I don’t think any meats can compete on price when compared to beans and chickpeas. I do think that cow/beef has a lot more possible configurations than beans though. And you can add great vegetable ingredients to beef. You can’t add beef to a vegan meal.

That said, I’m open to vegan meals. It is a skill issue in that I am not as well versed in the recipes. What are your top 2? I like Daal and bean burritos.

Same here, plus it’s harder to get protein in. I like to be strong. Per calorie, meat and dairy are generally the highest protein, natural food sources by miles.

Vegan food can be very cheap, but it does get boring pretty quick when it’s just chickpeas and beans as the base of everything.

really… We’re calling cinemas COVID death traps? Most movies I go to have no more than 10-15 people in the hundred seat auditorium.

The last COVID rates in the UK Winter period were 1.6%. The chances of one of them being in your proximity at a dying cinema is not very high.

nah definitely a Redditor who browses r/greentext

lacks enough flavour to be 4chan original

sincerely, a white woman

but really they should’ve also banned everyone who DIDNT upvote…

that’s such juicy gossip

would we ever consider making something like that accessible to normal users?

I can see obvious problems with it, and it would probably be more annoying than it’s worth… but it would be fun.

Opt in. To see who upvoted a post, you have to have your upvotes seeable.

And maybe you could only see who uovoted your own comments/posts. I think it would be a fun way to see who’s in your corner.

True, but over time it just about pays off. I made the switch years and years ago. A PS5 probably outperforms my PC on new games on Ultra settings, but I can still play all of them just with the graphics turned a notch down. When I want to upgrade I can just switch the GPU out for a better one. Annoyingly though, GPUs have become very expensive.

Anyway, I get mods, a PC for video editing and such, general work stuff, movies, an infinite amount of customisability of hard/software, and so on. I’ve got a ridiculous amount of value for money out of it. And I could push it further still hypothetically if I used it as a host. My partner could probably do everything they do on their laptop (watching stuff, working), through a second monitor, while I played the latest PS5 game on ‘High’ settings on the primary monitor.

I loved my consoles when I had them, but I don’t think I’ll ever go back.

You can tell who upvoted something?

News to me.

I put cheddar cheese on the jalapeno ones a d microwave it

I will never visit from a different instance

dint know we had this emote

I’m glad we do

must be in the depths of Iceland (the British frozen goods store, not the country)

I think it depends. In the case of this Game of Thrones example - those people commenting strike me as having an awareness that it’s a character. One person even addresses his character rather than him. Though he might be taking it to be harassing, I think it’s an expression of what you’d call ‘heat’ in pro-wrestling. It’s good for business. They’re recognising his character work (and the writing of the show). I don’t think any of those people mean what they say harmfully. I think it’s all quite tongue in cheek.

I think your other examples are just willful ignorance in the pursuit of personal catharsis. G*mers are savvy enough to know that Rose is acting for Rian Johnson, who is directing for Kathleen Kennedy, who is owned by Disney. They just want a place to displace their anger (and like you say feel powerful in relative anonymity behind a screen). They’re weird nerds looking to vent misogyny in defense of their obsession with either star wars or the culture wars in general. It’s pure anger and hatred. It’s especially prevalent in a world where the peoples power has been reduced, and where most interactions for a lot of people happen online.

Is that media literacy though? They’re not reading the show’s message wrong, they’re completely failing to process reality.

People have known there’s a separation between actor and character since the dawn of storytelling when we were still killing each other with sticks and rocks. It’s like… A worse than dog-brained comprehension level - if I wear a scary mask and approach my dogs, they’re not so sure, when I take the mask off they’re like ‘ohhh it’s you!!!’ - even they’re able to make some sort of distinction.

Then again, perhaps it is media literacy in the sense that they don’t realise an actor acts, on behalf of the writer and director, on behalf of the production company, and so on. But really? Maybe in very poor very rural countries, but anywhere with TV - people beyond a certain age know that there’s an actor and a director. I’d say people have a much better understanding of that dynamic now more than ever - you only have to look at Pro Wrestling for example, where 50 years ago people would physically attack the bad guy given the opportunity because the felt it was real. Even in the late 80s and 90s people were often tricked by moments, wondering whether rival company WCW was really invading WWF. Nowadays, everyone but the kids are in on it.

I think it’s willful ignorance in the pursuit of personal catharsis. G*mers are savvy enough to know that Rose is acting for Rian Johnson, who is directing for Kathleen Kennedy, who is owned by Disney. They just want a place to displace their anger (and like you say feel powerful in relative anonymity behind a screen).

Adults are talking vibes