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I guess it makes sense, but I've never thought of it like that before.

I would probably get all kinds of diseases if I sniffed every bare asshole from every mammal I meet, humans included. I'd definitely get sick if I sniffed a dozen random turds a day. But dogs can do it without any apparent issues. Not only that, but they can do it across different species of animal, too.

What dark arts are afoot within the beak of the dog?

I've just been using Windows Defender, but the number of false positives and the lack of autonomy in dealing with them is making me wanna look elsewhere.

If I see a gap between two lines of text, and that gap vanishes when I commit the document to the web or save it to a file, then it's not 'WYSIWYG'. But this has been my experience with 100% of such editors.

I propose a new acronym to replace 'wizzy-wig':

WYSMBWYGIYLBIACWBFRTWNBMCTYSSIYUC

What You See Might Be What You Get if You're Lucky but it Almost Certainly Won't Be For Reasons That Will Never Be Made Clear to You So Suck it Ya Ugly Cunt

Not as pithy, but at least it's accurate.

Could be something peculiar to Nvidia GPUs, or maybe it's just Firefox, but I never see this colour anywhere else, only when something causes a glitch in the rendering of video content. Sometimes it's not just the video player that goes green, but the entire viewport of the browser window. I'm mainly curious why it's that colour, rather than just black or white or something like that.

• HEX: 004d00
• RGB: rgb(0, 77, 0)

Cheers!

For example, have you ever come across a piece of stock music that actually slapped the face off ya? Or a stock image that could easily make it onto your wall in a mahogany frame if it wasn't for the Shutterstock watermark?

On the one hand, it seems obvious that they would, to ensure that the digitisation worked. On the other hand, they'd probably get through 1 customer per month if they did that. So either they just dump the material to a file and send it, or they check every 10 minutes or so and watch a few seconds, but no more than that. Does that sound about right? 🤔

I have some stuff from 30+ years ago I'd like digitised, but I don't know how I feel about a stranger watching 9-year old me be disproportionately excited to the point of tears about my Christmas gift of a life-size cardboard cutout of Wesley Snipes that my dad almost certainly stole from the video rental store. Some memories should stay memories.

Is anyone else completely over this tedious shite?

I understand the cases where it's used to hide the fact that the game is loading in the next section of the level, but surely there are better solutions to that non-issue. Like a loading screen.

Regardless, it's almost never the case that these shimmy squeezes have anything to do with slowing the player down for under-the-hood reasons (think of games like Sekiro, Hitman, Assassin's Creed or Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order). They're apparently there to provide the player with 'gameplay', I guess because they're free gamey gameplay shit that you can just pepper into a level randomly to embloaten the experience a little.

It's like a dog bowl with lots of nooks and crannies in it, designed to make the dog eat slower, but is presented as "enrichment". I'm not a colicky dog and the rest of the game is providing ample enrichment, thanks. It would be even more enriching if you'd stop interrupting me to make me walk sideways through a fucking bookcase.

#CancelShimmySqueezes