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- Comment on Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours 18 hours ago:
Super cool. Hopefully they bonus out the rest of the team that worked on this.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
Thats not 100% correct. This didnt use to be an option, nor is pdf the default printing “format” used by printers. Thats more PCL.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 days ago:
This is as much linguistic tomfoolery for humans as it is a con for computers.
I dont know the history, but the most likely case is some microsoft engineer implemented the “print as pdf” option to get around an adobe restriction in the far past, and now we have this weird convention where you “print” to only 1 filetype to “save” it.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 4 days ago:
Was the beet from a can? They often carry over a metallic taste that is not good.
Non canned Beets are delicious. Very earthy and savory, with a hidden sweetness. They are great in salads, but really sing in soup. We make a vegatarian bousch with Beets, potato, carrot and serrano that I could literally eat every day.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 5 days ago:
I think the harder versions add a lot of variabilty to the fight. The “default” Scylla fight is almost an afterthought after your first dozen times, but the harder version is immensly more complicated. Same goes for prometheous + spoiler, etc.
I think with a hundred more runs, these would also get old hat, but thats true with hades 1 as well. If you run the bosses 112 times there, the occasional “suprise” boss isnt really that intersting, esoecially if you’ve seen them 35 times. Seeing ol “muurrder…” was novel, but only to a point.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 6 days ago:
Hades 2 lets you amp up the difficulty to vary the bosses. By the 1000th attempt, you would likely be playing with them on their hardest and most intersting mode.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 week ago:
Yes and no. Up to 2 years ago my company was still manually requesting criminal background checks. A 3rd party company did them, but HR had to open a case each time. Now that is automatic, but tons of processss at tons of companies are still antiquated for various reasons.
Its entirely possible vetting is minimium because of cost and labor involved.
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 2 weeks ago:
In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 3 weeks ago:
Hes a bucket of shit that was and out and proud “race realist” until he got popular and backpedalled his earlier articles.
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
Go to costco.
Extra cluster fuck challenge: go when they jave samples.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 5 weeks ago:
They dont effect your mammalian estrogen levels, but they do have an effect on you like every chemical you ingest.
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 5 weeks ago:
Theones in the article had a fridge, microwave and kettle. No sink, countertop or actual plumbing, which is a pretty core part of a kitchen. At least the above looks like a barely functional kitchnet.
The UK landlords just slapped cheap, non permanant appliances in the room and called it a kitchen.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 month ago:
The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.
The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.
Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.
- Comment on happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate 1 month ago:
Bang apprently is cops energy drink of choice.
- Comment on Just let me die 1 month ago:
He cut off your heat and you asked him if he liked cold showers?
Did he turn you heat back on at least?
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 months ago:
Looks dried, likely used as bait for deer hunting.
Hunting big fucking deer, looks like.
- Comment on Dude's rock 2 months ago:
Its a big list, but most have at least severe, untreated PTSD.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
Cause hulk hogan was a trump boosting racist?
The fruit was rotting on the ground, mate.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 2 months ago:
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
That one was on purpose:
In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname “Spearchucker”, ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.
They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism in the show:
The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.
- Comment on Risk of Rain 2: Alloyed Collective is Available Now! 2 months ago:
Worth waiting for reviews. The last DLC was a clown show for months.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
Its your hypothectical man. I’ve told you the community will need to come to a consensus on how they handle violence. Thats the only answer I can give if you wont give me the details above.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
Id be glad to. Just tell me the name of everyone in the society, their general roles in different social situations, their agreeded on laws and rules, and their specific stance on violence.
Once you do, I can answer your very specific questions about a society that hasent been defined.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
Sure. You try to head off the behavior before it gets there by ensuring baisic needs are met for all and through social tools like shunning.
Youre scenario springa up whole clothe without yhe above, so i would offer the following for it : Jail, exile, death. The order depends on the people involved in the society they created.
Being an anarchist doesn’t mean you lack the current tools we use, it means you dont have to use them, or at least you dont have reach for them first.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
Anarchy would shun them from social systems until they made appropriate reperations. They might be jailed, they may be exiled, they might just be cut off from all but basic food/services/etc.
There are law enforcement answers in anarchist societies that are “have cops.”
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 2 months ago:
I randomly kept my orange box case and found it recently. Lets find out if i can mod the machine to fit inside of it.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 2 months ago:
Its both, based on their article. Its an ARM chip they have a translation layer called FEX to handle, so it should be able to play most any steam game. Native vulkan games will apparently run even better.
In standalone mode, the intergrated chip will use about 20w, so you will get about 1 hour of playtime on it because of the 20wh battery. In streaming mode, the graphocs will be better, and the power use cuts to about 6w, so it can go 3-4 hours.
- Comment on Milk 2 months ago:
You can drink broth by itself, which makes it a beverage.
- Comment on Milk 2 months ago:
Need butter for a roux.
- Comment on Rush 2 months ago:
Pearty good.