People avoiding updating windows because of how long it takes your machine out of commission for and how opaque the process is has been a meme since like Windows XP. It's never five minutes. Plus the future hours saved not having to deal with windows bullshit.

Goosebumps when I was really young, and Redwall until around grade 5 or 6. Then the golden compass/his dark materials books in grade 5. Then just a bunch of different fantasy books in grade 5 through 8, I read the Hobbit a bunch of times during this period too, then high school was lord of the rings and then wheel of time.

Yeah everyone I've seen complaining about the launch had it on consoles. I played it on PC a couple days after launch and played through the whole thing in a week or so because I was off work, and don't remember having a single crash or issue.

It's fucking stupid. Why not replace other letters with random characters then? Especially if there's no consistency in the way you use it. Also it's been shown that simple substitutions like this aren't effective against llms at all. Otherwise any random misspelling or typos would totally fuck them. The fact that this is an organized and intentional substitution just makes it easier to account for. It'd literally be one line of code.

1: all the pipes leading to my house are out of my control and will be sending the same temperature and purity of water regardless of what temperature I set the tap to? The water goes into my house, to the hot water heater, to the tap. Or just into my house to the tap. Either way whatever is outside of that is outside of my control and the hot water heater can't cause the water to retroactively absorb lead from pipes outside of my house.
And as for your second point. Running the kettle from cold takes like 4-5mins. Running the hot water to max temp takes 30 secs. Running the kettle with max temp water takes 1:30-2 mins. That's still like a 50% time savings, for a 500ml load. I haven't tried with larger amounts than that because I don't need more than that, but I assume that the greater the volume of water, the more time it would take from cold.

I don't care how adept you are at reading an analog clock, there's no way it's faster than simply reading a (max) 4 digit number unless you have some massive dyslexia.

Yeah I'm a darkly-nerple guy too, AMA.

Okay, now bring two cups to room temperature and then boil both and tell me you can tell the difference. I'm not talking about drinking hot water straight from the tap.

That's crazy, I've never heard that. I know our hot water heaters are kept high enough that bacteria can't grow, and every source I've found says the other risk is lead contamination, and we don't have any lead pipes in our house, so I'm going to assume this is an old outdated rule. Plus for the bacteria concern, it's being boiled again anyway.

I think you're assuming that everyone has the same reactions as you do, but that's not true at all. I've never lived in a place with a heavy cockroach infestation but I've seen a few and they don't have that effect on me at all. I logically know they're a pest and gross, but I don't have any physical or emotional reaction to them at all. I feel like your fear is a learned response.

Good news, it's not just the switch. Pretty much every other console game is also better on PC, even just because of the existence of pause/save state functionality. That's not even getting into romhacks or retro achievements or any of the other major benefits to emulation.

In Canada our electricity also only goes to 120v, but the simple solution for this is to utilize the already hot water from the water heater. The hot tap on full already comes out steaming. Add that to the electric kettle and it takes less than a minute to boil 500ml.

Pretty sure he believed in political violence already

Fucking 9 minute video for something that could be a few sentences of text, gross. Fucking gate keeping information.

Oh yeah, Deluge, Transmission, qBittorrent, those are just a few of my favourites. Oh and TuxRacer of course.

What point are you trying to make? You say you're "all for calling this kind of fuckery out" but then you're criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn't say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.

This is why even though I love aquariums, I don't think I could have one. Like I get that the purpose of the image is to show that they have a much larger space than most other fish kept in aquariums, and that's a much bigger tank than most people have, but that still doesn't seem like a lot of room to live their entire life in. It just makes me sad to think about it.

This is what every pan in 90% of commercial kitchens look like, because aint nobody paying someone to sit thete and scrub them. They get run through the sanitizing dishwasher and then they're 'clean enough' and any other bits get burnt off/into the pan surface. So people saying this pan is clean arent really wrong, especially since the carbonized bits are almost definitely inert and non bacterial.

It's been a while since I used a mac but doesn't it literally say 'Finder' at the top of the screen when you open that?

If i have to listen to people complain, then they can listen to the rational and obvious solution to their problem. It doesn't add anything of value you say? What value is there in your complaining? If i have to hear you bitch about something thats easily avoidable im gonna call yout out for it. It goes both ways.