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COMMENT 2h ago
We're ants on Earth, Earth is a pimple on Sun's cheek, which itself isn't much to look at compared with other stars in the grand scale of things.
It is funny to think about how much effort, evil, attempts to outdo each other and become dominant goes on in a society which is a sand grain in a glass pebble you lost in a national park forrest on a hiking trip 50 years ago.
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COMMENT 1d ago
It should have arrived with your drone, double check the packaging.
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COMMENT 2d ago
If you abstract it enough, sure. But from my impression, this POV from the same article rings more true:
she is probably an amalgam of Fischer, the author and a few other top chess players
It was definitely inspired by Fischer (just by the fact it's a recent top USA chess player which is not Morphy, playing in the era of Soviet domination), but it's not Fischer.
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COMMENT 2d ago
Which part was from Bobby Fischer?
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COMMENT 2d ago
Screw those money printing EVs, they'll cause inflation!
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COMMENT 2d ago
If the character looks unappealing
She doesn't look unappealing, she might look sexually unattractive. Even though I think they did a good job in this image, it looks very detailed and interesting, real. I'd absolutely not say she's unappealing if considering her as an external character.
But also: 1. there's loads of characters who are not sexually attractive (to me), do they need to be for you to play their games? Does it only apply if they're of the gender you're sexually attracted to? Do you need to be attracted to Rico Rodriguez to play JC? 2. the point is she's supposed to be YOU, she's an avatar of your RPG. Do you expect to be sexually attracted to yourself to be able to proceed?
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I love my characters to feel real within their world much more than having them be sexually attractive to me. How do I play anything otherwise? Lego games, Styx, Stardew, Portal, basically any game that comes to mind matches this.
Again, I don't get it.
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COMMENT 2d ago
Technology companies becoming gaming companies, GME does the opposite.
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COMMENT 2d ago
But why?
When I'm playing, I'M ALOY. Even if the looks argument was true, why would I care if I look fat or rugged or old? Especially since in the canon it makes sense.
In my RPG, I'm not about making NPC groins twitch, I'm out there crushing Volvo dinosaurs.
I can't understand this POV.
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COMMENT 2d ago
It can be presented as a "experience of working as a data scientist intern", similar to a ride in Disneyland. In that case, I'd imagine it's legal, but IANAL obviously.
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COMMENT 3d ago
As other pointed out, it's all a matter of context.
If you interpret the value as a ASCII / Unicode character, yes.
But you can interpret it as many things: it can be a pixel, a number, a note. This is why most things in computing have a "header" which is some standard definition which says what follows it. For example, networking packages have it, MP3s, most images, etc.
The alternative to this for files (at least on windows) is file extensions. By using them, the OS knows how to interpret whatever jumble of bits it finds in a file.
Everything is just bits, the important part is how you use them. In theory, you could "play" a Word document as an audio file or make a song be an image. It wouldn't be anything you'd want to hear/see, but it's possible.
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COMMENT 3d ago
The order of bits (or nibbles) is/was a matter of some contention. Since it was had by nerds, they used the kid's book as an example what to name it: https://www.section.io/engineering-education/what-is-little-endian-and-big-endian/
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COMMENT 3d ago
Oh, had no idea, thanks!
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COMMENT 3d ago
What's "the article"?
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COMMENT 4d ago
common heritage of mankind This will most likely include the sun especially when other aliens show up
Aliens show up, claim the sun.
Us: Oi! That's our sun, buster!
Them: Do you have a flag?
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COMMENT 4d ago
Way too much chill.
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COMMENT 4d ago
If you don't want people getting scammed, just make scamming against the law!
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COMMENT 4d ago
Wasn't he part of HoS? Once that released, things changed, but before the Crow's Perch one was the only master one IIRC.
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COMMENT 5d ago
I'm recognizin' 'ere!
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COMMENT 5d ago
It was free on EGS at one point. Also, it's pretty good, the physics alone is worth seeing.
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COMMENT 6d ago
It's the 🐴 dewormer.
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COMMENT 6d ago
You go to the gym, there's naked old guys around you airing out their junk in the locker room. You don't want to see that, but you still say nothing because, if they have to do that somewhere, the gym locker room is the correct place to do it. So you look away, get your stuff and get out.
Just as this guy had a chance to.
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COMMENT 6d ago
Darude - Sandstone.
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COMMENT 6d ago
When did Mexico become part of the United States?
1845, 1848, etc.
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COMMENT 7d ago
But what if there's no levels, it's open world?
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COMMENT 1h ago
You didn't like the underground parts in the game called Tomb Raider?