spicytuna62

iirc, PlayStations in Japan flip the functions of X and Circle around. Circle is generally an "accept" button while X is generally a "back/cancel" button. Now I heard this many years ago so it may not be true anymore.

I think it makes sense when you consider where A and B are on the SNES controller. And it also makes sense for them to have moved back to the right face button (in the US) when you consider the Xbox 360 released a year prior to the PS3 and was kind of a runaway success.

I, for one, am ready for the sun to consume us all.

Hell yeah animation is ok, and Gavity Falls is a solid 10/10 choice.

Between my brother, a mutual friend, and myself, we have over 1,800 collective hours in Borderlands 2. That was probably my favorite game for about 5 years. It's fun enough on your own, but the game gets a million times between with co-op.

I thought the Pre-Sequel was pretty good. The low grav mechanic was a fun addition, and the moon being populated by Aussies was a nice touch. Borderlands 3 was kinda meh. We all had high hopes for it. It's a pretty good game, but its greatest weakness is that Borderlands 2 exists.

Help! My flesh has fallen off, and I can't pick it up!

Quit squaking, flesh wad. Nobody's forcing you to buy anything.

My first job out of college was in a hospital. When you see doctors outside of their own setting, you quickly realize that >90% of them are pretty stupid at literally everything else. I was an accountant processing travel reimbursements for business-related professional expenses (mostly vacations disguised as conferences and workshops for CMEs) and many of them just could NOT understand why they weren't allowed to claim alcohol on their travel reimbursements. Literally, the IRS will not allow it. And even if it did, state law forbids it, too. Sometimes, I got angry emails because they couldn't claim miles for taking a detour to visit a relative before going to their destination after I adjusted it as if they drove directly from work to the airport. Shit like that. I was good friends with the IT guy there and he had many similar gripes. Most of his job was arriving on-site to plug machines in because they swore up and down on the phone that the machine was plugged in.

I'm convinced the majority of doctors are just average intelligence people who spent a decade practicing and mastering a skill. That's it. Anyone can be a doctor if they can be allowed into med school and sink the time and effort into becoming one.

Amongst my siblings, none of us is shorter than 5'10. My sister is dating a man who is 5'6. They're so cute together, but I felt so bad when I first met the guy because I wasn't expecting him to be that short. So I opened the door and looked right over the poor fella.

Hahaha I wish I had friends who loved me this much.

For those who don't know, Martian solar eclipses suck compared to ours. The near equal relative size of the sun and moon to Earth is why we get such awesome eclipses.

Perks of having a planet-sized object slam into your planet during its Hadean Eon.

Male honey bees:

My school is in a nicer town tucked away in the armpit of Southwest Oklahoma. The library was actually quite well stocked and had lots of books in the system. We even had two copies of all the Harry Potter books. Side note: One year, I heard the movies were pretty faithful to the source material so I watched a few of them and did really well one year because of it. We had a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which was worth a whopping 118 points and I'm sure was never touched. I'm sure it's still in there. There were a whole two shelves stacked full of Louis L'Amour, and I had a western kick in the 10th grade so that was convenient. I liked Bendigo Shafter and Comstock Lode. The Walking Drum is also a good book.

My suggestion would be that instead of tying AR points to kids' grades, create a rewards system to incentivize reading. I can't speed read, and the pressure of being on a time crunch for something that negatively impacts my grade if I can't finish on time was always disheartening and took away from any joy I could have derived from books. Most of the kids in my class could finish one or two books in a school week. My wife will tear through one in a day or two. A similar book is a 10-14 day minimum investment for me. I've learned to accept that about myself in adulthood, but man, it really made me feel terrible in school because English, language, writing, spelling, and related subjects were always some of my favorites. Always being behind my peers because of my reading soured the experience for a long time.

I don't know if this is an ADHD thing or just not liking being told what to do (perhaps some of Column A, little of Column B), but god did I hate reading when I was made to in school. I'll spend hours reading Wikipedia articles on some niche shit. I've spent plenty of time reading books I liked on my own time. But meeting my Accelerated Reader points goals was always a slog, and I've grown to really resent the system.