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Is…is that not what everyone's doing‽

Gotta love clarification that makes a position more reasonable inside the clown-world fantasy the individual lives in but, in turn, also reveals just how more exaggeratingly stupid they actually are.

I mean…under the right director, she could pull it off. Wooden acting is perfect for an emotionally stunted character; I'd boycott the film but I could see it working.

Of course, if you go out of town and come back, you forfeit all your progress and have to start over at level 1.

I don't think that's universally true. Back when my partner had recently moved in with me, we found one of those pet spas to leave their cat at as we had to go out of town (terrible idea, in retrospect, and current me would say it would've been better for her to just have had someone come by the house to periodically check on her but not the point of this story).

Due to scheduling of when we got back, my partner stayed home while I went to pick up the cat; as soon as I got there, she came out the room crying and I thought she was coming to greet me but she sped past me and went around the outside room, still crying, and searching.

There is nothing on Earth that will convince me that she wasn't determinedly looking for my partner. That cat loves them and, while she expresses affection in the sort of stereotypical cat way (unlike our boy who has designated times, every day, he comes over to be fawned over), she would be devastated to lose my partner (or me, at this point, I like to think). She likes her space and for there to be a certain level of protocol followed when it comes to interaction but there's no doubt in my mind that she's very ingrained-ly attached.

*celebrating and actively facilitating

Heh, it might; granted, I'd just done a cursory glance since I was at work, at the time, but, taking a further look, it seems that 40 WpM is average with 50s and 60s being above average.

Granted, that include people who aren't touch typists so that might bring the numbers down.

I also tried retaking a typing test again as, the first time, I'd done one that was only a minute (again, being at work); I did another random one and got 66 WpM and another one that was 5 minutes and got 61 WpM. So I also seemed to undersell myself in that first comment, it looks like.

I can; but, while we had Mario Teaches Typing in school, I absolutely hated the cognitive effort and preferred to Hunt and Peck.

I love computers, though, so my brain eventually memorized the keyboard just from constant use; now I generally type without looking (with a pretty average 44 WpM) but primarily just use my index fingers to do so.

To be fair, he also made the Cow Tools one which most people didn't get his reasoning for, either.

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Still my favorite though Hercules, Dumbo, and The Great Mouse Detective are close seconds.

Not really a comment on your overall comment (you're spot on) but – in case you didn't know – just a heads up that both moron and imbecile were both clinical terms that used to be used by psychiatry to classify mentally disabled people (like the r-slur, the public caught wind, eventually, and started using them as a general disparagement for stupidity).

Not saying you should do anything with that information (some people prefer using words with their present definition, regardless the history of said words, and, unlike the r-slur, I think most people today have no idea of that history) but I just wanted to mention in case you didn't know and would want to know.

(and, of course, – if you already knew all this – just disregard my comment)

Love that for them.

It's not the bulk of your point (of which I agree with) but your mention of the back button reminded me how much I despise – sometimes above everything else – how much these sites override basic functionality of the browser, overriding inbuilt history navigation, screwing up Ctrl click behaviors, stealing my right-click menu or default key bindings.

There's a lot of reasons one might not want to use TikTok but the reason that stops me before even having to consider other reasons (but I can't really explain to most people) is that it's a site designed without any really respect or regard for the user.

Alt+d doesn't work and Ctrl+l pops up some modal about logging in. I can't open any of the recommended videos in a new tab because they clearly must've just done them as onclicks and not real anchor tags so right clicking doesn't give me the option and neither does Ctrl clicking (which – also – that's…got to be an accessibility violation, right?). And more than half the time the full page doesn't even load because it's such a strangle of resources that it needs me to click a button on the page because it wasn't able to load the videos listing of an account in time.

The whole thing is just a nightmare in terms of design and primarily not even in terms of inefficiency but direct hostility to UX. Absolute garbage.