Malgas

Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?

Well, it is where everybody gets off…

As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.

“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

Get some of that lili p., yo!

—Jesse Frogman, Hopping Bad

There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)

It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.

Does anyone know how to get from Penistone to Shitterton?

To be fair, you were only off by a week.

Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

I think it’s because that’s the more distinctive part of her name. “President Harris” sounds kind of generic, like the fictional president from an action movie.

It may start to constitute a pattern that the same was true of Hillary Clinton, though in that case it was likely that just saying “Clinton” might cause confusion with Bill.

Also Bernie Sanders is mostly referred to by his first name, so…

Just to note: Marie Curie’s lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.

No, it’s the national symbol of Ukraine.

Fascists love to try to co-opt national symbolism, and sometimes they succeed, but ceding ownership of a 1000 year old symbol (it was used as a seal in Kievan Rus) because some assholes adopted it in 1993 is just letting the fascists win.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.

IIRC a lot (all?) of these come from the names of specific Germanic tribes that these languages had contact with back before Germany existed as a unified entity, which then metathesized into a demonym for the entire cultural group and then the nation state. “Saksa”, for example, is a doublet of “Saxon”.

They did a fantastic score for the Watchmen tv series as well.

The proof that it is probably not possible ever is that metric time was already adopted during the French Revolution, during the period when they were metricising everything else, and even they decided that it wasn’t worthwhile.