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Anthony Head (1954-2026) as Rupert Giles

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 4x18

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btvs + "i love you" willow & xander | hell's bells

whatisyourchildhoodtrauma

Gifset inspo and original text post HERE.

galileosballs

Games that let you pet dogs are a dime a dozen now, but let's not forget that Tales of Symphonia let you go a step further by having one of your party members personally assign a name to every dog in the world, with a reward for finding them all.

Note that you cannot name dogs when this party member isn't in your party (or when... she doesn't feel up to it, to put it in a spoiler-free way) and that once a dog is named its speech bubble will have its name in it. There are 30 dogs in total. Some are missable. The walkthrough has to include the note:

They just don't make 'em like they used to.

trooper1023

Tales of Symphonia, my beloved.

themostfuniveverhad

Is Phan Real? The Truth

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licoricefern

what does it say about us as a culture that most of our microwaves have a dedicated popcorn button

cognito-ergo-hazard

i dont know but whatever it says, its magnified by literally every bag of popcorn saying “don’t use the popcorn button”

prokopetz

Funnily enough, there’s an answer for that.

In brief, the “popcorn” button was initially introduced by fancy high-end microwaves that used an integrated humidity sensor to tell when your popcorn was done; microwaveable popcorn vents steam as it cooks, so by monitoring the amount of steam in the cooking chamber, you can get pretty close to perfectly popped popcorn every time (though it’s generally only pretty close, since different brands of microwaveable popcorn have different moisture content).

As the feature became popular, manufacturers of cheap microwaves started adding a button labelled “popcorn” as well, in order to imply that they offer this feature. These “popcorn” buttons simply run the microwave for a fixed amount of time that the manufacturer figures is close enough to the printed cooking time of most commercial brands.

In practice, of course, the fixed-time “popcorn” button usually just sets your popcorn on fire. To make matters worse, owing to America’s permissive advertising laws, microwave manufacturers are allowed to make all sorts of misleading-but-technically-true statements in their packaging and instruction manuals, rendering it nearly impossible to tell whether a given model of microwave has a real humidity-sensing “popcorn” button or a fake fixed-time “popcorn” button before buying it.

In summary: the “popcorn” button that your microwave popcorn instructs you not to use exists because American microwave manufacturers are using a misleadingly labelled button in order to imply that their product has a feature that it does not in fact have, in a way that can potentially trick people into burning their houses down, for advertising purposes. This is perfectly legal.

So: what does that say about our culture?

theglassdragoncollective

Information that helps give context to our college roommate blowing up the dorm microwave twice via the popcorn button.

ecrivainsolitaire

Further context: the humidity sensor costs like $0.30/unit, lying is simply cheaper.

#my microwave lets me pick three sizes of popcorn #but the largest is 3.0 oz #when the standard bag is 3.5 oz #why would they do that?

hilariouslarry

babsvibes

dragonofeternal

Bob is made by Japanese artist Ahnitol! He holds pens! He comes in many colors!

distinguishedbaloney

eilooxara

Non cooking spray stick

eilooxara

Non spray stick cooking

that-house

Non cooking stick spray

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

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If I had a nickel for every time a guy on Buffy metaphorically cheated on his girlfriend via supernatural means and then killed the woman he cheated with and also left town immediately after his girlfriend found out about the metaphorical cheating I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.