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The biggest difference I see in what they’re proposing is that, in EVE, yes you train skills while logged off but you can’t be ganked, and in fact, logging off is a way to protect yourself from ganking in some circumstances. In the new game, presumably you can be ganked while logged off.

I hold that If their claims were true, any sketchy marketing would be forgiven very, very quickly.

Technically, they have a very short distance to climb if they wanted to: just give the battery (or preferably multiple batteries) to an independent 3rd party to test to their hearts content. If they aren’t full of shit, that’d clear things up in an instant. If someone can show their claims are true, that’s all they need.

If they are completely full of shit, then there’s no no way out of the hole. I think this is unlikely given the carefully selected tests they’ve already released— they have… something. It likely isn’t an entirely non-existent product appearing only on paper.

If they are only partially full of shit, in that they have a battery that is decent or better than current batteries but not totally fulfilling their claims, then it’s a moderate hole to climb out of. Some egg on the face, but survivable.

If they are substantially full of shit, with batteries that are equivalent or worse than current batteries, then they’re gonna be laughed out of the market real fast. Probably mentioned in the same breath as Peter Molyneux, for similar reasons.

I mean, cats are like that sometimes.

Oh, he was. He was in the wrong, utterly. But that’s not the story. The story and the reality are not the same thing. The story is that of an individual aggrieved, facing against an unstoppable faceless bureaucracy, who took matters into his own hands in the footsteps of our national heroes of the revolutionary war and the pioneers, and built a manly and impressive machine to enact that will with his own strength.

Nearly every word of the story is factually incorrect, but the story is so compelling, so resonant with our cultural values we’ve been taught since childhood, that the story takes in a life of its own.

Never heard of krita, I’ll have to check it out.

I don’t know. With the exception of a single feature, I’ve found photoshop better to use than GIMP. The one feature exception is GIMP’s wonderful “color to alpha” feature, and I always keep a gimp install around just for it.

Photoshop just seems easier to use, and more robust? With nicer effects, better filters, etc etc? At least for the features I tend to use. I’m not a professional by any means, but I tweak and composite and blend images a fair bit for my various hobbies (mostly ttrpgs).

For this reason, Dovah is typically considered an English “relex” rather than a conlang. Relex = Re-Lexicon.

I know it’s a joke that you’re implying that the poster is the one on the right talking about the one on the left… but English usually defaults to left to right informational flow even outside of writing, which makes me wonder— is your native language a Right to Left language, or does it use OVS word order? Just curious.

I would highly suspect he forgot to edit it out. That seems so much more likely to me.

Taxes apply any time money changes hands. The existence of taxes is not the thing that should cause revolution. The hoarding of wealth by the wealthy is. They don’t get taxed because their money doesn’t change hands, and for many other reasons, not least of which is corruption and bribery.

It only kinda works like this. If you have two slits, looking at it or not, you will see the top one. Now, the really weird thing is that if you fire a single photon at a time, you will still get the top one over time, suggesting that the single photon is somehow going through both slits and interfering with itself to do so. But the even weirder thing is, if you place a detector in one of the two slits to check which slit the photon is going through? You suddenly get the bottom picture.

I think we are.

Businesses are capable of providing useful things to the world. It’s a good thing to enable companies to improve the world while disabling their ability to harm it.

Then set the percentage based on the margin? Something that would genuinely hurt without simply dismantling the business, so there’s still something left to correct itself?

Months aren’t 100% arbitrary. There’s 12.3ish lunar phase cycles in a year. It’s that “bit more” than 12 thing that trips things up though, and why the lunar month was abandoned for arbitrary 12 divisions. But the 12 wasn’t arbitrary… that’s a nod back to those 12 and a bit lunar months.

A day has a fixed, non-arbitrary definition: one rotation of the planet.

A year has a fixed, non-arbitrary definition: one orbit of the planet of the sun.

365.2422 days in a year is a precise and unambiguous ratio.

A month, on the other hand, is much more ambiguous and historically influenced. Basically, the idea of a month exists around the world because we have a moon, and that moon cycles through its phases roughly about every 29.53 days. That’s the “idea” of a month. The trouble is, it isn’t really connected with either the concept of a day, nor the concept of a year… and those matter. Day and night determine when we sleep and work. A year determines the weather and when we can plant crops.

Divide 365.2422 by 29.53 and you get 12… and a bit. Pretty darn close! But annoying not quite exact. And that really matters for farmers especially, but also for anyone wanting to know when it’s going to snow or when the sun is going to try to kill you with heat.

Some cultures fixed this with “leap months”… varying the number of months in a year every so often in order to resync the moon and the sun. But most people these days stick with a purely solar based calendar where the months are entirely divorced from the movement of the moon. There’s still 12 months, because tradition and also because it’s a useful length of time to talk about, but the 1st of the month is not a new moon for most people.

Of course, we have leap DAYS, which are the same sort of thing. Vary the number of days in a year to resync.

But compare to midnight and noon, which are definitely based exactly on the sun. This rarely needs adjustment, and when it does, we’re talking about “leap seconds”.

My smartwatch has literally changed my life. I got it because I needed to keep track of blood oxygen on a regular basis for a medical condition, and while the finger clip reader was okay I wanted something I had on me all the time. But the mere fact that I could see, on an ongoing basis, how many calories I was burning was extremely motivating to my adhd mind, and I started exercising, then tracking calories and dieting, I’ve built muscle, lost fat, and actually changed my lifestyle in general. And don’t tell me I could have done those things without a smartwatch— years of empirical evidence contradict that statement.

A question only a young person would ask. After you become an adult, it’s not creepy to hang out with other adults. Before you’re an adult is when you give a shit about other people’s ages, because it matter.

Is there something about farting in a bikini that’s different from farting in any other clothing?