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Well that looks like a tick, so it wasn’t a spider.

Also, reminds me of a classic story: https://quirogatranslated.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/the-feather-pillow/

Glassdoor is not reliable. Companies can pay to suppress negative comments.

Are there trusted impartial review sites?

They exist, but are very few - their articles get stolen by unscrupulous copycats, or the AI slop buries them in noise. It’s like panning for gold, but instead of a bubbling creek it’s sewage runoff. I hardly ever find trustworthy results on the first page any more, you got to go several pages deep until you stop seeing the “Top N <search term> you absolutely need to buy!” results.

Skellige in Witcher 3 (minus the monsters). I can’t not stop to take in the sights. And the music is *chef’s kiss*.

https://youtu.be/0LkJBvocY10

Not exactly “fan” theory since I hate that show, but Caillou is bald because has cancer, and he’s allowed to be a little shit because he’s dying.

Vacalactica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7tKWzkzi4

The Fifth Element.

Quino.

Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that if fertilized would hatch into a chicken?

Depends on the type of ad. The new ones that YouTube injects into the video stream would not be blockable. Everything else is blocked just fine.

same amount of effort

Physical effort, yes. Cognitive effort, no.

• Intros on a serial show are expected, and in some cases change subtly from one episode to another to provide additional entertainment value (eg the Simpsons intro). In other cases a change of intro sets the setting for the episode (eg Star Trek: Enterprise’s Storm Front episodes).
• YouTube ads are not related to the show, provide no contextual value, and in the case of interstitial ads are not even at a predictable time. They also tend to be inanely repetitive, showing the same ad over and over in consecutive videos. Contrast those to eg halftime ads at the Superbowl broadcasts, which have predictable timing, variety, and have a history of being (or trying to be) entertaining.

And miss out on the sweet release from this mortal coil?

M’lady and Squire.

Photorealistic: yes. However, it could be debatable whether it’s gruesome. We see situations that characters survive with short term damage but no long term consequences (example: Homer skating into the canyon). So while it would be gruesome to us, it’s probably closer to slapstick to them.

In “Treehouse of Horror VI” Homer becomes 3D and comments how he’s “so bulky”.

There’s Amazon’s mechanical Turk, and after that self driving car hit a pedestrian and stopped on top of him it turned out that Cruise “self driving” cars depend on human operators when they get stuck.

Homestar Runner cartoons were often interactive

I got fond memories of hunting for the clickies at the end of the videos.

The natural evolution of prank calls is rickroll links.

Scavengers Reign really stood out for me.

Since FF 6 and 7 have already been mentioned, I’m going to give a honorable mention to Shining Force.

It’s not a fox, it’s an effox.