That wasn’t intended as a correction. Mastered is definitely correct. Tamed is a bit more poetic maybe.

Tamed

Yeah, I don’t think I would be playing the game if crashing had real-world consequences.

No joke I think this is genuinely why conspiracy theories are so appealing

Yes

…And I wouldn’t be surprised if they are using AI to generate the artist backstory and album art.

Probably an instance of Spotify “Ghost Artists”. Spotify pays unknown musicians small amounts to record generic-sounding tracks and sign over all royalties to Spotify.

I used to love the Eyewitness Guides books when I was a kid. Had no idea that it existed as a show as well.

Then I will have my encryption program make the encrypted data look like text/images/whatever…

Taking a stroll past the knife factory.

Ooh, I have a good one. While I was asleep my brain came up with “Late’n’Baked” which was some kind of instant foodstuff for stoners along the lines of Huel. This was apparently funny enough to wake me up.

For me its: “There are two ways I could go about this and there’s no way I could possibly be expected to choose which one”. I guess thats just a variant of top left though.

When I saw the trailer to Shutter Island, a film about a detective trying to solve a murder at a mysterious and secluded mental institution, I immediately guessed that the twist was going to be that the detective was actually a patient the whole time. This made me decide that I didn’t need to watch it and I never looked up a plot summary so I’ve no idea if I’m right.

But why is the 20 years ago picture Win 8 and the today picture is XP?

“Fucking finally!”

• grasshopper after waiting 100 million years for grass to evolve

In the UK we at least still have most of the residual EU consumer protection law in place, so a lot of this kind of stuff that’s common in the US would be illegal here. That said, companies still manage to innovate new ways to screw the consumer all the time.