A bunch of those fruits were likely pollinated by domestic honeybees!

And this is the genesis of my copious notes on things to do, going back decades, which I’m mostly never going to do. Ahhhhhh!

I do end up doing a few things though!

Oh yeah! Like soup! Love soup!

They’re really moving refrigerant. It’s just that the refrigerant keeps changing temperature (heating up at one end of the journey and cooling down at the other end).

And taking water out!

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory.

Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!

This video is fantastic! Alec went all out with it!

You a can also buy common university textbooks from India at a fraction of the price they sell for in the US. I say take your deals where you can get them!

Phantasy Star Online.

It’s like a big soft noodle, but rather than chewy/bouncy it’s more gummy. It’s very nice though because unlike gummy noodles, it’s a completely smooth consistency (gummy noodles tend to be gritty and inconsistent).

Here’s the key thing to realize with deck builders: every card you take reduces the number of times you’ll see every other card in your deck by a small amount. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of “this looks useful, I’ll take it” over and over again.

The best decks in Slay the Spire have 5 or fewer cards and they go infinite in on turn 1. Of course in most runs you don’t have the opportunity to create a deck like that. Instead, you want to think about what the core of your deck is right now. Think “if I could remove as many cards as I want right now, what sort of broken thing could I do with the rest?” If your deck can’t do anything broken even after all those removals, then see if adding a card would change that.

If your deck can do something broken after removing all those other cards, and none of the reward cards on offer would change that, why take them?

There are many opportunities to remove cards throughout a run. Take them as much as you can. Try to get rid of as many filler cards as possible. Strikes and defends, for example, have no business being in your deck at the end of the game.

Ironclad, being the first character you can play in StS, is meant to teach you this concept (he also teaches you other concepts, such as health being a resource). He has a number of cards that exhaust other cards and he can frequently build into a deck that’s capable of exhausting down to a winning core. Try playing an exhaust based ironclad and see what you can do with an eye towards creating a broken core.

I played some of Human Revolution but I didn’t like the grind-factor (nor did I like the weird forced boss fights).

The original Deus Ex was so beautiful for the way you gained exploration and progress experience for finding secrets and accomplishing goals. Replacing that with a more “RPG-like” system that rewards hacking every single computer and doing non-lethal takedowns on every single enemy totally ruined it for me.

Oh you don’t need quick reactions for Deus Ex. It can be played in a very slow and methodical way. It’s just that you need precision to get the most out of the sniper scopes (which can be used on multiple weapons).

The original game has plenty of characters who are true believers in the government lie: the UNATCO soldiers, the mech agents, and even multiple civilians who either work for or support the government.

The main resistance force, the NSF (Northwest Sessionist Forces), is pretty controversial among the public. People seem to be split between viewing them as terrorists or heroes. Not unlike the way people view antifa in real life!

The original Deus Ex is perfectly playable today as long as you follow a guide to get it patched up and configured for a modern system. Plus it runs at a rock steady frame rate on any PC today, whereas it didn’t at the time of release (it was very laggy, buggy, and crashed a lot).

The game is definitely meant for mouse and keyboard though. You need some very high precision aiming and a steady hand to cope with the scope wobble (unless you train to master level).

I’m honestly quite tired of remasters. Why can’t we see some new original games?

The original Deus Ex is this bizarre mixture of jank, camp, and sheer brilliance. So much of what made the game amazing was unintentional and contingent with the era. A remaster is never going to be able to recapture that lightning in a bottle. It’s always going to be soulless.

Git is not very efficient for handling a lot of binary files. Your best bet would be for hosting fanfic and erotic lit.

Anyone who’s played Half-Life 2 has seen this coming for a long time.

Phoenix Quill? Down feathers are the small, soft feathers close to a bird’s body. The long flight feathers are called quills.

Buried in your argument is the assumption that people accused of virtue signalling are actually being virtuous. In many cases they’re actually just doing harm in order to appeal to their own tribe. This is virtue signalling and there’s nothing virtuous about it.

People who walk around calling everything woke are virtue-signalling to their right wing tribe, for example. It’s classic social bullying.