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I hadn't really noticed this, perhaps in hindsight you're correct. Can you be more specific?

Gareth in The Office was pervy/racist who pretty much needed the abuse to prevent him making other's lives hell.

With Maggie in Extras I saw it as a best friend banter type thing. The piss taking was done in private and came across in jest.

If you're referring to Karl Pilkington, I think he new what he signed up for, was playing an exaggerated version of himself for comedic effect and made a lot of money in doing so.

When Derek came out I couldn't get past the obvious, pretty much where I stopped following his material.

Fight? Sure.

Succeed without significant loss of life and infrastructure? Doubt.

Pets are usually provided with everything they ever need by their owners so they have little reason to show their brutal side.

Still a strange take IMO.

Bad individual human behaviour often pales into insignificance when contrasted with wild animal behaviour.

Unless you count the ongoing ecocide we as a collective are in the midst of enacting...

As a massive fan of his older work, I was disappointed to see he has since turned his hand to creating transphobic jokes in his more recent material.

Also find it a bit weird that he consistently proclaims how much he loves animals more than most humans.

I thought "cakewalk" was a clever American amalgamation of "a piece of cake" and "a walk in the park".

Turns out it's actually related to slavery, so probably doesn't count.

Chuck some cheese sauce on that cauliflower, add some stuffing and we're getting there...

Suddenly this hummus I'm eating for lunch doesn't quite cut the mustard. Actually on that note, include some mustard in the cauliflower cheese pls.

But then you're just pushing the unknown/undefined part to "feels like".

We cannot define it properly so we can't discuss it formally or make assertions like it's the only thing in the universe that is not an illusion.

You could assert "Cogito, ergo sum." but that's kind of been done before.

Seems pretty realistic to me if Covid is anything to go by...

Anecdotally Fifa (EA FC or whatever they're calling it now) would have to be up there. Hadn't played it in years but gave it a go last season as it was free on Game Pass.

They've combined the addictiveness of card collecting with loot box mechanics, FOMO and moving the goalposts (pun intended) to get the best players. The gameplay also seemed pretty rigged to prevent grinding rewards out.

Then when the new game is out, rather than dishing out all the rewards to those still playing it instead becomes infeasible to unlock any more decent players so you're pretty much stuck with what you have.

Even if you pay full price for the next game you'll have to use low stat players as they only seem to start releasing decent ones half way through the season.

Oblivious fact: Me

Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.