Can’t wait for the game engine to delete my filesystem and then be really very sorry about it.

US zoning laws are a fucking farce. They were developed to facilitate racial segregation in the 1910s and never really went away.

I end up waiting for 10 minutes to buy some bread and bananas

I could literally walk down to the end of the street and buy my bananas from the gentleman who’s been operating the same produce stall for the last decade, then a loaf of bread from the bakery next door, and be home within 10 minutes. I don’t want to make assumptions, but if bread and bananas requires you to travel to a packed general store, wherever you live, it’s a city planning hellscape.

Life is an eternal battle between “I won’t pry, he’ll tell me if he wants” and “I won’t bother him, he’ll ask me if he wants to know”.

If you’re going to act like a petulant child, I’m gonna put you in timeout. Go sit in the corner.

Meanwhile, Yes Man-aligned courier is out there making said ashes.

It’s universally considered one of the best episodes of all of Star Trek, up there with The Drumhead and The Measure of a Man. TNG is at its best when it touches contemporary philosophical subjects within the framework of sci-fi and an enlightened human golden age.

If you’re not committed to watching the entire series and don’t mind missing some minor context, you should probably start with season 2. Season 1 (“before the beard”) is an extremely mixed bag, including one hilariously racist episode.

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

It’s bang on how the aliens in the TNG episode Darmok communicate. Their spoken language is based entirely on metaphors and historical/cultural references, and meaning is derived from a shared understanding of those memes within the present context.

Big fans of crowbars.

I don’t see how Steam would make any difference.

• Implementing any kind of DRM is the game developer’s prerogative.
• Allowing other versions is possible, again, at the developer’s convenience.
• No other launcher needed besides Steam (and Steam is very far from being only a launcher)
• Steam Workshop (because fuck Forge)

The only downside I can see is that Steam doesn’t have a way to maintain multiple instances of the same game.

Ah yes, the famous DRM.

Some launchers allow you to play fully offline, but only after you’ve authenticated and started the game at least once with a real Microsoft account. The launcher has a sophisticated validation mechanism to ensure this: a single boolean value stored in a JSON file. Set that to true and you’re good to go.

Star Trek makes me depressed. We’ve already failed Roddenberry’s vision of an enlightened humanity on so many levels.

Grab his stick and twist it!

Why not? Coke’s density is nearly equal to water, so once you’ve got everything in SI units, calculations become trivial. One litre of water is 1 kg/l, 100 g is 100 ml, which makes it 11.4 g of sugar in 100 g of product.

(edit) The “original” can of coke (sold in the EU) in my hand doesn’t use grams. It lists the nutritional content in reference to both 100 millilitres and the can’s nominal volume of 330 ml. It says it contains 11.2 grams of sugar in 100 ml.

Now calculating that in Troy pounds per long hundredweight would be actual insanity.

That’s a weird way of saying OP gets their knowledge of nuclear power from sensationalist media.

That’s 3.25 g/floz, so:

units "3.25 grams per floz" "grams per litre"
	* 114.38401
	/ 0.0087424808

That is repulsive.

• Outer Wilds
• SOMA
• Red Dead 2
• Factorio
• Half-Life 2

Honorable mentions:

• Warframe should be the example by which live service games are designed and operated.
• Crimson Desert… is such a paradox of game design. In almost all aspects, 70% of the game is fantastic, but the remaining 30% is a shocking display of incompetence and/or indifference. The exception is player training, which is consistently horrible.

She even recognised some of them.