The Octonaut @ TheOctonaut @mander.xyz

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Yeah they'd have a valid grounds for resistance if a load of white people who had been deported decided to show up and take their land, right?

No thanks. We didn't send them and we don't want their descendants.

I think we all agreed this was what Australia was for a long time ago.

If your neighbour leaves their door open, can you have their television?

Do one maleshep run. I promise he has some great deliveries too.

lol.

What in the history of electronic entertainment makes you think that they're done with doing the shitty thing now that they stopped doing it once?

Can I ask what I'm sure everyone is thinking, how are any of those things improved by being tiny?

They're talking about the USB port. Which might have been inferred from "24 pins".

You're talking about American presidential candidates?

Why would you feel better about the USA when the USA are who have fostered, enabled and defended these attitudes for 70 years now?

The Hobbit ends in a massive battle that seemed made for TV, but Bilbo gets a bonk on the head. I'm sure people don't need to hear about the ebb and flow of the battle. Have King Stannis host a feast afterwards and the few characters left alive can trade highlight stories.

Martin was mostly a Sci Fi author before ASOIAF. Still is, seemingly.

The fediverse also costs someone money to run. If you want to set up a fediverse dating app and have everyone's likes and kinks mirrored to dozens of servers run by people with almost no obligation to keep it private, good luck

Plus Jesus loved renaming people so there's that.

If I remember correctly, yes. There was a pain in the ass a few years ago when Firefox switched from their own add-on system to one that matched Chrome's, despite Firefox's being more powerful and mature. The goal was to make it easier to port Chromes (arguably) greater variety of add-ons to Firefox.

It was an unpopular decision and it was the start of a downward decline for Firefox. People that had their browser "just the way I like it" found themselves starting fresh essentially, and without some of their favourite add-ons.

The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.

Firefox breaks...

(Long unnecessary nonsense that isn't applicable to anyone else)

Maybe our developers should make our tools more standard-compliant

lol. So who broke it?

https://AreTheBritsAtItAgain.com/

Mamaw was a hound for it. And that's okay, JD!

Are you sure it was an Irish plantation owner? Most of the time Irish people in the Caribbean were working on plantations, not owning them. From what I've read, the person in question was a British person from Antrim - which is on the island of Ireland, but is part of the UK and was itself "plantationed" by Britain.

It would be weird for example to refer to George Orwell as Indian, Louis Theroux as Singaporean or Duke Wellington as Irish - after all, "being born in a stable does not make one a horse" as the Duke put it when 'accused' of being Irish.

While it's nice to have a development team that doesn't have to chase every single possible dollar, and they might go on to make something even better, that final 10% part isn't true.

With the game engine itself now finished, tested by millions of people, a huge amount of work has been done that feels wasted. Putting content into a game engine not only isn't the hardest part (maybe is the most creative part, which can be... hard) but also is usually different people than the ones that create the engine. The engine itself literally has the content split such that another story can be dropped into it.

Maybe mods can pick that up if the process of adding a story get documented?

Maybe their next game will use the same engine, probably with tweaks if some of it is D&D fixated. So maybe rather than make a new D&D game they are starting from 70% into an un-chained RPG game. As an audience it is possible to be both disappointed by the decision not to create more of a thing we love and understanding and supportive of it at the same time. Music fans deal with this all the time. They've obviously earned a lot of trust.