About 15 years ago, I happened to stumble upon an online promotional contest for the movie 2012. It was a contest of logic games that took place 1 at a time over 4 or 5 weeks, and it just so happened to be week 1 still. Seeing as I used to be a big nerd (I still am, but I used to, too), I decided to give it a shot. Once the contest was over, I promptly forgot about it until I got a random phone call a couple months later.

Turns out, I ended up placing in the top 12, which meant I had won a PS3 and some crappy Sony video camera. It also meant that I was moving on to phas two of the contrst. Phase two required the contestants to make a video and get elected by the internet as the winner, for a chance at a vacation to Mexico. I wasn’t keen on doing all that, so I phoned it in for the video. All I wanted was the PS3, honestly.

I don’t really play these types of games, but isn’t this game itself already a knock-off of Five Nights at Freddy’s?

You can’t use a torrent client via TOR.

For the others, it doesn’t happen that often, so it’s interesting when it does.

For Kevin Hart, it’s just his reality.

I can’t believe gas is over $2 a gallon now.

That particular ad is for a company called Zilch, which operates in the UK, not the US.

I would assume these are intended for use when hiking and mountain climbing. It could save your life if someone else has your GPS coordinates when you go missing.

“Take me to Martin Shkreli’s house, please. Here is the address.”

Calling him a cunt is an insult to cunts.

Honestly, I don’t recall. That might have been the reason given, but I’m willing to bet tobacco lobbyist money was at least as big of a factor. Either way, I had managed to quit cigarettes and vapes by the time they banned them, so I didn’t really pay it too much attention.

They don’t really have any presence outside of military bases and embassies, so if you don’t exist in those circles, you wouldn’t have been exposed to them.

Final Fantasy Tactics. The original, not the kiddy Tactics Advance games.

Great tactical combat, great soundtrack, amazing story. Plus, abusing the job system to make broken character combos is absurdly fun.

This photo is like 5 years old.

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“Again, nothing sexual.”

I would absolutely tip at a sit-down place. But not if I were ordering take out from the same place.

My take on tipping: If I can’t get the product without further employee assistance, I’m not tipping. Take a sandwich shop, for example. You’re not going to let me behind the counter to assemble my sandwich, so I’m not going to tip you for doing it for me because I can’t get the sandwich otherwise.

My only exception to this is a bar because I’m usually there for more than 1 drink, and it’s nice not to be the last one to get served when it gets crowded.

Only for the elites, though. The rank and file still very much have requirements that must be met for employment.

Do you mean Pitt and Jennifer Aniston? The Brangelina split was in 2019.

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.