“Drop” or “dropped” to mean something’s been released/made public/announced/appeared pretty much anywhere. I know it’s not new. But over the last few years people have been saying it for everything. New thread just dropped. I just dropped my first album. That sort of thing, but for EVERYTHING.

Oh wow, I’ve never seen that but it makes me want to file a formal complaint.

I’ve just looked that up and it fixes everything!

Back in the day the equivalent was “controversy”, which was applied to every relevant news article and far too many inappropriate ones.

What’s the context for “positive anymore”?

Any violent or aggressive hyperbolic verb in all caps. “person DESTROYS argument for frobination”, “Unpopular politician WRECKED by simple argument (not demonstrated in this article)”

That and the fact that the time dilation on that planet vs in orbit around that planet make no sense in the first place.

Ah, Diet Bepis.

I refused to buy one for two reasons:

1. the principle of me not having any money

2. it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.

2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.

Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.

Why don’t you make hot a little hotter, make that the top number and make that a little hotter?

lobbying is direct bribery, isn’t it?

To be fair, it helps that Norway suddenly got rich by selling ecologically disasterous products to the rest of the world while avoiding them itself.

I’m sorry for being

Maybe it only works if you have some sort of autocomplete app running.

Trailers gonna trail though. Explosions sell, the game could be 99% puzzle for all we know :)

Same. I loved control, gave up on the AW “games” after about 30 minutes each.

The Bridge, by someone I don’t care to remember. Recommended by a hackaday post. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to get a copy based on what was essentially an advert disguised as a tech post.

Anyway, it’s a rip off of Aldis’ Non-Stop / Starship only written really badly and with utter nonsense plot holes. I’m saying this fully aware that Non-Stop had telepathic rats for one of its chapters.

So it goes, I guess.

That’s a legitimate complaint, but it’s also why other people like it.

tbh a bunch of Heinlein is like this. Number of the Beast is ok in parts, but mostly awful. Glory Road is terrible, too. He did write some good things, mostly the YA stuff, but even that had a lot of problems with the author lecturing about irrelevant stuff.

I read this when I was in my mid 20s, so I wasn’t the target audience. It might have been nostalgia, but I compared it against similar things I’d read as a child and it came out poorly. Derivative and twee. I understand that as the series went on it got less twee but I didn’t bother reading any more.

I will say that at the time when it got really popular I thought it was great that so many kids were getting into reading books, so for that it deserves some credit, I guess.