It stops being a minor inconvenience once you've informed them that they are using your email address and asked them to stop. You say this person is not tech savvy but how sure are you. I'm not going to trust any person that is willfully using your information to have innocent intentions.
Part of your contact information is now attached to this persons reservation and, if something happens where the hotel (or the police) need to contact the person that made it, you will, at minimum, need to explain why your email address is attached to it.
But your email is all that's attached, and you have no control over that. I'm surprised these companies don't, at a minimum, ask for verification before allowing communication through email.
iaintgotnopants wrote:It stops being a minor inconvenience once you've informed them that they are using your email address and asked them to stop. You say this person is not tech savvy but how sure are you. I'm not going to trust any person that is willfully using your information to have innocent intentions.
Part of your contact information is now attached to this persons reservation and, if something happens where the hotel (or the police) need to contact the person that made it, you will, at minimum, need to explain why your email address is attached to it.
But your email is all that's attached, and you have no control over that. I'm surprised these companies don't, at a minimum, ask for verification before allowing communication through email.
I have previously contacted my local small claims court because this person used my email address on their contact info, which means I got their "notification to appear" for a case. I did call the court for that and let them know.
Which would you prioritize from this list for the next steam sale?
Kingdom hearts full collection on PC.
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
SaGa Emerald Beyond
Sand Land
Ys X: Nordics
Kingdom Hearts would definitely be your best bang for the buck but I tried to replay them this year after a prior sale and the ancient game design is pretty rough.
I’ve heard good things about Sand Land but haven’t played it.
Likewise haven’t played Ys X but enjoyed previous games in the series.
So my wife and I each have a wishlist on To Do, where the other can find gift ideas. The idea is that if we maintain it on our side for long enough, it will still be a surprise if/when we receive something of said list.
Thing is, my wife marks my ideas as "completed" immediately, which is how I knew I was getting an Xbox Game Pass card weeks before my birthday. Same now for Christmas, I'll be getting an umbrella folks.
Which leads to my question. As you can tell, I haven't mentioned this to my wife as I don't know whether I should, or if I should then what's the least bad timing? So should I just let it be, should I tell her now before receiving my Christmas gift or after, or perfectly timed halfway between Christmas and whenever the next gifting event takes place?
So my wife and I each have a wishlist on To Do, where the other can find gift ideas. The idea is that if we maintain it on our side for long enough, it will still be a surprise if/when we receive something of said list.
Thing is, my wife marks my ideas as "completed" immediately, which is how I knew I was getting an Xbox Game Pass card weeks before my birthday. Same now for Christmas, I'll be getting an umbrella folks.
Which leads to my question. As you can tell, I haven't mentioned this to my wife as I don't know whether I should, or if I should then what's the least bad timing? So should I just let it be, should I tell her now before receiving my Christmas gift or after, or perfectly timed halfway between Christmas and whenever the next gifting event takes place?
Mark one of her wishlist items complete.
dejanzie wrote:So my wife and I each have a wishlist on To Do, where the other can find gift ideas. The idea is that if we maintain it on our side for long enough, it will still be a surprise if/when we receive something of said list.
Thing is, my wife marks my ideas as "completed" immediately, which is how I knew I was getting an Xbox Game Pass card weeks before my birthday. Same now for Christmas, I'll be getting an umbrella folks.
Which leads to my question. As you can tell, I haven't mentioned this to my wife as I don't know whether I should, or if I should then what's the least bad timing? So should I just let it be, should I tell her now before receiving my Christmas gift or after, or perfectly timed halfway between Christmas and whenever the next gifting event takes place?
Mark one of her wishlist items complete.
But buy something different?
Which would you prioritize from this list for the next steam sale?
Kingdom hearts full collection on PC.
Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven
SaGa Emerald Beyond
Sand Land
Ys X: Nordics
Of these games I only have played the stuff in the Kingdom Hearts collection, but - KH, Sand land, and Ys X are all action RPGs, and I think the SaGa games are turn-based. Does that help narrow it down? That would be the first question I'd ask myself.
So my wife and I each have a wishlist on To Do, where the other can find gift ideas. The idea is that if we maintain it on our side for long enough, it will still be a surprise if/when we receive something of said list.
Thing is, my wife marks my ideas as "completed" immediately, which is how I knew I was getting an Xbox Game Pass card weeks before my birthday. Same now for Christmas, I'll be getting an umbrella folks.
Which leads to my question. As you can tell, I haven't mentioned this to my wife as I don't know whether I should, or if I should then what's the least bad timing? So should I just let it be, should I tell her now before receiving my Christmas gift or after, or perfectly timed halfway between Christmas and whenever the next gifting event takes place?
My wife and I have this full disclosure deal. If I'm hesitant to tell her something like this, I tell her, "okay, convince me to tell you a thing." and then I tell her the thing. While YMMV, this is why I'm happily married in Greece for almost 20 years now. 
Why does my mouse cursor turn red when I pass it over an edit box on GWJ? Is this a Christmas thing? Is my computer broken in a very weird way?
I tried to get a screen capture, but couldn't figure out how to capture the mouse.
... and now it's not happening. My PC is possessed.
Should I start an only fans site for us fatties, call it "onlyflabs?"
Should I start an only fans site for us fatties, call it "onlyflabs?"
I haven't checked, but I'm willing to bet that OnlyFans already extensively caters to those particular fans.
I want a new PC handheld. I shouldn't but the new MSI Claw 8 AI+ has got me pretty bad. The hype machine is for it is pretty good and it seems good. I know the new Legion Go 2 is somewhere on the horizon and the Zen 2 chip might be good.
So my wife and I each have a wishlist on To Do, where the other can find gift ideas. The idea is that if we maintain it on our side for long enough, it will still be a surprise if/when we receive something of said list.
Thing is, my wife marks my ideas as "completed" immediately, which is how I knew I was getting an Xbox Game Pass card weeks before my birthday. Same now for Christmas, I'll be getting an umbrella folks.
Which leads to my question. As you can tell, I haven't mentioned this to my wife as I don't know whether I should, or if I should then what's the least bad timing? So should I just let it be, should I tell her now before receiving my Christmas gift or after, or perfectly timed halfway between Christmas and whenever the next gifting event takes place?
My girlfriend suggests bringing it up with an opener like “Did you update any settings on our gift list? Because I got this notification that something got checked off the list, and you probably didn’t want that. “
If you can afford it, that new Claw looks great! But that price... it's almost in the range where you could upgrade your desktop GPU and get a brand new OLED Steam Deck for the same price.
If you don't have a desktop or want to play much newer games on the go, I could see it being very tempting.
The Majula theme popped up in a video game soundtracks playlist this morning, and by the second note I had a) recognized the song, and b) intensely desired to replay Dark Souls 2. Many other games have great songs that I love, but don't make me want to replay them. What game+song this for you?
I often listen to JRPG music in the background at work and many of those games, I've played to death, so I don't get that reaction. But lately, I've been listening to music from Heroes of Might and Magic, which has me tempted!
Also, anything from Final Fantasy X. Especially this one:
This is less a burning question and more a "things that make me go hmmmm....", but here goes.
What is watching TV in Great Britain like? And by this, I mean, the show seasons seem very short. Often 4-6 episodes in a given season. What do the broadcasters do for content the rest of the year? In the US, there are 4 major networks that generally speaking each air new scripted content 3 hours a night (primetime) every weeknight for about 6 months. For each network, that means several scripted shows airing 20+ new episodes a year. Granted a good chunk of it is just plain crap, but there is an awful lot of it.
It should be noted that I'm basing what's available on what streams on Britbox, so I am sure I have a very skewed view of things, but it still seems like popular shows are on for a few weeks and then gone, or in reruns. Is there tons of stuff that I don't see, a bunch of sports &/or unscripted shows, or do you just not have much in the way of broadcast tv?
This might be of interest. I mean, you're right, but it does seem to reflect a few things. For example, the BBC does not advertise, so it's not bringing in the same amount per capita as the US market offers. Further, there are about 27,000 hours of television produced in the UK each year, much of it for export as well as UK consumption, compared to "hundreds of thousands of hours" produced in the US. Clearly, the industry is just smaller in the UK, even per capita, and I'm sure there are many influences for that. The ones that occur to me are the conception of TV as a public service more than in the US, paid for by TV licenses; the smaller size of the economy; the UK economy as a whole being worse off than the US (not as much luxury spending on channels, etc); and the easy availability of worldwide and American shows via the Internet and rebroadcasting.
I mean, why do it at scale when it's available from elsewhere? The US is a Service exporting economy, and trying to compete with the US entertainment industry (including gaming) would be like trying to set up a manufacturing base to challenge China...
I mean, this question is largely moot in 2025.
What's watching TV like in the UK? You turn on whatever streaming services you have and scroll forever until the choice paralysis literally hurts. It's exactly like it is here.
The U.K. has five what I would call normal broadcast channels . BBC1 BBC2, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. All of them will as well as their own commissioned programming buy in shows from other anglophone countries (US and Australian shows especially).
So watching TV in the U.K. is pretty much always new content in the prime time hours (at least as much as I understand US prime time ). That a show only has six episodes in a season isn’t a problem since there will be a different six episode show in that time slot in a month and a half.
Big of a brain dump and sorry about the structure, replying on my phone. Poke me if I missed anything particular you want to know
One thing to remember is that U.K. show’s traditionally don’t have writers’ rooms. The entire season is written by one person or a partnership. So there are lots of people around who are trusted by the commissioning producers to write who seasons on their own.
One strong positive is U.K. actors don’t tend to get typecast in the way of US actors because we tend to see them play lots of different roles. For example this year I saw David Morrissey as a DCI with a dark past in Sherwood (Crime Drama) as a bumbling divorced granddad to be Daddy Issues (Comedy).
Of course there are lots of other shows on U.K. television like game shows, reality tv which have more regular weekly runs (I don’t watch any myself but they seem to be new episodes on all the time). The best of these run in those prime time slots.
Finally the big soaps in the U.K. Coronation Street on ITV (8pm) and Eastenders on BBC (7:30pm) remain cultural behemoths. They have multiple episodes a week and run all year round. Since the characters in the soaps are ordinary people, the actors only go on holiday when the characters do.
If you can afford it, that new Claw looks great! But that price... it's almost in the range where you could upgrade your desktop GPU and get a brand new OLED Steam Deck for the same price.
If you don't have a desktop or want to play much newer games on the go, I could see it being very tempting.
I think I’ve kicked the urge. I’ll save the cash and wait.
My brother back in the UK just had some fairly major surgery so bought himself a Playstation for the recovery.
It's his birthday in a few days - is there a way for me to gift him a PSN game?
Or to spy on his PSN id so I can see what he's already played - like if this was Steam I'd go see what he's been playing, and what he owns.
I think you could give some PSN gift card money. But not sure you can gift an actual digital game.
Yeah I don't believe you can gift a digital game. If you're on PSN yourself and are friends with him, you can look through his games on the PS App on mobile, but they don't have a way to look at people's profiles on the web. I think they used to during the PS4 era, but ditched all that stuff when the PS5 came out. Bummed me out too, I enjoyed looking at the web activity feed for Playstation activity of all my friends.
Anyone use/tried kagi as their search engine? Is it worth paying for?
If one has never played a Metal Gear game except Snatcher (long story), should one start with Metal Gear Solid for PS1, Twin Snakes for GameCube, or something else?
I started with Twin Snakes and never had any regrets. I'm sure the purists will say the PS1 version is what you should go with, and certainly I don't think there's anything wrong with starting there. If you're planning on getting the recent re-releases you'll get the PS1 version anyway.
Planning to play on an Android-based emulation handheld (Retroid Pocket Mini). The PS1 version supports Retroachievements, which is nice (Dolphin only supports Retroachievements on Windows and Linux, not Android currently).
I started with Twin Snakes and never had any regrets. I'm sure the purists will say the PS1 version is what you should go with, and certainly I don't think there's anything wrong with starting there. If you're planning on getting the recent re-releases you'll get the PS1 version anyway.
OG Metal Gear, NES.
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