On the subject of video games:

• Try portal 1, it’s an exceptional puzzle game to many.
• Try portal 2, it’s even better than portal 1.
• If you crave more, portal stories: mel is a free fanmade mod of portal 2. It plays like an official spinoff. On advanced mode the puzzles are significantly more difficult.
• Try portal:reloaded if you haven’t, another free fanmade mod, it adds significant complexity to the portal gun in the best possible way.

this study hasn’t only not been peer-reviewed

https://journals.sagepub.com/author-instructions/EVP

1. Open Access

Evolutionary Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity

[…]

4.1 Peer review policy

Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Evolutionary Psychology all papers are sent out for review.

From Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography:

I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue [(humility)], but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself, agreeably to the old laws of our Junto, the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix’d opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I deny’d myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appear’d or seem’d to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engag’d in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos’d my opinions procur’d them a readier recep tion and less contradiction; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail’d with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/Franklin/two.html

“You don’t have to elaborate… Please don’t elaborate, but we are going to need a doctor’s note.”

E: apparently in the US it’s only legal for a company to require a doctors note if three or more consecutive absence days are taken.

Claiming someone is taking facts/statements out of context, without explaining what context is missing or how they think the context changes it, even when asked to.

Paraphrasing several controversial, shortsighted reddit comments yesterday: ‘I use the browser, why can’t everyone else? Reddit will still be here and you’ll be back, crybabies!’

I was on the leading edge of the Digg exodus and Reddit is there now.