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Yeah, agreed. Although to me it all comes across like shoddy reporting of a dubious source, this is a pretty big blow to Tutanota's rep whether it's true or not. It's hard to wash off the stink of something like this after it's been disseminated to the public.

Let's not forget the time they installed a piece of wood from home depot in a new car's engine bay.

The description of Tutanota as an "online encryption service" is kind of weird, it's an encrypted email service. I guess that's splitting hairs though.

I use Tutanota myself but I'm in the process of moving off it, not because of security concerns but because the developers are aggressively full-on about security to the point where certain features (search, & interoperability with other clients primarily) are actually hamstrung. So the claim about them being part of some government intelligence apparatus seems somewhat unbelievable to me. But hey, if it's true then I'm extra glad I'm moving off it.

The 1 billion termination fee only applied in very specific circumstances. He couldn't just choose to pay it because he didn't want to go ahead with the purchase.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-by-paying-1-billion.html

Edit: Well, to be clear he actually he could decide to pay 1 billion and walk away but he would be opening himself up to a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from Twitter for breaking the contract.

I had this happen on a 17 or so hour flight from Canada to Australia. I wasn't even paying attention and only realised I still had the entire middle row free as the plane started taxiing. It was glorious.

The Republican Party of Hood County (RPHC) withdrew its support for Benson after more details about the charges emerged.

Honestly, this is the most shocking part

I feel this. I'm still in the first act and taking my time, but I've already lost Gale because I accidentally selected the option to not give him a magical item to consume after he asked a second time - I said I would, and then when I went into the selection menu I realized I couldn't give him the item I intended, so I backed out and he said fuck you and left. So that's great for me. Maybe he'll come back later but then again maybe not. So that's a whole character I don't have any more because of an accident.

Oh, and I also never got Lazel because I never went to the area where she was captured until much later and she wasn't there any more. I did find her (before that, funnily enough) as part of the cut scene with the Githyanki near the bridge but I didn't know she was a playable character, plus she acted like an enemy and I was really low level and got destroyed so I had to reload. So that's another character I don't have and may never get, although I'll have to go back now that I'm a higher level and see what happens.

My point is that it's really easy to miss out on large parts of the game due to random or accidental decisions, so I do understand people who find the experience off-putting. Still, I've been lucky to have enough free time to be able to play through with my wife so I've been able to avoid a lot of the stuff I fucked up in my solo game, and I personally love the game despite the experiences I outlined above.

Yup. And wait until you find out that Happy Days was itself a spin off (of a sort).

It's always seemed kind of crazy to me that this was a spin off of Happy Days

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjlYFWLUDBQ&si=NhDz6BCqqToZedFt

I love that whenever a long lost obscure/novelty music video gets posted on the internet, more often than not it's from Rage. What an institution. I'm so glad I grew up watching it till the wee hours of the morning.

They'll never oust him. If they do, they won't be able to ride Musk's reputation as an engineering and tech genius and they'll have to finally address all the issues plaguing Tesla (terrible service, unreliable build quality, various lawsuits) and I doubt they can afford to actually invest in those things and keep turning a profit.

I feel the same way. For the 30 or so dollars I spent as an early backer I've actually had some fun times in the game, and I don't actually think it's quite the total loss that people make it out to be, but it certainly should be far, far better than it is after a decade and 600m dollars invested in it.

There's already a version of the switch that has an OLED screen

Yes. 44, Australian, drove a manual until very recently actually.

In Australia (Queensland at least) you have to pass a manual driving test in order to be legally allowed to drive a manual vehicle. At the time I was getting my license (1995 - 96) manual vehicles were still extremely common, plus I like driving a manual so it made sense for me.

Probably the pong game that my neighbours had hooked up to their tv in the very early 80s

I agree, and I have a lot of fun doing it. But I doubt that the average person would be interested in a discussion about yeast attenuation or which water profile to use for a particular style of beer.

I don't think it's super obscure, but I home brew beer and it's a hobby where you can really go deep into the technicalities of tweaking recipes, building equipment, and just the overall process in a way that would probably bore the average non-brewer to death.

In general I agree with your point, but CGI blood is almost never invisible and generally looks like shit. Almost as bad as CGI fire.