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11 months agoNo game is good enough to make me install Windows again.
No game is good enough to make me install Windows again.
Yeah, all those Nigerian princes can email me as much as they want now.
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Frankly I think we’re overlooking the silver lining. She got a picture that resembles her but couldn’t possibly be used to identify her in real life. That’s exactly what I’d want to use for an online profile.
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For products I’ll immediately start with Project Farm on YouTube and see if he’s covered the thing I’m interested in. If he hasn’t I’ll try /r/buyitforlife. I’ll look on multiple sites of retailers I’ve heard of for reviews of products from a manufacturer I’ve heard of (no “WEEJIANGBEST” on Amazon) and give conditional trust to ratings averaged from 3000 or more individual reviews. If I’m feeling wildly thorough I might visit Fakespot to vet those reviews. If the product is expensive, I might pay for a month of access to Consumer Reports. If it’s really expensive, I will pay for Consumer Reports.
For services, those are local to me, so I tend to rely on fuzzy word-of-mouth stuff. I might look in the subreddit for my city, but tend more toward simply knowing the reputation of what’s around me.
Edit: for local businesses, I also look them up on the Better Business Bureau.