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  • The video game and tech industries as well. Record profits, let's cut a bunch of jobs.

  • Ah, it's Melvin, the clinically depressed cousin of Mario.

  • See, this is why you don't invite the Balrog to board game night.

  • Bottom right

    "It's the only phone that grows to twenty times its original size, and then transforms into a gateway to another dimension. You're not going to find that if you stick with Android or Apple."

  • Indeed. As evidenced by the fact that doing things that are money-smart (in general, stuff that amounts to avoiding debt) is actually harmful to a credit score. The powers that be want you to consume on borrowed funds.

  • Non-neutral nouns have always struck me as odd. They provide no info gain whatsoever outside of actually providing a gender if you're referring to a person or animal (for example, in Spanish, gato -> male cat, gata -> female cat). And in those situations, a short sentence can provide instant clarification if needed in a non-gendered language like English.

    It's a language feature built to be helpful in one use case, whilst simultaneously being worse in about a bazillion others. It's a very odd choice.

  • Am I the only one surprised that Sailor Moon or a giant anthropomorphic turtle didn't show up in the background as a referee?

  • I'd probably say no from your replies below to people, OP. The screen alone isn't worth several hundred dollars, and your main concern about portable gaming length seems addressable by an external battery pack and the carrying solution to include it with your Deck out and about for several hundred dollars cheaper.

    Really it feels like you're asking, is it worth spending all that extra cash to make your portable rig gaming setup less bulky when you're gaming away from home. For me, the answer would be no and I'd put up with the slightly bulkier set up with the battery pack, and I feel like most people would be at the same place, but I don't know your exact specific circumstances.

  • Be really careful, I couldn't tell which one exactly from your post, but as time goes on, you're going to have to watch out either for people trying to drive a wooden stake through your heart, or chop your head off with a sword to steal your power. Just wanted to toss out a helpful FYI.

  • I... don't think that's a thing that works on Lemmy.

  • Spoiler alert, that's not a nuclear weapon-generated mushroom cloud behind Kermit here. He just finished a major tex-mex binge for lunch.

  • Yeah, we may be at checkmate. Unlike the end of the age of the robber barons, when we reformed capitalism in the late 1800s / early 1900s in the US... this time the capitalists have purchased enough politicians to stop reform completely and forever.

  • We all know what's in the present box. It's obvs her favorite fried spaghetti sandwich.

  • I don't remember this part of Baldur's Gate III...

  • The best math teacher I ever had was my high school algebra / geometry / calculus teacher.

    Our class format was 1) first half of class, students group together to practice the thing from the day before, 2) second half of class, new concept for the day is taught.

    With the class format, his method was to deliberately block the board as much as possible when teaching the new material. He knew that when we got together in group the next day to review it, we'd basically have to teach ourselves what he introduced the day before using our textbooks and the main-point-scraps he allowed to shine through, and it would stick better that way. And it worked.

    In effect, give them the resources, and teach them to teach themselves. Sounds odd and counter-intuitive, but it can work if you structure it well.

  • Spaghetti beard is a nice touch.

  • You'd have to like the aesthetic to really want that version I think. Not sure if it was visually everyone's cup of thirty-extra-dollars tea.