As far as I’m aware, the rule is “if it can easily be pronounced, it should be pronounced. If it can’t, fall back to spelling it.” For example, if it was the Federal Investigation Bureau, we would probably call it the Fib, barring some major marketing campaign to prevent that.

Working my way to 8, but I lack the monitor arms. So it’s three across and one-and-a-half above. In my defense, it’s three different computers.

Have used 10GB cards with coolers. They were unstable and noisy.

Cough drops / lozenges / hard candy. The menthol and medicine doesn’t help me much, but the constant production of saliva for lubrication and consistent reason to swallow reduces the accumulation of phlem and therefore reduces the coughing.

I don’t have all my stuff plugged in right now, but when I did I used an AV switch or an AV receiver. For Dreamcast and Xbox, I recommend using VGA video if you can swing it, significantly improved video quality. But it’s getting difficult to find screens that take it as an input anymore.

Zip and Jazz drives had some serious data stability issues that would have sunk them anyway. I used them for school work and needed to have duplicates because it was a question of when the disk would fail, not if.

I loved mine! Did exactly what I bought it for, emulation on my TV and playing media from my server. Replaced it with a Shield eventually, but don’t regret backing it on Kickstarter.

I had the same assumption about myself before 2020. Turns out I’m way less distracted at home because I control the things that would distract me. So I’m much more productive. Was actually a huge surprise to me.

I use “good luck with that,” when I’ve been asked advice on a topic I’m knowledgeable in and they decide to go against my advice. It’s not “fuck you,” but it is “I told you so” in advance.

Strawberry jam. Made from the strawberries grandpa grew in the back yard, and like 9 lbs of sugar.

Do you have an example of what you want from the seamless blend? Easiest would be to do some careful masking of some elements so they break the frames of your layout - buildings from the village spilling up into the other two images, for example.

A harder way would be to design the images so that one element could become another - the magic rock sharing a silhouette with a mountain behind the village, and transitioning from “magic rock” color and texture to “wooded mountain” texture. Probably easier to do that if you’re creating it from scratch - drawing, CG or doing your own photography, and will require even more careful masking if you go for it.

California has an indepenent committee that draws the maps. This action will require a statewide vote to temporarily override that committee’s maps for this purpose. I don’t think the vote would have succeeded before Trump won. Remains to be seen if the vote will succeed now.

Seconding a vertical mouse. I like Evoluent’s mice, been using them for years.

I don’t know that I would say “much worse.” But it’s more than incrementally worse, which is what most of the updates to Win10 have been over its lifetime. So straw, meet camel’s back.

I actually react well to combative. Not right away, but it puts me into a “I’ll show you” mood that drives me down a rabbit hole of research. If you’re right, I come out the other side with the data and admit I was wrong. But I assume I’m not normal.

I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I’m going with both incompetent and malicious.

I know someone who died of fast colon cancer, and I’d be okay with ICE agents going the same way.

Yes! No flavor, just a bit of acidic sting. It’s like licking a 9-volt battery.

I can’t taste garlic. There’s some kind of hole in my taste buds. Garlic bread? French bread with too much butter. Garlic-dependent hot sauce? Overly sweet sticky substance that ruins meat. Humus? Weird flavorless grit paste.

I would believe that it only currently works in English.