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On the dry beans vs canned beans issue, I am firmly in the "it depends" camp. If you don't plan your meals ahead of time, then dry beans become difficult to cook as you need to soak them overnight and take much longer to cook. The price of dry beans can be significantly cheaper, but strangely, not so much at a normal grocery store. I found that buying dried beans in bulk or in large bags is wildly cheaper, but most standard grocery stores (in the US) don't offer them like that so your savings are minimal and don't justify the the extra prep to me.

So, what happens when someone that doesn't have social media accounts applies for a visa? I assume they just won't believe such a thing and deny the visa since you can't prove a negative. Would it make sense for such people to make a social media account and just not use it? This is ridiculous.

I can't conceive of a better answer than this.

The crossing guard did this at my kids' school and the kids all loved him for it. They got rid of him for yelling at a driver that didn't stop and barely missed hitting a kid.

I saw that Brother completely refuted these claims, but obviously there is always a chance that they will go to the dark side.

Strangely, this has never been the case for me (printers, not audio which obviously has sucked in the past). Also if you get a printer that is networked, it generally just works these days, better than my Windows experience.

Xennial here, get a Brother laser printer if you can. The "starter toner" lasted me for like 4 years so far and is only now getting low. I can't imagine going back to an inkjet that would always dry up since I used infrequently, but I still needed it.

My Brother color printer was like $350 and they are probably the only OEM I'd even recommend.

There are a few specific missions that are indeed stacked against you, but they are important story missions that are like boss fights. You don't have to play them a specific way to beat them at all, people just get too caught up in playing these games in cookie cutter ways sometimes and now you get site created by AI slop that just regurgitate it.

I can almost guarantee that reading this will be the best part of my work day.

Disgaea and like are intentionally non-serious and funny. If the humor doesn't do it for you in the slightest then it's not for you sadly. I do have to say that once you get hooked on the series, all the other games feel like their mechanics are overly simplistic though.

And no, Tactics Ogre is all serious and very very good.

My favorites are probably the Disgaea series and related games (Makai Kingdom, Phantom Brave) and Tactics Ogre. I also like Tactics Ogres more popular little brother, Final Fantasy Tactics.

I was lured to use it during those days as well because of all the cool and wildly different screenshots I had seen. I did manage to get it working and looking super cool, but it was fragile and complex. It was so easy to fully break it in my experience. I tried to use it again about 8-10 years ago and while it was easier than the 90s, it was more trouble than I was willing to put up with for a DE these days. Especially since Gnome (with extension) and KDE could trivially look nice.

I guess this is just a difference in how we look at it. I have for decades now used what I perceive as quality/value to decide whether I should buy a game or whether it may be worth if later if it goes on a steep sale. For example, some AAA game that get polarizing reviews or is known to be very short might be an instance where I'd be not be inclined to pay full price because to me, it wasn't worth the price. Raising the price of a game to $80 means that I personally will want more value out of it. I just bought a game on Steam yesterday for $20 on sale, which was to me worthwhile. If it had been $80, there is no way I would have bought it.

So, just so I am clear, you think that it is silly to want different amounts of quality or value from products based on how they are priced?

They probably meant that it felt like a game that was stripped down and shallow compared to similar AAA "full price" games and I completely agree. After playing the first one, I wouldn't only consider buying this new game if it was at least 50% off.

The 8a is a great replacement, but I can understand someone not wanting to give Google any more money after they pull this shit AGAIN. I had to because GrapheneOS wasn't available on anything else.

This is too real for me this early in the morning

Swap out the pet ashes with my Dad's and I am 100% (I buried my pup and planted a tree there :( )

WTF is this nonsense, Discman was a specific Sony product ala Walkman.