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There should be more mature games.
I don't mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.
Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that's getting murky too lately.
This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.
Pros:
when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.
If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.
the handles hook over the strip and are more secure
the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm
Magnetic strips give me the heebie jeebies. I like a nice solid block instead.
Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don't care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don't get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it's a scary sounding word.
This is my anthill and I'm dying here.
I have so many like that one. At some point in English one billion dropped its value three orders of magnitude and it is spreading to other languages. What now is called a billion it was one thousand million or a milliard.
More recently, one dude used the word hallucination for what AI do and everyone ran with it, there was already a word to describe that phenomenon, fabulation. Hallucination means something completely different.
If a state isn't at least partly in Central Time, it can't be in the Midwest.
Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that's just the lowest bar.
I think Indiana is solidly Midwest but on Eastern time
To me, that's a contradiction in terms.
Growing corn isn't enough; it takes a certain kind of attitude, and a certain kind of weather.
Static typing can kiss my ass.
The only reason you like it at work is because you are surrounded by idiots.
What is static typing?
It's a feature of a programming language that usually, but not always, requires you to declare what sort of data everything is (this is a number, this is text, this is a person object I made, etc.). Then you are required to run your program through a program called a compiler before you are allowed to run it, to (among other things) make sure that everything is what you said it was.
Basically, it requires you to be extra pedantic, but some say it catches common errors. But imo these are the sort of errors that only come up because you have tons of people working on one project.
The only good gummy candy brand I have ever tried is Haribo and even then, they need to be chilled in the freezer to make them firm.
Also, not sure if it's a hot take on something that doesn't matter anymore thanks to the current macha craze, but that stuff is absolutely the best when it's either the flavor of mochi or made straight into a strong, earthy tea and not mixed in another drink.
You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don't like bananas.
I’m the opposite, except for banana cake, can eat that all day every day. But banana flavour sweets, milk/milkshake etc. you can keep, tastes disgusting to me, even a hint of it in a milkshake ruins it.
"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.
The "End Construction" signs you sometimes see on the side of the road aren't actually protesting growth.
Latin root words that end in -or should use the suffix -trix when applied to women. So a woman aviator is aviatrix, administrator is administratrix, etc.
Oooo, I like this. Aviatrix sounds so cool.
Our town has a Maytrix.
Ok I'm convinced
Contractrix sounds like a supervillain
A supervillainess
Folding laundry is a complete waste of time and effort. If it's been through the wash it's clean, it's not going to be any cleaner just because you spent half an hour doing laundry origami.
I've never been under the impression folding laundry makes it cleaner? Or am I not understanding the point.
Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.
I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.
I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.
I consider myself openminded and tolerant.
I once heard a fellow say he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.
Outwardly I stayed calm but in my heart I wanted to burn the heretic.
I'm in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.
The first time I encountered "ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce," I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is "too much".
I live in a very weird state.
Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It's almost become the longest word in Australian English.