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It's probably illegal. It's not wrong though. I'm not generally a fan of vigilante justice, but with the rise of fascism lately it's better to act sooner than later.

The trick there is that when everyone else is drinking they'll be making huge social gaffes almost continually. Makes it much easier (for me at least) to relax and not worry so much.

Because it's easy. Say what you like about steam but it sure as hell made acquiring games super easy. On-par or easier than pirating.

It doesn't help that the game is objectively terrible. Worse than snakes and ladders by a mile. Especially the end-game is just... throwing dice and walking in a circle until some player gets unlucky.

Oh god, we've got a copy of this game somewhere. I'm pretty sure the clock is broken and runs too fast or something, because it's completely impossible to finish within the time limit. We always kept score based on how many pieces you actually got in before it exploded in your face.

A+ great game, hate to play it.

One hack to almost get a justified gallery like that with no javascript is to lay them out with flexbox, setting their width to a percentage or vw value which your backend calculates based on image aspect ratio and desired image height, use flex-grow to stretch them to fill remaining space, and then using background-position: cover to make the images fit the slightly wrong aspect ratio containers.

This will of course slightly crop all your images to make it fit, but in practice as long as you keep your image aspect ratios reasonable and the images small enough on the page it's really quite subtle.

I had hoped that this feature would provide for masonry like that, but one has to make do.

As far as I can tell happiness is relative in any case, I'm not sure that accounting for that in the question is a bad thing.

I've never been in a more orderly queue than when I went to a Sabaton concert.

I figure the music is the outlet for aggression, so there's no need to find an outlet in picking fights or things of that nature.

You can still get actual "proper" double boiled linseed oil. It's not even especially expensive, just mildly annoying to source. It's a surprisingly durable finish for outdoor furniture etc, just takes an age to cure compared to the chemically boiled linseed oil.

I agree misinformation is a big problem. Possibly the biggest problem of our time, right next to global warming. But as it stands now, as a queer person, you can find a spot on the internet with like-minded people. Even when closeted. Hell when closeted it's the only place you can find like-minded people.

If we require people identify themselves online you drive all closeted queer people away, into solitude, into feeling no one will ever understand them. That's not worth the price of admission.

We need a better solution than that.

Not to mention that loads of people detour through pescetarianism on their way to vegetarianism. But even if you stop at pescetarianism that's still a wild improvement on plenty of metrics over eating other meats.

There seems to be this pressure to either go fully vegetarian or it doesn't count, which is obviously total nonsense.

While what you're saying sounds like a reasonable enough stance on the face of it, keep in mind that this would deeply fuck over closeted queer folks among other marginalized groups.

Toolstation still has a model like that, and I gotta say I love it. They also seem to hire people who actually know something about the products they sell which is an unfortunate rarity these days.

Note that the actual material used has a glass transition temperature around 50 degrees, not 200. If the part was actually made from ABS-CF (as the pilot thought it was) it'd stand a decent chance of surviving for a long time given that it gets a lot of air cooling.

You'd be very hard pressed to confuse PLA with carbon fiber reinforced ABS. The latter has a definite surface texture that's hard to get confused with that of PLA.

But who in their right mind is storing textures uncompressed? and that still fits over two thousand 4k textures in a 130GiB game. Are there really that many things you'd look at close enough to fill a whole screen in a game?

it's not so much remembering what ∑ means insomuch as that it's completely impossible to google the first time you run across it. It'll be in some PDF that doesn't allow you to copy-paste the symbol and you won't know what it's called. Rinse and repeat for any of the million symbols mathematicians use, never mind that loads of symbols are context dependent even if you could google them.

I hope mathematicians have a better reason than "it's tradition" for making the entire field completely opaque to anyone who hasn't studied math extensively.

In Minecraft one of the common ways to catch people using x-ray hacks or transparent texture packs is to run statistics on the blocks mined. If the ratio of stone-to-diamond gets significantly out of whack it's a sure sign someone is cheating.

In blackjack card counting is (probabilistically) caught by tracking player winnings. If someone is beating the odds a bit too much it's a fairly good indicator they are counting cards. Of course in this case getting it wrong isn't so bad from the casinos perspective either since then they'll just kick out a player that was costing them money anyhow.

When the enigma cypher got cracked they had to be very careful about when to act on information gained. If they started beating the odds too much the Germans would cotton on to enigma being broken.

My point being that cheating will almost by definition improve your odds. There are definitely ways to catch that sort of thing happening without installing rootkits. You just might need to hire a couple mathematicians to figure it out.

Not knowing the origin of the money is the crime here. You're explicitly not allowed by law to look the other way.

I don't think your reasoning here is correct. Take a bicycle wheel for example. The spokes on a bicycle wheel do not take any compressive forces due to the way they are attached to the rim, and yet bicycle wheels can take surprising compressive loads without going oblong.

I think the main crux is whether or not characters are believable idiots. I loved the first jurrasic park because while yes people are idiots, they are idiots for reasons people in real life are idiots too. It's well-motivated idiocy.

I loathe the latest jurrasic park. There's no way a band of experienced mercenaries are that incompetent.

it raises an exception if blahblah() returns False, because then b never gets defined.

Honestly I'm hoping the steam machine is gonna put some pressure on game devs to knock it off with the absurdly high spec requirements. There's plenty of modern titles that require a top of the line card that don't look any better than 10yr old games.

I can't say for the US, but over here the coin system is ubiquitous, and if you've not got a coin you can ask at the service desk and they'll hand you a branded coin to use.

"conformal coating" is the thing to google, though that only protects the PCB and not the tricky bits. You'd still need to figure out a way to waterproof connectors and buttons and moving bits like that.

Is that why that broke? I've got more than a few expletives on the tip of my tongue right about now.

Fair warning about rec room: That game is quite possibly slightly too immersive. Playing frisbee I dented the ceiling, and playing paintball I managed to dive head-first into a closet.

I'll never forget the hilarious moment when given a grenade with a missing pin, I opened various cupboards to find a replacement pin only for more grenades to pile out.

"I Expect You To Die" is a very funny game. Great for when you have spectators too, everyone can pitch in with ideas for the person playing to try.

I think the reason take so much offense at e.g. pugs is because they don't need to be bred that way. Where I'm at a law was passed making it illegal to breed dogs with congenital conditions. As a result basically all the pugs you see here have a bit of a snout as do all the boxers. Crucially this didn't change the breeds personality perceptibly, and it only changes the look the tiniest of bit. In trade you get dogs that are visibly happier and have more energy.

A neighbor in particular previously had two french bulldogs with no snout. They'd spend all day panting and snoring. Once they passed away they got new ones, now with snout. They spend all day running and jumping instead.

As someone with a medium amount of social anxiety: for the love of god, arrange for excuses for me to talk to people. I cannot just walk up to people and start a conversation. If your party does not have reasons to talk to people I will not and just end up feeling like a third wheel.

I'm sure there's plenty of people who are naturals at parties, but for those who are not it's very nice if the deck gets stacked in favor of new interactions.