Do they at least keep the monstie element / color change this time? TBH I was severely disappointed in MonHun Stories when I learned that they removed the only gameplay feature that kept gameplay interesting after the main story.

German here. I had to send mine in four times since buying them, and always got a joke invoice of zero Euro for the repairs/swap. However, they never said they were going to replace them for free, and the poor guy I pestered on the hotline just kept saying I should send them in, as if he was forbidden to make any promises.

Long story short; it can’t hurt to try even when they not openly advertise the free-of-charge repairs.

My guess is that’s either a typo and was supposed to be “shipped”, or that they deliberately chose the word shifted (“to exchange for or replace by another”) in order to combine the numbers of sales and repairs into one statistic so it looks bigger. After Nintendo was mass-sued about the poor quality of their C-sticks, they were ordered to replace / repair any stick drift issues for free even outside of the warranty period, and people naturally used that feature.

I for one had to send my joycons in for repair six times since buying the switch, so in that statistic my hardware would have been sold once, but “shifted” seven times.

Hutspot. It is also super easy to make and not exactly expensive, which is a big plus both for the days I have no energy left for cooking something else, and/or the budget is a bit tight.

Like others have said already: it sells. It’s the same reason why seemingly every single fantasy/adventure game is called an “RPG” regardless of whether or not it contains actual RPG elements, like creating your own character.

Extreme levels of social awkwardness and the innate ability to infect/inject other people with it temporarily. An angry mob is throwing bricks in the streets? Let Sup-Aut talk to them for five minutes and everyone will be so uncomfortable that they’d rather go home than rioting. Sup-Aut is especially effective because they, too, would rather go home soon that continue standing in the spotlight, so these encounters usually take all of five minutes until the respective issue is resolved.

Weakness: everything they get told to resolve has to be done either RIGHT NOW and completely unprepared, or they’ll procrastinate and prepare until the city burned to the ground. There is no middle ground between these extremes, and it is impossible to predict which one will happen.

I know it is supposed to say “Service Fee” but after reading your comment my brain is unable to read anything other than Service Egg now …

Welcome to the wonderful world of ADHD where you can either talk for hours on end or say nothing at all, and everything inbetween is agony <__<

OR you actually get the chance to talk without interrupting someone else, and then YOU get interrupted by someone who doesn’t care, so of course you instinctively shut up to not re-interrupt the other person.

“People don’t trust autonomous vehicles for safety, security and privacy concerns, so instead of fixing these issues, let’s put some googly eyes on them!” galaxy brain explodes

…seriously tho, which kind of genius exec thought that this was a good idea? Do they think the Uncanny Valley is a spa resort or whatever?

the biggest pain in the ass

…that’s because they’re not meant for that, despite looking… uh …similar.

Joke aside, that mess sure does look annoying, and it is probably also not easy to replace parts if one of those lines snap or get twisted too much.

One of my biggest fears is to see moderators act too quickly

That’s an important point right here - one that is commonly overlooked. We all have shitty days every now and then, sometimes the tone of a comment / post is completely accidentally way harsher than you intended it to be, sometimes you can lose yourself in the heat of an argument if its about a topic that happens to be a sore spot for one of the participants. It happens. And if a mod then comes swooping in to immediatly kick you out of the conversation and tell you off for having a bad day, it won’t get better.

I sure had days like these where I let frustration get the better of me, but once I cool down a bit and realize that I’ve been too harsh, I always come back to apologize and explain to the other person that it wasn’t their fault. And I’ve been on the “other side” of such conversations as well, and every time it happens I truly appreciate the other person reaching out to me. Now, if mods act “too quickly” and/or too harsh, that scenario is oftentimes no longer possible. If one of the people involved in the argument is kicked out of the community, silenced, banned or whatever, there is no apology, and people might hold grudges.

Of course there are times where you absolutely need to act quickly and harshly (violent threats, racist slurs etc.) but it is also important for a mod to know when NOT to act immediatly, or when to intervene in a “soft” way (like asking people why they’re being cranky today - sometimes that’s all it needs to snap out of a funk you didn’t know you were in).

… and I get that this isn’t always easy for a mod. You may stumble upon a discussion that’s slowly deteriorating and think “oh dang, I’m responsible for making this right - I have to DO something!” and then do something that might not have been necessary. Sometimes, it is completely okay and even preferable if the mods just keep an eye on a discussion without immediatly intervening.

In addition to what others have said already, keep in mind that the items in this list are the ones that did NOT sell. If there were 100 cheaper offers and 30 that demand a batshit insane price, the 100 cheap ones will be sold eventually and disappear from the list, leaving only the batshit insane ones active.

Just an example …

• Beauty and the Beast “rare” black diamond collection, still sealed - $35,- https://www.ebay.de/itm/134709088162?epid=15033850025

• The same movie in the same condition - $6.000,- https://www.ebay.de/itm/115763173389?hash=item1af405d80d:g:KEkAAOSwIrhkQXJt

The prices for that thing vary extremely but guess which ones get actually sold …

While there is no medicine for autism itself, there are certain medications that help to better cope with the symptoms to improve one’s overall quality of life (antidepressants, stimulants, anti-anxiety stuff) and if you’re not officially diagnosed by a qualified doctor, you might not be able to get those. The same for certain state & federal services, access to specialized therapy etc. which - bluntly speaking - do not care about self-diagnosed conclusions, no matter how accurate. For most things that involve any form of bureaucracy, you need something “official”.

That being said; if you happen to currently not need / want anything “locked” behind an official assessment (like finding a therapist that you’re comfortable with who does not want to see a prior diagnosis), and the cost is so much of an issue that you would need to decide between getting assessed and getting bankrupt, then it is probably better to wait a little longer.

Gotcha ^^

“I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest men can hold me for long”

The answer is actually “breath” but it also works with “a fart”.

PS: an awkward “riddle” my granddad loved was; how many legs does a cow have?

His answer: twelve. It has two in the front, two in the back, two on the right side, two on the left side, and one in each corner.

By “bad” riddles, do you mean riddles that are so blatantly obvious that they’re basically no-brainers? Or rather something like bad puns? Does the riddle itself need to end up in praise for the sphynx, in some “who is the goodest boy in the room” sytle?

Came here to say this. The times in which it is basically not socially acceptable to bother others (e.g. people leave you alone unless there is an emergency) are the most comforting times. Late night, early morning = peace.

I don’t have a meter (that I know of) in the actual sense, but I call these days “low battery mode” and yes they do happen mostly if the couple days prior have been eventful in one way or another - whether stressful or blissful, that doesn’t even matter. On paticularily bad “low battery” days, I don’t even feel hunger/thirst and have to force myself to eat and drink the bare minimum. Literally everyhing is a slog for a while then, even things that I normally enjoy. It usually takes a day or two to get better on its own.

…and yes, trying to explain these things to someone who has never experienced the issue firsthand is very difficult. People usually assume I’m just feeling a bit down and need cheering up, not understanding that the things that normally would cheer me up do not have ANY effect at the moment, and that I’m not “feeling down” but don’t feel anything at all.

Sadly I haven’t found a good way to cope with the issue except for waiting it out until it goes away.

then quickly finished my tasks in 30 minutes

Sounds hella productive to me. For your job, it doesn’t matter whether it takes 8 hours or 30 minutes as long as all assigned tasks are done at the end of the day. For your personal wellbeing, private situation and overall productivity, being done in 30 minutes matters greatly as you now have 7.5 more hours to yourself while being just as productive as before.

The longer I stare at it, the worse it gets …