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• Holt trying to act straight and being terrible at it
• Titles of sex tapes
• Fancy clothes and/or disguises = slow motion walkout reveal
• Boyle's accidental innuendos ("you and me, getting a lady off together")

When people agree with a statement by just saying "This." So pretentious. It annoyed me 15+ years ago when I first noticed it but somehow people are still doing it

I have already prepared myself to accept the fact that someone is inevitably going to respond "This." to this, by the way

I'm this way...I basically never go to the doctor and if I have any sort of strange symptom or condition I tend to just assume the most benign possible explanation by default.

I'm not saying this is a smart way to go through life, but just wondering if that has a name or not

EDIT: I appreciate the suggestions all...I have a feeling it may just not be a thing with a defined name and I'm okay with that. I was just curious. BTW I did go for a checkup recently; apparently I'm okay for now

I've been sitting on some of these for a while and recently opened up a number of them. For one of them ALL of the items were similar high-end cars and I got this Toyota TS050 hybrid.

Not sure if this was a known special thing that I missed hearing about or if I just got exceptionally lucky

I mean like you're doing time trial laps, trying to improve your course record by beating the ghost, and keep thinking "how the hell is this fucker so impossible to beat??"

But then you remember... YOU are that fucker, and that fucker is you. And now paradoxically you hate YOURSELF for being too good AND not good enough at the same time?

(Jokes aside though there is nothing on earth that will motivate you to shave microseconds off every turn like that damn ghost)

Consider the following:

• As we know, nobody in this town ages. How is it possible that no one notices this?
• The townspeople keep telling you the exact same things, year after year, as if you've just arrived for the first time
• No one seems to register major life changes, like you getting married. They'll keep on pursuing you, even if you're married to their best friend. It's like they have no memory of you going "off the market"

None of this makes any sense...until we remember a fact that I think doesn't get enough attention: there is a witch nearby who literally specializes in resetting people's memories.

Conclusion: everyone* in this town is getting their memory wiped on the regular. And there is no way of knowing how long that's been going on.

I believe this is done out of necessity to keep the villagers blind to the timeless purgatory they're trapped in. But why? What is being hidden there?

Not long after arriving, you are encouraged to begin extracting resources from the local mines, only to find them infested with all variety of supernatural monsters. It's clear that beneath Stardew Valley there lies something very dark and arcane.

UNDERNEATH. Ask yourself--where exactly does that shipping bin on your property go? Are we truly to believe the elderly mayor is actually hiking out there after 2am every single night and carrying off the hundreds of items you dump in there? No. The items are sacrifice.

And this brings us to why you, the farmer, are there to begin with. To provide the steady stream of tribute needed to appease the dark forces enthralling the valley. Your grandfather didn't just leave the farm--he was removed when, after unknown years performing this service, he finally threatened to expose the whole thing. I believe he spent his years here as a seemingly younger man, and didn't realize that by leaving the valley, his body would instantly transform to its true biological age. They* didn't have to silence him--the backlog of years did that for them. Perhaps the role of "The Farmer" can only be performed by those in your genetic line, because once Grandpa was gone, they immediately wrote to you, his descendant, in his name...ensuring you would be next to be doomed to feed the beast.

* But--who is "they"? On this I cannot be totally clear. It is obvious that not everyone is having their memories regularly wiped. The wizard and witch, obviously. I believe the mayor is party to this, though not voluntarily. (This may be, incidentally, why he won't let himself get too close to Marnie. It would be dangerous to her, and anyway she will never be able to remember). There's Pierre--I've said it before, but I think he is a dangerous man. If anyone could be the willing liaison between the human world and the powers that be, it's him. Marlon and Gil--I've long suspected those two were the first humans to discover Stardew Valley. They look like 19th-century gold prospectors because they literally were. And finally, who happens to show up in town after a year of you digging your nose into the goings-on of the valley? A combat veteran with a penchant for explosives...perhaps brought in from the cold by Pierre to keep an eye on you, and possibly mail the occasional "device" to threaten you into staying in line?

Perhaps I seem like a deranged conspiracy theorist. Perhaps I am. But there are too many questions without answers. I don't have all the answers, but I'm open to suggestions.

Watch your back, farmer. You're in more danger than you realize

I, in my infinite wisdom, very confidently declared back in the day that we would never hear from Eminem again after "My Name Is" (which in fairness to me really is a very stupid song)

I had similar thoughts about Beck. "Loser" was fun but screamed novelty one-off.

Well, no one's right all the time 😄

Hint: the center of the path is not the left. Just RIGHT of the center line is definitely not on the left. It can't be that hard

EDIT: a lot of you have said a lot of pedestrians are oblivious and obstructive, and...you're absolutely right. Those people need to get their shit together as well. I promise I'm not one of them though, I just stay to the right all by myself...

EDIT again: it's not even just passing. Had quite a lot of bikes coming the opposite way and just staying right in the middle of the path (even though their right lane was fully clear)

Seriously, have you ever opened YouTube as a "guest" and seen what is recommended? It's...dystopian bullshit

Hi all--this happened to my recent feta (which I've made successfully in the past) but I think it's probably more of a brine question.

I had good solid chunks (about fist-sized) of feta aging in brine, but after a while I didn't like how it was smelling so I dumped the brine and made some fresh to replace it.

Now here's the part where I know I was dumb--I just kind of winged it on the brine this time. Saturated it with salt of course, but added small but unmeasured amounts of white vinegar and calcium chloride.

After that the blocks of feta slowly but surely degenerated into...just a slimy yogurt-like sludge. I feel it's pretty likely I messed up the second brine batch, and most likely because I didn't bother measuring out my ingredients.

My question is, just in general, do you have any idea exactly what would tend to cause the cheese to disintegrate like that? Just wondering if this is one of those symptoms that points to a pretty well-known cause!

Obviously in the future I will be more exacting with my brines...

this one's pretty dumb, but somewhere along the way people started writing "Erm" instead of "Um" and I kinda hate it

EDIT: I'm saying this as an American English speaker...evidently that matters

I'm talking about the weekly challenge races--the ones like this week where it's a 400 or less PP "suggested". (On hard difficulty for what it's worth).

I try to use a car with the suggested PP level, and the other cars are just plain faster. I adjust my tuning for more power but staying at the same PP, and then the other cars get even faster. I know I'm sacrificing some handling by adjusting for more power, but I mean even just in a straight line I find myself getting left even further behind than before.

Starting from the back when there's only 2 laps to catch up doesn't help. Generally I end up just coming back with some completely overpowered car to get it done with.

Guess I'm just wondering does anyone routinely win these races "fairly" or do you end up "cheating" like I usually have to?

For years I've seen people joke that "the internet was a mistake", but at this point I really believe it.

Obviously I'm not saying it hasn't been hugely beneficial in many ways, but it just seems like every benefit comes with corresponding new downsides. It's taken over every part of life. It's enabled social media, probably the single most destructive force in modern society.

Maybe worst of all, having all the knowledge of mankind at our fingertips--theoretically the greatest promise of the internet age--has just allowed everyone to pick and choose the "knowledge" that confirms their biases. It isn't bringing the world together; it's sequestering everyone into echo chambers of their own making.

I'll just say it: all the benefits and conveniences notwithstanding, I very genuinely believe we'd have been better off without it. Or at least it needed to develop much more slowly and give us several generations to adapt to it