archonet

I liked BB, I thought it was pretty good, and BCS I still have yet to finish (got up to season 3 and then got distracted), and thought it was also pretty good.

What did you find lackluster in BB that BCS did better?

Meanwhile I know someone who watched the entirety of a very popular series (can't remember which one at the moment) just so he could tell the obnoxious fans of it, that it was shit, and exactly why it was shit.

It's somehow worse when you do get the sleep, but your brain has decided to do this in your dreams. You wake up feeling angry and, rapidly, can't remember half the reason why.

This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you'll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

and yes, it is bad business, but there are many things that HP does that are "bad business", and yet they continue to exist like a cancer on the consumer computer hardware market. Again, this is normal for them.

I'm just saying, I would be at least 3x as miffed as a kid getting black licorice, or raisins, or some other bullshit in my candy pail than candy corn.

When you're an adult, it's different, you can have whatever kind of candy whenever you want, regardless of the time of year -- when you're a kid, you'll take candy corn every day of the week over a lot of other subpar halloween hand-outs. And even as an adult, sure, I wouldn't willingly buy a bag of it to eat for myself, but if I were given the choice between eating a handful of candy corn or a handful of Good and Plentys, yeah, I'm taking the candy corn.

I imagine it's because their use is evident (no need to advertise what they do, since they've been common in households for the past half century), and they've likely peaked in terms of function. You can't really improve much beyond what we have now, the last great advancement in the microwave was probably the turntable for consumer units, and the moving fields that commercial units have. You're limited in power output by the outlet you plug it into, so "faster cooking" is a no-go (unless you stuck a 240v plug on the end, and good luck getting that to fly with your average consumer in the US, we already find those annoyingly sparse for dryers and ovens and such) -- what else can you innovate to differentiate your microwave from every other microwave on the market?

It's HP.

You know, the same company that makes the worlds most insufferable printers. So yeah, it was deliberate, intentionally making the user experience as awful as humanly possible might as well be their raison d'etre.

"someone with his business acumen"

Ah, yes, you mean the sort of business acumen that makes a casino go bankrupt?

I'm not disagreeing with that, but you can do so much worse.

Case in point: Good and Plenty, and black licorice in general. I'm not saying you can't acquire a taste for either, certainly someone is eating them, but why would you want to? Candy corn is just kind of waxy and sweet, like a non-chocolate tootsie roll.

clown down.

legit you cannot convince me this wasn't trolling, and the fact so many people haven't been able to tell, for so long, is deeply funny but also somewhat depressing. I blocked them almost as soon as I encountered them. It reeks of bait turned up to 11, like an edgy 16 year old just heard about the concept of making your own pronouns and went "ok how can I make this as stupid as humanly possible to fuck with people?".

Candy corn is fine. It's not great, but it's fine. Far from the worst candy out there.

Putting it on pizza, however, is a war crime.

mostly by giving myself an imprecise, distant deadline to check out if things don't get better by then. Right now, that deadline is the death of my mother. After she's gone I'll have nobody to mourn me, no ability to keep the lights on, and no one else I'd care to stick around for.

I'd guess I have between 5 and 10 years. Either things get better and I stick around, or they don't, and it won't be my problem anymore.

That's about it. Having a defined "I know this will be over, in time, whether it continues to suck or not" has made it easier to not outright end it now.