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The success of this game is amazing. You have AAA developers dropping close to 500M on development and taking a decade just to release a game that isn't fun and doesn't sell well.

Balatro shows it's not money that makes a great game, its vision, passion, and making something fun that makes one.

Sort of happened with the guy who made Astartes. He was a storyboard animator for the Secret Level 40k episode.

I recently got my car totaled by a distracted driver. Somehow, within the week, I had 4 different law firms cold-call me and ask if I needed representation. Some were more unscrupulous than others, but I got pretty livid that something or someone shared my information with them.

Even worse, after I bought a new vehicle I've received 4+ "extended warranty" junk mail letters that look very official. It comes off as very predatory and leaves a generally bad taste in my mouth with how bad data protections are.

Government accountability definitely feels like it's at an all-time-low

I use it at work exclusively. I love it due to the gesture controls and build quality.

Well, I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to spending energy on a 3rd eye. You can already achieve stereoscopic vision with just two eyes, why waste the energy on a third? It probably doesn't increase fitness enough to be worth the energy spend.

Yes, it was.

It actually seems like they restored it to its original style. It was painted over to make the sheep look more sheep-like. The "new" restored version is actually how the Van Eycks painted it.[0]

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200201-is-this-the-fir...

I didn't enjoy the DLC as much as the base game, but I did appreciate what they did with it. I missed flying to different planets rather than being confined to one of them. The story was really good

"Ideas person" sounds awfully close to "thought leader". Just a bunch of butt-sniffers

I work in an open floor plan with music on in the background. I find it immensely distracting but 80% of my office are basically hourly phone support staff. I'd find that job so monotonous that I empathize with them wanting music.

My solution was a pair of noise cancelling headphones and either really ambient music or brown noise like you mentioned. I've found it to be very effective with helping maintaining deep focus.

Accessible healthcare, social services for the impovershed, accessible education, really anything that lifts people out of the despair or anger that drives them to committing crime.

Oh noo!!! Anyways...

From your first link, they literally state that the "moderate effect" is at concentrations exceeding what flourinated water supplies in the US have. Here's the comment.

>Reviewer comment (DocB1_Monograph, page 2): It would be helpful if the Abstract was clear in the Discussion that the conclusion about effects on IQ in children was derived from high human exposures (higher than US exposures) without getting into more hazard conclusions or assessments.

They repeatedly say that the current research is no where near comprehensive and results are weak.

Nextdoor is the absolute worst about this. Selecting unsubscribe only lets you unsubscribe from the "type" of email they're sending you. After unsubscribing 7 or 8 times I just reported the whole domain as spam and blocked it.

What I love about the Ea-Nasir story is the tablet was found in a pile of other tablets, suggesting that Ea-Nasir saved them. Why? Who knows, maybe he found them funny.

Everytown is definitely a biased source to use

They mention in the article that their zero-trust architecture is what prevented the attacker from gaining access to on-prem data. So it seemed like it worked pretty well in mitigating the damage.

Ah that explains why all my cords have a really tarnished lead.

What I find disturbing about things like Replika is all your conversations are owned and stored by the company. At least with a real-life partner, there's not a database that someone can query to pull your intimate in-person discussions.

I don't see how you can think nuking something just "resets" it. The whole point of sanitizing probes and not introducing foreign microbes to Mars is specifically so that we keep it separate from human intervention. Once you introduce a microbe, there's no coming back.

Nuking it isn't a solution and "move fast and break things" is extremely irresponsible and ignorant when it comes to things like ecology and geography.

Have you seen the layout? It's pretty close to a square in terms of design. It has a U-shaped dip in the top of it but I don't see it being super entertaining.

Hmm, what about a launcher? Slingshot the drone any number of ways, then "landing" can be handled by an arrestor net.

>at some fairly low price point you hit a perfectly adequate level of quality

Buffalo Trace for bourbon, for example.

The fact you have to install a separate patcher from a third party company to fix all the glaring issues with windows is telling. Don't have to do that with a Mac. I use both at work and Mac is less cumbersome and easier to work with than Windows, hands down. Windows is a fractured user experience; they're trying too hard to shove the whole "tiles" thing from W8 into everything else and having ads baked into the OS is appalling. Mac doesn't do that out of the box and I don't need to install anything to make it an enjoyable user experience.

the bodybuilding.com forums from that time were something else.

If oceans get too hot, fisheries will collapse and wreck coastal communities. Sea level rise will make storm surges worse and make "once in a lifetime" events more common.

This instability will drive a migration of people inland, essentially as ecological refugees.

Yeah, losing your thumb on the only hand you have left is rough. There are prosthetics, but the thumb is extremely important for overall functionality of the hand.

>It felt like a good chance for camaraderie that can be missing when you're staying in separate hotel rooms. Even though there's not a lot of time for hanging out with each other — if we're in a hotel or Airbnb, we're just trying to get some sleep before the next day's events — it was still nice to have that space to even make coffee together in the morning.

This is really the only reason why I still consider AirBnB when I'm planning a trip. For example, I'm trying to get 6 guys together for a bachelor party/trip to the beach, and while there are hotels there, I think the experience would be much better having everyone in a private yet communal space.

I was on a trip a few weeks ago where I stayed in a multi-room apartment with a friend's family and it was a better experience than I would have gotten at a hotel due to the communal aspect.

Are there hotels that rent out properties like that? It seems like it would be an area that those companies would want to break into to undercut a "disruptor" to their industry like AirBnB.