No, far longer. You don’t get a decent gaming PC for 250, even with used parts.

And during that time, what do you play on?

Do some maths. How long does it take to save up for a capapble gaming PC if you can put aside €10-20/month?

I mean, it’s not like “gamers” (as in a significant percentage of us) were actually doing something. As everywhere else, most people are relatively uncritically consuming stuff, and only bad game design can have consequences like a large portion of a fanbase not buying a franchises entry. Not like DRM was a political issue in gaming communities. And Cloud Gaming is even hailed as a way for people who can’t afford high power gaming machines to play the newest titles (a claim that has some merit but we need other solutions but that is another debate).

So what’s wrong with kg for weighing things, st & lb for people, miles for driving distance, metres for building things, C for temperature and feet for ascent of hills and stuff?

What’s right about it?

But I love what you’ve done with ‘half-four’ to mean 3.30. I really enjoy doing that with my German colleagues.

That’s not exclusively german though as germanic languages in general and some slavic languages use this format.

I say “sechzehn Uhr” but drop the “Uhr” when adding Minutes (“sechzehn dreißig” for 16:30), except before 13:00 (“neun Uhr” for 09:00 and “neun Uhr dreißig” for 09:30) because it flows more easily. But some people keep the “Uhr” even after 13:00 (it’s the official way).
Written standard though is to put “Uhr” behind all the numbers (“neun Uhr dreißig” is written as “09:30 Uhr”).

Okay, it’s gonna be 17 o’clock next time then.

We’re 100% metric btw.

Canada, UK and USA aren’t, at least not in colloquial language. That’s what I mean. You post something in english and always meet someone from some anglophone country doing it differently. So I stopped caring.

I’m from Europe. I use a 24h-clock but not military time. Military time is an anglophone thing I don’t care about since I’m not in the military. And frankly, I don’t care much about how Australians or US-Americans or English people find my time and date formats or any other unit or measurement jarring, because you guys rarely agree on any kind of measurements, so I use metrics, a 24h-clock (maybe add an “o’clock” because it reads nicer to me) and dd.mm.yy(yy) instead of stones, pounds, feet or freedoms per square ketchup ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

O’clock is pretty british. HH:MM is normal in the more civilised areas of Europe (aka the rest of Europe).

Is this an ad?

I once watched some police procedural show (don’t remember which copaganda it was exactly) where they were trying to track someone’s location online. Couldn’t stop laughing when they showed an IPv4 address starting with 624.

They even look similar

The trick is to have only one person answer an anonymous review at a time and only ask the next person after the first one handed in theirs.

Well, from my experience as a european big city dweller, that is not a behavior exclusive to areas with low walkability. Which is what lead me to my point.

Yes, I know that. However, that is not really about my point. I doubt that “door-to-door” comfortability is a main selling point for cars because I personally know some and have heart from even more people who put more effort in driving and parking cars than it would take to go the same ways by (e-)bike, scooter or public transport. That may result in searching a longer time for parking spots that it would to get to the next station, walking further to or from a parked car than to a station, spending more time in traffic jams than it would to travel by other means of transportation, defrosting windows and removing snow during winter, paying huge amounts for parking spots etc pp.
That does not mean that there are no people for whom “door-to-door” is a factor or that all people live well connected to public transport or bikeway infrastructure (especially outside of european cities), it just means that there are too many people putting in efforts to go by car that would be unnecessary if they chose another method to go from A to B for me to accept that “door-to-door” is a main factor when deciding the means of transportaition.
Or in other words: I think many people would still choose a car if they had a bus stop in front of their home and the bus line had a stop in front of their workplace.

Dunno, here in Germany, the cities’ outskirts are usually kinda well connected, too. And even in the suburban village I grew up in, it took you at max ten minutes by bike to get to the train station. Nowadays with e-scooters you don’t even have to use your muscles for that part either.

I’m not sure that door-to-door thing really is a main selling point. I know people who walk to their car farther than to the next public transport station and complain about seeking longer for parking spots than it would take them to walk to the station or from the station to their workplace.

I guess we’re talking only about the movies (since the twelve tasks doesn’t exist as a comic book), so I’d argue Asterix in Britain is up there as well. Also Mansions of the Gods was really good, if you can see past the unusual and experimental art style.

No kinkshaming pls.

Yes because nobody was smart enough to horde all power and money and deny anybody else from changing things.

We don’t know enough of the world of Idiocracy to draw such conclusions. We don’t know who owns that giant store, the TV stations or the appartment buildings.