The setting is by far the weakest point, imo. 300 years in the future and instant communication seems exclusive for ship-to-ship. People on the floor don’t have phones, radios, nothing. The two major faction cities are 300m² blocks in the middle of fucking nowhere. “A big war happened some time ago” - over one of the most stupid reasons about where to settle and that did fuck all, with random settlements around random worlds pledging allegiance to no one anyway.

There’s also the general disregard of npcs to anything going on around them. If you shoot up in the air while the city, people will just stare blankly at you. Same if you use space magic. “Don’t go around showing it off” - pfft.

Not to mention that they managed to make the most boring multiverse in fiction, which is much closer to a groundhog day time-repetition if you look into it.

Ironically, if you directly control the others, you have a small window of downtime after casting magic, which makes controlling Randi better for magic combos

I rarely used charged attacks. The only weapons that really made sense for that were the ranged ones. I was also very annoyed that attacking at 95% would deal the same damage as at 5%, so you always had to wait for the click.

Besides, once you get the first magic with Undine, it’s ridiculously easy to stunlock enemies, even bosses, just time the magic right and boom, just don’t overdo because a “single attack” damage tops at 999

Running atop a flying tram while the most tense parts of Hyperspace play in the background

I wish that was a problem exclusive to the cheaper phones or even xiaomi. I’ve had a Samsung Galaxy S20, it came with so much fucking bullshit apps. My gf and her sister both have a mid-high xiaomi (dunno about the specific model), ads are every-fucking-where.

Grok summary: white people are suffering racism in South Africa! White genocide is real!

I can do that without AI, but claim it’s AI so I can earn millions!!!

--Lua
function answerStupidClient()
    local answers = {"Piss off, idiot.", 
        "That's the worst thing I've had the displeasure of reading all week.", 
        "Are you for real with this?", 
        "Now that's a winning igNobel right there!", 
        "Have you tried turning your brain off and on again?",
        "Please tell me you're intoxicated, I refuse to believe this came from someone in sound mind."}
    local which = math.random(1,#answers)
    return answers[which]

It does, the international version comes with google play and the store and everything, it’s a typical android phone like what you get from motorola or samsung, with a custom UI and lots of bloatware

As a Brazilian, I can say with full confidence that the Portuguese don’t speak Portuguese, but some sort of weird language without vowels

Adding to that: this was back when a lot of people were getting high speed internet for the first time, which allowed them to play for much longer periods. While messaging programs already existed, the social aspect was super important and the artificial difficulty of certain enemies was an attempt to force people to socialize, before dungeon/raid finder killed a significant part of that.

“You don’t miss spamming LFG with need tank, need tank, need tank, nowadays you just press a button and wait!” - from the “you think you do, but you don’t” guy

When you compare it with its competition back in 2004, it was the most casual game. Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Ultima Online, Star Wars Galaxies, those were full time jobs, while WoW was “only” a part time job next to them.

Blizzard was at its peak, coming off the huge successes of Starcraft (1998), Diablo 2 (2000) and Warcraft 3 (2002), the latter of which also brought DotA thanks to the community. Hype and hopes were high.

Kinda ironic that alliance zones are more fleshed out, but horde lore and characters tended to get much better treatment.

it’s android, so it’s fully compatible

TrackerControl for blocking apps from connecting to the internet

Simple apps for Gallery and File Browser

Markor for mardown note taking

JustPlayer for watching videos

I’ve yet to find a good music player, since f-droid’s search sucks - it only searches in the name and short description. I’ve tried Apollo and Odyssey, but neither has a fucking folder whitelist/blacklist setting and end up filled with audio from telegram and whatsapp. Also, most players completely ignore .opus format

Also, has anybody thought to ask why Google has 32 million mosquitoes on hand?

Probably the spawn of Sundar Pichai

Has more bloatware than samsung and more spyware than facebook. Not the person you talked with first, but I also have a xiaomi and it’s borderline unusable if you don’t use adb to uninstall some of the ad shit. They throw ads on gallery, video player, music player, wallpaper, calculator, file browse.

Can’t I domscribe instead?

Instructions unclear, got my tongue stuck in a wheel

Would be hella easier if they didn’t have over 9000 different hieroglyphs and if they didn’t have such wildly different words/meanings with barely percetible phonetical differences (the shi shi shi poem is a great example).

Also if pinyin wasn’t such a phonetical piece of shit. Seriously, the sound “tze” is written as “ce”, “dje” is written as “zhe”. What the fucking fuck

NightHawk has a video on how to make cooling packs that keep their temperature around 18ºC (64ºF) for something like 2 hours. He gives the ingredients around the 6 minute mark. It’s a mixture of Sodium Sulfate with common table salt:

• 5 cups water (1.2 liters)
• 1 cup sodium sulfate (240ml)
• 1/4 cup salt (60ml)
• 4 tablespoons of xanthan gum (20ml) - this is a thickening agent so that the thing becomes gelatin-like, which makes it easier to work with
• Mix in heated water for some minutes. The mixture should not fully dissolve, there should be some of it visible. If the sulfate fully dissolves, add more. If there seems to be too much of the mixture, add bits of water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k