I didn’t mean literally get out more. I run a virtual shopping centre - does it sound like I spend a lot of time outdoors?

Somewhere (reddit I think?) there is a post about barbies, violent stuff and the death pit.

You should really look it up, because it’s hilarious. And a little disturbing. But mostly hilarious.

You need to get out more.

There are a lot of people I know who think I am a wuss for playing games that don’t involve shooting people and killing people and whacking people over the head with pipes.

I tell them I run a shop in a shopping centre and they go “that’s not gaming”

It’s not? Oh wow. I guess when someone told me I couldn’t simply walk into Mordor so I booked a plane ticket instead, they were not just using an analogy… wow I feel so dumb.

Did you ever watch Back to The Future? Because I think you could learn a lot from Part III and the “he’s an arsehole” scene at the end. And from the scene with Needles and the rolls-royce.

If someone walks up to you on the street and stabs you, do you engage them in reasonable conversation or do you run away/have them arrested?

This is the internet version of that - there are some people you talk to, and some people you walk away from.

Are you a fool, a bore or a drama starter?

There are plenty of people I don’t like on the web, but who I can talk to in a calm, rational way because while they aren’t nice people, they are relatively rational people. They are people you can have reasonable discussions with, even if you entirely disagree with them.

But there are also plenty of people on the web who I’ve found I just can’t talk to because they are not rational. They just… okay, imagine I am waving my hands in a slightly aggravated manner and going “urgh!” because that’s really the only way I can describe trying to interact with them.

The OP (not me - the OP from the post) isn’t suggesting you block everyone you encounter. Just those who will not be good for your mental wellbeing.

And I have to say - having encountered quite a lot of people who were not good for my mental wellbeing, I find it hard to disagree with them :)

Wow. That’s a lot of people.

I do it when I can stack them up and make them into a ladder to climb up to places I can’t reach.

Or when I need to cross wide gaps.

There are? I mean how many can there be really? A hundred? Two hundred tops?

There are people in the world who don’t know what a Pikmin is???

Huh.

The weird part of that is I’ve always referred to it as 640 by 480.

Width by Height.

I’ve never seen it written as Height by Width before. It just looks weird…

Oddly I thought this was “The post that gets better each year” when I first read it.

I’ve always thought that was true.

But you don’t need to call me stud :)

By way of explanation (and it is explanation, not excuse, just to be clear) what you see is exactly what it looks like when I view it on tumblr in my feed.

I will see if I can adjust my skin (so to speak) and perhaps make it better.

The transcript part might be harder, because sometimes I post hundred of lines at once, and (with all due respect) if I am going to start doing that I’ll just end up not posting as often because if I am formatting a text post of 500+ lines into a single image it can take upwards of ten, fifteen minutes, and then having to get transcribe that (even with some automated process) just takes all the fun out of what I’m doing.

I understand the need for accessibility (I get it A LOT at work - we review all the software we produce before we release it) but this isn’t work, it’s fun and when it stops being fun then I’m just not going to bother :)

Would you, perhaps, like to suggest a better text colour/background colour?

There are almost infinite variations and I could go through all of them before I find one that suits everyone, so if I had a place to start from, that would be helpful.

Yeah…

We get lots of Christmas adverts over here, but they seem to be mostly about families and shops.

If Santa does appear he seems to be in the periphery of things. He’s not the driving force (I’M SANTA AND I CAN SELL YOU THIS STUFF) more of a “Come down to <insert shop here> for Christmas and we’ll make your family happy. You can also see Santa!”

He’s kind of a bonus thing on top of the other things. Not the main reason for doing it, if that makes sense.

Oh I never imagined they were.

I was just commenting on the Coke/Santa thing.

It’s not something I’d ever thought of.

Actually now I think about it I don’t associate Santa with anything in particular. Aside from - you know - Christmas.

I swear this isn’t an attack, however it sounds. Cross my heart, etc.

But the Santa/Coke thing DEFINITELY has to be an America thing, because I never make that connection. It doesn’t even occur to me.

Even the big, red, jolly, fat Santa doesn’t make me think of coke (the fizzy drink or the illicit substance).

I guess the connection never made it over the Atlantic?

Santa does care about people.

It’s literally all he does :)