I’m not mentioning the brand, but I’ve been re-buying the same freshly washed linen spray for the past 2 years, and I would still eat it with a spoon, if I could… even with the poop particles involved.

I’m not trying to get you to keep using it (I should have stopped using it myself, as well), but if you insist using it for another month, you might as well just delete the app right now, and just visit (the owl’s website name).com with the uBlock Origin extension.

I’ve been using it that way from the start, and never installed the app. Zero push notifications, and as opposed to push notifications, you can actually filter your emails if you want to keep certain types of messages for some reason. It’s still not the best, but certainly less annoying.

What made me decide to stop (at two years, also ~2 months from now) is the constant, unnecessary inflation of sections to keep you grinding, always moving the goal line. Well, and the obvious AI solutions, clearly meaning they booted a lot of people for cheap labour. And for gutting the discussions. Especially that: I used to learn more from the discussions/comments than the actual sections.

But apart from obsession, there’s really no difference between still using it for another X days and quitting right now (says me, wanting to make it a nice and round 730 days). Yes, you might be able to learn a few extra words, and AT BEST one new thing about grammar, but the difference is just negligible, and you might have actually learned more from some other source during those X days, instead - with fewer of the aforementioned annoyances.

Is that some kind of confirmational yes? I only know that the boring, general yes would be ‘tak’. Or how does this thing work?

GTA:SA could be run at 144 fps. Just be aware that the whole engine is fps based, so cars will turn at a varying speed depending on your current fps, your physics will go wild and you’ll see cars clipping into roads and shit, and it will be full of bugs.

Sometimes a remaster can basically break the whole thing.

Removed by mod

And this is Jackass.

While I wasn’t too exact, this is what I meant by a bunch of humans. Not all of them are that selfish, but it happens frequently enough that I would consider them (yes, them) a selfish species without a second thought.

It can work within a species that isn’t inherently selfish. In theory it makes perfect sense. Trust a bunch of humans to keep everything just and equal and watch as the dickheads make sure they get more stuff/power than others. Iterate it for a few generations and you’ll get your average dystopia.

I might be utterly prude, but the shininess of the exact same clothing has literally zero effect on my hotness meter. I don’t even understand why it would.

And leave a little piece of paper with a message inside, just in case!

Luigi hat: £7.95

Moustache: £3.99

Water pistol (only found a double pack): £3.75

Total: £15.69

Unfortunately, not many people got the reference when I pulled my pistol to complete the set.

There wasn’t much effort, apart from having to custom trim the moustache, since it came in a pack, and none of the included ~12 styles were the exact same as Luigi’s.

I love learning languages because it constantly reassures me how similar we all are regardless of superficial differences

One of the many things I find fascinating about learning about different languages is how differently people can think about certain things. You add water to vodka in English? You water it down (since you’re decreasing the concentration, right?). Same thing in my language? You water it up (since you’re increasing the volume, right?). Most of the adjectives after nouns in Spanish. Entire structures that you would expect at the beginning of a sentence in English being pushed to the end in German. SVO/VSO differences. Different or similar idioms, phrases for the same thing. Two birds with one stone? Two birds with one throw? Two flies with one slap? Two pigeons with one bean? I’m boring already and I can’t even stop.

Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I’m not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.

Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I’m not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it’s really frustrating how I don’t see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.

That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.

Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That’s when you learn your ways.

You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.

“Boris. Why always Boris?”

You have to jump this high to be let inside

As a kid, being indoctrinated early on by fairy tales with knights, then watching action films later on, I kind of understand, since you only know about the romanticised side.

As an adult, by the time you’re supposed to understand the endless pain, suffering, atrocities, needless death of millions (even one single person), the barbarity of trying to resolve conflicts with violence, the immense sadness and sacrifice that comes with war… putting it lightly, I don’t get war lovers.

But fuck me, I fucking LOVE to learn about the technological advancements, smart solutions, brilliant engineering (hey, even strategies) that came with those, from the first stone tools to holographic sights and radar camouflaging. On one hand, it’s rather sad that we could only develop technologies due to threatening violence or trying to crush others. On the other hand, without wars, we would probably still be amputating limbs due to infections we can either prevent or treat now (thanks to field medicine development), and a civilisation that doesn’t develop its own weapons (since why would they, they are peaceful) won’t have fun when running into one that isn’t as friendly.

(And for that reason, YT already thinks I’m a WW2 nerd)

Hell. I will need it tomorrow when I wake up after 4 hours of sleep.