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Ha, I had one and it’s what first came to mind too. Pretty useless.

^^ Just corroborating this.

Ohhhh… TIL!

I’ve had elderflower liquor (St. Germain is very nice) but not elderberry.

There are some southern or appalachian insults that I’m sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.

Comparisons like “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint”, backhanded compliments like “I just love how you don’t care what people think”, idioms like “three sheets to the wind”. And then of course there’s “rode hard and put up wet”.

“Your mother was a hamster!” is pretty self-explanatory though.

But elderberries smell rather nice. Or at least the last elderberry jam I had was quite lovely. So that certainly makes for a confusing insult.

I feel like turkey, cornish hen, and maybe quail are more common as food than pheasant and goose. At least in the US. If you’re European maybe you put live blackbirds inside pies or something, I dunno, but I guess that’s technically a dino meal too.

Both are reptiles. But the crocs and dinos are different lineages.

This is par for the Huffington Post, if you happened to notice the source. But yeah I’m with you that this probably shouldn’t qualify as news in the first place.

Pretty much exactly like Doritos™?

That’s a funny way of spelling ‘spineless twats’.

I really don’t enjoy bad games. They’re bad because something significant disrupts the fun, such as major bugs, janky mechanics, poor pacing, bland story or characters, no sense of progression, grindy RNG time-wasting, systems (e.g. crafting) that are either far too shallow or way too convoluted, half-baked level design, or even external factors like obnoxious DRM or microtransactions.

The bad game I sunk the most time into by far is No Man’s Sky. People keep insisting “it’s good now”, but all the gameplay mechanics are truly awful. It’s an okay sandbox and entertaining enough if that’s all you’re after, but as a game specifically it has about 2/3 of the issues I mentioned above.

Nah, that game is pretty great and easy to recommend. I played it through with DLC 100% maybe 18 months ago. The combat and traversal is Arkham-esqe and fun, the Nemesis system keeps the challenge fresher than most games, the characters and upgrades are interesting enough, art and graphics and sound hold up, and the story goes surprisingly far into the heart of Middle-Earth lore.

It’s quite good even just on popcorn.

Oh, we’re doing this again?

I wish I was as brave and well-spoken as this young man.

When I was 17-18 I scored really well on a test and the US Air Force tried to recruit me. It was tempting because I was fascinated with aerospace and it would have kickstarted my career and possibly meant no student loans. I’d easily be $100k better off today if I went down that path.

But I couldn’t imagine myself dropping bombs on potentially innocent people at the behest of some smug politician, or even loading ordinance for someone else to do it. The thought made me sick to my stomach. So I figured out my own path. But that was easy for me, because there was no major conflict at the time, no one threatening me with jail, and no social repercussions from that decision. I have to wonder if I would have made the same decision if it was under Tal Mitnick’s conditions.

Seared kobold flesh and lingering brimstone.

Take a blowtorch to some grisltly game meat and at the same time burn a firecracker (or sparkler or whatever) and you’ll get the idea.

If you like characters and setting, it’s probably some of the best sci fi on TV.

Uh-huh… Like episode 5x20, “Ferengi Love Songs” ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

corn.com is supposedly for sale. My partner thought I was crazy for submitting an inquiry to buy it, but GoDaddy never responded :( There went my dreams of being captaincorny@corn.com or maybe cornman@corn.com.

Oh well, they probably wanted thousands of dollars anyway. All the 4-character .coms likely got squatted ages ago.

Buzzkill for control over notifications.

Musicolet is the best audio player I’ve found.

Nice try, legal compliance officer.

Actually this is an interesting question and good discussion.