House prices are set by supply & demand.

House builders won’t overbuild as it harms their sale prices so that won’t cause an oversupply.

The only way that the ratio can change in the buyers favour is if suddenly an ungodly number of people die for some reason or the general population’s finances collapse to the point where they are no longer trying to buy a house. You’re likely to be one of the victims if either of those things happen. All you can do is keep saving.

Yeah, I vaguely remember watching one of them. I recall it featuring the English legend of King Arthur but for some reason it was set in a boring stereotypical American high school. It was not good.

I always find that punching them helps the pain go away faster

Not sure about the boy comment. Rowling is a TERF, but that also means that she’s a feminist. Also she didn’t put her first name to the series because she had previously struggled to get her writing taken seriously when the publishers knew she was a woman.

It’s easier explained that this is a book series aimed at preteens, not hard fantasy fans. They got insanely popular because they captured people’s imagination but she wasn’t trying to world build like Tolkien.

Harry Potter meets Cyberpunk 2077

I think I remember that, Quidditch world cup? It was like a special move for Slytherin in the training chapter.

Most of the kids didn’t go to Muggle schools or interact with them. Harry’s situation was uncommon.

They don’t. That’s all considered Muggle stuff that they don’t need to know because they can just magic their way through life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c626p6pz7xlo

Yeeeeah don’t do that. Go somewhere less shitty.

Here in the UK I think she lost relevance about 20 years ago. She had a couple of hits then vanished.

UK. It’s actually alright here despite our culture of complaining about everything.

Weather is predictably dull and boring, but in a world of climate change that’s not such a bad thing anymore.

Wages are outpacing the cost of living once again so that’s nice.

Politics is just the usual arguing/ bitching about the economy. Everyone blaming each other blah blah blah. Storm in a teacup really.

US news is getting a bit scary, seeing the president cosying up with the enemy and appearing to want to let them take Ukraine in exchange for half of their minerals means that I don’t think we’ll be considering them a close ally in the near future. At least not a reliable one.

100%. Even after he leaves office, is anyone confident that the country will collectively go “well that was embarrassing, anyway, back to normality now!”

But the PS3 / 360 are coming up to 20 years old. Hell, one of my adult colleagues was born after the 360 was released. Can they really be considered modern anymore?

Some chinesium computer mouse. I had low expectations but it worked perfectly for a good 7 years before the mouse wheel died. It even had RGB, removable weights, and variable DPI/pointer speeds!

I get a searing pain up the side of my face if I yawn incorrectly

It’s still known as pennies here. It makes more sense for a pence to be called a penny than it does for a cent to be called a penny.

They don’t follow up on the threats - or at least not regularly. (9 years and counting here - even if I somehow get caught and fined the max amount I’ve still saved money)

Yeah, seeing an entire room filled with cubes is very ugly and stifling, but as an introvert I’d want at least one place where I can just work out of sight as it reduces my stress levels significantly.

Even America doesn’t have proper free speech. You can’t just go and make bomb threats without ending up behind bars. And didn’t some woman get charged with terror offences a few weeks ago for saying or graffitiing something pro-luigi?

Same but towards the blast. I’ve seen Threads, I ain’t hanging around for that shit.