Are you sure about Giant Bomb? AFAIK Jess, Jason, and Bailey were all laid off by Fandom. The GB crew even spoke about being caught off-guard both times, and how bad they thought those layoff decisions were.

Cheers. Every weeknight, walking down the hallway to the sound of “Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got…”

Did everyone responding to you miss the FrenWorld drama at Reddit a few years back? It was thinly-veiled racism disguised as friendly comics. It was finally banned for both that and glorifying violence.

I think it’s because they’re quoting her use of the word. But I agree it’s almost indistinguishable from scare quotes when used around a single word like that.

Lio. Another comic strip.

Don’t forget the title music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8TmIxHSBcU

FYI you can trim 80% of that. https://www.amazon.com/LEXiBOOK-Educational-Activities-Mathematics-Dactylography/dp/B0B6HKB3JF/ Amazon sure loves its tracking data.

Poo milkshake

“Poothie” was right there.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Supposedly a lung infection caused by inhaling very fine volcano dust. Technically invented by a group of word puzzle fans, but it’s appeared in dictionaries.

This might also be the first time since I learned it (30+ years ago) that it’s been even close to relevant in a conversation.

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They skipped the "https://” and some clients don’t recognize it as a URL.

A variant of Eat hot chip and lie.

It’s way down in the Youtube comments: Michael Hughes - Rainfall

A great place to have some friends over for dinner.

And the follow-up, Big Gas Savings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxBh42TrGw

They are. I’ve seen “sere” show up in crosswords quite a bit. I didn’t think “fungiform” was rare, but Firefox’s spellcheck doesn’t seem to recognize it. “Resplendent” just sounds gorgeous. And “slugabed” is new to me, but I love it.

I believe the game showed pronouns on the character select screen. That’s all it takes to make certain people mad, unfortunately.

Everyone pokes fun at that number, but it was about planning for every possible scenario, including getting trapped in orbit for much longer than planned. Think about the astronauts stranded by Boeing right now. Should’ve been 1 week, and now it’s looking like 8 months.