Truly, it’s the existential horror that really keeps me going :')

The batteries are for dipping

I used to be very much into My Little Pony when that whole thing was big, and there was a tremendous amount of very dark fan theorisation and spinoff material.

I think what you say is correct in part, that it can make things less shameful, but I also think there’s a simpler explanation - it’s fun.

It’s exactly because kids shows are so happy and non-threatening that these dark fan theories are so entertaining, because of the stark contrast between the theory and the source material. And so the darker it is, the better.

I mostly don’t think people “believe” the dark theories are true, or in any way actually intended as subtext by the showrunners. People aren’t “reading between the lines” so much as they are purely “making it up” - in ways that were never intended but feel somehow plausible. It’s just a bit of fun.

MLP itself was a strange case, though, and got quite bizarre in the end. As the show went on, the writers and animators became increasingly aware they had unexpectedly developed a huge adult following, and some of the plot points that began purely as fan theories later became canon… but that’s a whole different story…

If lasagna doesn’t have a layer of deliciously browned and bubbling cheese and crispy oven-pan edges, it’s dead to me.

Pretty funny, though I’m sure barely anyone would have been doing this other than to make meme photos for social media.

They’ll be stopping it for the same reason most Pizza Huts in the US stopped doing it - profit. Not in the sense that people abusing the salad bar costs money - that’s just a convenient excuse - but simply because it takes a lot to keep a salad bar well stocked and fresh, and they did the maths and figured they can make more if all they sell is pizza.

People were upset about this because it seemed deceptive.

The first two words on the yelp page for their now-closed restaurant are “House made”

“Most of my stuff from here is made from scratch” said the owner.

So people who have that expectation in mind are clearly going to be upset when they find it was pre-made all along.

It’s about honesty and expectation.

If I go to some nationwide chain restaurant then I obviously expect all their breaded chicken is coming out the freezer in bags - and that’s fine because it’s not deceptive.

If I go to a small restaurant which strongly implies in their wording and branding that the food is all made from scratch, then it’s deceptive when it isn’t.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s more effective for the CS to type that way in this setting.

Normally, I agree with you. I hate when people send lots of tiny messages instead of one long one. It is annoying, and constantly captures and diverts your attention. Big message is better because you can process it all in one go and it is less context switching.

But think about the scenario here. You’ve got a customer on the other end who themselves may have a very low attention span. They are in the middle of a customer service exchange, and this might not trigger a notification the same way a messaging app would, so the customer can’t really do other things during this chat, they have to just keep it open and watch and wait for the CS response.

In that circumstance I bet typing in lots of small messages makes your average customer feel like the CS is ‘fast’ and ‘responsive’ and gets them more favourably rated afterwards.

What’s wrong with the joycons on your normal switch? The drift thing?

Adding on to this comment, it is very often not possible to change your auth method.

If you use email to register, you can almost always change to a different email (same method) but you can’t change between methods, like from Google auth to Apple auth, or even to a different google auth.

You’d need to create a new account, and therefore lose all the data on your old account.

Always choosing email gives you the most control and most privacy, I’d strongly recommend it.

What don’t you like about Signal?