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So we can all grumble about it on Lemmy.

Good for them, I love being able to play Windows games on Linux.

Source: @SmoothDunk on Twitter. (Despite the fact that not everyone can see links from the hellsite anymore, crediting sources is still the cool thing to do.)

At least in its good seasons, when they remembered they were making a sitcom over monster of the week type stuff.

I'm not grandpa!

Just as Starbucks coffee is coffee for people who don't like coffee, Prometheus and Covenant are Alien movies for people who don't like Alien movies.

I'm mostly in favor of leaving the comment-clogging bots back on reddit where they can all talk to each other without me.

“I wanted this to look and feel very real to her, even though there’s probably no real chance of me putting her in jail. That was my own version of ‘Scared Straight,’” King said, referring to a documentary about teen offenders in New Jersey.

For those unfamiliar, Scared Straight! was roundly debunked after the fact as a stupid fucking thing to do which did the opposite of what it was supposed to, and attendees of the program ended up more likely to reoffend.

You just can't get a good woodland-critter-saliva sauce in the big city.

What it brings nowadays is a bit of yassss, queen!

Maybe add to that "speaking to a real human" thing the provision that they be real humans who are actually empowered to address issues directly and immediately, instead of some call center where they keep you on hold for two hours before transferring you to someone who transfers you to someone else who hands the phone out the window to a passing town drunk who stumbles over to another call center where he chucks the phone through a random car window in the parking lot which just happens to belong to a manager just arriving at the office, who gives you a bunch of platitudes before telling you to mail a postcard with delivery tracking to a satellite office in the mountains from where it will be relayed on goatback to the bottom of a lake in a nearby fishing village.

Products!