Oh, wait, do we get to pick? excited noises

Or, now that they could identify the ship, “peng-peng-peng”.

Thanks for the detective work! I know TTS software is a thing now, but he even has a gmail account… How (un)likely is it that it’s just a publicity stunt (money grab)?

Nah, thanks for your insights - since there’s nobody from Royal Fail actually chiming in, people who had done some poking around before are the best I could have, so thanks for the info.

So this morning, as a night owl, I decided to make a sacrifice and took an early train to the delivery office (which is open between 8AM and 10AM, but I get it, otherwise the parcels are en route during the day). I asked the guy at the window about it, being fully aware that he might or might not be part of the actual delivery process; not blaming, not interrogating, just simply asking if he knows what the heck is going on.

Yupp, he confirmed what everyone has been commenting about, lol. He didn’t have anything other in mind, apart from the afternoon delivery guy cutting corners. I can still imagine it’s because they are loaded with work (it happens to be the case at my job) and it’s literally impossible to make everyone happy, but management refuses to pay more people. Or he’s just lazy. I don’t know, but the bottom line is, it wasn’t because of some technical nuance, bureaucracy, barometric pressure change in the stratosphere or God knows what. Most likely, he had the parcel but decided to bring the red slip only.

My trust in humanity is in the negatives.

I honestly asked this question from an “I would actually like to understand” point of view. My goal was not to get as many “because they are lazy fucks” kind of answers as possible, but I’m sure every single profession has its own lazy workers.

However, in almost every single profession there are things you can’t help, and outsiders will look at your work and blame you for it. You need to send a report but the IT guy couldn’t get there to fix your laptop? Others will think you can’t be arsed. You’re an IT guy and need to fix a laptop but you’re stuck in traffic? Others will think you can’t be arsed. You’re a chef and the table that ordered a starter in the lunchtime rush still didn’t get their order (because of the other 43274 orders)? Others will think you can’t be arsed. “iT’s JuSt a StArTeR, wHaT tAkEs So LoNg?”.

I was wondering if there was something similar in the delivery process that prevents them from actually taking the parcel to the recipient. I’m past the ‘anger’ phase and I’m trying to make my way to ‘acceptance’.

It comes in handy when you want the multiple of a number.

Adding to slaacaa’s fantastic summary, “unites behind” might be a bit of a stretch; there are a miriad of ways to be in the opposition, and it’s not like the US where you essentially pick from two options (maybe three, but the rest is quite insignificant), but there’s like half a dozen parties opposing Fidesz, the governing party. Unfortunately, due to having vastly different approaches and opinions, these parties could never unite properly and there have always been some infighting between them, especially during elections, which doesn’t really give the best impression to voters. They have tried to unite twice already and both attempts led to another 2/3 majority for Fidesz.

Now that finally there is another competitor who seems to have more support (while having about the same amount of ideas and plans for the future), these opposition parties are not all 100% supportive, further diluting votes against the current regime.

It’s still slightly more hopeful than the previous times, because finally Tisza, the new party seems to have more supporters than the largest opposition party that still runs a previous, horribly failing prime minister’s wife.

But saying that the opposition finally unites… Is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

I’ve been using the Casio W800 series (W800-H currently) for the past 12+ years. This is my 3rd watch, only because I simply lost the first two. However, it’s about the 6th strap, so it’s like the AK’s strap.

The existence of weaklings implies the existence of stronglings.

I’m a non native speaker and I honestly thought poop was almost like baby speak for excrement. Hell, it even sounds cute. See also: boop. Have I been wrong all along, or is it just your own perspective?

The aspect ratio! With some hard work and intensive empathy training I got over the vertical format being default, but when someone uploads a horizontal video to a vertical format site, and then you’re trying to bring it to full screen on your also horizontal monitor… I could headbutt the monitor in.

I counted pixels once. It took up less than 10% of the display area. Just a fucking thick black (EDIT: or non-video regardless) “border” on 90+% of the monitor. And why? Because of one dipshit deciding they will consider horizontal screens nonexistent (while it’s closer to natural, human vision). I can’t even blame the uploader, sometimes they don’t even know this use case isn’t even handled.

I’m sure this is two separate stories but please tell it like it was one. Extra style points for the two biting each other.

AFAIK it was done by Blizzard North, the same team that actually worked on D2 back then (when Blizzard was more like Blizzard). At least partly. Correct me if I’m wrong (I might easily be) but it is at least not a 100% match with regular Blizzard.

Unrelated, but I read “Definitely true for Gamers” twice. I was so confused.

I had the same thought initially, and unfortunately it wasn’t just GTA. However, IMHO Diablo II Resurrected was an amazing exception, and I’m sure there are others. Plus, the OP’s question was probably about an ideal case and they wanted to know what people have been missing from the past.

Realistically, I wouldn’t expect a decent comeback of Guitar Hero 3 for example, but it sucks that it doesn’t really work on Win10/11 anymore, and while Clone Hero exists, it doesn’t have the same “story” mode as GH3 had, with characters, milestones and such. Hell, you can’t even get “booed out”.

Too bad that as you mentioned, even if there was demand, a random big company would just buy the rights, do some lazy upscale and sell it like it was gourmet shit.

Honestly, if it was me reading about the pixie dust, I would just find it hilarious and probably not mention it, since I got the joke.

I can’t remember the last one, so I’ll tell the one before.

I think I had activated some really primal stuff. You know how so many animals cuddle in a bunch, often in entire groups, to keep warm and sleep together? Yeah, I was basically just lying down, with members from my family, on top of my father’s rhythmically raising-falling belly, right on the edge of falling asleep (within my dream).

It was heaven. The most peaceful I have felt in a looong time. Despite us humans being boney animals (by default), it just felt so soft and comfy. I think it must have been some leftover from ancient hominid (?) life.

Wißt du den Weg?

Interesting, I just meant that cockroaches are nearly indestructible and will survive humanity. But I do agree with your first sentence.

Let me introduce you the crown of creation: the cockroach.