Nothing recent, but I know for sure that my old Samsung Galaxy S5 would run from USB power without the battery in it. It’s trivially easy to verify, since the battery in that one was removable. Not many modern devices have removable batteries anymore, so that’s going to be tough for people to test in a timely manner…

You’re like the gym bro reincarnation of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I learned the cop knock early on in my delivery career. People ask why I didn’t use the bell. Because more than half the time the bell doesn’t work, that’s why. I don’t have all night to stand out here looking stupid. Hitting your door with my baton did, though, didn’t it? Plus if you’re going to bust out of here running your mouth with some dumb shit, I’m already holding my baton.

I wouldn’t do it hard enough to leave a dent in the door except with people I really disliked.

I never had the occasion to whack a customer, regardless of how richly some of them may have deserved it. But people lurking around the vicinity who were stupid enough to believe they were the first person to think of jumping the pizza man from behind at the door were a different story.

That’s fine if you have a mouse that isn’t shite. I have a coworker who also does this, in his case via having the cursor speed jacked up as far as it’ll go in Control Panel. But the crap mouse he has on his PC means that the cursor now moves several pixels per sample. It’s impossible to move it one pixel at a time, which means some very small UI elements in inexpertly coded programs (like, just to name one example, our inventory control software) are smaller than the minimum movement distance and you can’t place the cursor on them to click them.

He seems to spend most of his day on reddit, though, so this apparently has not impacted his productivity much. Meanwhile, if I use his machine I just become Captain Keyboard Shortcut in self-defense.

Rampant incompetence?

I’ll bet those interfaces absolutely explode in your face if you try to view them on mobile.

I’m down for it. If one more person parrots “mobile first!” at me this week, I’m going to slap them.

A wide cross-section of Dragonball and DBZ characters are named after food, often via some manner of pun. Goku is probably just slightly more literally minded about this than others.

Notable exceptions are Piccolo, Mr. Popo, and… infamously… Bulma.

Yes, given how quickly people are able to flit about the galaxy in spaceships but not even a single hand wave regarding faster than light travel seems to be made, I think it’s mostly a case of Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, as usual. The amount of time it takes to get from one planet to another seems to be wholly dependent on how dramatic and tension building it’ll be for the most powerful dude (inevitably Goku) not to arrive in time. I assume Toriyama got so sick of it or, more precisely, sick of the nerds in his fanbase complaining at him about it that he simply decided after Namek, “Fuck it, Goku can just teleport now.”

They certainly didn’t stay out for long. Maybe we can charitably assume he held his breath for 60 seconds. Guybrush Threepwood can make it to ten minutes!

Or maybe the pods have a local life support field when their doors are open, or something. Who knows. (Or like most writers, Akira Toriyama doesn’t quite understand space.)

Birds pretty much universally have little or no sense of smell. Owls are one of the few predators that actually go for skunks.

Skunk. He can only do his move about seven times in a row, but it’s Super Effective on basically everything but owls.

Presumably if he even had a plan it was to hop it immediately afterwards, get in his pod, and leave.

Although he was so pissed off at the time he probably hadn’t actually given any thought to it. He gleefully would have blown himself up provided he also took out Kakarot in the process and therefore “won,” and the light bulb certainly would not have even flickered until the both of them were standing in front of King Yemma’s desk. With Goku getting his frequent dyer’s card punched again, just to rub it in.

The DBZA canon hits the nail on the head much more succinctly: “That’s it, everyone dies!”

Absolutely not. What’s actually unethical is the ruinous prices the name brands charge for their “genuine” batteries which under the hood are just as much Chinese garbage as the off-brand ones.

Which one would win is the intro to Gurren Lagann, coming in from stage right swinging a folding chair. (Also from Gainax, for whatever it’s worth.)

I imagine No Man’s Sky is doing this specifically to reference the trope as was originally commonly portrayed in e.g. Flash Gordon serials and various golden age comics. Similar to Starbound, this also has an intentional gameplay implication in that it forces you to leave the planet and find another one with the biome appropriate for whatever resource it is you need. Otherwise you could park your butt on one planet and never have any compelling reason to go anywhere else which really rather defeats the intent of the game.

As far as other works of fiction go, though, yes. It’s just lazy.

Before you even get to that, the point everyone forgets is that if you’re using the typical type of zap-and-you’re-in-dinosaur-times method of time travel as invariably imaged by fiction, the planet will be in a very different place in the universe from where you are right now if you travel to any time. Even just a few seconds, in fact.

You’re going to have to come up with one hell of a hand-wave to cover how your location stays glued to some particular spot on the Earth’s surface even as you’re whizzing off decades or centuries into the future or past. It’s probably not even good enough to mumble about local frames of reference or what have you, because there is no such thing as a truly global frame of reference (because what would it be referenced to?) or even static spatial coordinates in the universe. If the simple Newtonian movement of the planet/solar system/galaxy/etc. doesn’t get you then the universe’s constant expansion probably will.

You might want to bring some oxygen and a very fast spacecraft with you.

This is diabolical. Thanks, I hate it.

This happened to my dad once when I was a kid, but obviously not with a cell phone but rather his keys. We learned a few things that day, one of which is that cast iron storm drain grates are even heavier than they look, but the other was that if you get your hands on a big prybar you get all Archimedes in its face and not have to lift the damn thing.

If you’re e.g. an average apartment dweller and haven’t got a 7’ prybar in your shed, I don’t know what to tell you.

It should be around here:

It might be underneath some hoses or similar due to PDO. If push comes to shove, you could always use a skinny funnel and pour it down the dipstick tube…

This is just, like, the Counterstrike loadout store but in real life.

When I’m king, my army is going to work on Gun Game rules. Whenever our guys cap someone on the other side, their gun randomly changes.