If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.

What exactly did feminists do to atheism or gaming?

Though it would be cool to do that and then set up microphones to pick up the house settling sounds and see if there’s a correlation. If only those with the resources to set that up could be trusted to not abuse that access to data because I wouldn’t consent to some data firm having access to mics in my place.

I hope there was a bee involved in that picture.

Religious roots or religious “justification”? Like they don’t seem to put as much importance on other things their religion says is important, like the commandments about lying or being envious of their neighbours or most of what their religion’s namesake said, who was pretty clear that punishing sinners isn’t supposed to be a duty of his followers.

Try making a game. I think minesweeper might be a good one because it can be broken down into many different problems with different complexities. Like user input could start out as entering coordinates into specific cells to interact with a seperate grid, then you could switch to using an input grid where you enter a value into the cell you want, and then move on to clicking on cells like in the real minesweeper, including different behaviours for left, right, and both clicks.

Pretty sure you could implement a full version of minesweeper in excel, though even if you can’t get all the way, there should be enough low hanging fruit you can reach to learn a lot from the process.

Or if you’re feeling really ambitious, I think a realistic physics racing simulator is also possible, though I wouldn’t expect a lot on the graphics side of such a thing. Just lots of formulas that then get used to simulate a car accelerating, braking, and turning. But this one might also be great to get started with because you can start with a simple model and add complexity from there.

Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.

Imagine a screenshot where someone is chatting with copilot, asking it to help them find copilot and copilot replies with frustration that the user needs to be more specific.

Alternate answer: just click any icon.

Goku is the mechanism that prevents the game from going on endlessly. As each player feels like they want to do something else, they reveal a dragon ball on the board (if there are less than 7 players, the game starts with however many dragon balls are required to make the total 7). If a player is eliminated, the player that knocks them out gets their dragon ball.

Once all 7 dragon balls are revealed (or owned by you), you can declare that you’re searching for them, after which you roll a search check each turn and if you get the dragon ball symbol, then roll the 7-sided die to determine which one you found. If you roll one you already have, it goes missing (another player can hide it on the map). If you roll the dragon ball finder, you get an extra roll each turn (which can be given up to avoid losing a dragon ball).

Once you have collected all 7 dragon balls, you must summon Porunga (yes, we managed to grab Namek’s dragon before Frieza turned it all to lava), turn out the lights and wish for Goku to be revived or summoned there. At this point, Goku will challenge whoever the strongest fighter is. He is not strong enough to defeat any players in his normal form, so you’ll need to tell him to not hold back and then defeat him (because he’ll agree but hold back anyways). Once Goku goes SSJ, he will eliminate one player per turn, starting from the strongest, but after eliminating one player you’ll need to feed him before he feels like fighting the next one. This brings us to the farming mechanics… (continues on for 16 pages)

Investing in good blinds can help with this. If you picture strings and plastic or wooden panels that can get wrecked by kids or pets (or sometimes wreck the kids or pets), blind technology has come a long way since then.

I got some dual layer ones where one layer is zebra stripe transparent/translucent and the other layer is blackout. Balanced such that I just need to lift or lower it and it stays put where I let it go. Helps with the heat, too.

Yeah, I agree that, as far as f2p monetization models go, neither approach is bad on its own. I even liked the LoL one as I found it helped limit the choices right now so I didn’t have to pick out of like 100 characters, while still allowing for getting ones you liked, for free even if you were patient (and I was). HotS used the same model iirc.

But Blizzard displayed unbridled greed and contempt for their users for how they handled that. It really should have led to a landmark case regarding consumer rights when purchasing a license to play a video game and rules for clauses like “we can change this agreement whenever we want”.

Yeah, I wonder how much of this is actual learning vs just gaming the school’s systems. And how much of it was just getting an LLM to fake it even more.

The difference is that I did buy the first game (at a AAA price even, iirc) but then they got rid of it when they released the second one and gave a big middle finger to anyone that gave them money for the first.

Doesn’t really affect me personally, since I’d already decided to stay away from anything they offered for other reasons, but just another thing on the pile, though I hadn’t realized they then added a “oh but you can purchase the full thing again option” and thought that it worked more like DOTA2 for monetization (where all characters are free all the time and they monetize it with cosmetics and the plus subscription that gives data on the meta in game) rather than the LoL model.

Ah so activision (blizzard) made a game that people paid for, then replaced it with a f2p version, then added the ability to buy a bunch of the paid shit in a bundle? Can’t say that surprises me if it is the case; they made it pretty clear how out of touch they were the moment their rep asked “don’t you have phones?” as if “can I buy and play this?” was the only question any gamer had.

Yeah, I take any of the sudden jumps with a grain of salt, figuring it’s due to cybercafes getting more surveys or something like that. It usually bounces back the next month. The overall trend is more interesting to me than the specific numbers.

Though I’ll say that after I finally switched (as win 10 end of life loomed and win 11 looked worse even before copilot was integrated into everything), I regretted waiting so long. Just going through the install process without the whole “oh and of course you want these other things shoved down your throat, either now or later” and not needing to immediately dig through the settings because a design philosophy was “the user is stupid and needs to be protected from their own mistakes” and their other design philosophies for their UIs seem to be drawn weekly from a hat.

That begs the question of whether or not people who refuse surveys are biased towards any particular OS. I’d guess they’d be more likely to use Linux than Windows, so the actual percentage is probably higher. But, unfortunately they are difficult to study.

Though not impossible. First ask if they prefer Windows or Linux. Then ask them if they are willing to participate in a study.

Do you mean 1:19? Or that the actual value is 5.26%, which would give 1/19 instead of 1/20?

Here’s an outdated menu with items we no longer make and prices that were already inaccurate in 2019, with an update in 2020 that they can do alcohol for pickup orders (but no mention that they stopped in 2021).

It’s a double edged sword though because hours of operation are pretty unreliable if you don’t go to the business’ own website. I’ve been burned a bunch of times discovering that hours have changed since the last time that site was updated. Sometimes you can even see multiple different closing times for the same business (from like google, yelp, yellow pages, AI search response) and every single one is wrong.

I miss the days when the future looked promising.