like DVDs. Truth is, it was the last straw in a huge series of similar experiences, but she has zero self awareness.
Every time it happens I end up feeling like an idiot, being percieved as awkward and verbally clumsy, and I feel guilty about having ruined the conversation. I haven't found a good way to cope with it yet ... but it's one of the reasons why I prefer things like SMS, email and chat for communication rather than talking to others directly. I can delete and rewrite text as often as I want to until it reads okay, but I can not rehearse an entire conversation beforehand and then just rewind whenever I said something that "doesn't fit", so I have to deal with the consequences. Smalltalk with coworkers is the worst.
It's definitely Casper, the dog from the story the other commenter linked, but some of the people retelling the story already exaggerated it, so depending on where you read it, there might as well have been a "trail of dead pack members" or something similar in the retold story.
Casper, a sheepdog from Georgia in the United States, left a trail of blood and parts of his tail behind him as he disappeared for two days after the battle erupted whilst he was on guard.
Or one of the reddit posts relatively high up in the search results:
"...they believed he was tracking the remaining coyotes and finishing the job"
All of the actually trustworthy news outlets only mention that he was gone for two days and then taken to the vet once he returned, but not more than that.
I'm torn between "animated Sonic" and "Furby". Both were (probably) not originally intended to be eldrich horrors beyond human comprehension, but ....well ... y'know.