One area that I’m glad to have my console is for games that I expect the publisher to include anti-consumer bs but I still want to play. I dont gaf if they install a kernel mode anti-cheat on my ps5, but I’ll never install that on my PC.

That said, I don’t spend much time doing that anyways and don’t have any plans to get another console in the future. And in case nintendo is listening, the switch 2 would have been an exception to that if you weren’t so lawsuit happy.

Ah, so the technological singularity is here but it’s in the opposite direction from what was expected as the technology takes over its own enshitification in an ever-accelerating manner.

I gotta wonder where do we go from here?

Do those open easily with tools or am I recalling correctly that they used rivets to fasten them shut?

Most problem those give tend to be turn it on and it says, “hey I’m not so sure you put a game in me, would love to play one for you, though!” Or “I think this might be a game or it might just be a weird blue pattern because the connection is there but only partially”.

At least the NES was like that. You had to know the ritual to put the cartridge in correctly and that ritual changed. I don’t ever remember having a ritual with my N64.

Nah, too late, they blew the bridges and tunnels in before he finished saying “Switzerland”.

Though humans are more destructive to their local and remote environments by a faaaaar margin but it is considered a serious crime to go around neutering them.

I wouldn’t say “obviously” because I wouldn’t put it past the GOP to just have some refuse to vote along just to blame their opponents for the fallout, especially when they wanted that fallout in the first place.

Just for clarity, if every single R votes yes and every D voted no, would the budget pass? Of does it require a larger majority that the GOP doesn’t have?

We can’t even prove that when we go to sleep and wake up the next day that it’s the same entity going about our day instead of a new one that inherited all of the memories and everything else encoded in the brain.

Well, with that Atlantic current dying down, Europe might not have to worry about things getting warmer for much longer. Scandinavia especially might get quite a bit colder, like comparable to northern Canada.

Wasn’t that journalist an American citizen?

And I question whether it would even lead to real problems with the current admin or if he’d just call it a good idea on social media and applaud them for dealing with someone for saying such nasty things about them. And unleash riot forces on protestors (or just use it as an excuse to try to ramp things up more).

Part of the problem is that in my mind, morality and religion are only loosely related and are often at odds when dealing with the realities of the main established religions. Like there are people who truly believe that one of the must evil things one can do is deny the existence and supremacy of their god.

And it’s that stuff that sits at the forefront of my mind when thinking about religion.

Then there’s the whole angle of some people needing religion or the invisible father figure always watching and waiting to punish in the afterlife or else they’d be evil (and actual evil, not “I broke one of the made up religion rules and ate the wrong species at 3pm on a cloudy wednesday and accidentally thought about a woman’s bum while doing so”). I can’t even relate to this.

I don’t think the consequences of that would be a lawsuit. I think they’d go missing and would only be “found” as a mutilated corpse to send a message to anyone else who might have similar ideas. Or, if they are feeling bold enough, they might even do it officially.

It’s funny if anyone thinks that strategy can compete with China in the long term. Hell, I’m not sure how much longer the west will stay “on top” in the short term (doesn’t really feel like winning lately).

It’s because it was pretty much the Netflix of video games. Pay a subscription and you get access to a collection of games.

When it was 5.99 it was a no brainer. I think I cancelled mine around 13.99, though not because of the price but because I always forgot it existed and it tied me to windows. Switched to Linux and cancelling was a part of that transition.

Air fryers dehydrate things well, leaving less moisture to support bacteria that would make it rot.

That’s actually why that sealed McDonald’s meal didn’t rot. Leave food out like that and it dries up, thus won’t rot.

Similar thing is why having an open garbage can stink far less than a garbage with a lid. The lid traps moisture, which means it can support more life that creates more stink that gets past the lid than the open one has in total because it’s able to dry.

Maybe the whole system of getting a bunch of bids and just going with the cheapest bid is fucking stupid in the first place. And the whole treating those who should be partners instead as adversaries where you each try to outmaneuver the other might get in the way of building a reliable system.

Things get more violent. Wind tries to find the path of least resistance, though as a fluid, so it’s taking all paths in proportion to how much resistance it has (just like electricity). If you increase the absolute resistance in one area, it reduces the relative resistance everywhere else, so you end up with increased airflow everywhere else and a reduction where you added resistance. Which means more wind outside of the turbine’s path (because it’s going to equalize that pressure differential one way or another). More flow through the same volume means higher speeds and forces (think like turning up the pressure on a tap).

But wind turbines don’t have a constant effect on wind resistance; it depends on how fast it’s spinning or how fast the wind is moving. When the wind slows, the resistance goes down, and when resistance goes down, wind speed increases. So you end up with an oscillating effect where the wind goes through cycles of strengthening, losing more energy to the turbines and weakening, which means the turbines take less energy, and the winds strengthen again. Though you’d need to be taking a significant amount of that energy to see an extreme effect like this.

Apparently taking more than 53.9% of the total wind energy in an area is enough to slow the wind to a stop (again, a violent, turbulent, oscillating stop, not a gentle end of wind).

Just that Scandinavians are generally pretty chill but there was also those centuries of Viking raids. Plus, with the whole ascending thing, that’s about as far north as he could get.

What are you talking about, he did survive it, though he slept for 3 days before going to say bye to his friends then goy the fuck out of there before the sick fucks tried again. He then went to Scandinavia where he taught the people to mostly be cool, but, worried about another backlash, told them that maybe one day they can raid and pillage every now and then as a treat.