Wait, there’s an “end of the game”?

I’m 55 and I hate this. Yeah, I know, it’s satire. So is mine. Kinda.

Classic arcade games:

• Gyruss
• Pengo
• Mappy
• Frogger

And just for good measure: Lemmings

Who?

I’m okay with console games. Many others are as well. The experience is cleaner and generally safer. I have a mobile phone, tablet, laptop and desktop but the number of games I play on them combined is approximately zero.

Just as there are those who dislike Microsoft for its proprietary software and patterns of abuse of market dominance.

Apples and oranges. Those were created as Playstation exclusives, not an existing property potentially made exclusive years after the fact. Decades later, Mario games are still almost entirely Nintendo-only. That’s the comparison for God of War, not Call of Duty.

I’m currently playing Diablo IV and I generally refuse to use the healing stations and stat-boosting shrines scattered around the map. I guess I want to save them for later in case they don’t respawn or something. I also don’t know what the shrines do until/unless I hit them so I don’t know if they’re worth triggering or not. I’m getting by without them so far, so it’s okay, maybe?

All of the buttons that had any value at all are completely missing – upvote, reply, report… I don’t even have the button to add a screenshot of what I do see. (Brave, MacOS)

It’s not all that uncommon, but I’m pleased with my platinum trophy for Beat Saber. That was for the PS4 version – I’m still working on it for PS5 and dealing with the different controllers, being out of practice, and just getting older/less coordinated.

My rarest platinum trophy is for Sports Champions, back on the PS3. Sony claims 0.1% for getting that one – even PSNProfiles tracks it to 0.51%.

Red, yellow, blue, green. Sveerz! I loved that game. My husband hated it.

Would they be chaps?

My dermatologist uses a tablet. Seems way more useful than a phone (larger screen) or laptop (handheld, more portable). I use mine mainly for reading, mainly graphic novels, but also for Slack, Zoom calls, and general one-off productivity away from my office where my laptop lives.

Back when I was in grade school, there were kids saying “as long as you know what I mean, it doesn’t matter”. If a word means two different/conflicting things, how can we possibly know what you mean? See also: bimonthly.

[Waves from the other hill] I will never accept that usage of “literal” as correct.

Related: If it’s more than 99¢, it’s not a “microtransaction”. There’s nothing “micro” about $99.99. That’s an “in-app purchase”.

Steel cut oatmeal, cooks in less than 5 minutes. Mixed with honey and psyllium husk. Loads of fiber, sweet enough to get it down.

Absolutely not. Raised in a strictly Catholic household and 12 years of Catholic education but a) none of the religious education sank in* and b) my personal experience turned me off to religion-as-an-institution entirely.

Footnote*: Religion class was typically my worst grade in school, except for 8th grade where the teacher gave me an A despite low scores on most of the tests. When I asked her why she thought I deserved an A, she said that she gave grades based on our ability to grasp the material and she thought I was doing as well as I could. I cried – not because this meant I was doing well, but because I was given something I knew I didn’t earn and I didn’t even want an A in a subject I fundamentally disagreed with.

TMDB? Community-built database, there’s an API, seems still active and reasonably up-to-date.

Is/will there be a movie/TV equivalent of BookWyrm, something to track and discuss what you’ve been watching? A quick search tells me it’s been discussed and seems like something people want but it doesn’t look like it’s been done yet, at least not as a dedicated service. Is that right?