Is the first one a siamese..?
Extremely chatty critters, those...
leftzero
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Cats have standards.
The triangle / circle / square (or back / home / app tray) navigation system.
I've had to re-enable it on my last phones because they come with the much less usable new gesture navigation, and I dread the day it's not an option anymore.
The classic app drawer.
If I wanted an iPhone (with their cluttered, unusable, and extremely user hostile design) I'd get an iPhone.
I don't want my screen cluttered with random icons, I want multiple sliding screens with widgets for the apps I need to be able to check at a glance, with a row of quick access apps / app folders at the bottom (slidable and hidable if possible), with an icon to access the list of less used apps on the top right, where it used to be back when android was useable instead of a cheap iOS clone.
Luckily third party launchers are still a thing.
It's Nintendo FF
That's the point; the washing machine and the step brother are a metaphor for Nintendo, the step sister for their customers.
Incest
No, no, it's metaphorical criticism.
60
More like three hundred (unless you mean how long it lasted).
In general the default for cats and dogs is the male form, though it can be ambiguous between male and don't know / don't care.
For instance if you saw a random unidentified cat you could say you saw “un gat / gato / chat”, and it would be impossible to tell whether you were referring to a male cat or a cat of unknown gender (while if you used the female form it'd be unambiguous).
Romance languages really could use a neutral form, but “gat@”, “gat*”, or “gatx” just don't work when you try to figure out how to say them out loud, and using the female form for neutral just moves the problem to the other side.
About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.
The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn't necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.
Many romance languages have both; for instance, in Catalan “gos” / “gossa”, “gat” / “gata”, in Spanish, “perro” / “perra”, “gato” / “gata”, or in French “chien” / “chienne”, “chat” / “chatte”.
Horny cats might randomly bite your ankle (if male) or enrich your nights (and your neighbours') with the song of their people (if female), but I've never seen a cat trying to hump a human (or anything other than another cat).
Dogs? Sure. Endangered New Zealand flightless parrots? Yeah. Once. On video. Cats? Not once.