I just don't get how millions of people watch sports week after week after week. It's basically the same thing with minor variations every time. I mean, if you've seen a soccer match, you've seen them all. I liken it to watching the same theater play over and over. Sure, maybe on one day the lead actress is sick and her understudy takes over, or maybe one day someone forgets their line, or stumbles, but it's still the same thing you've seen 100 times before.

Like, we know that if Bioware had of released ME5 it would have sucked.

Like listen, guys, I loved Bioware. Knights of the Old Republic was one of the first video games I played, and it might be the most formative video game experience I've ever had. Dragon Origins was excellent. Mass Effect is excellent.

But the company you loved died so, so long ago. DA2 and ME3 were incredibly flawed compared to their predecessors, Inquisition as a story and as a game was a safe, corporate betrayal of what DA was about. Andromeda was a new low for shit games until Vileguard came and lowered the bar even further.

Bioware did not "die" today. It died so long ago that the corpse has stopped smelling. It was just skeleton being puppeteered on strings. And now those strings are cut.

Finally.

I think the Chainsaw Man Reze Arc and Demon Slayer Infinity Castle Part 1 would’ve been better adapted as full anime seasons rather than movies, and I have a couple of reasons why.
For the Reze Arc, I think a full season would’ve given the story more time to develop Denji and Reze’s relationship. We’d get more time with the characters, more opportunities to get attached to them, and potentially an even bigger emotional payoff because of that extra development.
For Infinity Castle, I think a full season would’ve allowed major moments to breathe instead of having to move on to the next big event. Take Shinobu’s death, for example. Imagine if that happened at the end of an episode. We’d have an entire week to process what happened before the next episode continued the story. I think that time to sit with the loss could make the moment hit even harder.
That’s the main reason I’d prefer these arcs as seasons. You have more time for character development, quieter moments, emotional consequences, and tension. You can let the audience process major events instead of moving straight into the next scene because the movie has a limited runtime.
Now, I’m NOT saying these movies aren’t theatrical masterpieces. I think the Reze Arc and Infinity Castle movies are incredible, and I think the studios are doing a great job adapting the manga. The animation, sound design, music, and direction are amazing.
My argument is that a movie can be a theatrical masterpiece while a full season could still be a better format for telling the story. I think these arcs would’ve benefited from having more time to breathe as anime series.

To start, I don’t smoke nor have I. But I did grow up in a smoking home and while it’s not healthy there is a comfort in the smell of old smoke. I know, weird. But still I think hotels should still have smoking rooms, restaurants should have a (closed off from the main) smoking section. If someone wants to sit on a park bench and smoke a pipe while reading the paper, there should be a space for that.

While I do agree that the category is a bit broad and that there are so many different types of Asian pop from so many different countries, I don't think it should be called segregation. The Grammys have categories for different genres such as pop, hiphop, country, rock etc its not like if an artist releases as western pop album they're going to be thrown into the Asian pop category (or at least I hope not because then my opinion on this might change) it's like how the Grammy's has a Latin pop category, and that isn't segregation

Allow me to paint a picture. A small team lovingly develops a beloved game. Fans are happy and the money is rolling in. They add to the team, and the ideas grow. A few more games come and go and the once small team is now a couple hundred people. The map designer is now a department lead. The composer took a payout and moved on. Maybe they’re partnered with a large publisher. Eventually the original small team is spread out. Everyone can feel that the games are different, less charm, more predatory mechanics. Is it the same studio? When a band replaces their guitarist or add a horn section, is it the same band? I would argue, no. I submit that games are art in the same way music is art and you cannot expect to add more/change the people and expect it to be the same output.

The sun is annoying. It has its moments of beauty but that's usually when the sun is rising or setting or peeking through the clouds. But I prefer every day to be overcast. Everything seems cooler, calmer, quieter on those days. A blanket of grey and white covering the sky. Its the cozy feeling I long for. I never have that feeling when I have to squint my eyes or take off layers of clothes because the sun is beating down on me. I'm from California and always preferred the overcast mornings by the beach. Also obviously this means I love the rain. Yes it's messy but I still prefer the atmosphere it provides over sunny weather.

Lots of old houses had a slot in the bathroom for razor blades disposal. Put the used blade into the slot and it falls into the wall. I think this is a brilliant idea and we should still be doing it!

The trouble with razor blade disposal is that they are small and sharp. Putting them in trash bags and having them hauled away to the dump only poses a potential hazard to every person or animal that crosses paths with that razor in the future.

The wall is better. Once the blade is in the wall you will never encounter it again. It's safely sealed away and poses no risk to anyone.

Since razor blades are tiny, you will never run out of space in the wall.

There is no hygiene issue. The blades might rust a bit inside the wall over time, but they aren't going to grow mold or anything.

If someone remodels the bathroom and uncovers them, it's no big deal. They can literally be left there and just sealed up behind the new drywall. The ONLY time the blades would ever need to be handled again is if the wall was being demolished. In that case, they can all be safely handled and contained at once.

(Note that I am not talking about disposable razors...just razor blades).

The code is a technical source of truth. If comments explain something technical, then its adding a potentially competing technical source of truth. This opens up the possibility of mismatches where the comment doesn't fully match the code and burdens the project with maintaining multiple sources of truth. A maintainer who follows the comments may be misled if the code doesn't precisely match that. And any time one of the two changes adds a possibility for a mismatch.

There can be other truths that code cannot capture. For instance the business direction that created the need for the project isn't in the code. However putting business considerations in the codebase is a way to obscure them. That belongs in some other documentation system or sometimes in the readme where they are more accessible to more people.

Many files that serve as documentation should not be in git so the dual source of truth is not commited. And even with much of what typically goes in readmes, that shouldn't be there either. You can pass your personal instruction file on how to run the project to a coworker or store something like that in your documentation system without burdening the project with the need to maintain the additional source of truth.

See it online all the time: "I stopped hanging out with this group after 6 months cause I felt like I wasn't as close to these people as they are with each other even though they've known each other for a decade."

"It's uncomfortable hanging out with established friend groups. All the inside jokes and rapport makes you feel like an outsider."

You are an outsider. Real friendships take time to build. As we get older the time investment to become friends widens. months - 1 year of getting to know people isn't a long time with adults. Partly cause the length of time you've known someone doesn't build the friendship. It's the time you've spent interacting. Considering adult responsibilities it's common to have known people a long time yet have only spent any meaningful time together on a few occasions.

That's okay though. Acquaintances are what's missing. It's okay to admit that some connections are low effort and low stakes. It's okay to admit some connections are connections of convenience. These are still socially fulfilling. These can still blossom to something more. But you cannot be afraid of being the low effort acquaintance if you're seeking to build new friendships. That's how most adult friendships start.

I get people don’t like the controls often, but I’ll take slightly clunky controls over cameras that try to make you sick. Seriously games past that era move the camera around way too much, and if you can’t have every game be first person (since for some reason people have a hard time hitting things in close distance in first person) the older 3d style camera actually keeps things clear. No constant shifting around the camera to try to be “CiNeMaTiC” or whatever, and no fighting the camera to make you be able to see what you’re doing.

There are 2 types of multilingual people.

The first are those who actually busted their asses to learn a new language in adulthood. A lot of immigrants to the US fall into this category and it takes real work and effort to learn. I have nothing but respect.

But I see a lot of people, especially from European countries where multiple languages are common, making fun of monolingual people. These people grew up with multiple languages at home, or had parents from different origins who taught the language young​. That's not a flex, that's simply being born in the proper circum​stances for multilingualism​​​. No effort was made, you just absorbed it by osmosis when you were a kid.​​​

I grant respect to anyone who learned english through video games, movies or the internet, that counts in the former category. But flexing you speak ​m​​ultiple languages when your mom is Czech and your dad is Malaysian and you grew up in Spain is at this point​ just flexing who your parents are.

I'm not sure if eyedrops being an uncomfortable/unwanted experience is only unique to TV shows/movies and does not extend to real life, but otherwise from what I know, people don't like using eyedrops unless medically necessary.

However, it's actually a really satisfying sensory experience. It keeps your eyes moist and there's just something about the feeling of the drops hitting your eyes and blinking the liquid away.

I will also note that I believe the reason why people don't like using eyedrops is because of seeing and feeling something hitting your eye. I AGREE that (at least at first if you are an eye drop novice) dropping the drops in your eyes if you're staring at the drop IS UNCOMFORTABLE, but this is the wrong method. Instead, you should try and roll your eyes so that you would effectively be dropping the liquid on the whites of your eyes and/or pull down the lower eyelid so the liquid is dropped in the little pocket. If you have someone to help you, rolling your eyes down and then skilfully dropping the liquid between the upper eyelid and the eye is also quite satisfying, especially when they let go of your eyelid and you feel the tiniest squelch as your eyelid and eyeball sandwich the liquid.

If you haven't used eyedrops lately, highly recommend (find preservative-free ones, they're the ones that I believe you can use as much as you want). If I could afford it and it was medically recommended, I'd be using eyedrops every minute.

Watching GOT for the first time felt truly magical, the characters were fantastic, it had that classic european fantasy feel, with a very compelling enemy. Upon a second viewing along with the books AND watching enough interviews with GRR you realize that Westeros is actually extremely, painfully generic. Spooky foreign places that are never experienced by the characters, dragon riding people who you can tell GRR is obsessed with. Almost the entire plot is just the war of the roses with fantasy elements.

And the world used to be more magical, but now its just boring swords and shields. Its fine if you like it, but when you really dig into the lore, youll hit the bottom very quickly.. so, imo ASOIAF really isnt that good.

Title sort of says it all, but I find it strange when grown adults are wearing jerseys with like a 20 year olds name and number on it.

Something seems creepy about it to me compared to when you're younger it's more of a jersey of a "role model" or a sports hero you look up to. I kind of view it as having a jersey more in those regards than just being a generic supporter of that team (team gear is still fine, just find it odd to have a jersey of a much younger person than yourself).

If you control things in your control that is; take care of your health, foster meaningful relationships, learn from experience etc..

Yes you will wrinkle. You will experience some natural physical decline. But the life that you live and who you are will have been curated over many years.

I don't know why society values youth so much to be honest.

In SF, leaving a backpack in your car is basically a donation to the scumbag who bips your window. Drive through the Tenderloin at night and you'll see drug dealing in full swing on neon yellow piss colored sidewalks, while gang violence and organized theft rings operate across both cities. I hate Flock cameras as much as the next guy, but maybe some places actually need them.

Whether it’s a tiny web in the corner or a huge one outside, we should be more considerate before tearing it down.

Spiders spend hours carefully building their webs, strand by strand, just for us to destroy them in seconds without a second thought.

Imagine working hard on something for hours, only for someone to ruin it simply because they don’t like how it looks.

Unless it’s somewhere dangerous or genuinely bothering you, maybe just leave it alone. Small or big, that web took effort to make.

In a class with a curve, especially a forced curve, your performance is ranked against the performance of your peers to determine your final grade. So, if a student is unfairly given too many points on homework or an exam, it negatively impacts the grade of other students. Therefore, just as a student can ask for a regrade and argue that he or she should be given more points, he or she should also be able to ask for regrades of other students' homework and exams and argue that they should get fewer points.

I think the concept is kinda cool, traumatized rich guy fights crime by himself. But I can't get over the fact he is wearing a costume. I can't take the movie seriously. He is not intimidating at all, I just think it's silly and unbelievable, takes me out of the experience.

For most of my adult life I have had a negative impression of ‘gym bros’ that is roughly in line with the online stereotypes about them even though I had not really interacted with them much. I think I had transferred many of the negative stereotypes of jocks from high school to them.

Fast forward to now as someone who is out of shape but trying to get to the gym more and eat healthier it has slowly dawned on me of how positive it would be if I had a small group of guys that helped encourage and motivate me to go to the gym and drink ‘protein shakes’ and other things that were fundamentally positive for my health and well being.

In my personal experience I’ve also never experienced any of these guys be toxic or negative either.

This negativity towards ‘gym bros’ seems unjustified bordering on groundless (I’ve not see similar negativity towards women who are focused on fitness for example).

So I realized how little basis I had for my own negative impression and have concluded that it’s really stupid and messed up to attack men who are trying to help encourage each other to exercise, lift and eat health. They are investing in their own physical health and

It genuinely baffles me that people are confused by the (shitty) state of dating. Dating and courtship has been around for 100 years. Modern dating like how we’d describe what goes on today has been around for 30-40 years, maybe 50-60 if we’re being really generous. It’s a brand new sociological phenomenon, of course it’s dysfunctional!

I've been job hopping for a few years now and I've overwhelmingly gotten a better paying job applying for job postings without a salary range.

From my experience, companies who post these jobs don't have an exact fixed budget, and is more concerned about getting the right person for the job. So if you fit the description of their posting and is able to perform well in your interviews, you have a much better chance at negotiating abnormally high salaries going for these job postings compared to postings with a fixed salary cap.

I feel like I’m going crazy over this decade-long internet debate.

For context, I’ve mostly flown around and in/out of Europe, and I’ve always seen reclining in long flights as the default. I’ve never really seen any arguments over this either - I think flight attendants are usually pretty good at reminding people to stop reclining when needed (e.g. meal times).

So it really surprised me when I started reading about the anti-reclining movement on the internet because I had no idea this was a thing. I did realise that it probably never occurred to me because I’m relatively short/thin/whatever so it’s never bothered me personally.

HOWEVER. After years and years of following this debate online, I do finally want to make a statement and take a stance over this.

I think it doesn’t make any sense to ask everyone to stop reclining out of concern that we will bother the person behind us. If you’re so scared to bother them, simply ask!! No one is getting a medal for being uncomfortable the whole flight just because some people have decided that it’s rude to recline instead of just communicating.

They're actually just more comfortable, less wrinkly, look better, last longer before getting all gross, they're better in basically every way.

Also, side opinion, any color of plain tee shirt (no graphic) other than white that isn't heathered looks terrible 100% of the time. Heathered shirts literally look infinitely better.