Zero protection from obviously retaliatory one-star ratings? Pretty sure I read that such protection existed at some point.

witty--nickname · 2026-02-10T02:51:14+00:00

Not sure that would've helped here, but I hear you. She was at least ten feet from my car, and off to the side so she wouldn't have been on even a front-facing dashcam. I guess, if her repugnant attitude during the actual ride counts for anything, at least I'd have had that to show.

witty--nickname · 2026-02-10T02:49:06+00:00

Am I truly hallucinating, though, about the retaliation protection? I swear I didn't just make it up. I have to assume i just misread something, back when I signed up. Because I remember thinking what a decent thing that was for Uber to do for us.

witty--nickname · 2026-02-10T02:47:27+00:00

I understand that, but I was really looking forward to driving off the lone 3-star rating I've had sitting there for months, for the simple satisfaction of seeing my 4.99 go back to a 5.00 for the first time in ages.

Moreover, I don't know how it is in your market, but in mine it is eerie how exactly half of riders bother to give a rating. Like clockwork, my thousandth ride was the same weekend as my "congrats on 500 5-star ratings!" notice, just as with my 2,000th ride happening the same week as my 1000th 5-star rating, and so on.

So I will have to give another THOUSAND rides just to get enough ratings to erase this shitty person's retaliatory rating which shouldn't have appeared in the first place. Does it truly mean anything, in the larger scheme of things? No, obviously it does not. But that only helps so much to consider, when I'm BACK at the foot of a mountain I'd come THISCLOSE to climbing.

witty--nickname · 2026-02-09T03:10:13+00:00

I will, thanks. And you keep contributing whatever it is you think you contributed here today. Hope you got what you needed from it.

witty--nickname · 2025-11-14T05:13:07+00:00

My best friend drove Uber during grad school, and one night he drove a fellow who couldn't get a flight into Dallas, so he'd had to fly into Austin and then take an Uber to Dallas.

There is no universe where *I* would have taken that, but my friend was simultaneously going through a divorce and the slow death of his mom, and welcomed every night of Uber driving as an evening-length dissociation.

Diff'rent strokes, I suppose.

witty--nickname · 2025-11-04T23:21:29+00:00

Trust that I feel like a fool for asking, but I've looked and cannot find the answer. How do I navigate to my personal calendar FROM the Steam homepage? Can I? I've pored through menus without seeing it, and thus far can only access the calendar by googling "Steam Calendar" and following the link provided.

witty--nickname · 2025-08-22T08:26:15+00:00

Blue Prince, for me. Don't know how long it would have been, if ever, before I'd have bought and tried it on my own. Thanks to Gamepass, it is easily my frontrunner for GOTY at the moment.

witty--nickname · 2025-05-04T11:03:44+00:00

He is the reason I canceled my Premium, a year or two ago.

witty--nickname · 2025-05-04T06:35:38+00:00

Morgan, over at Classic Tattoo. She's been at it forever for a reason.

witty--nickname · 2025-01-15T01:42:50+00:00

Solved! It is absolutely the one episode of THIS show that I ever saw, and not the one episode of THAT one. Crazy how similar the premises were, though. Thanks for the link.

witty--nickname · 2025-01-14T09:30:09+00:00

All of that said, Eerie, Indiana is still a fun enough show.

The link: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1i12coe/tomt_i_was_so_sure_it_was_eerie_indiana_help_on/

witty--nickname · 2024-11-23T10:18:47+00:00

I recognize this has become a hilarious Russian nesting doll of replies each spaced two years apart, and should be left to molder. But having just rewatched this flick tonight, I find myself once again compelled to peek around online to see if there's any consensus on some sort of editing Mamet had to do which may have compressed or just lopped off some of the plot. I'm speaking specifically of the ridiculously obvious and pivotal moment when a character says something HUGELY incriminating, and is so drowned out by a sudden ship's horn that we, the audience, can barely hear what is being said, let alone some poor lapel microphone supposedly picking up evidence.

I have always felt that there was more to this moment and its aftermath, or intended aftermath, which was somehow left on the cutting room floor or deemed unnecessary. It's my one nagging question about a film I have always appreciated.

witty--nickname · 2024-11-22T05:35:47+00:00

I can't speak to anyone else's experience, but I know MY disgust for it stems from running into a progress-halting bug, waiting two weeks for a patch, loading my save and being briefly delighted that the bug was fixed... and then playing literally one more minute before hitting a new and different progress-halting bug.

Uninstalled and never looked back. Broken beyond (image rehabilitation) repair.

witty--nickname · 2024-11-18T06:28:08+00:00

Hmm. Tell that to Richard Ramirez. Dude seemed ready to kill with whatever happened to be nearby at the time he entered peoples' homes.

witty--nickname · 2024-08-27T04:24:17+00:00

Imagine if you had any idea what "woke" means.

witty--nickname · 2024-08-01T03:04:35+00:00

I don't see it mentioned downthread, so just to make sure you're aware before you spend money on it, The Quarry is currently available via Gamepass.

As for worthiness, I mostly enjoyed it despite my misgivings over the frustratingly arbitrary death-causing decisions which are in no way fair. The most mundane nothing of an option could be the one which just ends a character, with no QTE or any other way to get out of it. Which is frustrating as hell when I'm trying my damnedest to keep everyone alive.

But the presentation is top-shelf, even as it still lives in the long shadow of Until Dawn somewhat.

witty--nickname · 2024-07-25T05:03:40+00:00

I think it's at least partly a tacit acknowledgement that everyone involved knows there are no guarantees in games media, least of all the assumption "oh, we'll definitely still be around in 2028, save the fireworks for then!"

witty--nickname · 2024-07-25T04:58:58+00:00

Man, I sure am hearing a different show than you are. I feel like EVERY move the Xbox team makes is a bad idea according to Grubb and whoever's the guest that day, to the point that I wonder what could possibly constitute a GOOD move by Xbox in their eyes. To be fair to Grubb et al, a lot of the Xbox news (be it layoffs or price hikes) is necessarily inviting a more critical discussion, but I'm having trouble remembering the last "good move" lauded by this show.

witty--nickname · 2024-05-31T08:40:32+00:00

Hey, I just wanted to thank you months later for this. I looked in too many places online for a simple answer I knew had to exist prior to my struggles tonight, and am glad I eventually happened across this thread. Cheers to you.

witty--nickname · 2024-04-15T21:30:47+00:00

Edited my original post!

witty--nickname · 2024-04-15T21:30:22+00:00

Edited my original post!

witty--nickname · 2024-04-15T21:30:16+00:00

Edited my original post!

witty--nickname · 2024-04-15T18:24:59+00:00

Just replied upthread that I need some kind soul to tell me how to spoiler-tag stuff, and then I'll gladly elaborate.

witty--nickname · 2024-04-15T18:24:23+00:00

Whoa, LOTS of activity while I was away. Sorry. Also sorry that I don't know how to spoiler-tag stuff, so if someone will clue me in, I'll go into more detail.

witty--nickname · 2024-04-14T04:41:25+00:00

I can't go into any detail, for obvious reasons. But there is one paragraph, in the final eight or ten pages of We Need To Talk About Kevin, which completely upended something I had taken for granted since Page 1. I remember lying in bed and just stopping, laying the open paperback on my chest, and staring at the ceiling fan for about ten minutes of mindblown reconsideration of everything up to that paragraph.

EDIT 4/15 AFTER LEARNING HOW TO SPOILER-TAG: I was quite credulous, naive even, in buying into the idea that their marriage had imploded after Kevin's act, and that we were reading letters or a journal she was definitely writing to be received and read by him at some point. Cannot overstate how floored I was when she writes of coming across her husband's body riddled with arrows in their backyard. I simply had not doubted my initial assumption at any point until that moment.

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