I decided long ago that Christmas and birthdays just wasn’t for me. Easy enough when I live alone.

I don’t decorate, don’t eat anything out of the ordinary, don’t dress up. It’s just a normal day, that passes without much ado. Hate is too strong a word, I just ignore it.

Ah. I’ll have to look into more of his work then, should be exciting. Thanks!

Very nice. I do tend to live under a rock at times, so he must have snuck by when I wasn’t looking.

Thank you so much for the recommendation! I’ll definitely check him out!

I had no idea who this Jason fellow was prior to this, but that list is essentially made up of games i either have either played, are planning to play, or were unsure about giving a shot. Much more confident in bumping the uncertain ones onto my wishlist now, seems we have similar tastes in games.

Ahoy fellow seafarer!

Hot take: using a word processor or spreadsheet program are different from balancing a budget, the latter is something I very much wish they had a larger focus on in school during my time, rather than showing us word art and how to add page numbers.

At least it’s not corn.

Personally I’ve never considered sausage or burger necessarily a meat product. Nor steak.

However, in Norway we use a word closer to beef / beef meat for steak, and vegan beef (meat) wouldn’t sound right in my head.

I do however far more important things to be outraged/worried/annoyed/what have you, about than what people want to call their tofu, should I so desire.

I believe the popular name of the genre is ebony corn.

How absolutely lovely. Give her cuddles from me!

The amount of times I’ve had to use a trainer to make gameplay possible when my hand is acting up (and one time when I was cat sitting, and the goblin demanded a hand just for him) is enormous.

It is literally the difference between being able to play a game or not. I really appreciate the options being under accessibility in newer games!

This goes for single player though. Multiplayer is reserved for days when my hand is functioning enough to allow it without trainer assistance.

Finally, a mankini for your phone!

It’s never too early to learn navigating drives and folders using the command line!

AFAIK it’s also supposed to not play as nice with non chromium browsers, so there’s that.

Mind you this is from an article I skimmed some years ago, so do your own research on this one rather than believing some rando on the Internet.

That’s absolutely valid, if so I misread the situation. Not always easy getting a read (no pun intended) on written situations, at least I can find it very difficult at times.

On that I agree with you. Though I find it’s easier to get people to see ones point of view by not going with an aggressive or down putting opening, but rather attempt more of a discourse.

I’ll freely admit it’s more of a “do what I say, not what I do” type ordeal, as it’s not as easy on practice as on paper.

Can’t really say anything about the Camilla series, as I have no idea what it is, but you absolutely have a point with your second paragraph.

There is no reason to make new Harry Potter stuff, or work actively to keep it in the Zeitgeist as far as I’m concerned. I can’t however speak to the motivation of the creator and am gonna go with assuming it’s not out of malice.

I don’t think she’ll feel any consequences from what I think about her books, one way or the other.

Now if I was spending money on merch, events, watching the movies on streaming services, buying the games, promoting her content or what have you, that’s a whole other matter.

But to have a reaction of displeasure whenever I see anything inspired by those works, I’d be mightily surprised if it affects anything. Unless she’s hanging out in my yard looking in the window, and if she tried to do that she’d most assuredly be told exactly what I feel about her antics.

Because J.K. Rowling is a massive loon we’re not liking Harry Potter anymore. If you feel otherwise about the books you stand with all her viewpoints, and thus your opinions are invalid. That’s what I’m getting from it anyways.

Whether an author should be given such power over their works as to be able to sully them retroactively is a whole box of frogs I’m not going to attempt to untangle, but I know I wasn’t even aware who the person was when I read the books in primary school, and to me those joyful memories of a magical world had nothing to do with a hateful old woman shouting crazy things from her castle.

And if anyone reading this thinks I’m implying she should be able to spew hatred and crazy without consequences, you’re wrong. I just don’t think pretending there was never anything magical about the books themselves is the way to go about it.

They’ve captured the hopelessness cats exude when begging for food (despite having been fed literally 3 minutes ago)!