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  • Yeah, Terraria is a great example of a game where the grind is integral to the game. Needing to get 20 drops from a particular creature encourages you to explore the specific zone deeply enough to really enjoy it. There's no story to progress through, it's just exploration and grinding to get different materials.

    Similarly for Minecraft. Is it "grinding" to mine diamonds at z-level 11, or is that the game?

    JRPGs and MMOs are the ones who generally don't respect your time with their XP grind systems.

  • Grading in red is generally avoided, nowadays. Red is closely associated with failure/danger/bad, and feedback should generally be constructive to help students learn and grow.

    I usually like to grade in a bright colour that students are unlikely to pick: purple, green, pink, orange, or maybe light blue (if most students are working in pencil). Brown is poo. Black and dark blue are too common. Yellow is illegible. Red is aggressive.

    Anyway, I'm guessing they just graded everything in green. The only time I've ever graded in more than one colour was when I needed to subgrade different categories of grades, like thinking/communication/knowledge/application. In that case, choosing a consistent colour for each category makes it easier to score.

  • It's really easy now, if you have a bit of space. Just get a preconfigured pack that has thousands of games ready to go.

    Or at least that was my experience last time I went down the MAME rabbit hole... Which was years ago, lol.

  • My Skyrim mods download folder alone is over ½ a TB.

    I also want to load a 1TB MicroSD on my Steam Deck for emulation, so I need at least another 1TB to download the image file to flash to the MicroSD card. (I don't want to fuff around downloading and curating a romset, so it's easier to just download a 1TB image from a private tracker and flash it. From there, I can just swap individual roms/romhacks in and out as needed.)

    My Deck will have a 1TB SSD and a 1TB MicroSD. My desktop had 2TB, but I just added another 4TB.

    On the other hand, on my phone I barely use half of my 128GB and will likely never run out of space.

  • Funny you say that... I'm getting better battery life out of my Xperia (10 V) than I've had from any phone since the flip phone days. My typical moderate SoT, no-gaming use only takes me from 80-50% most days. I've forgotten to charge it overnight several times and it was fine the next day, although I did dip into the single-digits by late evening a couple times on day 2 from 80%.

  • Did you drop a /s? This is a funny meme, so I'm assuming I just missed a joke.

    Right?

    (Speaking as a white male, white male entitlement, and privilege for that matter, are incredibly relevant to white men being sexist/racist.)

    (You can trust me on this because I'm a white male. Also, I'm used to my opinion being listened to, so I expect you to as well. Just FYI.)

  • I was going to say music, but I suppose ripping from YouTube is piracy, isn't it? And so is X-manager for Spotify, probably? Where's the line on ad blockers for YouTube/Free tube/NewPipe?

    I also thought to say books, since I mostly read free web serials and Kindle Unlimited... But I can't afford $10-20 (local currency)/day for books, and at the pace I read that's what most pay-per-chapter web serials or non-KU books would cost me. And how do we feel about using library cards we're not entitled to?

    Then I was going to say games, but, lol, emulation.

    So... Everything is on the table for me, I suppose. I try to buy games legally, and authors get a lot of money from me from KU page reads ($2+ USD/day most days), but only if it's not too expensive or inconvenient for me.

  • I don't know if this is related, but none of the third party docks I could find offered full resolution, full refresh rate, multi-monitor output, as the official dock can offer.

    Every dock I looked at with a decent number of reviews either had 1 star reviews mentioning monitor connection problems and/or docks dying shortly after purchase, too, but it's hard to know if that's relevant or just the baseline noise of electronics failure rates/user error.

    I just ended up eating the cost (and long shipping times) to get the official one.

  • Another note from experience: print the back sides in small batches. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to manually double-side print a job to have a double feed stick two pages together then everything thereafter is garbage (on both sides).

  • For me, it's about width, not screen size.

    My current phone is 6.1", but it's only 68mm wide, so it's easy to hold one-handed and slips in & out of my pocket easily. (It's a Sony Xperia 10 V).

    I love everything about this phone except that there's no NA version, so my phone is missing a couple of the cell bands from my service provider. In particular, the wide band, so I don't get great reception in the middle of large buildings.

    Other than that, it's great. Lots of RAM so app swapping is quick, and the battery life is so good I have it set to only ever charge to 80% and I've only dipped down to 20% on very high usage days. My usual usage is 80-50% daily.

  • Huge caveat: they only surveyed unmarried 18-49 year olds. Three huge problems are obvious:

    1. Unmarried people are more likely to want to remain unmarried
    2. People who are past typical marrying age are less likely to want to get married
    3. People who are past peak child rearing ages are less likely to want children

    So, no. The headline is inaccurate. If we only survey single 18-49 y.o.s then of course we'll get higher numbers of people who want to remain unmarried.

    Still an interesting result, but very different from the clickbait headline.

  • Beautiful prose on a tragic loss—not the ski holiday, of course; rather, our collective loss of winter.

    I do wonder about teaching my children to ski... Then again, these next few years may be their only chance to experience it.

  • All-equity mutual funds net fees will, on average, return more than 5¼%. (Should be about 7-8% on average). That said, that comes with a lot of volatility (value fluctuations) and you can expect sometime in the next 50 years to have a year that's down as much as 50%, but over the same 50 years it will outperform any GIC.

    They're still a terrible product, though. An ETF will do the same, but be worth about 3-4× as much after 50 years due to mutual fund fees eating most of the compound gains.

    Anyway, the ethics of mutual funds are why I quit the finance industry before even really getting started in it. I did financial analytics as a co-op student for one of the major banks in the mutual funds group and had the skills and connections to make a career in finance, but I couldn't stomach making a career working on financial products that are predatory.

  • Not sure if it's just my device, but I can't drag & drop files into the new Teams for organizations, so I'm still using classic for organizations.

    It's ridiculous, and now I need to click through saying "no" to the new version every time I start it.