from what ive seen people seem to dislike, if not outright hate espeon's shiny colours but personally i love it. its like a little mars alien cat. adorable.

"A mountain lives in mortal fear of its deer." - Aldo Leopold
from what ive seen people seem to dislike, if not outright hate espeon's shiny colours but personally i love it. its like a little mars alien cat. adorable.
The chest freezer is really emblematic for me of the efficiency-lifehack-frugality-simpleliving-industrial complex now in that there is a little cottage industry of people who will talk about how much money it saves them. And indeed it does; the freezer itself is inexpensive, it is hilariously energy-efficient, and you can buy frozen things in bulk and store them for a long time.
Assuming, of course, that you have the floor space for a dedicated chest freezer, that you have the liquidity to buy all the meat you'll eat for the year upfront, that you have the autonomy over your living space to buy appliances at all, that you have a car that you can use to bring your bulk groceries into your home, etc, etc. There's always this rancid greasy film covering these conversations of all the invisible infrastructure of the American suburb-dweller for whom space, time, and gas are just ambiently foraged things and not expenses
Nothing ruder than getting an automated email that says 'action required'. Silence, machine, you are not entitled to require action from me.
I always see people debating over terms for different RPG games, but I've devised a foolproof way to make sense of it. Once and for all, here's the new official RPG terminology:
Many games combine RPG elements with other genres, such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem. We can call these 'combined RPGs,' or CRPGs for short.
Social/farming sims are often enjoyed for the stress relief of their low-stakes methodical activities and warm, comfortable feelings from positive interactions with the other characters. I propose we refer to these as cozy role playing games, or CRPG