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Just a slang term for discomfort and anxiety.

Oh wait, I think its Matilda. I guess i got my Roald Dahl chocolate scenes mixed up.

That movie also gave me the heebie-jeebies growing up.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory I believe.

Genuinely, switching to Linux full time was amazing for my mental health. I didn't have a feeling of dread every time there was a new update, wondering what settings would get reset or what new ways they'd try to fuck with me. I no longer felt like I was sharing a house with an abusive person who was going to try to hurt me the second I let my guard down. In the weeks and months that followed tension that I didn't even know was there melted away.

Of course that was years ago, and Windows is even worse now.

“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.

I don't disagree necessarily, but food that's been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.

This is such an incredible self-own.

Either:

• C++ is such a horrific language and Rust is so vastly superior that a person with 6 months of experience in Rust can be as productive and valuable as someone with 30 years of experience in C++.

• The person writing the post, and according to them C++ programmers in general, bring virtually nothing to the table other than knowing the syntax and semantics of C++, even after 30 years of programming.

How can the same SSN be issued twice?!?

The SSN system is bad in almost every way it is possible for an ID system to be bad. If you ask "does it really do this dumb thing?", the answer is probably yes.

I actively get annoyed when games don’t give me some quiet time to not play the game, and I really appreciate the beauty of games beyind the gameplay.

This gave me conniptions when playing Control. I couldn't just stop and look at the environments, which clearly had a lot of work put into them, for more than a minute without the getting a loud "BRRRR" alarm in my ear and having a full screen text popup that says "BOARD ALERT: HISS COMMANDOS IN WASTE PROCESSING".

This was compounded by the whole 'randomly spawn in some random group of enemies at a random point every time you enter a room' design of the game. That's bad enough for other reasons, but those two things together gave the impression that the game designers were terrified of the player having 10 seconds to sit there and have a thought enter their brain.

If anything gaming culture has regressed, at least in this aspect.

Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

There's a clear cause:

In addition to the rating it should have an ugly warning on all its promotional material, like cigarettes.

"Warning: this game requires additional in-game purchases and gambling to access all of its content". On the screen for the entire duration of any trailer.