Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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There was some kinda incident or protest at the beginning. Some guy or guys walked on stage and said something about GTA6 before they were escorted off.
When Tencent buys all of them =/
Agreed. I'm in the one of the null blocs, and have been since for last 4-5yrs. I'm not particularly deep into the community, either the alliance or Eve in general, but I just like playing with other people. Are F1 Tidi blobs fun? No, but I'm still playing with people. Logi wing can be fun, trying to get everything organized, and then keeping cap chains organized and going while get melted. I was doing FW earlier the in year, which is ofc much smaller scale, so I got to chit chat and know the regular gang that I ran in. Which was nice.
Compare that to FFXIV, where I really don't have to talk or work with anyone, other than in instances. A single player experience in a world filled with others doing their own single player experience. Yeah there's community, but it never feel like it resolves around the game; it's all just extraneous stuff like nightclubs and stuff.
Gameplay wise in Eve, I feel like I've done everything I've really wanted to do in the game. After this many years of playing, the mystique and curiosity is gone. But the players do still make it interesting from time to time. Thank god for that.
You're right...It's the best! 😎
It's an OK game. I say that, yet I keep getting sucked into it. Quit for like 10yrs, then I came back in 2018. Stopped playing again at the start of 2022, only to come back again at the start of 2023. I have a problem...and her name is Eve!
Ultima Online. Idk how it is now, as I haven't played on vanilla servers in like 20yrs, but you basically just got dropped into the game. Luckily, I had a friend who did play who taught me the basics. Otherwise, I woulda just been running around town aimlessly.
Eve Online is kinda like that, too. Originally, I don't think there was a tutorial (I started in 2005). Over the years, they've implemented a tutorial and iterated on it. Or just completely re-did it over and over again. It was bad. Like Ultima Online, Eve is a sandbox MMO, so no tutorial can show you everything possible in the game. But even the basics felt like not enough and just long and drawn out. The system in place today is certainly better, but players are still better off making friends quickly to learn the ins and outs.
Planetside 2 also originally didn't have a tutorial. I played the original Planetside back in the day, but the games are pretty different from each other. So it was a bit rough in the beginning. I remember coming across the early biolabs and running around the bottom of it for a quite a long time until realizing there were then "satelite bases" which had jumppads to the top of the biolab entries.
Even when a tutorial was introduced, it was pretty crap. Like sure you learned the basics of how to move, and how to shoot, and how to spawn vehicles. But the game is so much more than that. Big parts of Planetside 2 is understanding the map and environment, flow of battles, where each bases' capture points are, and of course positioning. And that's all stuff you don't get in the tutorial because there are so many different bases and the continent are large. Plus, some of that can only be learned by playing the game. Which can be frustrating when a player is dying 50 times in a row while getting a single kill (if they're lucky), because they don't yet understand anything I mentioned.
No cap?
I literally had to look that up in Urban Dictionary when I started hearing that. I think that's a sign haha...
I'm a Millennial and "weak sauce" sounds pretty cringe. Or as someone said in this thread, infelicitous. It's very 2010s. It had its time; it's time we moved on from it, collectively lol...
I can understand the pain, though. Moving accounts to a new email is not a fun process. Especially if someone has an email for years, decades even, that's a lot of stuff that could be registered with that email. And trying to save emails isn't necessarily straightforward. Migration, if it's even available, isn't foolproof or easy, either.
While I've grown up with the Internet, I think I've only changed my main email like 3 times over ~30yrs. The last time I did it was over a decade ago, to Gmail from my family's then ISP-based email. I think I'm way overdue to do it again, at least moving my important accounts like banking and government stuff to a new email address, but it's just so time consuming.
And I say all this as a tech person. I work in IT. For someone who's not particularly tech savvy, forget about it.
As far as I know, there's really nothing you can do to minimize the potential for nerve damage later. It's all going down to the skill of the oral surgeon and their team. As well as just however complex your "teeth situation" is. Basically the position of the tooth and the nerve. So to me, it's not something to worry about because you can't do anything about it. The oral surgeon should tell you what the risk is during consultation, then you can decide. I'm assuming they've given you a low chance for complications, which is why they're willing to proceed.
I got mine removed when I was around 26-27, which is a little late. It was never really recommended to me by dentist or orthodontists, until I started having issues. One of my wisdom teeth was starting to erupt and the soft tissues around the tooth were getting inflamed/infected from food particles and such getting stuck all up in there. I think all 4 of my wisdom teeth were impacted so it was just recommended I get all of them removed at once.
And honestly, it was a pretty uneventful surgery and post-op. I was put under with propofol, and I was out practically immediately after they started pushing it via IV. I don't remember what they gave me for pain reduction; I'm assuming just local anesthesia. I did wake up in the middle of the surgery because I could feel them pulling and yanking things in my mouth. I felt the pressure or tension as they were working, but otherwise no pain. I'm assuming they pushed a little more propofol beacause I was back out pretty quickly after they noticed I was awake and looking at them, being like "Wtf, why am I awake right now?"
Post-op and recovery, they gave me some Vicodin, which I loved, but obviously dangerous. I hear these days, Tylenol + Ibuprofen is the go-to, at least in the US. And supposedly it works very well. I strictly followed doctor's orders on diet and not using straws, to prevent the possibility of dry socket. And thank god I didn't get it. I did look a bit like John McCain or a chipmunk there in the day or two after the op, with the swelling. It was definitely more noticeable on one side over the other; not sure why.
But yeah, I didn't have complications. Even the pain and discomfort was pretty minimal, though I'm sure I had the Vicodin to thank for that. But after 3 days, I didn't need it anymore. Within like 4-5 days, all the swelling was gone and I was back at work. I did one check-up afterwards with the oral surgeon like 10 days afterwards and they said the healing was looking good and I didn't have to come back unless I had some further complication. That was the last time I was in that office.
Like others have said, it's a common outpatient procedure. Obviously that doesn't mean no risk, as you know. But all things considered, it should be practically routine. Though it's your decision, your body, your health. The doctors, family, friends, us randoms on the Internet, can only give you advice and anecdotes. Up to you to make that final decision.
The Rx pair does have some power to it. Not much, but some. But the cheap pair are just planos. It only has the blue light filter.
Really? Because my eyes definitely feel much better after immediately putting them on, while continuing to stare at a screen. I have a pair of glasses that are Rx level and have some anti-blue light coating that works amazingly well, and then a cheap non-Rx pair that works well enough. But both work. Unless it's just Placebo Effect?
Maybe the question is, what is "Eye Strain?" They're talking about visual performance, but usually when I put my blue light filtering glasses on, it's because my eyes hurt after looking at a screen literally all day, whether working or gaming (and when gaming, I often turn screen brightness way up so I can see everything). And when I put them on, the pain goes away. So I feel like there's some benefit there, but I don't know what exactly what is being acted on. Or again, it's just Placebo.
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The weird part of that is the the amounts he's saying it would cost/time to re-run the test -- $100-500 (probably like that pay for a employee's day) -- are nothing in the context of a company. Especially one that was sold or offered $100million. My company run on like a $3million budget. A few hundred dollars is nothing to us. That's a staff lunch or our bar tab sometimes. If the retesting costs like $5000....OK, that's certainly something to pause and think about. But a few hundred? A day or half a day for an employee to re-do the test? That's too much?
Maybe to the average person, the average viewer, that sounds like a lot of money. But not to a business. Certainly not one as large as LMG.
I bet it'll be the same as flu shots. It's not like those are actually "free." Someone is paying for them, whether it's insurance, the hospital/clinic itself, or more typically a governmental agency (usually state or local). I've paid a small co-pay for a flu shot before, but most times it's "free" because my insurance covers it.
Only time I've really paid for a vaccination was right before I travelled overseas. Needed a couple specialized immunizations and think that was like $75 total.
Yeah I'm kinda prepared for that life. I got a second booster about year ago. Along with my annual flu shot. I have no problem with getting two shots instead of one each year.
Isn't "jab" what people from the UK call it? In the US, we just call them "shots." That's not necessarily any better. Or worse, for that matter.
Agreed. It's interesting, because this is the same argument that I hear some hardcore gun rights activist use. The slippery slope. First the government will ban "assault rifles." Then it'll be handguns. Then it'll be all the guns. And as such, this is why hardcore 2A people are against any restriction on gun rights.
I imagine there's pretty good crossover between book banning types and hardcore 2A types. They denounce the use of that "tactic" by those seeking gun law reform, yet also use this tactic here. And in anti-abortion and I'm sure many other policy areas.
Of course, people -- no matter their political ideology or whatever -- aren't necessarily 100% logical, consistent, and unified in their thinking. Especially in politics. Idk, just an observation.
The things she does with her harps and the peddles are amazing.
I'm in Miami for a work trip. Just arrived today and will head back home on Friday. Basically just getting wined and dined, which is pretty good. I've been with my company for like...16-17yrs, over two stints, so these are some of the rewards of sorts that I get for seniority. A few co-workers and I went to a Colombian restaurant and oh my god, it was great.
On a related note, my co-worker and I have made great progress on a major project we're working on. We're finally working together on it, which is excellent. In a way, we're opposites from each other in how we approach things. So when we work together on things, we're really able to shine. We had a working meeting the other day and we probably accomplished more in one day than in the last few months individually. Hopefully we'll be able to keep working together on this, even though we'll each get pulled into our own separate responsibilities (such as this Miami trip).
Idk, I kinda think he looks like Admiral-General Haffaz Aladeen in that second photo.