Because it's easy. Say what you like about steam but it sure as hell made acquiring games super easy. On-par or easier than pirating.

It doesn't help that the game is objectively terrible. Worse than snakes and ladders by a mile. Especially the end-game is just... throwing dice and walking in a circle until some player gets unlucky.

Oh god, we've got a copy of this game somewhere. I'm pretty sure the clock is broken and runs too fast or something, because it's completely impossible to finish within the time limit. We always kept score based on how many pieces you actually got in before it exploded in your face.

A+ great game, hate to play it.

One hack to almost get a justified gallery like that with no javascript is to lay them out with flexbox, setting their width to a percentage or vw value which your backend calculates based on image aspect ratio and desired image height, use flex-grow to stretch them to fill remaining space, and then using background-position: cover to make the images fit the slightly wrong aspect ratio containers.

This will of course slightly crop all your images to make it fit, but in practice as long as you keep your image aspect ratios reasonable and the images small enough on the page it's really quite subtle.

I had hoped that this feature would provide for masonry like that, but one has to make do.

As far as I can tell happiness is relative in any case, I'm not sure that accounting for that in the question is a bad thing.

I've never been in a more orderly queue than when I went to a Sabaton concert.

I figure the music is the outlet for aggression, so there's no need to find an outlet in picking fights or things of that nature.

You can still get actual "proper" double boiled linseed oil. It's not even especially expensive, just mildly annoying to source. It's a surprisingly durable finish for outdoor furniture etc, just takes an age to cure compared to the chemically boiled linseed oil.

Not to mention that loads of people detour through pescetarianism on their way to vegetarianism. But even if you stop at pescetarianism that's still a wild improvement on plenty of metrics over eating other meats.

There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.

> There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.

Hard agree. It’s counterproductive to have that view, even, and it’s why many people give up on vegetarianism (“I wasn’t able to go all in cold turkey, so it isn’t for me and I’ll revert completely”).

While what you're saying sounds like a reasonable enough stance on the face of it, keep in mind that this would deeply fuck over closeted queer folks among other marginalized groups.

It would. Currently they and everyone else are getting deeply fucked because the signal to noise ratio on the internet has been obliterated and everyone is being manipulated all the time by misinformation from humans lying to bots.

I think the trade off for a lack of anonymity is worth it. This is crass and old but the penny arcade guys identified this decades ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/greater-internet-fuckwad-theo...

I agree misinformation is a big problem. Possibly the biggest problem of our time, right next to global warming. But as it stands now, as a queer person, you can find a spot on the internet with like-minded people. Even when closeted. Hell when closeted it's the only place you can find like-minded people.

If we require people identify themselves online you drive all closeted queer people away, into solitude, into feeling no one will ever understand them. That's not worth the price of admission.

We need a better solution than that.

Toolstation still has a model like that, and I gotta say I love it. They also seem to hire people who actually know something about the products they sell which is an unfortunate rarity these days.