It was, when it was just people looking to get a tiny bit of income from renting a room in their house. Then people tried to make it their sole income, and then companies got into the game. Part of it is that the service became popular, so any cheaper rooms are snatched up instantly, and the user now gets to choose between a hotel-looking hotel, or a house-looking hotel, with nasty fees to get more money from you.

This is why pasta instructions will tell you to add the pasta only when the water is at a vigorous boil. Either you stir, or you have the pasta boiling like it's a volcano about to pop.

There was a neat cooking blog where an italian fella went into all the 'old myths' that his grandmother used to tell him: Vigorous boiling; Large Pot; when to add sauce; etc. It all boiled down to knowing what you're cooking. Pasta is starchy, so if it sits in hot water instead of being tumbled about, all the starch that's been liberated into the water settles back on the pasta (and not in a good way).

Ya know, if the dude had just left the original caps on my doorstep, I wouldn't even be upset. I'd drive around for a while loving it.

Um... There may not always be male and female plants, but pollen is definitely the 'male' form of a haploid gamete, and nearly perfectly analogous to sperm. The link should be able to take you to every part you'd not want to know about plants. Allergies are normal. People who don't have allergies are the freaks, because their bodies don't care that the tree is trying to have sex with their nose.

Hell, the part of the fruit that you eat is often the plant sperm that didn't fertilize the plant egg. Pollen contains a second plant sperm that fertilizes a different part of the female plant and creates all the juicy goodness you ingest. You can read about it here.

Now, the dandelion is formed seeds, sure. So baby cannon it is. /shrug

I'll forever be grateful to those thronal thespians of the page, who told me exactly whence the phrase, "Close, but no cigar," came from.

I use both as well. Ublock would let a lot of things through that NoScript does not. Ublock also gets stuff that NoScript does not. Facebook and google stuff? Zapped by noscript. Youtube ads? NoScript lets them through because you have to okay the youtube player, while Ublock blocks them.

Only complaint I have with NoScript is that it doesn't seem like I can allow scripts without it automatically reloading the page anymore. It was nice to be able to click the 'expand image' here, see that NS blocked the script, allow the script, and just click the 'expand image' twice more to close/open it. Now I have to click 'expand image,' unblock the script, the page reloads, I have to go find the post again, and then see it. If you figure that out, let me know.

So for anyone who doesn't want to go to a website that spams video ads:

Seafight - MMO - F2P

Pirates of the Caribbean: Tides of War: F2P

One Piece Odyssey - JRPG/Turn based

Return to Monkey Island (2022, gasp!)

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire

Sea Dogs

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean

Sid Meier's Pirates!

Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Risen 3: Titan Lords

Sea of Thieves

Tropico 2: Pirate's Cove

Rebel Galaxy

Don't Starve: Shipwrecked

This is a big one, and I'd add in an aggressive tax for owning multiple properties. Make single land ownership ~70% of what it currently is, and each additional property increases all your property tax by 300%. Couple that with getting rid of idiotic exemptions (seriously...I have a friend with parents that owned more than a hundred different properties in a semi-rural area [one that was going to become suburban soon] and paid nearly no taxes because they plunked a few cows onto each one until the development companies paid the big moolah for them) and there would be plenty of homes for everyone. Last report I remember said we had more than enough empty homes sitting around to house every homeless person multiple times over.

Occasionally noticed, maybe, but omnipresent.

The rest is good, but "sits idle for 22 hours a day" is... meh. Most of my things sit idle. I only use a toilet for 30 minutes a day. My shower may get 15. Is that suddenly a bad thing?

Granted, you can pluck out Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star on your guitar now. Everyone else in the world no longer has any interest in music. No instruments are played, and you are considered an anomaly to be shunned.

Milhouse is not a meme!

Just think in terms of the not 'in your face' subs. Memes/pics and such were easy to make a post and it either goes up or goes down, but most other subs would need a little more thought/time for a post to be made.

I was a member of a 2-4 million subreddit, and I think there were only about 20-40 posts a day. Some repetitive posts were removed by the mod bot that you would occasionally see, so maybe a few more than those 20-40, but even the most prolifically engaged-with comment sections would max out around 400 comments.

That's a humorous take, because I've known so many people who went to see crappy movies because of the movie previews for something they liked. This was way before the internet took over as a way to see videos, but still, interesting to note the opposite.

As much as the gear wanking was retarded, it's the "I crashed today and here's what you should learn from it" style that I never want to see again. Let's have a stickied 'mechanic advice' thread, and get rid of those posts as well.

Then we can post pics, videos, and all the fun parts of the ride.

Interesting how the 'vintage' 'black border' meme has a remarkably modern website watermark. Go back to sucking on your pacifier, you wanka.

Nice to know what happened. Quick action with no communication is probably better when security is on the line. I was internally debating whether it was a hosting issue or ya'll had been targeted by some government agency. Speaking of, have you thought about putting up a warrant canary?

I wonder if it is related to how the browser is reading the websites. With the new version, I noticed I now have scripts from every instance that is 'touched' in any way running, rather than just the instance I'm using and viewing the others through.

What does an account matter? Make 10 more. Make them with names insulting admins.

I stop playing when I stop having fun. Playing for rewards or even ranks just seems... gauche.