Yeah, it was a warning against Apple and that was the nod to it.

After Eternal, I’m not interested in this one. 2016 was fantastic, but Eternal felt all over the place. It tried to tell a story but skipped the entire second “book” between the two games, making it feel unfinished trilogy.

Then there’s the difficulty, easy was too easy, and normal was too hard. I shouldn’t have to choose between surviving 10+ hits (easy) or dying in 3-4 (normal). That’s not balance. And I don’t have the time to ‘git gud’ when the difficulty jump is this extreme.

Considering they already had to tweak difficulty in The Dark Ages, it looks like they’re still struggling to get the scaling right

Next you’ll tell me that cat’s aren’t white meat either…

Front Burner just did a podcast about all of this and how is similar with Nazi Germany. Mostly helps that this isn’t an American news outlet (it’s Canadian, part of CBC) about how they honestly spoke about it (Trump can’t threaten to take away their broadcasting license)

Today on the show is historian Timothy Ryback. Timothy is an author and writer with The Atlantic. He’s the director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. Last year he published ‘Takeover’ which documents the ways Hitler and his enablers in the German establishment cleared the pathway to Nazism through constitutional means. He’s on the show to discuss - what he refers to as the “disturbing echoes” between Nazi Germany and contemporary America. Particularly between Adolf Hitler and US President Donald Trump.

Did they declare that the chemical doing that was fluoride? Because more and more states are banning that in the water.

Just checked and you are right. I’m so used to hearing “Pork, the other white meat” that I mis-understood.

I found wooden kebab skewers were better. Longer and stronger, can be shaved to the best point needed for each task.

You mean Apple’s copy of the open source standard Qi charging?

Except that salami is typically made of pork, which isn’t a red meat. Most cured meats and sausages are pork based.

Oddly, reminds me of when Apple first pushed/forced HEIC on all of it’s users, without letting them know of course. Because of that, it caused thousands of students to fail their AP exams.

Target didn’t figure out a teenager was pregnant before her father did, and that one article that said they did was silly and bad.

Sure it did… and judging from your previous rant, I’m sure it has nothing to do with you maybe reading much deeper into things that aren’t really there.

The big difference really is accepting a gift as the POTUS, and accepting a gift that they keep as a personal item.

Many presidents receive gifts from foreign nationals (with congressional approval). The big difference is they always had to leave it when they were no longer the president (they go to the National Archive). Trump already declared that after he steps down, he will keep it for himself.

Had someone in a restaurant ask the manager if they could turn down the music playing, they were in a business zoom meeting.

I was pointing out the irony, nothing more. Not every comment needs to be read too deeply into. Even my avatar picture is AI generated, it was from those blockchain AI generated reddit ones years ago.

The Feeling of Power might be close enough. It’s an Isaac Asimov short story from 1958. Basic plot is that people have become so reliant on computers, they can’t do basic math or counting. It’s about what happens with mental decline with making machines do all the thinking. (There is more, and the link explains the story but I feel that I shouldn’t include spoilers, even for a 50+ year old story.

If you want, you can read the scans of the original here.

Also, Dad’s Nuke touched on this kind of subject with people having get together and they have to make their own food and come with things like Jalapeno Pie/Cake(?) and other interesting dishes which indicates that people are already losing the ability to do basic cooking.

So… about his AI generated picture beside his name…

People still use Google all the time to help them get specific software to work with their device. There are tons of wiki’s, forums, reddits, lemmy instances, discords, etc… that are full of people asking for how to get specific software to work on Windows/etc… People still sit and read documentation all the time.

It’s like when the Republicans control the white house, congress, and the senate, Democrats can’t push any consequences because the republican majority just shoot it down.

Seriously, every attempt to impeach Trump, or block these things from happening just get thrown out because there is enough Republicans to vote against it. The US checks and balances weren’t designed to consider this amount of corruption would be voted in. In the end, this is what enough who voted for, wanted.

More than half of PC handhelds sold are Steam Deck.

https://www.techspot.com/news/106921-handheld-gaming-pcs-surpass-6-million-sales-steam.html

People aren’t flock to Windows alternatives.