Imo Steam should tell people whether or not a game actually requires Steam (or another form of DRM) to run. I know they already do it for things like Denuvo, but they should also note if the game actually uses Steam as DRM or if the game can be launched without it.
The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.
How do you know they weren't testicles? I wonder if it's possible that dinosaurs started out with external testes that migrated inward as the climate cooled.
None of the reproductive soft tissues (like a penis) were preserved. So the researchers can't say whether the dinosaur was male or female. Even so, this dinosaur likely had copulatory sex, unlike some birds that bump butts when they do a "cloacal kiss" during reproduction, Vinther said.
Why? Too big? Body the wrong shape? Not flexible enough? I'm actually curious about this. It's been a question I've had for a long time but I feel like I never get a satisfactory answer. I know a lot of paleontology is guesswork based on extant/recently extinct species, and that a lot of the guesses involve "cloacal kissing" due to the fact that most birds and many reptiles reproduce that way. However, theropods, the seemingly most likely candidate for the "cloacal kissing" route due to their suspected relationship with modern birds, had ridiculously big tails which were likely feathered. To me, that raises the question of whether or not theropods truly started the tradition of "raising tail" among birds, or if they were more like ducks but reduced tail size made obscenely large, prehensile penises obsolete because they could go cloac-to-cloac. The tails seem like they'd be too big to "go cloac-to-cloac".
Also, since I did a quick Google search to try and find the answer before posting, here is some dino porn, courtesy of the BBC
I unironically want to go back to the days where ads told you what the product was, what it cost, why you should buy it (compared to competitors) and where to buy it. All the cutesy "we're gonna tell a story" advertising falls flat on its face because, as much fun as the "real deal" can be, 99% of it is designed by committees to reach as big of a spread as they can. It's soulless. I'd rather my soulless advertising be straight and to the point than some eye-rolling, meandering, soul-sucking corporate garbage that takes 90 seconds to say what it could have said in 15s.
Hey advertisers, quit wasting my time, and your money and quit fucking doing it. The reason why the, "narrative advertising" or whatever you call it, works is because it's made by a small company and targeted at an equally small community. Chances are, it's enthusiasts selling to enthusiasts, and they know the people they're targeting better than you ever could.
You. are. not. a. small. company. You. are. not. enthusiasts. Stop it.
In my experience, having a vr setup with vive body trackers consumes the 2.4ghz band really fast; so there are still reasons to swap in the suburbs, but they're more niche.
Source: my PC is too far away from the router for wired, so it uses wifi. I had to switch to using 5ghz because my internet would drop out on 2.4ghz whenever I played VRChat.
I was reading your definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.
Without some serious mental gymnastics, forced stealth sections tend to just be bad design choices. Not every bad thing is the same kind of bad thing.
While I disagree with your comment on the definition of "enshittification", I agree that forced stealth sections are just bad design. I remember those have been a thing for a long time now, and before then it was ice levels.
Copying from a later reply: I was reading their definition as being too specific. Imo enshittification is any time the relative average quality of a class of products or services decreases, either due to increased prices or decreased quality at the same price. This can be applied to a specific product or service, but can also describe a decline in quality across an industry.
I'm kinda looking forward to seeing how this pans out. Personally, I'd want to use it to make small, local hobby networks; kinda like how it used to be that basically anyone with a phone line could start an ISP.
The decent ones are ridiculously expensive now. It's crazy. If the one he's holding is the one I think it is, that specific models is worth thousands now.
I don't think you understand. Your consciousness is just one process amid a myriad of processes that your brain runs. It's that continuity that matters. You're correct that I don't know if my current consciousness is the same as prior consciousnesses, however what matters is that my brain has never shut off, giving me the feeling as though I am the same person; and it is because of that thread that I am the same person (though perhaps with a different consciousness).
Furthermore, you can't achieve immortality through digital consciousness if you just copy the whole thing and throw out the original. Again, it's the continuity. It honestly confuses me why people think that's a rational idea when the very obvious problem is, "what if something goes wrong and human me wakes up?"
That's why you have people, like me, who get frustrated when people start getting philosophical about this shit because they think you can "just make a perfect copy" of a person to achieve immortality.
Seriously?
No.
You just killed yourself and made a copy of yourself. You didn't achieve shit. Your new self might be happy, but your old self is dead. You're not suddenly going to wake up as a digital clone. You're not waking up at all, it's your clone that's waking up.
And hey, if that's good enough for you, then so be it. Just don't pretend you've achieved immortality; it was your digital clone that did. You're still going to die.
It also confuses me that so many people seem to believe that you're literally brain-dead while you sleep. If you were literally brain-dead then there'd be no way for you to wake up. Sleep seems to be when the brain processes memories too, so if your brain fully shut off, then it wouldn't be able to processes memories while you're asleep. Finally, afaik, once the brain shuts off, it can't turn back on; evolution didn't plan for a situation in which someone's been dead long enough for brain activity to cease before their heart starts pumping again. So why does everyone insist that you go brain-dead the moment your head touches the pillow?
Is an EULA presented this way considered binding? That seems really exploitable, like making people click hundreds of links to get to the real EULA so they don't actually read it.
What the fuck is this and where do I buy one? How do I set it on people? Does it need their scent or does it have a little slot where I can insert someone's picture and it'll automatically home in on them?
Something I've been starting to wonder has to do with Israel's possible nuke(s). I'm wondering if the reason why Biden keeps bowing to Israel is that Biden calls Netanyahu, tells him to stop or he'll restrict weapons, and then Netanyahu tells him that if Israel doesn't get US weapons, then they'll feel backed into a corner with no other options. Biden gets the implication and backs down. As such, if Israel does indeed have a nuke or nuke(s), they may not need the US to attack Iran's facilities, but are giving the US a chance to do it for them to avoid nuclear weapons coming into play.
I hope I'm wrong. I'd honestly rather have a president who is spineless than a president who's being forced into a corner by a supposed ally because they're threatening to nuke everyone. The latter is extremely scary because it means that calling their bluff could end in a nuclear war.
I mean, the plaque might still have an effect; it's possible that exposure to the viruses described in the article could lead to higher levels of amyloid beta plaque, or cause the plaque to be more harmful. Kinda like how a broken leg might be caused by a fall, but the actual problem wasn't the fall, it's the fact your leg is broken.
Dunno if it's TES or Fallout that you're into, but if it's the former, check out the Beyond Skyrim project. It's extremely ambitious, but they're attempting to create the entirety of Tamriel as a series of Skyrim mods.
“When you’re using a drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that’s not the people we want,” Cao said. “What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat ’em, and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”
Dude, you're talking about the Navy, lmao. I can't imagine any place in the Navy outside of the seals where you'd need or even want high-on-testosterone meat heads. Even then though, you severely underestimate a gay man's (or woman's) ability to be a 'roided-out meat head.
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Imo Steam should tell people whether or not a game actually requires Steam (or another form of DRM) to run. I know they already do it for things like Denuvo, but they should also note if the game actually uses Steam as DRM or if the game can be launched without it.