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[Frumple]

Turning console games into Steam cards sounds like a great idea. Everyone should do it.

Only 30 books sounds like something a crazy person would say though. Counting digital, I have literally thousands.

It's apparently a clutter reduction advice thing, on top of apparently being fairly misunderstood. It's less "no more than 30" and more "that's around an ideal point from a clutter standpoint, but can/should be reconsidered if books are seriously your shtick". Seems to be trying to recommend getting rid (with books, by donation or gifting or whatever) of stuff you're not actively involving yourself in.

It's also looks like it's fairly specific to physical junk, since it's about room space organization more than anything. Digital would largely, if not entirely, be irrelevant. Marie Kondo seems to be the person in question.

... incidentally, yeah, paring all your consoles down into digital would probably be less rules lawyering and more exactly on point. Console junk takes up a lot more space than your average digital game library, heh. The box, the wires, all the discs/cartridges/whatever... if you can get the same amount or near enough of enjoyment and only have the one computer to do it with, hey. There you go. Less clutter.

[Mephisto]

Entirely correct. But people who care that much about clutter are just adding to their digital clutter.

[Frumple]

Digital clutter basically isn't a thing, though, outside of like the horrible messes I tend to make of my desktops after a while. Doesn't take up space, doesn't mess up a room, the most it might do is take up some mental attention and even that is far more easily dealt with. You just uninstall or hide whatever you're not actively playing around with. Particularly with stuff that comes pre-organized like with steam it's just... not the same sort of mess.

[Mephisto]

Or it's only an issue for nerds that hate clutter. I'm not one. Someone who hates clutter, that is. I'm a massive nerd. As the server hosting the meticulously-organized couple-hundred-GB ebook collection in my computer room attests.

[Kagus]

There's a lot to enjoy here.

1. A ballet dancer complaining about gay people.

2. David LaChapelle

3. "Let's slap fat people when you see them."


I'm just waiting for someone to confirm that this is a parody news site rather than a real one. It's so hard to tell these days...

[AzyWng]

I really hope this hasn't been edited to mess with us.

But, after checking the history of the page, this is apparently a state-owned news channel (as in, it's being operated by the government, I think).

[Kagus]

I really hope this hasn't been edited to mess with us.

But, after checking the history of the page, this is apparently a state-owned news channel (as in, it's being operated by the government, I think).

An English-language news service run by the French government? It's definitely trolling.

[Dunamisdeos]

I really hope this hasn't been edited to mess with us.

But, after checking the history of the page, this is apparently a state-owned news channel (as in, it's being operated by the government, I think).

An English-language news service run by the French government? It's definitely trolling.

Looks like it is, in fact, an actual website.

https://www.france24.com/en/

[AzyWng]

France 24 is broadcast on four channels: in French, in English, in Arabic and in Spanish.

Guess that means it's multilingual trolling. Since 2009, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

[scriver]

2. David LaChapelle

I don't get it

[Reelya]

It's purely because he's a French guy who's name is similar to Dave Chappelle.

[Kagus]

These "chocolate" cookies I picked up are in fact oatmeal raisin cookies with minor chocolate addendums! You'd have to dig through the list of ingredients to find any mention of raisins, and I'm fairly certain that nobody has time for that.

France 24 is broadcast on four channels: in French, in English, in Arabic and in Spanish.

Guess that means it's multilingual trolling. Since 2009, if Wikipedia is to be believed.

Oh, the French have been doing that since long before 2009...

[scriver]

These "chocolate" cookies I picked up are in fact oatmeal raisin cookies with minor chocolate addendums! You'd have to dig through the list of ingredients to find any mention of raisins, and I'm fairly certain that nobody has time for that.

So the best possible combination of the three then?

[JoshuaFH]

These "chocolate" cookies I picked up are in fact oatmeal raisin cookies with minor chocolate addendums! You'd have to dig through the list of ingredients to find any mention of raisins, and I'm fairly certain that nobody has time for that.

It's all the fault of Big Raisin man. If raisins are the very last listed ingredient, you can trust that the actual product is 90% raisins.

[AzyWng]

These "chocolate" cookies I picked up are in fact oatmeal raisin cookies with minor chocolate addendums! You'd have to dig through the list of ingredients to find any mention of raisins, and I'm fairly certain that nobody has time for that.

I’m pretty sure people have sued for smaller issues than that.

I’m not saying you should sue or that you even have grounds to be able to sue... I’m just saying that things like that have happened before...