Tarquinn2049

The only reason it’s unsustainable is because they are trying to charge less than they should for insuring something in these locations, not built to survive the hazards of them. If insurance companies would stop spreading the cost around to make insuring these properties not cost as much as it should, it would work as the incentive it is supposed to be to change behaviour. By spreading the cost out to people not affected by high risk, they are punishing good behaviour and rewarding bad behaviour.

If they charged the premiums that it would actually take to insure these places based on their risk and their risk alone, it would either be sustainable, or no one would want to pay it… either way, it solves the problem.

I was really hoping for the hand-held virtual portal they had planned a few years ago. Assuming it got scrapped when 3DS didn’t do as well as they hoped. But yeah, basically the tech from the *new 3DS, upgraded to a bigger single screen with an imu so you could use the portal to control the in-game camera. And it would basically feel like you are looking through and holding an actual portal into the videogame world you are playing.

It’s possible to just do more easily/cheaply in VR now. But I still think a physical device doing it would surprise alot of people.

To be fair, Grease is a parody, and that was part of what they were parodying at the time. So they went a little extra with it too.

It’s a parody of the super common “beach fling” style of movies from the 60’s. They even reference some common actors and actresses from those movies.

It’s why each scene seems so poorly tied together, and the characters aren’t very consistent.

The artist probably just relied on search results and erroneously thought this was an image of a beholder. But it is very clearly a cacodemon from DOOM instead. I could very much see many people making the mistake and thus the search results getting mixed in too.

Hehe yeah, I figured with them having no context, that might make it easier to figure out which zelda it was quicker. There are a few kind of similarly named ones now if someone is coming in fresh.

Yeah, but think about how cool the word velociraptor sounds… so really… they were probably right, and science is just gonna have to take the L on this one. Rename all the stuff so that retroactively jurassic park is right. Problem solved.

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I suppose it depends on if you can write a fun story around either one. Since every rule about vampires that sticks basically only has one thing in common, the writing in which it was featured was popular. If what you write around it isn’t very good, then no, I guess retroactively that isn’t how vampires work. But if it becomes popular and part of peoples canon in the future, then yes, that is exactly how vampires work, now.

Isn’t that the entire reason behind the rule, so that they could write a way for the vampires to circumvent it. They established a fake rule that never used to exist and then proceeded to prop it up over and over until the reader believed it to be law, and then when they least expected it, it was dashed to pieces in an instant.

Of course it’s cheating, but cheating at what exactly? Cheating at a rule that never even used to exist, was written specifically to later be broken in that very same book. It’s like any puzzle design in writing, like murder mystery, they usually create the puzzle backwards by thinking of fun solutions to problems they could then create to lead there.

It’s probably that she has only approved that one image for use in media. And since she is on their side, they actually honor that.

They must be really lucky at picking their stocks.

Don’t interchange your snot and your pus, they do very different tasks.

Earthbound, gotta play that at least once in your life.

Chrono trigger, still one of the greatest games of all time.

Final Fantasy 6(US 3) there is debate, but widely regarded as the best one overall still. 7 is the other strongest contender, but if you are gonna play that one, don’t play the retro one, as one of the very first polygonal games, it’s hard to look at now.

Zelda (3), a link to the past.

There are certainly more, but those’ll last you a few months.

Edit: Suppose I can’t really get by without saying Rock n’ Roll Racing.

I’m Autustic and don’t seem to have anger. “Frustrated” is similar, I got that one just fine, but anger doesn’t seem to come up. I don’t seem to have a bunch of them, though. So, I have definitely noticed the same thing. The internet is so full of anger, and it mostly just seems to serve to temporarily compromise the intellect of the person feeling it, so it makes them sound dumber at a time when they probably wish they were coming across as clever.

Dumber, but also more sure of themselves. There is a reason people usually come back half an hour later and apologize for what they did when they were angry. It does have its uses, but open communication can also preclude it. For people who don’t tend to communicate freely, anger can help them finally say something they haven’t been saying. And quite a few people seem to work that way. Finally saying the thing they haven’t been saying can lead to solutions for their problem.

But anger can also lead to some pretty dumb things, and that seems to be the more common result.

I have yet to get anything else to look or run as nice as virtual desktop, even stuff that lets you use higher bitrate just ends up bogging down the headsets decoder and not looking better while also having worse latency.

With VD I get a nice looking game at or below 30ms total latency.

And when I play from my computer while at my brother’s or friends houses, it’s 36ms or less latency, but otherwise looks the same.

And of course, when using the actual desktop mode instead of playing VR games, it’s an even bigger leap over the other options. Like <6ms latency, <12ms from other peoples houses. And two 4k 120hz screens, that actually look 4k, despite only having enough physical pixels to support 1440p at the 80 degree fov I have my monitors take up. But since every frame renders a slightly different set of pixels, you basically get a free sort of temporal anti-aliasing that effectively up-scales the resolution of the screen enough to see all the detail the real 4k screen is showing. Not every frame, but enough that your brain sees it anyway.

Making friends is not something that happens to you, making friends is something you do. Keeping friends also continues to take effort and intent.

The discord groups for those games would suck. Discord is about community, those games are not. Playing more socially oriented games and joining the discords for those games would show you a completely different side of discord. But discord isn’t an important part of making friends. Just one option.

The most important part is if you want to make friends by playing games, they need to be games that would actually lead to that.

Gibiru isn’t on your list of things it isn’t. Maybe that one?

Yippy and Qwant maybe… though not sure how many of your criteria they satisfy as I haven’t used them.

I’m not sure I like milk as an analogy to torrenting, as a healthy torrent has the users uploading too…

Not to mention, the quality of the meat also dropped off since covid and still has not recovered. Though that might not be an everywhere problem. Our stores used to stock Alberta Beef, and now they sell us US stuff. Separately, the ground beef still has all the connective tissues in it, they used to remove them. Now we either have to do it ourselves or pick it out of our teeth after an uncomfortable meal.

Hmm, that certainly wasn’t my goal. It just to me seemed like an explanation for where you were at. I’m autistic, so I’m certainly familiar with taking things too literally. I spent a couple decades working on not doing so.