Some sites (Fandom Wikis) are unbearable with ads. Sure, you could pay to remove them, but only because it’s so infuriating to navigate the content when it has multiple ads—some that follow you—INSIDE the content of the articles.
Autoplaying videos, side banners, and scrolling ads are the worst and actively make me want to avoid the sites unless adblock is on.
Very much so. Around here, people will drive out of a lot and onto a busy stroad without looking, thinking they have right-of-way. Almost got in a crash not to long ago because of that exact situation.
Most of our parking spaces have terrible indicators for whether or not you’re actually close enough without having your rear-end hang out of the lines. So people tend to park with their wheels nudging the concrete just to make sure.
“Gamer”, despite being a basic description of someone who plays video games often, has always felt wrong to use or be called.
Doesn’t help that it’s only really ever used ironically or to mock someone, and if it’s not that, it’s used to advertise overpriced and mid-tier PC peripherals that could be used as makeshift flashlights.
Not that RGB lighting is bad, but it always feels like it’s used to justify insane prices for stuff that either doesn’t last that long, or malfunctions often.
Ah, lovely. Can’t wait to see the performance of future switch games that utilize this…