Contrary to their name, they are not, in fact, not made of butter.

Ah, that makes me feel better. I’ve probably heard of it before, and just never looked into it.

The implication of this being that I am behind the times, stuck on outdated tech, and didn’t even know it is uncomfortable.

I had gay couples explained to me as a kid over twenty years ago and understood it no problem.

Geometry on the other hand, I still struggle with…

It’s kind of similar to numerology and cargo cults. They understand there is a cause and effect, but think that ritualistic actions are the cause to achieve their effect, instead of understanding that actual law is only superficially similar to ritual.

They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.

I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.

So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.

Edit: Which isn’t even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I’d err on me being the wrong one.

Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.

Is there some kind of demographic breakdown that shows this to be the case?

I don’t think logo design is enough to claim they have lost their “soul”. Aren’t Bravely Default, Octoparh Traveler, and Triangle Strategy pretty well liked and reviewed? And have some cool innovations on narrative and mechanics?

I won’t say that the logo design and naming convention isn’t off-putting, but it only reflects a current style, not the games themselves.

The guards that patrol the ice wall.

Entirety of NASA. Entirety of NOAA. Meteorologists. Cartographers. Everyone who works on Google Earth. Every engineer who works on satellites, rockets, and planes. Physicists.

However, I do think 10% is probably too high an estimate. While these are a lot of people in a lot of areas, they represent pretty small demographics each.

In my opinion, when you prioritize money over values, it’s just bigotry with more steps.

At least the end result is the same, even if the motivation is potentially different.

I’m a big fan of this short film. I think it really emphasizes the dialogue of the short story via the work of the actors, including the non-speaking diners.

It’s possible it loses something displaying the aliens as “meat” but I think that’s shored up pretty well by the story itself.

That’s exactly it. It’s a feature meant for convenience that is way too easy to accidentally trigger.

And since most people don’t regularly buy/sell on the marketplace, both have no idea what’s going on with the automatic message.

I’d never heard of Subsync before and I’ve just spent the last two hours fixing so many subtitles.

I’d had good results using SubtitleEdit to offset subs and set sync points before, but this tool is on another level. I might actually need to go back and use it to polish up a few subtitles that I got mostly right, but not quite.

Easy and legal access to exorcisms just incentivizes people to fraternize with demons. People need to understand there are consequences to reckless behavior.

How many Jesuses would you estimate you’ve eaten?

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!’ This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything’s going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt