I definitely saw a movie where it was used twice… I don’t remember what I was watching…
Edit: I think I remember what it was! And the crazy part, it wasn’t even a movie, it was an episode of Star wars: the clone wars (the animated show). They’re only 25 minute episodes and they thought they’d just put it in twice anyway… It definitely made me chuckle, like “c’mon guys, really? Are you done?”.
If you’re so hung up on this being difficult, just limit your scope. Don’t have a nationwide forum, have a Seattle forum, have a separate Chicago forum, etc. It doesn’t change the fact that this is the obvious drop in solution. The idea that Facebook has some special sauce that is otherwise unachievable… Just ridiculous…
Yeah 100%. So hey, if the cable bothers you more, then the audio port doesn’t really matter. But I just hate the battery management, so that’s where I stand.
I have no idea how old you are, if you’ve ever really used web forums, but they can be quite robust. This is obviously, clearly the technology to use. I don’t understand why you think there’s some limit, some ceiling on the number of users it can handle. The only limits are bandwidth and storage space… And with 70 million activists (as if everyone would be active on the forums, but whatever) with that many people, there will be donation funds for supplying the necessary bandwidth.
There’s just no problem here.
I think the fallout and cyberpunk both had some of those great moments of exploring morality. But in my opinion, the Witcher 2 & 3 do it better than any other games I’ve played.
Rather than spoiling the story with specific examples, I’ll just say this: these games thrive in the grey zone, it’s where they live. And you’ll often find yourself making decisions you really didn’t expect to make or seriously regretting the choice you just committed to.
Edit: now that I’ve said that, I think the banner saga also deserves a mention. That game has some hard decisions and often, some seriously dark outcomes.
I gave you one, you ignored it. And it’s not even complicated, it’s a web site with a forum…
Well if your hell bent on handing meta control, then great, do it that way.
Nice, glad that worked! I hope everything turns out high quality!
Ok…
Are you suggesting that a Facebook group could handle that?
Web forums exist (the kind that were completely ubiquitous 25 years ago). They’re a great way to handle a large number of concurrent conversations.
You can still use robust hosting solutions that can handle a lot of traffic, but the advantage of controlling the site yourself is that if wordpress decides to take it down, you can just host it somewhere else and have it back up the same day.
Yeah, I actually also use a clip, an old pair of headphones came with a little wire clip and I just pulled it off and put it on these. It’s helpful for sure.
A personal website and email?
Welcome to technology?
That looks great. I’m using iems with a simple USBC adapter. It works well, but a neckband might be a more convenient option, I just never found one I liked.
I mean, for headphones.
I did buy the fairphone 6, and it does in fact work in the US (with some finagling).
The lack of a headphone port is a disappointment, but it’s fine as long as you get a GOOD dac. A shitty one will be the worst audio experience you’ll ever have. I use this: generic dac (sorry for the Amazon link, I’m sure they’re available other places.)
My everyday earbuds are essentially cheap studio monitors. I like these because the sound is great and if the cable breaks I can just replace the $10 cable and keep the high quality headphones. And there’s no battery to fuss with, you just plug them in and they work.
It’s not that games can’t work as books, it’s that books can’t work like games.
Trust me, if book publishers could keep you from actually owning a physical book, from reselling it, from photocopying it, from lending it to a friend, they would. And with ebooks they do.
The fact that games are software gives publishers additional capabilities and control over the product, and they take advantage of that control to limit user control whenever possible. You just can’t do that with a pile of paper bound together, otherwise they would.
This is where legislation can come in though. We need to make it legally clear that when you buy something you really own it. Renting, leasing, licensing, these ideas aren’t bad on their own, but you can’t call that “buying” and the venue offering these services shouldn’t be called a “store”. If it’s called a store, it needs to be actually selling things, otherwise the entire business is disingenuous and deceptive.
I think all three statements in this chain are accurate and true. But it does leave me not really knowing how to feel about this.
I guess mostly disappointed, because the most salient point to me is the last one, that this is really unlikely to pass. So that’s a genuine shame.
That is silly. I don’t think you need to worry about that.
I’m not sure it’s illegal to text him a photo of a check.
I don’t know, maybe it is, but it seems fine to me, there’s nothing sketchy about that. I think you may be making this a bigger thing than it has to be.
Though I also think you’re absolutely right that he just needs to set up direct deposit, that’s the obvious solution. But, if he can get that done, that would show that he’s doing what he can to correct the situation on his end. And at that point, you should just take a photo of the remaining check for him or simply mail it to him in an envelope.
And to be clear, it sounds like you don’t “owe” him anything, at least not more than you owe any other human being. But if this is the kind of thing that would take very little effort from you and would be a big deal to someone else, it might fall into that category of being something you’d owe to any human being.
A few months ago I bought Slay The Spire. I do love roguelikes, I do enjoy card games. I even like roguelike deck builders (balatro is fantastic).
But after a few months I can say for certain, I hate Slay The Spire. I would like it more if it was fun.
I do love the imagery of “loose Canon”, and by “love” I mean that as it’s been described and depicted, it’s a truly horrifying situation. So it makes for a really visceral image.
A quick aside: there’s this murder mystery/logic puzzle game called “the Return of the Obra Dinn” that takes place on a merchant ship. The game is basically like a series of still frame dioramas that you have to analyze and figure out what’s going on. There’s a particularly striking scene with a cannon which breaks loose from its chains and several unfortunate sailors. It took me a long time to actually find the third sailor in the scene… (There wasn’t a lot left)