BagelEmbezzler

Dope, thanks!

It's written ~~for~~ by people with a grade 5 education.

FTFY

The whole chain of comments did not prepare me for how much this sounds like a kid's book report.

DANG IT

Am also into power metal, I didn't learn about metal from anime OPs but I have a few on my playlist.

Nice, thanks for the tip.

Unfortunately I think the size might be the deal breaker though, just remembered how my current one literally only fits in my pocket if I rotate it in at the exact right angle. 8 extra mm in both directions and there's no hope.

I'm not ready for pants shopping again already, taking these ones in took 10 hours T_T

Intriguing! I'm concerned about the "advanced power management algorithms" they're putting up front and center without clarifying. My current phone (OnePlus) is very aggressive about that and just kills my alarm clock in the middle of the night once in a while and breaks other apps, even with optimizations disabled and the phone plugged in. Furiphone isn't listed on DontKillMyApp and I didn't see anything with a quick search, have you heard anything about how it does on that?

Also that size, oof. Mine is already too big and this is noticeably bigger in all 3 dimensions.

That magnification effect is why I don't want lasik, it's like my little superpower.

Plus the whole eyeball surgery thing.

Good call, I even turned off my ad blocker for this one.

Not to mention how voice assistants can just mishear you. Told google once to put dental floss on my shopping list and it said "got it, I added applesauce." Good try I guess. Pretty trivial this time, but they expect me to trust that for tasks with financial stakes?

That's what the debating and voting is for, no?

#2: what kind of video games? PvP shooters? Grand strategy? Reflex? Detective games? Story/adventure games? Minesweeper? What about non-grid-based trivia/vocabulary games, or open-ended word games without clues, like Scrabble?

The study says they randomized a subset of the available cognitive games for each game session, could the decreased performance be due to the more sporadic focus on any given skills? Maybe some of the trained skills weren't especially helpful for memory.

Or maybe the specific cognitive games they used were just bad? The only detail about them in the study was that they "included memory tasks, matching tasks, spatial recognition tasks, and processing speed tasks." I don't know if it's similar stuff, or how fast they let the game difficulty scale in the study, but I've tried a couple of those brain trainer apps. They started out trivial and boring and scaled up slowly, and some of them were basically just brute force puzzles. Not particularly mentally strenuous.

I don't see a control group who did neither of them, either. So are both crosswords and cognitive games good but crosswords are a little better? Or do these cognitive games give just as much benefit as watching Family Guy?

I'm tired of these very specific studies being wildly extrapolated out as "video games bad." Video games are an extremely diverse medium, it's like saying reading is bad because you only studied gas station tabloids.

Just from a logistical perspective, holiday cooking in an unfamiliar kitchen sounds like an absolute nightmare, especially with Airbnb where you're at the mercy of the host for how well equipped it'll be.