The offline installers literally are the files to install the game.

It’s as close as we can get in this day to having the disc and installing from disc long after the publisher was bought out and absorbed so many times nobody truly knows exactly who owns the rights to the game anymore. As long as your disc (in this case, offline installer) was stored safely and is still readable you can install it on a compatible computer (and that’s often the harder part is finding a compatible computer!)

If you ever plan on retiring you’d better hope your investments are worth at least a million by age 65

There’s a reason the stock market has generally been in the dumps since Trump’s election. Big investors don’t like the risk he poses and shifted to safer investments

But it would suck if you got that 30% haircut just before you needed to sell…

For the average middle class individual or family, they’ll never sell all of their investments, but only small amounts each month to cover monthly expenses when they retire, so even in the situation of a 30% decrease, they’re only selling off a fraction of a percent of their portfolio each month

changed it from the side of union men to the side of flamboyant, sensitive baristas.

Lol based

Basically all media ratings bodies are weirdly corrupt and apply ratings without any clear rhyme or reason. There’s good reason to largely ignore the ratings as an adult and even as a parent

Bro, they politely asked you not to use potentially hurtful language in an open forum.

Is that really how you react in the real world of someone says “I don’t like that, please stop?” Because that’s some abuser-coded behavior right there

Yup that checks out. Say hi to Betty White for me!

In my experience I can’t really feel any difference below zero, whether it’s -5 -20 or -40, I just can tell that I have less time outside before it’s too cold to stay out

For a while I had retired neighbors on two sides of the house who insisted on mowing multiple times a week. Their grass would be so freaking dead and brown by late summer even with watering, meanwhile my lawn which I mow every 2-3 weeks depending on the season (late summer it grows slower so I give it longer) never needed a lick of extra water and is still green today

When my daughter was about 1.5 she would wave like that, waving so she could see her hand correctly.

Not long after that she’d dismiss people she didn’t want to deal with with a little blown kiss and a wave. So at the doctor’s office they had two nurses come in to give her some shots and she kept doing the little kiss and wave and they went “aww she’s blowing kisses” and my wife said “no she’s actually trying to dismiss you”

My grandmother was born in 1940 and told me when I was little about when her family first was going to get a TV she thought it would be like a radio with a little screen on top that you’d wander over to and peek into for a visual when you needed one for the radio drama you were listening to. As I got older I second guessed my memory of her telling me that (because she’s old but she can’t be that old!) and then she told me the story as an adult again and it all makes so much more sense now

My daughter recently asked me “ladybugs are good? Because they eat orphans?” And after a moment of stifled laughter and thought I said “aphids. They eat aphids and yes that makes them good because aphids will eat your plants”

When I was a kid my dad would often pull up the NORAD Santa tracker on Christmas Eve, and that combined with seeing the film War Games at way too young of an age had me believing in Santa for much longer than I should have because “why else would the federal government devote so much money to tracking him?” I think it was specifically seeing the exact same animation of him being welcomed into a country by a pair of fighter jets for the third year in a row that finally killed that line of reasoning (because obviously the NORAD Santa tracker site is shot with television cameras or something)

Kid logic is wild

It was always a challenge for me in gym class because they’d detail “here’s how to swing if you’re left handed. Here’s how to swing if you’re right handed. Now remember no practice swings!” And I’d just have to try it both ways to see which way I do slightly less badly with while classmates jeer about “weren’t you paying attention, you only swing that way if you’re left handed! Why are you switching hands?!”

Probably partly because the writing system is oriented for right-handers. You’d have the entire section of the desk under the page providing support whereas for a left hander in a right-handed desk (especially the ones with comically small writing surfaces) your hand is literally hanging off the edge, especially when writing a bulleted list or shorthand notes. We also have to raise our writing hands a bit when writing to avoid smearing which further hurts ergonomics

When I was in school it varied by classroom. Some classrooms were all desks like that (some with a larger writing surface, some with that useless one) some had the kind of desk you can store stuff inside (some with attached chair and some without), some just had tables and chairs. Oh and the chairs were a weird mix too. There was one variant that had a lower lumbar support that as a very boney and skinny person just pressed straight into a couple of vertibrae in my spine and was painful to sit in for more than 30 seconds

But without fail, any classroom that had these desks including a left handed desk or two would have it in the furthest back corner so it was always taken up by a right hander who would try to disappear in the back, not participate or take notes and would refuse to trade desks with you

I mean frequent consumption is pretty well documented to be bad for your liver, and they don’t call it a beer belly for nothing. Like any kind of indulgence, moderation is key

Also worth noting beer historically was very very light on alcohol, so it was effectively a method of making water safe to drink rather than about having fun getting drunk

Most radiators are just a big metal thing which a hot liquid slowly flows through to radiate the heat into the space. Kinda hard for that to be bad for you unless you burn yourself

Most heated blankets have such a feature