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What is "Horizon MMO"? Even the link doesn't explain

TL;DR: They added like, 20 filters, ranging from the standard various hue-shifts, to more unique things like "high contrast silhouettes" and "vertical stripes on one player, horizontal ones on the other". Some people flicked through them and said "wow some of these are so crazy it makes me sick to look at". Game journo picks it up and runs with it.

If an optional accessibility filter makes you sick, don't turn it on! There's no rule that says you have to! Most people will never see these in the first place, and even if you need one, pick one of the ones that doesn't hurt you!

The body spray is Axe. And both spellings are accepted for the tool, with axe being the common spelling and ax being the american, so it's not a matter of correct or not.

This is a free fan extension to Slay the Spire. You can't buy it, and buying the base game won't support these devs.

For less than $5 CAD, I picked up Maiden & Spell, an excessively cute sidescrolling shooter a la R-Type, except it's a levelless boss rush with Story and Versus modes. It's got a very Touhou aesthetic (i.e. rather than spaceships or dragons or something, everyone is cute girls).

Story mode is basically a Touhou boss rush, where your character fights 4 monster girls and 2 out of the other 3 human girls, with no level in-between, it's just bosses. There's a threadbare but acceptable story linking them, with each playable character giving a different perspective on the same story, and then there being an epilogue chapter and a bonus extra boss. Story mode has 4 difficulties, the easiest of which is called Cute Mode and is basically unloseable, so even if you've never played a game like this, you can give it a go.

Versus mode is basically a 1v1 fighting game. You and one friend each pick one of the 8 girls and do bullet hells at each other until you see who wins. It's not complex, but it is kind of tactically deep.

The same author is currently working on a sequel, Rabbit & Steel, a very similar game except rather than a versus battler, it's a coop roguelike inspired by MMO raid mechanics. A sneak-peek demo with online multiplayer is available, and it's really fun!

I still do. Phones can be turned to view it either way. Screens can't. I'm not gonna ask my bud to get up and rotate his living room TV 90 degrees so we can look at my vacation photos. Plus, until we learn to levitate with our minds, the plane humans interact is and will presumably remain much, much wider than it is tall, so landscape captures more of it.

A clock whizzing backwards at 60 RPM is right 86,400 times a day!

Serial writing used to be a big thing, and even today there's a reason for the popularity of fanfics and webnovels. Hell, remember Homestuck?

There's a part of me that feels a bit philosophical about it, like, there's something zen about the fact that all this time I thought I was being ignored, it's because I was talking into a void and didn't know it. Obviously I don't want it to stay broken, but it puts an interesting perspective on my social media use lol

Thank goodness

Good news for you, then: This patent means companies other than Sony won't have adaptive difficulty for a whiiile. Remember how Crazy Taxi patented arrows pointing to your objective so every other game for 20 years had to do batshit indicators to get around it?

Twix aren't conjoined... Are you thinking of kitkats?

From what I know, this is also one of the few games for which the publisher has removed Denuvo.

Pretty incorrect. Denuvo charges companies a regular subscription fee as long as its present in their game, and most companies don't want to pay it any longer than necessary, so they strip it out after a few months to a year or so after they've made the bulk of their sales. The number of Denuvo games that ever actually get cracked is dwarved by the number where the warez guys just wait for the publisher to remove it.

It was worse when I was a kid, in winter we had to heat the house to blistering on friday afternoons and just hope it stayed warm enough til sabbath ended (if it wasn't, we had to get a non-Jewish friend to come turn the furnace on for a bit, and there was all sorts of rules about whether that was allowed too). And if you turned a light off at night by reflex, it stayed off. Nowadays there's all sorts of "sabbath mode" gadgets lol

The really short version is that the jewish belief is that an omniscient god wrote the torah with the complete foreknowledge that people would be debating over its intent in edge cases for the rest of time, and so he wrote exactly what was necessary for rabbis to collectively come to the correct conclusions. If an interpretation would've been wrong, then god would've written that part differently.

Essentially it's D&D rules lawyering

Unfortunately not, just normal elevators programmed to go up and down to each floor automatically at regular intervals rather than requiring any user input.

those loopholes are the fence around the Tora?

That is essentially correct. The torah itself is sacrosanct, and Rabbinic derivations are not seen as loopholes, so much as expert notes to aid in understanding the intent of the torah and accidentally violating the letter of the law. The really short version is, god is omniscient, and therefore knew when he spoke how his words would be interpreted for all time, and so if he didn't want people to interpret them a certain way, he would've said something different. In other words, following the letter of the law is integral, but rules lawyering is not just allowed, it's expected. There's actually a famous jewish parable about a time rabbis exiled god himself from a debate because if he wanted to influence the proceedings, he should've done so in the torah.

"The torah says we can't start a fire on the sabbath. But what counts as 'fire' or 'starting', exactly?" "The torah says we can't carry a heavy object more than 4 cubits while outside our private domain on the sabbath. What counts as heavy? What is a private domain?"

To be fair, that's pretty close to describing the Jewish faith. One fundamental tenet is that God put loopholes there on purpose, and it's the rabbis' duty to debate legalistically to extrapolate what he meant based on what he said. That's why they're called laws. (I was raised jewish, for the record)

One common one that most people have heard of by now since they went viral on youtube a couple years back, is eruvim. Since there's a bunch of rules around how much effort you're allowed to exert on the sabbath (e.g. you're not allowed to move anything from inside your house to outside, or to carry anything heavy more than about half a meter while outside), people hang a wire, called an eruv (plural eruvim), encircling an area ranging from a small neighbourhood to several city blocks to the entire island of Manhattan, proclaiming it to be one big "home", allowing practicing Jews to do anything they're only allowed to do at home, anywhere inside its area.

Another fun one that has a lot of ramifications is that we're not supposed to "start a fire" on sabbath, and rabbi have traditionally declared that turning something electrical on or off is "starting a fire". Because of this, jewish hospitals have elevators that run constantly between floors so people can just walk on without actually pushing a button and causing a circuit to close. Or lightbulbs; for the longest time, the "solution" was just to leave your lights on all saturday in case you needed them, or maybe spring for electronic timers, or just get your goyim buddy to come over and turn em on for you, but with the modern prevalence of LED bulbs, there's now jewish smart lights called "shabulbs" that have internal shutters which cover the LEDs without actually extingishing them, so you can turn it back "on" again without breaking the rules. Some places even sell ovens with a shabbat mode so they stay slightly warm all day and never turn all the way off, don't show the display screen, and don't turn on their internal lightbulb when you open them after sundown on friday! All this because there's a rule against starting fires.

Maybe I got a bit off topic, but my point is, In some ways you might say that finding loopholes in Abrahamic law is practicing religion lol

I would hazard a guess that

1. this is just a picture of a "telephone with a handset", not the specific thing they're talking about, and
2. their phone has a removable "hook" that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they're seeing the slot where it went

The "shoe" is the mount. "Hot" means powered, for things like flashes. "Cold" means unpowered, for things like tripods.