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Black queen teleports behind white queen. White queen says "nani‽"

Seems like an easy fix for a business, just change their prices so that they don't have to use coins. Make everything an integer number of dollars. If the items are too cheap to round up, encourage a three for two deal or something like that.

Sales tax doesn't change that frequently. It's easy for a business to predict and account for it when setting their prices.

My go to is plain white rice with plain chicken thighs if I can stomach meat if not I'll make it with some chicken broth.

If you're struggling to eat for more than like a week you probably should bite the bullet and see a doctor. A prolonged lack of appetite can be a sign of some pretty serious stuff.

Thanks! I sometimes like to look at clearly bad examples as a "how not to explain things"

40 Ways to Maximize Misery does this really well, intentionally.

Out of curiosity, what was the book?

The lack of praise that game got is practically criminal

I started writing an "here's why I disagree" reply, but I slowly realized that I kinda agree. Sword Art Online was a pretty bad anime, but SAO Abridged used the same characters and plot points to tell a different type of story and was absolutely terrific

I think the main problem I have is with the scale. If you're remaking something, and you're expecting more people to see the new thing than saw the original, then you should stay faithful to the original (not shot for shot remake, but keep things as close as reasonable) I think I feel this way because if I were an author, I'd be crushed if more people saw the bastardized version of my life's work than saw my original.

There is also the issue with a large majority of recent remakes being quick cash grabs. These do nothing but tarnish the original work by driving away people who may have eventually seen the original.

I think a large part of people's issues with the recent trend of adapting/recreating existing media is how the director changed the intent or "soul" of the work.

A story is more than its plot points. It's how The Lion King and Hamlet have the same story bones, but have wildly different morals and audiences. So when a work is adapted for a different medium, stripping it down to its plot points kinda kills the soul of the work. The Avatar animated series and the movie (that doesn't exist) share a lot of plot points, but the movie is clearly soulless because they didn't understand what made the show great, and just retold the story with a slight spin.

The Last of Us worked so well because they understood why it was good, and only made changes "in the spirit" of the original work. They didn't try to put a spin on the story, they just adapted it for the new medium.

That's why understanding the work is so important when you are adapting it to a different medium. If you just transplant the plot points without understanding what makes it good, it's going to be soulless. If you try to just use the characters and setting to tell a different story, it's also going to be soulless because those characters aren't made to tell that story. Make your own characters and tell your own story if you don't want to stick to the spirit of the original work.

Kinda glosses over how these perks add a couple dozen extra dialogue options, many of which are unique ways to solve a problem.

Honestly my favorite type of rpg "perk", one that gives a slight gameplay boost but also affects the story and/or dialogue in a meaningful way.

Having 25% more "luck" is cool and all, but I'd choose a perk that gave me 5% more luck and more ways to solve problems any day of the week.

It's one of the reasons I loved Prey. It seemed like every perk you got added new ways to get around, dialogue, and/or new combat techniques.

What game is this? It sounds so messed up.

That's how I've framed raising the minimum wage to some hard right co workers.

Why should my tax dollars subsidize Walmart, McDonald's and these other companies that pay minimum wage knowing their workers will be on welfare? If your business has to pay a wage that has to be compensated by the government, it's a failing business.

I misunderstood your point about no ad breaks, I thought you meant no advertising at all on videos.

That said, HD was just an adjective. I can edit and remove it if you want, but the point still stands that hosting anything at YouTube's scale is stupid expensive. Even if you cut the data load again and go down to 480p it's still crazy expensive that requires compensation to exist.

Something like 275,000 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube daily and users watch about one billion hours daily.

The video being in SD doesn't make it free to host. YouTube still has to pay for the servers that store the videos and for delivering the video to you. And guess what! Most people don't watch in HD and don't even realize it.

Is it cheaper? Yeah. Is it free, no. Delivering just the audio for billions of users would cost more than most people will see in a lifetime ten times over.

Jesus fucking Christ, did it take your only two neurons sparking from ear to ear to generate that thought?

Youtube has a cost by hosting the videos for you and a billion other users to view. If you can't see how that costs a shitton of money, you might actually be an idiot.

That's kinda the point YouTube is going for. People who do not pay, and who use ad blockers are actively costing them money. People don't realize how expensive it is to host an hd video that can be streamed to millions of people. There's a reason no one has been able to seriously compete with YouTube.

That was the primary reason I mentioned the whole age thing. Teenagers really don't need a babysitter.

I'm actually beginning to believe the setting for Ready Player One. In the next ten years it might just be cheaper and safer for children to be given a nice VR headset and attend school fully virtually, hell they might actually get a better education since it'll be easier to mute misbehaving children.

Not exactly going to work for kids under 12 or so, and there's probably lots of eye strain associated with being in a VR headset for hours upon hours, but hey at least the risk of being shot will be lower since there's clearly no way in hell that we will get laws to control weapons.

I have a mathematics joke, but it doesn't count.

Before anyone gets their "um actually" comment in...

Yes, he would be eligible for retirement, but your average retirement eligible american isn't expecting to retire until 65-70.

The dude is 61, not even retirement age in the US. You don't need to be dramatic just yet.