Every time I write an email on my phone in Gmail, it pops up a blurb asking “Polish?” so I assume this is a term they’re trying to repurpose. But my first thought every time I see it is that it’s asking to translate my message into the Polish language.

That’s exactly the reason I chose not to use that face.

Ages ago in my help desk days, we had a remote user brick at least 3 laptops and 3 PocketPCs. They were fully dead, would not power on with different batteries/chargers. She used different outlets each time both in her house and at coffee shops. She left the company shortly after and I got promoted out of the role so I never figured out what happened.

Aliens

Only if it’s a Happy Gilmore production. If he’s acting in someone else’s movie, he can be a great actor.

I’d say any bad exposition, no matter how short. I was marginally interested in watching Shang-Chi after watching Wonder Man since I heard Trevor was in it too.

Right after the intro sequence, they jump to the present to introduce him and his friend and she immediately says something like “we’ve been friends for 10 years” and it was just so forced that I turned it off.

Grawlix is one of my favorite #*&$ing words

I had it once, not on a cruise ship, and that may have been the worst 24 hours I’ve ever had. One end of me was on the toilet and the other was in the tub.

Try on at REI, buy it from the manufacturer direct.

I hadn’t thought of this for probably 40 years and those neurons just woke up to remember the lyrics.

I cannot for the life of me remember what our MUDD was, but I still remember our local BBS because it was called the Forbidden Playground. It was not some weird sex thing, just your normal early 90s BBS but that didn’t stop my mother from losing her mind when she saw the ASCII title banner though.

The first picture I downloaded was a monochrome Batman logo bmp. A few years later someone found a 16 color one of Jenny McCarthy topless from Playboy and spent all night downloading it. We all had to stop by his house on the walk to school to check it out.

Edit It was MajorMud. I found a relatively recent article where a guy researched the BBS some.

It sounded interesting so I gave it a look and realized that I’ve been using it for years now and it’s just so unobtrusive that I forgot about it.

Horror movies rarely scare me but the end of REC was pretty rough. I had friends over to watch, they left afterwards, my roommate wasn’t home, and about 5 minutes later the power went out in the neighborhood.

I forget who said it, but I saw a review that called it the worst game they enjoyed. It’s hyperbolic but I agree on some level. Like I feel like I should have lost interest 10 times by now, but it keeps pulling me back in with new crazy things to find, new systems keep popping up and I’m like 60 hours in.

The story is absolute garbage, like I feel like there had to be an actual once at some point but it got butchered or edited to pieces. There are breadcrumbs all over that feel like there has to be more to the story but every time there’s some big emotional scene I feel like I’m missing some crucial pieces of information.

Tying inventory space to the shitty fetch quests was a stroke of genius though. I’m still doing every one I find so I can hoard more. You need me to ask someone across the country if they liked the stuff you sold them and you’ll give me 3 more inventory slots? Sold.

More bleak than the Chain of Dogs, the Children of the Dead Seed, Beak’s candles, The Snake?!

I have had Bakker on my radar but I have to be in the right mood for fantasy.

I feel like this might be a terrible suggestion to start with. It has ruined fantasy for me. Nothing else I’ve found has come close, the worlds feel half baked, the stories mediocre, the characters forgettable, the scale a fraction of Malazan’s.

Erickson can get me more attached to a throwaway character that is introduced and killed off in a handful of pages than some authors can to their main character.

Country Death Song - Violent Femmes

I’m old enough to know that’s a lie. I gave up dual booting years ago to save us all the embarrassment.

Must…resist…distro…hopping

I’ve been comfortable on Bazzite for a couple years now but this is giving me the itch.

My wife finally got me to give up my 20 year old tshirt I had from them. It was more hole than shirt. I should order another.