Lately, I go on a 30-minute “Not Interested” spree on the recommendations feed when I need to weed things out. I burn everything that I know I’m never going to watch. I have 500+ subscriptions and the ratio of those with new content to trash the algorithm hands me is too damn low. So I have to set it straight some times. After this correcting action, things are noticeably better for about a month.

Another move is to right-click and open unfamiliar stuff in an incognito/privacy window. This helps keep similar material out of your feed.

“Clock App” = TikTok.

Took me a minute, not gonna lie.

In my experience, this kind of sentiment is what marks someone as a seasoned professional. When you finally see that all tools are flawed and deserving of some negative remark for a bone-headed misfeature or three, you’ve arrived. Carry on.

Or just get a second job and wait for the first one’s paychecks to stop rolling in.

Don’t worry Anon, I’m sure it’ll work out.

That’s incredible. I happen to use a Logitech thumb-ball mouse, so I’m quite familiar with the concept. Never thought to use a conventional mouse upside down though; that’s incredibly resourceful.

I don’t know if you or anyone else here needs to see this, but this reminds me of Ben Heckendorn who makes custom accessibility controlers. He’s also known for a bunch of stuff, including Bill Paxton Pinball, the Hand-held 2600, podcasts, YT videos, and more junk on his site.

Honestly, it really depends on the game and what control scheme it was designed for.

Controllers are absolutely dog crap at RTS, and anything else that is heavily GUI based. Controller mouse emulation is zero fun, and some games really need more shortcuts than controller buttons will allow. Highly competitive FPS games need fast mouse response as you observed, but there’s plenty of other FPS titles that are good enough on controller (e.g. Halo).

At the same time, keyboard keys have a different response and feel than controller buttons. Fighting, platforming, and other games make excellent use of what controllers have to offer.

A good example of what I’m talking about is comparing Diablo 2 to Diablo 3. The latter is a dream to play with a controller, and the game mechanics have been streamlined pretty much for that. Meanwhile, Diablo 2 absolutely requires mouse and keyboard to be playable.

Portions in North America are HUGE.

The restaraunt portion thing is… a big problem. Here’s what I think is going on.

I’m pretty sure that it has more to do with profitability than customer demand, although it’s gone on for long enough perhaps it’s both by now. The key here is that food sales have pretty thin margins (except for soft drinks which are outrageously marked-up everywhere). If a restaurant chain suddenly downsized their portion sizes, people would realize very quickly that the price hasn’t scaled down to the same extent, as the current portion sizes are inflated to mask how much food service really costs. There’s a price floor to remain profitable and I think it’s a lot higher than people realize.

NGL, that sounds pretty good, actually. What baffles me is that pasta was the go-to here instead.

Considering how Toriyama named a lot of his characters, looking to the shower stall for ideas would just be on-brand.

If you are not okay with this, then let me ask you: WHERE IS YOUR SAIYAN PRIDE?!

the alternative is to make the syntax become a hellish mess. Like Mandarin or English.

Now hang on just a second. English is fine. You just have to memorize or correctly guess the etymology of whatever word it is you’re trying to spell/pronounce in order to get … oh, okay, I think I see the problem now.

Honestly, I’m just occasionally concerned with normal spiders “wearing” my pants right before I try to put them on.

To all the arachnophobes that read this: I’m very sorry.

Why am I suddenly staring at the sun?

I can’t prove it, but I suspect that a lot of people are suffering from having backlit phone, console, and cluster LCD panels in their face while driving. The dim incandescent glow of the speedometer as the only thing illuminating the cabin is a thing of the past. This makes me think that folks actually need more lumens on the road in front of you because your pupils are not at all dilated for the dark.

Meanwhile the color temperature and spectra of LEDs vs halogen lights could not be more different. I honestly think our eyeballs respond to to these things differently and it just so happened that halogen is/was easier on our eyes in a lot of cases.

BTW, I’m not excusing anyone for blinding other drivers where it can be helped, especially manufacturers. That shit drives me up the wall.

Food that contains nutrition, galactagogues, and folk-remedy ingredients to help with (human) milk production. Arguably, they’re just food.

I know this person and, honestly, it’s a thing of majesty. These discs have presence, heft, and are valuable. They’re collectors items on some level - every last one of them. So what if we’re watching “Jaws” or “Aliens” for the 400th time. We’re having a real, visceral experience here.

Wood smoked salmon: ✅😀

Tobacco smoked salmon: ❌🤮

Honestly, Sony really sees itself as a premium(ish) brand that puts a heavy emphasis on novelty with a bit of sophistication thrown in. They also see Nintendo as a kid’s toy company. So, the expense (and some of the scarcity) is entirely the point.