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Also you didn't respond to the person who did leave a comment. Tough to have a post take off that way.

I think the negative side is: the rules fluctuate, the service is intermittent and there's no reason to trust them anymore.

I know a pass holder who was turned away at the theater when they ran out of money a couple of weeks ago. Now the service they are already paying for has been downgraded.

Why would you trust them at this point?

If a person complains about X while actively doing/using Y, then they are not really addressing their concern either.

That's odd. The author defends his "backdoor reference checks" by saying he would have never caught the catfish otherwise. Then later on the same person he contacted for his "backdoor reference check" was given to him as a reference, which would have happened regardless.

I don’t know, I have the same question for Floridians every summer..

Why don’t they just move!

But seriously I think that’s why it’s called settling. Ok I’m tired of moving I’m going to stop here and build a life and that’s it. And then they actively ignore any evidence it’s a bad decision. I’m guessing people of yore were similar.

maybe just blindfold the bird, instead of removing the eyes

I'm curious, why would you root for anything in particular?

Yes, you can buy an unlocked Phone from Apple and use the financing available on their website.

I think it's true to some degree, I've seen people push on doors that say "pull" even when there is no fire.

But I think your assumption is probably more correct, past a certain point they have no option to pull anymore.

I spend a lot more than $40 a year on coffee..

Nope, mine is empty.

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They have a video you can watch

I use both Venmo and Zelle (through BOA). Zelle gets used by me for "real" transfers that are recurring or large one-offs. The large one-offs I still confirm in advance, because people can have multiple bank accounts and not know where their email/phone is linked. (I think it's the last one setup).

For anything small or group-related, I use Venmo. Largely because everyone (that I've ever exchanged $ with) in my social group uses it, and it's quick and easy. Examples include: food splitting, having one person buy event tickets and paying them back, airbnb/party costs, and fantasy football due collection.

So I agree, Venmo is going to be tough to overcome, I don't see anyone in my group switching to Zelle anytime soon. Zelle would have to do a lot of marketing to even get people to understand that they can do it. I was skeptical the first time I sent money with Zelle and the only reason I tried it was because BoA replaced their transfers with it.

Wrong in what sense? You owe them the courtesy of explaining your decision, but that's about it. It's your life, it's just business for them.

Maybe for a specific event, but carrying around a DSLR everywhere you go is no fun. For candid shots, or traveling without carrying around a backpack everywhere, a phone that can take amazing pictures is awesome.

I've had them kick-back two or three times that a prescription was required and they couldn't reach my eye doctor (from 2001). I generally just re-submit it the next day and it goes through.

Maybe you should consider adjusting your recommendation engine to default to keeping the price as close to possible as the original item. The majority of your customers are going to have this as their highest priority. Basing it off prior replacements (which were most likely not optimal the first time), sounds like the engine might be perpetuating mistakes.

Who do you use instead of craigslist?

sure, but most crimes aren't murders.

Yeah you will get to 2x much faster doing 1 year instead of 2. Also, you can probably even explain away one job being less than 1 year pretty easily.

"Oh, I didn't get to work there long because X company made an offer that I couldn't reasonably turn down when taking into account my family's future".

Granted you have to get to the interview stage...

Ideally most of them won't care what other people think about them. That's not something to be spending much thinking power on anyway.

There's nothing wrong with making tech that can communicate to a larger audience than "people in tech".

Booked an airbnb in Nashville back in January. It has a decent-sized backyard. I'm flying in from San Diego and my parents are driving up from Tallahassee.

My fears are cloud coverage, and way, way too many people in general. I'm worried about my parent's drive home after the eclipse.

Why not just put Roundtrip in both to be as clear as possible?

Actually, being put under probation after release means you are still considered a threat.

I guess, but I am one external event away from dying on my drive to work too.

I'm pretty sure the entire parent comment was sarcastic

I typed /hero in slack It gave a link to "add the Screenhero Integration" I clicked that link and it took me to a Slack prompted me to create a "free account", which it did using my Slack information. Then I was able to download screenhero.

So, anyone new can sign up for the service via Slack.

I don't think the title "Video Games Are Better Without Stories" is true.

The premise of the article seems to be slightly different than the title: that traditional mediums can tell stories better than video games. Which seems true, or at least.. has been true so far.

Personally I think video games can tell stories differently (not better or worse) than movies/books. They can do a much better job of putting you in the story and actually feeling something. The author uses the example of Bioshock, but really that's a poor choice for his thesis. Bioshock wasn't using the gaming medium to tell a story, they were using a story to add to a video game. Which was great, it worked very well to add to the action and became critically acclaimed (which seems to me to prove the title of the article wrong). But the story was just tacked on to the game, the game wasn't there to tell that story.

There are a few good "games" that are really just a story in a game setting. Here's a couple that I've seen:

Firewatch - http://store.steampowered.com/app/383870/ - Uses a mystery setting to tell a story. It seems like video games (at least first person ones) are constrained in a lot of ways to use mystery settings to tell stories. I've played this one and can attest it is pretty good and you actually feel involved.

Emily is Away - http://steamcommunity.com/app/417860 - This one is an interactive instant messaging story, so very nostalgic for our crowd. However, it's not as interactive as it necessarily seems. Which is why I consider it a story in a game setting. I haven't actually played this one yet, but I've had it in my "wish list" on steam for a while until I'm in the right mood for it. However, it's free to play so you can try this one yourself without anything but a time committment.

Weapons wear out. I guess you might need to farm (for 30 seconds) some sticks very early on just in case.

But now I have 4 or 5 more weapon slots than I started with and 3 additional ones elsewhere. And they are all full of different weapons. Now the hard part is figuring out which ones to keep when I come across new weapons, so I'm usually happy when something breaks because it takes the decision away :p