Despite all the awfulness, it can be kinda nice to be amongst a lot of humans celebrating something.

I mean, I’m not doing it, but it’s not all bad.

I’m pretty open. I’ve been using the internet this way for about 25 years and to date it’s never been a problem. I’ve got clothes with my handle across the shoulders, etc. so it’s not a secret who I am. I try not to be too specific about some stuff that I don’t feel are mine to talk about, or that might be professionally problematic (I don’t really talk about my current employment anyway - I’m not ashamed of it, it’s just not very interesting and doesn’t particularly define me so it’s not very relevant).

In various online communities over the years I’ve been one of the biggest fish so I’m occasionally recognised which varies between flattering and a little uncomfortable (usually in terms of " You clearly want something so what is it you want me to do/not do or wish I had done/hadn’t done?" but with socially awkward pleasantries). This has resulted in someone trying to use an FAQ I wrote to argue against me, not realising - meaning I effectively had to dust off the old “don’t you know who I am‽” type of response (albeit minus the diva overtones).

In the past the odd person has been a bit stalky and then been surprised when this information doesn’t intimidate me (I recall a particularly memorable one being “I know what you look like” to which my response was a photo of me with a shocked face). I do care what other people think but disapproval doesn’t bother me all that much. I try to be true to myself so when confronted there’s nothing to use against me - there’s no cognitive dissonance (so if I was an arsehole, no, I meant to be, it wasn’t an accident, it’s what I felt was an honest response to the situation).

I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!

That’s a bluetit…?

Game development as a service.

I should get some new batteries for mine.

For me the PSP is a story of squandered potential. There were some great games but so few seemed to really embrace the potential of the format.

I was just being silly.

Where does Microsoft Write enter the equation?

I wish Markdown had better support for tables.

I don’t hate my job but it is something I do exclusively to make money. It has no role in self actualisation for me.

“Then you will be disappointed.”

Not Lenny!

Whilst that’s perfectly sensible, our household has at least two cheese slicers in case one is in the dishwasher. They’re very common in Swedish households!

Whilst my knife is unlikely to be sharp enough, I don’t have the hand skills to shave a 0.6mm wafer of cheddar off a block even with the best knife. My fine motor skills are excellent and I’m a professional miniature sculptor and have particular preferences on which specific scalpel blades I like to work with! My point being that I have significantly above average skills and that’s not sufficient.

If you happen to have the tools and skill to shave cheese that way, fantastic, well done you, but that’s an extremely uncommon set of circumstances. As you say, most people’s knives aren’t up to the task. Meanwhile even a child can use a cheese slicer to get a decent slice off a block.

…and yes, I did go and grab some calipers to check because I’m tired of this insane discussion. If you feel they’re a useless kitchen gizmo, cool, but lots of us love our cheese slicers because they’re tremendously useful and accessible.

Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?

Yeah, that’s the problem I have - it’s something I end up doing on an awful lot of photos. I need that tool.

Krita is missing one feature that I rely on often - setting the white point in the levels tool.

Nope. The tools work very differently. It’s essentially a woodplane for cheese.

Hands off my knorks!

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference. A cheese slicer makes a wafer thin piece of cheese that I cannot replicate with a knife. It is not a skill issue either. A chainsaw and a fretsaw produce different results, regardless of the skill of the user.

However you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience, which is astonishingly arrogant.