Jesus_666 @ Jesus_666 @feddit.de

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"undertaken by Google to stop reviewers, if not or at least make it more difficult, for reviewers to from easily installing"

That's still not great. You still end up with "make it more difficult from installing". How about "...undertaken by Google to make it impossible, or at least more difficult, for reviewers to install..."?

The game is reported to be fun and it comes with a whole bunch of CS1's most popular utility more built in. I think I can forgive it for not having content parity with every DLC ever released for the first one at launch.

Because hating an outgroup is always easier than accepting that current hardship is the result of a complex interplay of factors that aren't entirely understood and that might require counterintuitive solutions that aren't guaranteed to work.

"Capitalism is good, therefore being rich is good" seems logically consistent, thus "too much concentration of wealth is bad for capitalist societies" is nontrivial and requires some mental work to understand. If the other guy says "nah, rich people are cool; it's those other people that are different from you that run everything" it's more immediately palatable.

So how do you get poor people to back the interests of rich people instead of their own? Segregate them and blame subsets of them. Don't Be a Sucker is as relevant today as it was in 1947.

People will put IoT into everything, no exceptions. Did you really think it would stop at thermostats and surveillance cameras?

On repeat, no less, unless he's going to be back very quickly.

No matter whether you like that song or not, having it looped for an extended period of time is a form of torture even the Cardassians would condemn.

Well, and them replacing the rotting husk of MacOS 9 with a bastardized version of NeXTSTEP. That kinda helped, too.

I get yelled at because my mech uses to much power and I shoot my gun too much and my company's new logo was way too expensive and then I go back to bed because screw that.

Yes, that is the worst aspect of modern UI design. Interactable elements that are distinguished from labels solely by color because accessibility is so 2010. Labels that have that same color for emphasis. Flat black windows with black borders in front of other flat black windows that will get focus if you accidentally click them.

Or what the article is about: Tiny, hidden scroll bars because Fitts's law means nothing and every user has a touchscreen and 20/20 vision.

Heck, I even prefer the ultra-skeuomorphic textured-everything approach of Mountain Lion-era OS X over the current ultra-minimalist approach where everything is either a hairline or a big flat monocolored shape.

It actually makes it harder to parse the UI when a button, a text field, a label, and a random part of the window can look exactly the same. I'd rather take a file manager that tries to look like a 1980s hifi stereo.

Or you know, a reasonable middle ground.

They are bad replicas of school bars. Except you can't use these to scroll the page and they use horizontal progress to express vertical progress. Everything they do could be done more effectively by having a visible scroll bar.

Sci-Bi

The proper technical term is "bitrektual", as established by renowned scholar Aurelio Voltaire.

Axle load, actually. In theory a 1.5-ton car with two axles and a 3-ton truck with four equally loaded axles would cause the same amount of damage. A 1-ton unicycle would cause more damage than the truck.

Note, though, that this is a rule of thumb. A 50-ton tank is still a 50-ton tank even if you manage to make it have fifty tiny axles. But for fairly average motor vehicles under fairly average conditions it's close enough to be useful for planning.

Meanwhile I think mine is a pretty good phone except for the side-facing fingerprint sensor, which is straight up incorrect and shouldn't be done.

Then again I consider an audio jack to be an important feature and smartphone cameras as something you can safely skip in the feature matrix. My needs are somewhat unusual.

The fingerprint sensor is still bad, though. It's extremely easy to accidentally touch it three times while fishing the phone out of your pocket. It should require a second of contact before trying to unlock the phone; that would make it vastly more usable.

The flavor, for one. I tried it once and it tasted like ass.

Good point. I should really put on some Casiopea.

As per usual, everyone above the age of 40 is a Boomer and everyone below the age of 40 is a Millennial. All other definitions have to bend to accommodate.

Amusingly, your post forgets either the Millennials or Generation Z.

Gen Y are the Millennials and Gen Z are the Zoomers, which sounds more like a street gang from a Silver Age comic that it has any right to. Millennials and Zoomers tend to get conflated just like Boomers and Gen X do but they are distinct.

If you were born before the early 80s or after the mid-90s you are not a Millennial, you're a Gen Xer or a Zoomer. Generation Alpha are typically the kids of Millennials and some of them are starting to enter puberty already.

Basically, you can divide generations Y and Z by whether they have any clear memories of before 9/11.

Typically, the laws get amended so that anything that looks like CSAM is now CSAM. Expect porn generators tuned for minor characters to get outlawed very quickly.

Also, not having alphabet requirements lets you use passphrases, which gives you access to little mental shortcuts like "lyrics of a song started in the middle of a line".

Nobody is going to guess that your password is "fame, he's ignored, action is" even if they know you like Spider-Man. And with 29 characters that password is not easily brute-forced, either. (Okay, this one has special characters but it works just as well without them.)

And it's super easy to memorize even multiple passwords. You just need to remember song + offset, done.

That's cool if you don't overdo it.

In the end it boils down to trust. The party will (most likely) regularly expose themselves to mortal danger. They need to be able to trust each other with their lives. If a character habitually cheats them out of loot they might find it hard to trust that character. So why would they travel with this person?

This doesn't rule out playing an untrustworthy character but it makes it harder to justify their presence, especially over long periods of time. A dodgy thief might be needed for one quest but why are they kept around afterwards? Inquiring minds want to know.

It's a sliding scale. Your arcane trickster doesn't sound like she's super far down the scale so she's probably good even if the rest of the party notices. Or maybe she never even hid it in the first place. That also works.