Malgas

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Malgas,

It also helps that Steam sales are nowhere near as good as they used to be. I don’t even remember the last time I saw a 90+% discount, but there was a time when they’d pop up regularly during the winter sale.

But yeah, these days my standard for even considering a purchase is “will I play it right now?”

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https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/heatmap_2x.png

xkcd.com/1138/

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Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.

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The friggin’ cakes are turning the frogs gay!

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I don’t think I’ve ever had it straight, but clamato is pretty good in a michelada.

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Hmm. I wonder what the nature of Owlcat’s relationship with GW is? Was the recent Rogue Trader game part of an ongoing licensing deal or just a one-off?

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Also rooks.

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My guess would be that it’s a plaster cast of an ant nest.

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Or DOS Shell.

This is much prettier, though.

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"A moon chooses…“

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Biblically accurate kitty.

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That doesn’t sound right

Can we call it a swap zone instead?

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Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.

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Just because you’ve met gods is no reason to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

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Live action Launchpad McQuack.

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That math assumes a flat distribution of popping times, which I suspect is incorrect.

Listening to a bag of microwave popcorn, it starts off slow, gets more rapid, and then tapers off again, implying that kernels are more likely to pop near the average time, which makes it somewhat more likely for two kernels to pop simultaneously.

But yeah, whole bag at once is probably still basically zero. Unless you use one of these, of course.

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It’s where

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Not sure if kobold or KDE…

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He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.

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I think TES NPCs have been reacting to clothing since Daggerfall. Back then it was just a disposition modifier based on the total value of what you were wearing, but still.

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“Talk to cats” is definitely a trick. I already talk to cats, the problem is understanding.

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It’s amazing how often things are similar to what they are.

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maybe there can be spin-offs in this case

They haven’t said they intend to stop making D&D games. And every D&D crpg in the last 20-odd years (since Torment, I think) has been set in the Forgotten Realms. So it seems highly likely that future games will be loosely related to BG, just without that specific title.

I would love to see them bring back some of the weird old settings, like Dark Sun, Spelljammer, or even Dragonlance. But I’m not holding my breath.

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I thought edge cases were the whole point of NNN…

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First I misread the headline as “transgender cows” and then you’re in the comments talking about straight people insulin.

I think it’s time for bed.

‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...

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Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.

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There’s a running joke in the field that AI is the set of things that computers cannot yet do well.

We used to think that you had to be intelligent to be a chess grandmaster. Now we know that you only have to be freakishly good at chess.

Now we’re having a similar realization about conversation.

☕️7 Myths and Misconceptions About Coffee (www.wired.com)

Coffee is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive beverages on the planet. Nearly every country, region, and culture has its own unique way of preparing and consuming coffee. There’s nothing simple about coffee. Those beans in your kitchen are the sum total of a complex series of interactions between international...

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“I didn’t burn the toast, it just tastes “burnt” because I left it in the toaster until it turned black.”

–The article author, probably.

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Of the games pictured in the image, only Outer Wilds has a mechanic like that.

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The Joy of Cooking, fuck yeah!

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I don’t think there’s much they could do to make the environment more interesting, since the setting is what it’s meant to be

The hell it is. According to the in-game book Provinces of Tamriel:

Cyrodiil is the cradle of Human Imperial high culture on Tamriel. It is the largest region of the continent, and most is endless jungle.

Emphasis mine. And when I say in-game, that book was literally in Oblivion.

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I feel like this is one of those things that would differ between Resurrection and Reincarnate, but I’m not sure off the top of my head which would do what.

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In an 1895 paper, Röntgen used “X” to label an unknown type of radiation. And the name stuck, despite his later objections. (Some languages do call them Röntgen rays.)

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Pokemon but it’s wives.

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Metroid is a pretty cool guy. He kills jellyfish and doesn’t afraid of anything.

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Oil is corrosive? Doesn’t it usually prevent steel from rusting?

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Also Shakespeare:

What, you egg! [He Stabs Him]

–Macbeth Act 4, Scene 2

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Not exactly what you’re talking about, but LeVar Burton Reads is amazing, too. It’s like Reading Rainbow for grownups.

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It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.

So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.

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Upper Galicia.

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According to Google translate, 新鲜超大充气 is “fresh extra large inflatable”. So, uh, I have no idea.

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Tofu is not exactly unprocessed.

Also is “minimally processed” more or less processed than “fresh caught”? I would assume more, but both pollack and Key West shrimp have the minimally processed version below the fresh caught version on this graph. (While White Gulf shrimp is the other way around and a much wider spread.)

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I’m not sure I would trust modern Bethesda to remake Morrowind.

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Cause fantasy games with dragons are famously known to all contain interstellar travel.

Well, Ultima did, so it is technically an early feature of the genre.

As an aside, I would love to see the concept of “high fantasy space opera” get more love.

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Left is correct; implicit multiplication takes precedence over explicit multiplication or division.

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Implicit multiplication is xy or x(y), explicit multiplication is x*y.

Basically just whether or not there’s an actual multiplication symbol.

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Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection.

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FNV isn’t a Bethesda game.

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