I know I probably shouldn't engage, but I really just wanted to spark a conversation. I find the trope interesting. I agree that my Good Place example isn't that good, but still, no need to be so accusing.

I completely forgot to mention His Dark Materials! Hell doesn't appear, but Heaven is portrayed as actively bad.

I would +1 this. I'm completely bald, and almost never leave the house without a hat, even in summer. It's also important protection against sunburn :).

For something comfortable in the summer, I personally often go for brimmed hiking hats. A few that I like:

• Fjällräven Abisko Summer Hat
• Shelta Sun Hawk

I finished Dave the Diver a few weeks ago, and I really enjoyed it. For me, it hit this sweet spot of "Remember where everything is and grind the same thing over and over" without getting boring.

Depending on the complexity, there's also abbrev-mode: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Abbrevs.html

I do like a lot of meat alternatives, but I was at a restaurant a while back where they had a non-Beyond Meat veggie burger. And it was super good! I feel like it's becoming a lost art, though :(.

My dad is the opposite: he wants every restaurant to only offer Beyond Meat burgers. He loves them.

In our first game of Clank Legacy, we thought that as long as you died above the Line of No Return, or whatever it's called, you got points, regardless of whether you had an artifact or not. This had...implications for some of the story choices that we made.

In Austria, some things like ground beef are ordered in decagrams. My wife used to get confused responses when she tried that in Germany :).

Thanks! I found the instructions here, which don't seem too hard: https://blog.voip.ms/voip-on-cell-phones-ios-and-android/

But otherwise, VoIP.ms looks pretty much like what I'm looking for. It also seems super super cheap for my needs (keep a phone number alive, make a few calls or SMSes per year).

I have a great memory at PAX of playing life-size Tsuro, where the players are the pieces. Good fun :)

I use Fastmail on the web, and Aqua Mail as my Android client.

The joy of using almost any enail servie other than Gmail or Outlook is that you can use basically any IMAP client you want :). Yes, I know that they both also support IMAP, but it never seems to work quite as well as one might hope.

I have never heard of this game, but the word "Fearamid" is doing a good job of convincing me