Depends on the phone, but some of them, the audio is horrible through the regular speaker for calls, but better via the bigger one. Just not necessarily enough better for everyone.
Mind you, most of the people that do that are just twits, but hard of hearing people might need to use the phone that way to be able to communicate effectively, regardless of phone quality.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that writer sucks at his job. That was just a pointless rant for the majority of the page.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying a movie critic is required to use formal writing rules. But when it’s that sloppy and over dramatic, it puts his opinion of the movie in doubt because anyone that sloppy likely won’t have the ability to grasp any dialogue complexity.
That piece would be fine on reddit or lemmy. But on a site like that? Nah, whoever is the equivalent of editor there failed hard by letting that one through.
Why would it matter?
If the kids are young enough that they’re being dragged along, they aren’t going to care much. And it isn’t like life is perfect and you can always have someone else watch the little buggers. So, if the kids aren’t disruptive, and the parents are okay with the kids hearing the kind of talk you’d hear at an adult panel, that’s a valid choice. Nobody on “stage” needs to worry about censoring themselves. They can, but it isn’t mandatory.
If the kids want to go, nothing the panel is going to say will shock them. Any kid that’s a fan of a show like that is already past the point where a panel is going to say anything worse than that specific show.
Why would I change either?
I mean, I’m a hoopy frood, So I know where my towel is, and it’s full of all kinds of nutrients due to the competing microbes that compose its flora. You don’t just waste that kind of ecosystem by changing towels every decade.
And sheets? What about the memories? Every stain is a mark of something wonderful that happened. Except the ones that are marks of something horrific that happened. Or the ones that are just spilled beverages. But, you know, that’s still plenty of good memories you want washed down the drain, you animal you.
Honestly, I’m surprised there’s not some sweeping conspiracy theory that the Ukrainian invasion, Trump, and all of the related bullshit in been between are a military-industrial complex plot to have another cold war to drive profits to everyone involved.
It looks like some kind of crazy conspiracy sometimes
I didn’t make my kid. Adopted.
But it’s the same thing, the same feeling.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a grumpy asshole, but I try harder to be decent. I try to be the dad that the kid deserves, and that includes setting an example by being better than I used to be.
It’s some powerful shit, when you let yourself feel it.
I’m fairly certain he has summoned a cat demon from the fifth plane of the infernal realm.
Either that or he’s some kind of magnificent hybrid of man and beast.
Darude, sandstorm.
I’d almost bet money it’s the otterbox. If it’s one of their older models, I would bet a small amount that’s what it is if it could be an anonymous bet and a good way to confirm. I’ve had a few otterbox cases over the years, and the older ones always degrade and get sticky, and it transfers. Their newer ones and colored ones don’t (or haven’t yet anyway), but I’ve stopped buying them because of it.
You can’t fix it, you just have to toss the damn things.
Ikr? I can imagine the slightly surrealistic hands sticking to things
I agree, 404 is legit journalism. No org is perfect, but they’re as good as it gets.
Yeah, just search up right to repair farm equipment, just linking one or two articles won’t give you the scope of the problem the way seeing how much it has been covered, but not changed.
I got family that farms independent, and it’s pretty much the single biggest factor in profitability over time. Those machines can cost as much, or more, than a nice house, and you’re locked in to inflated service and parts costs.
Enraging doesn’t honestly do the problem justice.
This isn’t a “google it” thing, it’s really about actually seeing the search results first hand. We’re talking pages of hits going back decades.
The comparison between a ball like that and a drag club isn’t unrealistic.
You have queens and their hangers on at the top of the social ladder, all these factions warring for space on the dance floor (territory), you’ve got gossip and affairs, there’s courtiers vying to woo the “maidens”, there’s music and dancing.
Then you had me and my fellow guardsmen keeping the peace and dealing with the envoys from other nations (the silly groups of women coming in to giggle with the gays), and the too frequent war raids of the enemy (bigots).
But, back in the office was the wily King, managing his lands and expanding them as much as possible to increase prosperity (mostly his, but it did actually trickle down, he was a great king. . . er, boss).
Newcomers to high drag society often needed a guide, lest they offend the wrong queen and be dragged out of the palace by a guardsman. Or, you know, end up with a stiletto stuck in them. Usually a shoe, but some of the queens carried the other kind too; a lady has to protect herself from the rabble.
Otters would be bears, but they’re twinks.
Bears and otters both share being fairly hairy to some degree. Bears is usually applied to bigger men, and also typically to masculine presenting men as well as being past the mid twenties in age.
Otters may or may not be bigger, but are typically much more feminine presenting. You will sometimes see it applied more to small, hairy men, but that goes back to slang being variable by default.
Now, to complicate matters, there are also cubs. Cubs are just young bears. This means that they may well be smaller and less hairy than most bears, and will get lumped in with otters despite otters being feminine presenting as the standard usage of the term.
Huh. Last time I used it, I didn’t fiddle much. Guess I didn’t dig enough into it up see the fancy stuff.
Well, I think the responses you’ve gotten show exactly how major a figure he is, and how divisive he can be.
Any author is a matter of taste. Nobody is universally loved. That’s just the way it is, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
However, some writers manage to strike magic in minds so that their work resonates across generations, lifetimes. Shakespeare is still widely read. A person may not like his poems or plays, but he’s impossible to ignore entirely.
King is no Shakespeare. But he is damn good at writing things that stick in your head. And I firmly believe he’ll still be widely read in 200 years. Likely longer.
So, even if you end up not liking him in general, he’s worth reading some of his stuff Afghan anyway
Now, I mostly like King. Dude is weird, his stories reflect that, and even his worst stuff is interesting on that level.
My picks would be Cujo, Salem’s Lot, Needful Things, Hearts in Atlantis, Delores Claiborne, and the Bachman books. You read those, you’ll have a solid feel for whether or not you’ll want to ever read the rest.
Cujo is more of a real world horror story. Nothing supernatural, just a nightmare that could happen.
Salem’s Lot is a very unique take on a horror staple. But it’s still pretty normal horror.
Needful Things, that’s one of the most unique horror stories out there, imo. But it’s weird in the way that King does well.
Hearts in Atlantis switches gears. It isn’t horror, not really. But it’s a gentle introduction into his overarching inconsistently connected metaverse of sorts.
Claiborne is my favorite of his human conflict driven writing, where it’s about people in complex situations producing conflict and pointing a light at humanity in the process. It’s not horror at all.
And, the Bachman books. The collection of them is a glimpse into his most creative side, imagining slight twists on normality, akin to Claiborne. But they’re further removed. One is most definitely not set in our world. The others could be, but there’s still a sense of the alien to them. Once he abandoned the pen name, he eventually brought that kind of thinking into the rest of his work (and the best of his work imo), but there’s a rawness and ugliness to the stuff he did as Bachman that is hard to compare to anything else.
Out of the Bachman stories, Rage and The Long Walk tend to get the most attention nowadays because of the premise of each. Running Man is the most well known outside of his fandom, what with the movie loosely based on it. But the real gem is Road Work. The glimpse inside the mind of a man that’s just hit his limit and decides to stop fucking around and fuck things up instead. Hell, if you didn’t read anything else, you should read those.
But, honestly? I’ve read everything he’s written, and none of it is bad. It’s all worth at least one read, though some can be immediately consigned to the “never again bin”. His older stuff tends to be more accessible, but it’s all decent