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THE THOUSAND YEAR DOOR HD AAAAAAAAAA

I don't think the Venn diagram of War Thunder players and aerospace engineers (or whatever) is small at all. I mean, you can't help what you're into, and if you chose to study and/or work with planes, you probably like planes. Enough to play a video game about them. 3 out of the 7 aerospace engineers I know play War Thunder, which is not insignificant. (And 2 of those play KSP.) I mean, why do you think so many engineers in general play Factorio?

Now, within the group of War Thunder && Aerospace Engineers, there are obviously a few morons, as with any group. Enough to risk their jobs, yes, is surprising.

"Well grandson, I printed out the FaceBook this morning, and you'll never believe what your aunt wrote..."

Hey, I like wearing watches, but that's because I like having the time on my wrist and not have to pull out my phone. And smartwatches can show me my notifications.

But this... is something else.

Omega Mart! You have no idea what's in store for you!

convict andy

A very wrong proof once showed that the sum of all positive integers (1 + 2 + 3 + 4...) was -1/12. In reality, the infinite sum has no solution, so this proof became something of a meme.

Quite a lot to read in that library.

In a way, I'm glad to hear this. I mean, for one thing I'm cheap, but more importantly, I never got around to playing the DLC for BotW. I 100%'d the base game (well, minus the koroks) before the DLC even came out, and I've tried numerous times to get through the DLC when it did come out, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I know it's totally just a me thing, but when I'm done with a game, I'm done with it. So I've been waiting for the TotK DLC to all come out, then I'd play through it all in one fell swoop. I guess this means I could have started playing months ago, seeing as I bought it months ago, but whatever.

I believe WikiHow has staff on hand who draws for these articles. And they mostly trace off stock images, anyway.

To me, what you're describing is exactly monogamy, but you're classifying it wrong. Sure, you have a lot of partners before you find your "the one". I've had 3 so far. But that doesn't exclude you from monogamy once you've had your first partner, which is what you brushed off in your first sentence. Monogamy is one partner at a time, not that you find one person at the very beginning and get it right the very first time.

The idea of finding "the one" is, to me, someone that I want to spend the rest of my life with. And it takes a long time to find that person. And there's more than one "the one" out there! I know that sounds contradictory, but come on, there's 8 billion people out there, any set of desirable traits you could write down are shared by who knows how many hundreds of thousands of people. So you date lots of people, get to know lots of people, and then when you find someone who checks all your checkboxes and who you can see living with til death do you part, then you stay with them.

One might say one person for who knows how many dozens of years could get boring, or that one person at a time is too restrictive. To them I'd say, that's fine, you're polyamorous or something of the sort, and that's okay. But to me, having one and just one partner is special. I'm entirely theirs and they're entirely mine (in a romantic way, not a possessive way), and that's just how I like it. I want someone, just one person, I can always rely on to watch a terrible movie with, always have a player two, always rant to or be ranted to, and so on. That's what makes it special. The exclusiveness is part of the charm, I suppose-- it's not just any old person they want, it's me they want. And my feeling is mutual to them.

I don't think I wrote this exactly the way I wanted it to come out, and I mulled over it a couple times, but I hope I got my point across. Everyone's different, and that's okay.

i bought one before even knowing what the internet connotations were, i saw someone else had one and was like "i fucking need one"

no regrets.

I'm so incredibly fed up with freebooters, but what can one man do really?

No, Watt's on second, and Who's on first.

Seeing as the post is written by the person who made Space Exploration, it seems they're targeting entirely different niches here. Where Space Exploration is about challenge and increasing numbers of interdependencies, Space Age seems to be just the natural progression of vanilla Factorio, as in, just keep expanding. Having never played Space Exploration nor made it past Purple Science, I'm interested to see how this expansion will develop.

You gotta learn to read buddy, it says "sisyphus", you know, that piece of paper you get on the first day of class.

I mean, it's not not a cutting board.

not even Scott the Woz dares desecrating its name

This is not necessarily an indication of ADHD. Being said, neurodivergence could lead people to attempting new solutions to tasks that they have never been taught, so it's not like there's no correlation. There's just no direct causation here.

Being said, this is a fantastic mental math shortcut, one that I wish would get taught more. Works for adding, subtracting, hell even multiplying and dividing. 16 × 20 is 20 more than 15 × 20, which is 300 + 20 = 320. Or perhaps you could say that 16 × 20 is 16 × 10 × 2 = 160 × 2 = 320. There are so many ways to break large numbers down into smaller, more manageable numbers for arithmetic, makes mental math a hell of a lot easier. And you can impress people with the ability to multiply large numbers in your head if you get good at it.

57 × 41 is 57 more than 57 × 40, which is (7×40) more than 50×40. Well, 50×40 is 2,000, so 57×41 = 2,000 + (7×40) + 57 = 2,000 + 280 + 57 = 2,280 + 57 = 2,337. Admittedly that took me a minute and I did originally get 2,327, but you can see the process.

I don't think I've ever seen someone "CC" someone else outside of business emails. Man, I like it here.