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Todd is a great orange cat name

A super fun counter argument I heard once is that if it’s intelligent design, surely it’s not for humans. The universe is BIG with lots of empty space, lots of massive elements to it. Surely it was designed for something much bigger than humans.

It can, but both my Fairphone and old pixel could have a physical sim and an eSIM. I daily drive both with my old US number and my current EU number. Can’t have two active eSIM cards at once though

I’ve heard the joke around 9 women making a baby in a month by PM standards

Seriously, how is that even close to the genre you’d classify it as?

Punish whoever wrote this article with a sekiro run

Wow, this is so cool. I hadn’t heard of that, thanks for sharing

The term snake oil is actually especially fitting for this, due to its origins.

In Britain in the 1700s there was a somewhat common recommendation for using rattlesnake oil from the fat of the snake for skin diseases/rheumatism. The efficacy is debated but it’s got some amount of potential for change (if not help).

This turned into people in the US selling mineral oil as “snake oil” as a total panacea. So a product that actually could do stuff being used as the poster child for a completely useless product that can solve every issue ever, buy as much as you can today.

Snake oil indeed.

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Cool, I’m gonna check it out!

I live in Denmark and find curses surprisingly casual, even fuck. I fucking like it.

Yeah, it’s like if you get a water flask at a restaurant and they have some lemon or something in it. It’s still water not soup.

Same idea but vegetables and noodles

I’m not sure how I feel about AI chatbots as NPCs. On one hand, it does add near infinite dialogue options and flexibility to adapt to what a player does. That’s super cool and immersive.

On the other hand, it feels so damn lazy. Like I want to play games with dialogue/story as an art form, not as a “how much time can I spend here”

The Solid Snake method of conversation has taken on meme status in recent years, as players noticed the Metal Gear icon simply repeated the last few words of anything anyone said to him as a question. As was discovered by ‘Hakkix’ on Reddit, you can do the same to game the NPCs in Where Winds Meet. If someone asked you, say, to “Find the buried treasure chest,” you’d respond by saying, “The buried treasure chest?” and so on. Eventually, the NPC gets so confused that they express their gratitude and end the conversation. Whether that’s due to confusion or exasperation is unclear, but the effect is the same.

Exit tax is only if you give up your US citizenship, which you definitely can’t do if you don’t have another citizenship and even then it’s very often not required

Imagine if Nokia pushed Snake as hard as Microsoft is pushing AI.

Lots of tech and science is super cool. Time dilation and its compensation is incredible. I don’t want that to be the main focus of my phone or OS, but I’m glad we use it for GPS satellites. It’s not a multi trillion dollar industry that should take up a sizable chunk of energy usage, nor should it be a large percent of US GDP.

I would guess and kinda hope so? And then merge the steam machine/deck verified status together later in life?

Oh man I love games that are just games. You pay a price, you get a game, you play the game.

On the turn based side we have Slay the Spire, Slice and Dice, and Lost in Fantaland. All kind deck builders but with pretty different combat. Great games with lots of depth. Also Kingdoms Two Crowns by Raw Fury is an incredibly good game. But a little more real time. I can say great things about all of them.

On the heavier note, fucking Subnautica has a mobile port now, which I hear is good. Of course you have Stardew Valley for a farming sim.

On the annoyingly spammy with pay to win features but still good games underneath, all the Ironhide games are good, especially the tower defense ones (Kingdom Rush)

I think this is super true. We moved across the pond and are learning a new language, new culture, everything. Time feels SO slow. This year has been a decade.

It’s been hard, but also that part has been cool and a good reminder that it doesn’t always have to be that way