I have a simple trick how to distinguish both:

Figurative means Figurative. Literally means literally.

You’re welcome.

Got rid of (most) social media. Even only reading about its toxicity makes me uncomfortable.

BOTW is a beautiful game. But the complex controls and the fact that all weapons simply break would have had me sinking hours over hours into the game.

You *have * to try Blood and Wine. Simply put, it makes up for everything before it. The bright, warm, Southern France -inspired map, great quests, and finally a homestead.

Try Witcher with some QoL mods, like easier fast travel, auto harvesting, auto-applying of oils. Everything that lets you play the game instead of plucking flowers all day.

They compare platforms from time to time, mostly indirectly. Android gets a mention concerning OS version fragmentation.

That’s it, for Apple the mere mention is already too much. Why would anyone want compatibility if they also just could buy an Apple product?

Also the reason why ipads and Vision don’t support multiple users: not only should you buy an Apple product, but so do your partner, parents, kids, etc.

Because they don’t know the difference. People don’t tend to use expressions or sayings wrong on purpose. Most never investigate the meanings or etymology, they’re using them and are understood by the like-minded.

When you say that it sounds like a bad thing. I’m hopping from service to service too.

I don’t get why people think they can have 15 streaming services for the price of one, and get served the $100 million movie of the day.

And the icing on the cake is that many use this as an excuse to pirate that stuff as if they were entitled to being entertained.

Came here to say the same-sung.

Flabbergasted!

I’m conservative on this one. I like the versions with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the one by Europa Galante the most. Interpretations can be so different, I’m content with that.

I think it’s one of the albums that “just click” and then you try to discover more of that great stuff and it doesn’t work. There’s this mood and vibe in the album I couldn’t find in the others.

I did (and sometimes still do). It’s okay, too doomy and far from being refined. Passage takes the stomping doom metal parts and surrounds them with the right amount of electronic sound, great lyrics, and interesting composing and arrangements. Without Ceremony, Passage wouldn’t exist, tbf, but it gets out maneuvered by its (indirect) successor in every aspect.

M83. “Hurry up we’re dreaming” may not be perfect but it’s a great album all their other stuff pales in comparison to.

“Wolfmother” by Wolfmother. Period.

“Cruelty and the beast” by Cradle of Filth, although they had a good run around that time.

“Origin of symmetry” by Muse. It is the almost perfect sweet spot between too rough and too polished in their discography.

“Seeds” by TV on the radio.

“Boy King” by Wild Beasts.

“Passage” by Samael was peak song writing and composing. A text book concept album. Brilliant.

“The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi. Absolute banger, not an album though.

Self-checkout and self-scanning are great when done right.

I only need to pack my groceries into my shopping crate once with the hand scanner. Or when buying only a few items, I skip the lines and scan them myself, pay with my phone, done.