Pirky

Exactly. If humans can have an extremely diverse range of kinks and fetishes, just imagine the kinds that advanced civilizations might have.

Wouldn't it be better for them to be wearing life jackets instead?

I believe the strategy is called Starving the Beast.

Funny this gets brought up as about 4 weeks ago Elliot Sang released a 71 minute video asking that very same question.

Izzy wants head scritches

I think I may have been reading too much into the word "bad" implying as if the person themself is bad since they still dislike being referred to as weird.

I think it can also depend on who calls you weird and why/how. I've received both the negative, "ew, you're weird" reactions as well as positive ones. Like a friend calling me a "strange human being" in an endearing way; or another saying I'm 80/20 with my weirdness. With 80% being good weird and the remaining 20% just plain weird. I think being called weird in a positive way can help with embracing it.

I feel I disagree. Those who get mad at being called weird just haven't learned to accept and embrace their weirdness yet. It took me a while. And I still sometimes feel the need to hide it. It can take a while to work through.

Jailbreaking the Wii U is a little bit more involved as it requires some "special" equipment. It's in quotes as not many are going to have a USB A to ethernet adapter, nor a compatible model, but they aren't all that rare either. But once it's done you don't have to worry about jailbreaking it again. Dumping Wii U games isn't much harder than GC/Wii either.

Not OP, but I have dumped my own collection of GameCube and Wii games.
The easiest way to do it is with a jailbroken Wii since it's not hard to do. Once jailbroken, the dumping process is about 12 minutes for a GC game and about 20-30 minutes for a Wii game (I forget the exact time). So with that in mind, you can make a rough calculation for how long it will take to dump your collection.
There are a few unmentioned steps, like converting the games from .iso to .rvz to save on space, but it's rather easy to get going when you have a guide to follow.

Just be aware that you'll be wearing out your outer front tire much faster than the others by doing that. That's the tire doing most of the work constantly turning your two ton vehicle.

I'm genuinely curious how many top tier laptops like this are sold each year. How many people can justify (not just afford) spending $6000 on a laptop?

Plushie Dreadful! A friend got me the genderfluid one. Though now you have me considering that one.