The effect of ads is usually not directly linked to a specific product.

If, for example, you need a new box of laundry detergent, you’ll go to the supermarket. There you might find brand A, which you’ve never heard of, or brand B, which had an ad you’ve seen or heard somewhere. Studies have shown you’ll be more likely to buy brand B, because you’ll find it more trustworthy, which is because you’ve heard about it somewhere.

So, a lot of ads aren’t solely about a specific product, but also about making their brand perform better in the long run. Therefore, even if an ad is just making noise on the background, it may still have an effect on you. And, since it’s a subliminal process, it’s extremely difficult to make a concious decision to not buy products you’ve seen or heard ads of.

I only go there for the free pencils and make my furniture out of the pencils. Checkmate

A lot of people haven’t played HL:Alyx because of the VR requirement… But my goodness it was amazing.

Valve will never release a HL-title before it’s absolutely groundbreaking.

These ‘people’ have extreme ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com vibes

Well, either my dirt or my cheese smells wrong then, because they never smell similar to me.

Gouda, first of all, is not a type of cheese that should be moldy.

Also, cheeses that are made to be moldy, don’t just become moldy on their own. The mold is added in the production process, and is a type of mold that usually wouldn’t have appeared on the cheese anyhow.

Hadn’t heard of that one yet. Looks very promosing, will keep an eye on it. Thanks.

Planet Coaster 1 certainly wasn’t half-finished. The developers actively listened to the community and constantly made free improvements for years after release.

Sure, it has lots of DLC packs, but none of them are in any way essential.

You definitely shouldn’t be allowed to hide it like that, no. Unfortunately, they can (Dutch source).

The nutritional information does however state that there’s sugar. Even though the ingredient list does not.

Added sugar, that is. A lot of tea bags contain ‘aroma’, according to the ingredient list. However, this ‘aroma’ can be 60-70% sugar.

I can’t really find a source for it, but I remember the EU banning plastic in tea bags quite recently, a few years ago at most. Here in the Netherlands, a lot of tea bags contain(ed) plastic as some kind of sealant.

Also, a lot of tea contains sugar, for no good reason whatsoever.

This is far from the truth.

Breakfast and lunch usually consist of whole grain bread with cheese or meats. The most common dinner is AVG (boiled potatoes with vegetables and meat), a pasta or a dish with rice.

Sure, fries are the most common street food, but it sure isn’t as bad as you seem to think.

I sure hope he has the pointy half

No cyclists in the base game at launch, unfortunately.

No need to imagine, as they are on Steam:

i7-4790K / 5 1600X with GTX780 / RX 470 and 8GB RAM

Recommended: i7-9700K / 5 5600X with RTX 2080Ti / RX 6800 XT and 16GB RAM

There’s a big difference between European brands though.

French and Italian cars, for example, are generally not that reliable. However, BMW’s (German) are known to be quite reliable. Same goes for Volvo.