Pretty awkward when you forget/can’t find the event date though. I’ve managed to create an event in the wrong year at least once.

For anyone genuinely struggling with this: There’s a setting in the Outlook options that will keep the invite in your inbox after you accept it.

I don’t have access to Outlook anymore so I can’t tell you where it is, sorry. It’s buried in that awful overwhelming interface somewhere, but hopefully knowing that it exists is a helpful starting point. Good luck.

Edit: Apparently they’ve removed this option in the “new” Outlook, my condolences if you’re using that one.

I’m a big fan of the book. Couldn’t stand the movie.

I was really surprised because, while I have a track record of hating adaptations of books I’ve read, a lot of my friends that had read the book absolutely loved the movie. So I thought maybe it would be okay, even if I didn’t love it. But I couldn’t finish the movie at all, I didn’t even make it halfway.

Out of curiosity, have you watched and read 2001: A Space Odyssey? How did that comparison go, if you have?

I had to pay $19.99 for that last one :(

Sometimes the games that people will watch is not the same as the ones they will play themselves. The same goes for games that are played on-stream vs off-stream, its just a very different way of enjoying the game.

For example, I would hang out in a twitch stream with someone playing a JRPG or a MMO or a dating sim. But I don’t have any interest in playing those genres myself. The fact that I’m watching someone else play doesn’t cut into the studio’s profits at all, because I never would have bought the game in the first place.

For visual novels in particular, I only play these live on stream. I get the most out of them this way. I like to pause the game and talk about things that were brought up in the dialog, or react to something that happened. My favorite is trying to guess things like plot twists. I had a whole Charlie Day pinboard situation going on while I played the Zero Escape games, and I have a lot of fun just chatting with viewers on all sorts or stuff like this. It makes me stop and really appreciate the game a lot more. Completely different experience to when I play by myself - I didn’t even think I liked the genre until I tried playing a smaller one on stream, and now I’m a little bit hooked.

On the flip side of this, I enjoy management and automation games but I absolutely hate streaming them.

Basically the point I’m trying to make is that playing the game solo vs streaming the game vs watching someone else stream the game are all very different ways of experiencing the same game and story. If I find a particularly chatty streamer doing a visual novel I’ve already played, it can be really fun to compare their thoughts and suspicions and reactions to my own, so there’s totally value to both watching and streaming visual novels for me in particular. I’m sure other people are the same way.

Same here!

The reading out loud tip does worse than nothing for me. On multiple occasions, I’ve read something out loud to someone else and then had absolutely no idea what I just said. I focus so much on vocalizing the words that I’m diverting power away from the part of my brain that would be processing the meaning of them.

Similar thing for listening to the words without any visual aids - I’m just really not a verbally orientated person at all and do much better when reading/writing the information.

Not wasted! If she’s anything like me, the fact that the coffee is fancy is largely for herself. I can’t stand offering anyone in my house worse coffee than I would make for myself, unless they specifically prefer it that way. It just feels so wrong.

If you get any extra enjoyment out of the fanciness level, that’s just additional icing on the cake.

Exactly this. Your brain gets absolutely blasted with a bunch of chemicals during childbirth and your memory of it becomes very hazy, especially the pain parts. This happens with or without pain management.

I recently read all the discworld novels as well, but I took everyone’s advice about not reading them in release order and I really regretted it. I swapped to release order partway through and it was so much better.

It depends on what you’re looking for.

If you’re happy with kind of shallow young adult fantasy vibes, go for it. The magic system / world-building / characters aren’t especially fleshed out, but they get the job done. The plot again isn’t especially noteworthy, but it was a pretty fun ride and easy to digest. Basically it’s very accessible fantasy, but somewhat mediocre.

If you’re really into classic high fantasy stuff, maybe give it a miss. It probably won’t hit the spot for you.

Regardless of whether you read the books or not, just… forget about the movie.

I think there’s one that comes through my neighborhood. I’ve never actually seen it, just heard it, and it never seems to… actually stop. When I was a kid, the ice cream trucks would stop and play their music for a while so people had time to grab their money and run outside. This one just seems to play a few bars of a song as it drives through, makes me wonder if it’s actually an ice cream truck at all.

“Slipping back into that character of Hal for me was so rewarding — I missed him,” Cranston, 69, says. “It’s been almost 20 years since we said goodbye. And he’s a sweet, lovable man. He’s really a lovable guy, and it was fun to see all my whole family back together. It was great.”

Cranston also shared what helped him get back into character for the reboot […] “It’s a short-sleeve shirt that Hal would wear, a patterned short-sleeve shirt that screams out he’s not going anywhere,”