I love (read: hate) the ones that have a lengthy survey, full of questions and repeats to gauge your priorities by forcing you to choose one thing over another. Ive gotten such gems as, “Would you rather: 1) ensure that customers leave satisfied and happy; or 2) have a good work-life balance?”

True, English is kind of a monstrosity that blends in words from pretty much anywhere with no consistency to hold it all together.

But this word does have a classical root, and many scientific terms at least try to use a semblance of Latin and Greek structure in them (although they are very loose with the rules as well).

Okay, cool. That sounds like the way to go. I’ll just use a different account and email for the free trial, then switch back to my main if I ever start a subscription.

I mean, I’m currently already 650 episodes into the main anime already, so I may as well keep going. 😅 One Pace sounds great though, so I’ll probably try that for a rewatch someday. Maybe after reading the manga for comparison.

Ohhh, great idea. I need to do this.

I remember buying Final Fantasy XIV on Steam some years ago, and something about doing that made it so I completely missed out on the free trial. So now I’m not sure if I want to try to disassociate my Steam account from my Squeenix account and make a new one for the latter and see if that gives me access to the free version; or wait until I’m either comfortable paying the subscription or if a private server gets off the ground.

Final Fantasy XI private servers are alive and well in the meantime, and that’s a game I still need to experience as well. Also PSO Blue Burst.

To be fair about One Piece, there’s so little unique content in each episode, sandwiched between a lengthy theme song and recap, and next episode preview, that 37 episodes is more like 15 episodes.

And I love all of it.

Instant Pot is a game changer. No need to soak overnight anymore. Just drop em in for the recommended pressure cooking settings, give it time to dissipate the pressure naturally (for easier cleanup), and you’re good to go.

I like to match beans and grains that have the same or close to the same cooking time, and make a bunch at once. Bam, easy base for a wide variety of meals for up to a week. This was a life saver when I was doing 10 hour shift factory work. My getting ready for bed routine involved making a coffee/tea mix because I like my caffeine to be ready to drink as soon as I wake up. I would also load a 36 oz leak-proof lunch container with soy curls on the bottom, add some spices and water, pile some Instant Pot gains and beans on top of that, a layer of fozen veggies, and then top it all with whatever sauces or condiments I was craving. Then just heat it up in the microwave at work.

Each batch would last about a week, so including other meals, I would only have to do any cooking 1-3 times a week. Both more easy and convenient, and far less expensive than eating out all the time.

A lot of words in English are based on similar patterns, with roots in Latin or Greek. “Animal” isn’t a compound example like 动物, but it does have a root in the Latin “anima”, which has more of a spiritual basis.

The English word “animal” derives from the Latin word animale, a neuter form of the adjective animalis. The ultimate root of the word is the Latin noun anima, meaning “breath,” “soul,” or “vital principle”.

The etymology traces the concept of an “animal” back to the essential quality of having life, specifically the presence of breath or a soul that distinguishes a living being from an inanimate object.

Arguably also a little bit outdated, considering the discovery of phosphorous in pee and how it proved there was nothing fundamentally different about matter in living beings vs matter in inanimate objects.

Effectively both have more or less the same meaning, considering ‘anima’ is the same root for animate.

I like the ds4 - so much so that I want to get a new one and mod it for more modern features. But it’s still distinctly larger. It can be kind of surprizing to re-experience just how small and light the ds2 is compared to newer controllers.

I would call it less of an issue (at least in my case), and more of something that became apparent only after going back and experiencing the smaller controller to compare others to.

I really wish there were a modernized controller in the exact form factor of the classic ds2. Like if it had tmr sticks and a better dpad, but was still a wired controller and had 4 shoulder buttons instead of two triggers. Don’t get me wrong, triggers have their place, but there are some games that work better with all buttons, which probably partly explains the popularity of hair trigger mods.

I remember reading that light mode is better for extended reading, so that’s what I lean toward. My personal experience is that reading white text on black background can be a little more straining, but it wouldn’t surprize me if others feel differently.

As someone also with large hands, I still love well designed controllers that fit well for smaller hands - like the classic Dualshock 2 controller. I used one again pretty recently. Had to stop because the analogs were virtually useless, but the smallness of the controller stood out to me because after enough time playing a game I noticed I could more easily forget the controller itself and focus on the game (except those damn broken sticks).

When I went back to the DualSense, it felt clunky and unwieldy by comparison. I feel bad for gamers with small hands, because all the standard controllers must be monstrous for a lot of people. No wonder mobile gaming gained so much traction - game companies forgot that kids play games too.

I do appreciate that the grips are flared out at least a little on this controller. The 90° ones on the Steam Deck can be quite uncomfortable, especially given that it’s a pretty heavy and cumbersome device.

My biggest skepticism is the dpad though. It looks nearly identical to the Steam Deck’s, which is easily one of the worst dpads I’ve ever used. Hopefully the underlying mechanisms and feel of it has been improved.

I don’t like the look of this controller… I’m still gonna get one. Everything else I love.

Especially that SteamOS is apparently going to become available on ARM devices.

Had a Game Gear and really wanted one of these as a kid.

Still have that Game Gear and still really want one.

Dirt is good for you. :)

Literally everything you just said is plain factually incorrect. What it really comes down to is extreme avoidance of confronting your own cognitive dissonance. No one wants to believe that they do wrong. No one likes being confronted about their injustices. Your rights to live the way you want do not justify the harms that come to others as a result of that. Those animals do not want to die no matter how tasty you think their flesh is. There’s nothing religious or extreme about that, it’s just a moral baseline.

Crop deaths have been thoroughly debunked, the numbers of animals killed as a result of crop harvesting is so extremely overexaggerated that they are practically made up. Besides that, why would vegans get the blame for how farmers operate their farms? Those farmers aren’t vegan. There are veganic farms, but we need more of them.

And regardless of how many animals die of crop deaths, that would still be reason to eat plants instead of animals because animals need to be fed too, and it takes significantly more crops to feed animals for food than it takes to just eat plants directly.

Seriously you’re just going through the same merry-go-round of pro-omni talking points that are painfully incorrect and have been debunked for years. Have you ever actually taken the time to just suspend your prejudice and actually hear what vegans have to say?

Do you cut the crusts off your bread too?

I often rely on fast food when I’m away from home. I sometimes check Wendy’s if one is nearby, but pass on it every time because their vegan options are completely abysmal. It pains me to say, but one cannot live on potatoes alone.