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Yes, there are many options.

I saved a thread a while back when I was looking for a new launcher too.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/23446121

A has an important role in language, its more than just filler. I am not an English expert, but I can look up some grammar to refresh myself a bit.

Which animal, how many eggs, what cat, what hat?

[A] identifies a single, but not specific, person or thing. -Merriam-Webster

"The" has the opposite role.

There is a cat at the pond. The duck quacked at the cat.

In the first sentence, I introduced the existence of a cat. In the second sentence I referred specifically to the cat.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indefinite%20article

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a#dictionary-entry-2

It smooths out the pronunciation when reading out loud.

Here's some examples.

A farmer fed a animal and got a egg.

A farmer fed an animal and got an egg.

The woman put on a orange hat.

The woman put on an orange hat.

The duck quacked at a cat

The duck quacked at an cat.

The "a orange" could work if you produced a "uh" instead of "eh". But I think an is the smoothest. "an cat" is just a fun incorrect use of an.

Minecraft has a ton of potential. So many ways to develop creativity, problem solving, redstone, and using commands.

Then there's modding. navigating the web to find safe ones, navigate the file explorer to put them in the right spot. Troubleshoot mods that don't work together. (I remember having to manually change hundreds of Item IDs before they changed the system).

5 is probably too young to start with mods, but texture packs would probably go well, open up paint and start scribbling on blocks. Eventually give them paint.net (or anything more complex than Win Paint) and start messing with layers and saving things to the right file type.

Does the kindle fire let you do USB transfer for music and books? Transfer stuff manually. (Amazon taking the download feature away from the store, so books will need to be got elsewhere) I'm a big fan of Standardebooks.org, all free and public domain, not a lot of children's books, but should be good by the time they're 10. Although the LCD screen probably isn't the best for reading, I'd get them an eink for reading time. Also easier to separate reading time from game time. Also if you can go to the public library for physical books. The simple responsibility of borrowing a books, taking care of it and having to return it on time is good. (I'm rambling off topic...)

Install a bunch of easy puzzle games. I've always like Flow, there's also simple math ones, sudoku, jigsaws, word searches, find the object, there's probably a hundred others.

The tablet is only as detrimental as you make it. Find games with an actual story that the kid has to read. 5 might be a bit young for RTS games, but those will definitely make him read and think. When they get stuck, show them how to find the guide online and read just enough while avoiding story spoilers.

The point of this is to take what you already bought from Amazon with you when switching.

I knew it! Sharks are a lie!

Yeah, some of us made that miskate years ago. I can transfer mp3 just fine, why can't I transfer a book file too? Lots of people entire book libraries are being held hostage by Amazon.

DRM ripping was a pain, I used some sketch program that had only worked with a specific old version of Kindle for PC to turn all my books into ebubs.

I love my kindle, but not buying books from Amazon anymore and next ereader won't be kindle.

Fun unrelated fact, kindle unlimited books could also be downloaded for USB transfer.

The one time excell doesn't assume the cell is a date.

Owner of couch; "hey do you want to model for an animated movie character?"

Yes, its insane the most effective way to say "don't put that thing on my truck and go away" is a gun, or in your version "put the cart away". Both are in the wrong.

Cart guy should've left earlier, gun guy should never pulled a gun (and put the fucking cart away)

Sure it is, it gets all the horny folks to stop and read it. They come for horny and leave with Facebook advice someone posted with a minion last week.

Edit, funny enough the quote fits the Minion's story quite well.

I agree the guy shouldn't be so quick to pull a gun, but it also solved his problem very quickly. He was getting harassed, gun came out, he was no longer harassed. Nobody got hurt, nothing was damaged, and the situation was resolved quickly.

The Cart Narc guy was fine at first, but he should've said his business and left it at that. He kept arguing, pulled out a magnet and was just harassing the guy over a cart. The guy in the van has no idea when the dude will stop, so he stops him safely (for him). He didn't jump out to fight. Is a gun an over reaction, absolutly, but the results speak for themselves.

How does this resolve in California? Same people, no gun? Do they all hug at the end?

I was fine with annoying guy calling out the dude for not putting his cart away. Until he pulled out a magnet, (at least it wasn't a sticker). Don't fuck with people's property.

That's kind of the point. If you don't want to make the commitment to finishing the game, don't charge people for early access.

You could make hurt less by offering partial refunds -100% refund at 50% complete -20% refund at 80% complete And whatever's in between.

The entire point is to encourage the developer to keep making the game. If the developer stops developing or starts makes garbage their funding will be at risk.

The main concern is collections. If the developer runs away with the money, or just runs out of funds and can't finish and can't refund everybody, then yeah its kinda fucked.

It should be marketed as beta test. I get not wanting to give out game for free or needing some funding to finish it, but its still an unfishished product.

IMO it should be something like so;

• Free to play for 5 hours or up to a certain level/about 20% play complete depending on the game style.
• pay to access rest of game. Full refund available any time or up to 15hrs/80% of game. With warning that stops game play until player is fully notified "if you keep playing past this point, you can not refund"
• players can be rewarded for participating as a beta tester if they actually provide constructive feedback.
• those rewards could be simply unlocking more time to play/levels, and a certain point they "earn" the whole game. Rewards can not be in-game advatages. Cosmetics is okay.
• Once game is released, standard refund rules take affect.
• if you paid for early access then it transfers to released game. If Dev try something sketchy like list the game under a new store page, any one who downloaded it regardless of payment will get a free key and Dev will be banned from listing anything early access.
• reviews from early access will be separated from release to keep outdated user feedback out of the mix.

Just throwing out a few ideas, trying to keep it fair to both dev and player, but obviously I'm not a game business expert.

Then I guess you need the $100 teir option

Yes MS office can do it natively in the apps now. but that does use one drive sync. It didn't have that support at first, so you had to use web version for collab.I assume the author is going off old info. That being said, I wouldn't be suprised if MS tries to make the local programs a web shortcut someday.

Libre working towards live collaboration is huge, it's probably the biggest modern features keeping IT nerds from pushing to their bosses as a free replacement for Microsoft.

It's not but, the evolutionary goal is compete.

There's no way for the octopus to pick a mate with out the side effect, so the lack of post-nut clarity continues through the generations.