I bought one about a year ago expecting the gimmick to get tiresome but honestly I love it. I bought one a couple models old so it didn't even cost me that much, I picked up a Z Fold 2 around when they were releasing the Z Fold 4, I think. So far it's been great and I absolutely love being able to fold the screen open for gaming or for reading. The single front screen is a bit skinny but you get used to it.
I've read about 3x more books since I got it than I used to, and emulator gaming is getting new life (as well as native games like Polytopia or Slay The Spire). I honestly recommend them, which I didn't think I'd find myself doing.
Confirmed Starmourn has been recently moonlighted to a "legacy" game. It's still playable and you can still make new characters and interact with everything in the game but it's no longer under active development.
Which is a shame, really, because Starmourn was cool as hell. It just apparently wasn't all that popular compared to some of the others, so it's being put on a back burner to preserve resources at Iron Realms, which is understandable.
I am a fan of Iron Realms MUDs personally though if only because of their Nexus user interface. I find it a lot more approachable and well put together than others I've tried (namely, Aardwolf, in fact). Very clear and concise and nearly infinitely customizable with user scripts. I haven't been invested enough into MUDs long enough to speak for end game though, so someone else will have to speak on that. But introductions and it would seem up through at least mid game on most iron realms games (which could consist of hundreds of hours, frankly, to even reach midgame sometimes) are totally fine and fun.
The final boss of customer support is your own patience. If you're willing to sit on hold for 15 hours and get tossed around like a hot potato, you can resolve anything. But you'll feel every minute that you spend doing it.
Most businesses in the US have a hard rule against connecting any outside hardware to the network, for security purposes. If you bring them a USB drive you will be asked to leave. If you can get whatever you need printed into a company email, you might stand a chance, but it would frequently require you having a personal connection to someone in the company willing to print your document for you, and depending on the document it will often not be appropriate for business email. American businesses are not really set up to be print shops and most of them would likely not help you unless you go somewhere like a Fedex-Kinkos that IS explicitly a print shop.
Libraries, however, will always have a printer you can use. It just costs, usually a negligible amount per page (10-50 cents depending on the particular library), but they've got no issues with you showing up with a USB drive and printing off of it, or logging into your own document storage (email, onedrive, etc) to print from there, because the computers are intended for public use.
Second the recommendation for a Brother. I've rarely had problems with them. Above all do NOT buy an HP printer because they come with every form of nickel-and-dime known to mankind.
Alternatively, for the once in a blue moon that the average person needs to actually print things in the modern day, bring your local library a fiver and use their printer. This is the way I do things, because I rarely ever need to print a document. When I do, it's a ten minute drive and a five dollar or less cost and then I don't have to bother with owning a printer.
But in general, Brother is a good brand, and a laser printer will be less hassle and easier to manage than an inkjet, but will have a bit higher purchase cost.
Largely because Trump did a lot of waving around of the Executive Order wand.
Problem is, that only works when you have flunkies that can back it up for you. Trump had a horde of goons that were eager to drink the kool-aid and support anything he said, reasonable or not. Biden is working with the opposite, with a congress full of people that will reject anything he says even if it's a genuinely good idea. Obama struggled with similar problems, being stonewalled by congress.
The Republican party long ago abandoned any pretense of actually governing and has simply become anti-democratic. This, in part, though not completely, is what has halted Biden's progress, just one in a line of many of his forebears and probably several of his successors unless America collectively pulls its head out of its ass.
Exactly this. "Properly" covering the topic would require 18 movies covering several hundred years of history and containing both World Wars. Sometimes it's just out of scope for the project you're trying to make. It would be great for a podcast series or for a long series of documentaries, not so much for a single movie with a 180 minute runtime.
Ah, yeah, PvP shooters. Gotcha. Those aren't really my domain, unfortunately, I don't have a ton of recommendations there. Overwatch was pretty good for a while, but wasn't really an arena shooter, and now can't be recommended.
Anybody else remember the game Sauerbraten? Or was that all just a fever dream I was having round 2012?
There's been a huge resurgence of boomer shooters and arena shooters in the last 5 or so years. Off the top of my head I can think of Dusk, Ultrakill, Gunfire Reborn, Nightmare Reaper, Roboquest, Warhammer Boltgun, and new Doom (2016/Eternal), all of which get at least an 8/10 from me. There are many more of various quality.
I haven't owned a mac in a long while, but I had one around 2012 and back then I was happily running N64 and SNES emulation and was somewhat active in the Super Mario World romhacking scene. I can only imagine it has improved since then. I know for a fact you can run tons of emulators on Linux because I have them all installed on my steam deck.
From a user front-end standpoint, just collate all posts with identical links and then make a tabbed system for comments. Lemmy.ml comments are on this tab, kbin.social comments are on this tab, etc etc. Seems like by far the easiest way to present it without (accidentally or otherwise) force-federating all of the source material. This could even pretty easily ("easily", yeah I'll get right on that) be done within the app if not done in the lemmy/kbin source code directly.
Plenty of singers get by with unconventional voices because they can sing in tune.
That's a damn fact. Dave Mustaine has an absolutely awful singing voice (and an awful attitude but that's a different story) but he just went out there and went wild with it and became one of the most recognizable voices in classic metal. Recognizable largely because it's awful but he manages to spin it into something people want to hear. Nobody else sounds like him and he made a living off that.
I'd argue the same for Bon Scott and Brian Johnson of AC/DC. I'm not sure they could have made it in any other genre, but they did damn well for themselves playing good old rock and roll. It's about matching a style to your voice and then having the confidence to go out there and blaze a new trail. But I suppose that's the same for any music.
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This is the Fediverse, bud. Gotta host your own hookers.