I don’t know if my thermostat is just wrong or if the layout of my house makes it inaccurate, but 64-65 in my house is frigid.

Plus we have a baby so 67-68 is really the lowest we could go at night I think.

But I agree, I sleep better in general when the blankets are warm and the house is cold!

I can feel the difference between 71 and 73 in my house.

At 73, my kids room is uncomfortably hot. At 71, it has a perfect chill for sleeping.

Careful with this. Downloading pirated content can definitely be illegal depending on where you live.

It’s just not usually enforced as heavily as redistributing.

Is it that odd?

I had 5 or 6, and if you count kissing a lot more. By now I’ve had several more and if you count kissing I’ve completely lost count.

For reference, I’m not particularly attractive and I’m right on the border of normie but not quite. I think my weird friends think I’m a normie and my normie friends think I’m a nerd.

There were guys I went to high school with who had far, far more sex than I ever did. More than I was even interested in because they’d sleep with just about anyone who was willing at any party.

By 12th grade, some of the “cool kids” I went to school with probably had 10-15+ sexual partners under their belt.

Doubt it’s spite.

I will avoid games that “feel” Japanese because they don’t interest me for a variety of reasons. I don’t like the exaggerated voices and facial expressions, I don’t like personified insects and sea creatures, and I don’t care for hamfisted dialogues that over-explain the entire plot.

Games like Mario and Zelda are exceptions because they have just enough of a Western feel to them.

I have to imagine Japanese players like things that feel normal to them the same way I do. And a lot of Nintendo’s bigger games have found a good way to thread that needle between Western culture and Japanese culture.

They should be careful. Plenty of alternatives cropping up. No, they’re not as technically impressive, but anyone with some basic Photoshop knowledge can do the same things on GIMP, paint.net, photopea, etc. Might just take a few extra steps.

All going to be less relevant soon with AI art though. If we are in the rotary phone stage of AI, wait until we get to the iPhone stage.

My most common sin is inadvertently bringing up painful or offensive topics.

Someone’s dad died last week? You can bet I’ll forget and start talking about Dads on accident. In fact, it happens so often that I almost think my subconscious does remember and that’s how it ends up on my mind.

I think the issue is that these service providers are more than capable of providing “unlimited” data, but choose not to because they can make a lot more when people inevitably go over their limit. The salt on the wound is the fact that ISPs usually have no competition. They usually have a monopoly on the area in which they operate.

Where I live, we have unlimited data that only gets throttled if you use a truly absurd amount (like if you’re constantly pirating large amounts of 4k movies or something). No caps or unexpected fees. Overall, I always felt like I had it pretty good, and I still think that…mostly.

The funny part is that my ISP had competition move to town recently. I kid you not, the week before the competition officially started up their service, my ISP sent a letter saying they were doubling my Internet speed for no extra charge.

They were trying to show how awesome they were but really it was the biggest slap in the fucking face. You’re telling me you were overcharging me that much for years?

Another issue is that advertising, which you never asked for, makes up part of your monthly data usage, as do routine and unavoidable downloads like security updates, video game patches, etc.

That thing where people are completely enamored by you when they first meet you because you’re passionate about stuff and exude confidence (but it’s really just the “h” in ADHD) and then you feel anxiety because you know the day will soon come when you can feel them liking you less after they get to know you better.

I absolutely love seeing Trump Nazis and Tankies both spouting Russian propaganda.

It’s a refreshing reminder that politics isn’t a spectrum - it’s a circle. If you go too far left or too far right, you loop right back around. Another way to view it - if you add hate and intolerance into your politics, you end up a piece of shit no matter which side you’re on.