Best Buy is trying to make it a trend for retailers to stop selling physical media, with Target only selling them online. A lot of tech companies now have basically exited from optical media, with fewer weighing their options.

Physical media still has a place but it’s on slow-burn right now, where we’re seeing major players dropping out from bothering with them, so in the oncoming years, we’re going to have to rely on grabbing them out in the wild or hope third party manufacturers keep it alive.

I hope the trend of showing old movies continues for a long time. It gives people the opportunity to experience what it’s like to watch good classics on a big screen.

I stopped at Gen 4.

I look at Pokemon now and where it is and all I can think is how lazy and cash-grabby it really tries to be. Not like it hasn’t been cash-grabby before, it was just a lot more clever about it back in the day and striking while the iron was very hot. But the developers of Pokemon have gained a reputation as being considerably lazy and nuanced about where they’re taking the series. For example, Satoru Iwata is the key reason that Gold and Silver was able to have both the Johto and Kanto regions. He helped use a special compression method that made it work, while the original devs were fretting about in how to do it and was considering cutting content out.

These days though, it’s been evident how truly lazy the devs are, they’ve relied on name brand alone to carry them. Like yes, I know Pokemon was geared for kids and everything should be simple and all. But even the kids deserve something better than what garbage that has been shoveled out.

It can get pricey.

I like the idea of having a real tree, to have that nice pine scent in the room and how it flourishes with the decor. But I’ve been leaning towards getting artificial ones.

If the saying ‘assholes live forever’ is true, then I would like to think that I’m just an asshole enough that I’m buying years while occasionally being nice and doing good things for people without humble bragging about it.

Streaming was supposed to ‘replace’ cable television, because people were fed up of forced commercials, unavailable content and restrictions on cable television.

Well, streaming got maybe some of that corrected. However, it has turned itself into a hydra where the content is here, there and over there with price tags on every service. Ads are now forced onto us but we now have “control” over them, I guess (if you don’t ad-block).

So it’s like cable television all over again.

My managers at work offered me to start early yesterday and the day before.

I accepted both times. Even though today I called off, I knew I needed what extra time I could get in to help even some of the odds knowing I’ve got no PPTO to cover the time off and taking largely a hit on my next paycheck. My second paycheck is going to be the fun/necessary paycheck for the holidays too.

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Cast iron is overrated. And people overthink a lot about it being seasoned. Really though, you still have to care for it and it isn’t like you can just re-season the pan. Just make sure it doesn’t rust.

if fast food is the only food you can afford and you don’t own a kitchen, that is the healthier option to take because the alternative is starving.

What do you mean you can’t buy an electric burner? What do you mean you can’t cook even something as basic as a mac and cheese dinner meal? What do you mean you can’t simply just look up how to cook things? I don’t understand! null

Humans also weren’t meant to work 2 jobs and 14 hour days and yet living under capitalism, your diet adapts to your environment in order to help you make it to the next day.

Excuses, excuses.

fun fact, the 2k calorie diet is absolute bullshit and the FDA themselves said it shouldn’t be taken as “anything over this threshold is bad”.

Take the tinfoil hat off, timmy.

If you’re speaking whatever current-gen slang and abbreviating every other word and still use ‘u’ in place of ‘you’, I will automatically think you’re a lowly neanderthal.

“Whuh up fam? how r u?” The fuck out of here with that shit.

There have been a couple of people who’ve ousted themselves for doing it shortly before they deleted the accounts.

So it tells me there are some very lonely losers out there, spending all of their free time, doing this.

You know, I’ll consider the legitimacy of a social media platform, when they have the balls not to have a stupid score system of any kind.

All they ever do, is filter thoughts people have. So people say things just to see a score tick up.

In moderation, yes. But, the calories is ridiculous if you follow a 2,000 calorie diet.

Hotcakes and Sausage should not be 770 calories. I’ve bought frozen sausage links that give me 100 calories for just 2 links of sausages. Store-bought food are more sensitivity to calories than any fast food joint is.

Fast Food and even Buffet Restaurants are good for when you’ve eaten nothing for a while and you need something filling. They aren’t good for daily intake. They’re barely okay for once a week. But they’re not meant to be your daily meals.

What options do they really have?

Do you even know what kind of punishments a soldier would endure if they refuse orders? Quite a lot. You sign up with the military, you are signing your life over to them.

The only small businesses I care of is when it comes to lawyers, psychologists, doctors, car repair shops and other professions similar to them.

Call me a capitalist or whatever, but almost any other small business I go to shop in, their prices are absurd and somehow worse than the big-chain stores is. Their staff could either be some of the nicest people you meet, operated by a family or they can be the opposite where the family don’t know what the hell they’re doing and they try ripping you off and getting involved in their drama.

Okay, let me see your browser history.

And while I’m at it, can I sit in that corner over there and watch you have sex with your wife?

Oh are we getting a little uncomfortable now? May I take a dump while you shower?

Wait, wait! What do you mean you suddenly care about privacy?

I ironically check Reddit and similar places. Basically I look for street-level reviews from people who have actually tried things. I can’t rely on actual reviews on products online because people use the reviews like venting journal entries, always bitching about things that don’t matter. Usually people bitch about shipping time and whatnot, that has nothing to do with the product’s quality.

I don’t care, really.

It is said by people who truly only peaked in high school and think still saying that is the cool thing to do.

Like if my mom died and someone said that, I’d probably be like “oh so you’re into necrophilia? good to know, champ”