Restaurant fries and drinks.

Was on a really tight budget for a time, so I know I can feed myself for a few Euros a day. Going back to fast food restaurants at all still instils some guilt in me, but there is 1 that has unbelievably good prices and I can still appreciate the convenience at times.

But fries and drinks are just a scam with how big the profit margins are, and not even hard to prepare at home if you’re ordering take out or have it delivered (I also don’t pay for delivery, my bike is free).

Neighbourhood is dying, new or expecting parents do not move here any more. And old folks get really aggressive when you dare go around as a young teen, for some reason.

What do you mean “what”? I don’t think I could have been any clearer.

And if you meant to reply to the other comment, they meant to write horseshoe theory.

Don’t claim some races are inferior to others, you are only encouraging them.

Ghost Trick’s entire second half is filled with them, but you cannot describe them spoiler-free… “When he looks at you” is the best I can come up with.

Return of the Obra Dinn, when you first look up in Abigail’s death scene.

There is a time and place for everything, and this ain’t it.

Plague doctor in 2020.

I could use his services on a car I no longer own.

Keys somewhere right, phone in the pocket inside my jacket, rest wherever.

I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.

I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.

Ugh, I bet you people don’t even tip your landlord.

Ah, you know, can’t complain.

Maybe I’ll take a vacation to the US someday and see what kind of bicycle infrastructure the worlds greatest economy can build.

For being mandatory where I live, it sure is odd literally no one decided to draw some reflectors on the spokes.

I could probably recite Bill Wurtz’s “History of the entire world i guess”. And go into some more detail if someone asked.

I can’t even make the most explicit Gacha hating post without you guys saying how yours is the one, the special one that’s good.

I hate the concept. They are designed to obfuscate how much money and time you spend on them with different currencies that don’t feel like real money. They are dark pattern after dark pattern, trying to get you to look at the shop every time you boot up, and entice you with limited offers every chance they get. And this all is then defended by well meaning people like you and me with “Well, you can play for free if you grind hard”.

And when I look up if the different in-game currency thing applies to this game, I find out I have heard of Limbus company as the Korean one that got a “radical feminist” artist fired because a swimsuit didn’t reveal enough skin for the fanbase’s liking.

You misunderstood my comment. Fuck off with your recommendation.

Gacha.

For most anything else, I can simply chalk it up as a difference in tastes when I don’t like the gameplay, or art style, or whatever. Even those shitty horror games for babies I despise are perhaps fun if you dive into the lore at the right age, who knows. I certainly have obsessed for less than mediocre games.

But no one likes gacha, or at least should like it. It’s gambling marketed to kids, preying on the people without impulse control. No “you can spend 2 hours of your life every day on this and save up 2$ in currency” is changing that, in fact that is even worse.

And yet they give hoyoverse a pass for their series, because everything around it is so high quality. Open your fucking eyes! Games are not supposed to punish you for not playing!

But of course, no accusation without confession, I am quite fond of the yugioh simulator, and used to defend it the same way. I try to resolve this double standard by doing what I feel they should do: Never gush about it, only mention it in shame, and always warn people to not pick it up.

They also believe that other ethnic and religious groups exist within a school district.

There literally is a machine that can ticket everyone equally. And it gets called unfair here because the poor and rich both have to pay 100$. Yeah okay, I get the sentiment, proportional fines all the way. But…

“The roads are too poorly designed, everyone speeds here!” is no excuse. If the road design tempts you to sin, you shouldn’t drive. Ignore the bigger picture, you’re moving 3 tons of steel faster than your eyes can process, take some responsibility for ensuring no one dies because of you. Drive a safe speed, which is the only speed everyone can agree on, which is the speed limit. Driving “what feels right” is not safe. You aren’t the one driver who can get away with this.

Yes, traffic engineers share the blame, and on a political level this is where you need to improve the situation. But on an individual level, like this anecdote about the authors random fine, the individual is to blame. Its not a scam by the government, you messed up.

And asking for the traffic cop back is just asinine. How on earth do you think this will be any fairer, them letting most speeders through and then fining “randomly selected” individuals?

A AAA-battery to AA-adapter. I randomly had 50 of the smaller ones lying around, so it really came in handy.

Can’t share a link, but there should be dozens of this kind of model on any site. “Can’t”, because the model I grabbed was definitely among the worse ones.