Why is a next-door auto repair neighbour bad? Do you not have laws on noise?

If you live above a proper restaurant expect no roaches ever, because they can’t afford for literally a single roach to be seen in their restaurant by their customers.

What are the axes on that graph?

And basically did the Action RPG equivilent of dying to the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros.’ World 1-1 at a live convention where your speedrunning skills are the main attraction

I’m pretty sure the current standard is playing Halo and fumbling so badly you have to turn the difficulty down from Legendary to Normal, and missing your target time by over an hour (see: the Cody Miller Halo GDQ speedrun).

Specifically, tax them by (weight/axle)^4 * speed^2. You’ll notice that a 2ton car costs 16x as much as a 1ton car.

Razors and blades - every console game has a, IIRC, ~$5 platform holder fee, which goes to Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo. So if you buy a Playstation at-cost and then buy 5 games, then Sony makes ~$25 in profit.

No, you tell the time by staring into the parts of the sky that aren’t the sun, and use that to figure out where the sun is.

This means prehistoric humans persistence-hunting wolves is canonical to the crazyness2400verse.

They’re literally building bunkers though. The bunkers are for literally going and hiding in a hole like Saddam Hussein.

Bullet Heaven is an old bullet-hell game playable here. Naming the genre that is stupid.

Bullet Heaven is the name of an existing game, don’t clobber it with a genre name.

Here’s some better advice for protestors/saboteurs: DO NOT CONFESS TO YOUR CRIMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

You hit abandoned buildings and street signs? Ohhhh no sirree, SOME UNKNOWN PERSON hit abandoned buildings and street signs. No idea who it was. Not one clue.

The standard “we’re going to add red tape around spending in order to improve efficiency” gambit.

More than anything the trade embargo with DPRK needs to be lifted, same with Cuba

Forgetting the DPRK for a sec, the Cuba comment is right, right? AFAICT the main reason the US embargoes Cuba is because Florida is a swing state and lifting the embargo would piss off the Cuban-American voters who hate Castro with a burning passion.

In other words, shitty politics.

There are currently more empty homes in the US than there are homeless people. There are roughly 30 empty units for each homeless person.

There are plenty of entire ghost towns they can move into for free right now, but nobody will because the housing needs to be near the jobs.

Some of those units are being renovated, some are in the process of being sold or leased, some are being lived in but the owners are on vacation. The latter is especially true for summer homes, which are empty most of the year but wouldn’t be useful to homeless people because they’re nowhere near the jobs - that’s the point of a holiday home!

Seriously, if it were just homes then you can get something really basic for $20k. The real problem is the land and the permission to build.

They disrupted the status quo back in 2003 (2001?), then in 2009 they were doing Linux ports, then in ~2015 they were doing HTPC stuff (and also funding Linux graphic driver dev the entire time, Linux gaming in its current state would not exist without Valve), there was their Steam Machine experiment somewhere in there (it flopped but that doesn’t make it cost any less), then they were doing Steam Deck stuff. They’re still paying Linux graphic devs BTW.

Yeah, Steam is a monopoly, but 1) they’ve been a monopoly since forever and there hasn’t been a Comcast-ish disaster, and 2) more competition doesn’t seem to actually benefit us here but could potentially make things a lot worse.

In principle, Steam is a Sword Of Damocles just like any other Monopoly. In practice, the alternatives are EA and Epic, no thank you (I know itch.io is a good competitor, but they don’t have any pull on AAA publishers so I don’t expect them to take the market if Steam implodes).

Also, Valve is innovating in ways that nobody else seems willing to - not just their Linux ports (represent!), but also their attempts on HTPC gaming (which was unnecessarily a huge pain in the ass on PC, for no good reason) and their steam controller. And their portable PC gaming with the Steam deck (which to be fair GPD probably did first).

All in all, I’m happy to pay the Steam tax for what they’re doing. I have no illusions that Epic Games Store would provide serious competition in terms of the goodies I want, because they already aren’t, and they’re still in their sweetheart phase.

It’s useful because (besides displacing fossil methane) it’s a stepping-stone to producing methanol, which can be used to produce propane, which has a lower greenhouse coefficient per gram than CO2 (and also displaces fossil propane).

Most Nazis predated the Nazis, the Nazis were only around 20ish years or so.

Putin will kill those dissidents, handing over the list is murder. Anyone who hands over a list of dissidents to an authoritarian dictator deserves to be Luigi’d.

100% correct. If AI somehow replaces junior devs, someone will have to train them in substitute for paid real-world experience.