These share a lot of similarities with Segway, and the inventor of that was a pretty smart, stand-up guy. Still, he died tragically riding his Segway off a cliff.
Every time I see one of these, my brain goes between that story, and https://southpark.wiki.gg/wiki/IT
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I’m all for the theory of the 2A being there to dissuade tyranny. But I was middle school aged when I realized that stopped making sense sometime between 1910 and 1945.
This government will bomb citizens, given the chance (it wouldn’t even be the 1st or 2nd time they’ve done it). A shotgun won’t help with that in self defense. Nor would it help with the tanks, the jets, the drones, the special ops, the automatic guns, the chemical agents, or any number of classified weapons that would roll over the next most powerful militaries if that’s what they wanted to do.
I’m not saying don’t get a shotgun. I’m saying, if you really want to prepare to have to exercise your 2A rights, you probably need to be getting something that actually poses a threat to those in power. It probably won’t even be gun shaped, but it will be arms in conflict.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I’m putting this down and probably not picking it back up.
Music is great. Environments great. Love Samus the character.
UX is terrible. I could write an essay about it, there is no redeeming element. There is no chance anyone with a good taste for UX and influence over the direction of the game actually touched this at any point during development.
Game formula is dated and anti-fun, I was ok with this major progression tied behind upgrades playing Super Metroid, but useless power-ups dangling behind obvious missing upgrades in your face multiple times during every linear mission is not it in 2026. Combat is boring, IDK who they are trying to appeal to here other than super fans of the Prime series. Maybe the harder difficulty would improve that but I doubt it, and I’ll never find out because you can’t play the harder difficulty before beating the game. Maybe they are appealing to super casuals, it definitely isn’t appealing to kids despite that being the difficulty level of the various gameplay and combat elements.
The “open world” sand zone is unredeemable. The bike is unredeemable. The fact that we have to suffer through both for so much back tracking is one of the most depressing experiences I’ve had in gaming in 30 years.
The extra characters only detract from the game, especially the technician guy. If you are intending to play this game despite what you’ve read so far, I suggest you immediately turn the sound level down for voices.
Ugh
You need one existential crisis step further. With very rare exception (some life we’ve found living near thermal vents in the deep sea) all calories are derived from the sun through photosynthesis. I suppose you can muddy the waters with man made light sources powered by non-solar energy, but with the rare exception of nuclear power (or tidal, since that’s moon’s gravity, or geothermal, and a few other niche sources, but even out together these make up such small percentages), most man made energy is just harvesting the sun’s energy with more steps. Oil, that’s just ancient plant matter. Wind, that’s just air currents which only exist due to heat energy from the sun. Solar, lol. Not that grow lights even make up enough to matter, but it’s a fun part of the existential equation.
We eat the sun.
Valid reason is you want the online features because messages from other players is content. Counterpoint is, pvp is also content. Counterpoint is, people can want one and not the other, and it’s not that complicated to just give people a toggle. Elden Ring is not worse because of its improvement over the DS invasion system.
I’ve seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I’d imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that’s a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.
Going to try to convert two 2-post racks into a 4-post rack today. Dreading the mess though.
Maybe the prompt said some shit about making sure you couldn’t see that it’s AI, or hide that it’s AI. There remains to be an issue that prompting it not to generate something increases the chances that it will do that.
I’m confused, toner = laser. Toner is the media, it’s fine powder, applied to the paper via the drum and flash fused via a laser. Inkjet, liquid ink is the media, sprayed through a nozzle while moving back and forth.
Unless something about inkjet has improved in the 15 years since I was more inclined to know everything about them, the “goes bad” is what anyone with a brain should be focusing on. The first time you use a cartridge to print, it has a shelf life. It gunks up, prompting cleaning cycles that use dozens of pages worth of ink. If you only print a few pages a month, there’s a good chance you’re getting <40 pages out of that $63 cartridge.
I have a Brother DCP-7065DN, paid $64 for it in Feb 2014 (obviously a very good deal), page counter reads 3626. We’re on toner #3 including the starter, first was replaced in 2019, second in July 2025. Toner was $55 each.
I hope there aren’t people seriously advocating for inkjet printers for black and white anything. The only thing they are good for is photos, and even then you are paying more per print for a worse photo vs local print or online order options. That holds true even if you get good deals and somehow actually use the entire cartridge set without waste, I did the math a few times over the years. The only use cases are printing shit you’re too embarrassed to risk printer shop seeing, or is illegal/copyright, or you just like giving money to these garbage companies.
Maybe projects like this will change the math. I think if they targeted commercial print specifications it would be quite interesting. The jump to larger format printers is so expensive.
Ah, thank you and sorry, I should have just searched before posting.
Part of the issue is the quotes from Facebook rep saying they only do this with public posts, makes me wonder if its user error, platform lying, a bug, etc. but fuck all that. Any situation like this is strictly the platform’s fault, idc if the mother is mistaken and actually posted it publicly, if that’s possible then it’s bad design. Invest more in UX and less in user manipulation. If a parent was intentionally whoring out their children, we’d expect the platform to prevent that, not enable it.
I’m not trying to defend Meta, but where in the article does it say that private posts were shared publicly? I’m only seeing that public posts made by adults were used this way. The main rub is Facebook being accused of intentionally serving these publicly posted photos of children in school uniforms (by parents) as bait to join another one of their platforms. Like, a grown man was sent multiple advertisements where this was the exact content, no back to school pictures of young men, or any other type of photo. That they sexualized children algorithmically to bait men into using Threads, and are justifying it’s ok because the parents shared the photo publicly and didn’t opt out of the advertising settings (which seem to be a way to gain followers?).
One of the men was like, I’ve no idea why they keep sending me these pictures, I don’t engage with them. That might be an even more interesting story, because either Facebook is trying to offer sexualized children to uninterested men, or they know exactly which men are interested in sexualized children and instead of using it to push intervention ads, ban them from seeing the content their AI can definitely classify as enticing, or anything else, they use it to try to make more money.
Not sure if this works anymore, but worth a try. Get on the phone with the 1-800 during business hours and escalate, ask for consumer relations. Make sure you tell each person that you talk to that you’ll never be shopping at best buy again if this isn’t resolved, so they know you’re serious and will properly escalate you. 15 years ago, that would solve any problem. People who absolutely scammed Best Buy would still get replacements plus a gift card for their trouble, at least once.
Sorry this happened to you. Don’t just assume the chargeback is going to solve things without any more effort, the machines involved might fuck you over if you don’t take steps. Credit card might side with vendor if you don’t submit evidence better than theirs. Your case seems cut and dry since it wasn’t even the right address, but you might still need to get that police report filled. Like the other poster said, you’re just getting the case#, as frustrating as it is, expecting anything else would just be silly. All of these things show you are serious and not a scammer. Scammers wouldn’t try this shit because it would put them in jail the second or third time they did it without any evidence. You have evidence, but the machine is tuned to ignore it until escalation. Fucking lame, I know.
I read McCammon’s Swan Song in 6th grade, terrific post apocalypse novel. Guess I should check out his other stuff.
Might be worth mentioning how much money the company spent in stock buybacks, and how much the executives were compensated in previous years. It’s a shame.
Congrats and fuck cancer.
This either prompted a Baader–Meinhof phenomenon for me, or I heard you on the radio this morning. I practically never listen on the radio, don’t really remember hearing the term “ring the bell” before reading your post here. Would be fun if the world was that small.
For Korean BBQ, and other restaurants like this such as Hot Pot, you need to drop any conception you have about these being places you go to eat. These are places you go to socialize, the food is secondary. This is food that is optimized to be eaten slowly over 2+ hours, because you aren’t there for the food, you’re there to hang out with people.
We tend to have rigid concepts of things and get disregulated when expectations aren’t met. You walked into a restaurant thinking they’d serve you food and you’d be done in a normal amount of time, of course you had a less than ideal time.
I had the exact same complaints about Korean BBQ and crawfish boils, but now that I’ve changed my expectations of them, they are a great time assuming you’re with people you like. The food tastes much better in good company.
I’ve had this experience with a ton of things in life. Not being able to make sense of something sucks. When that something is an event / experience, the experience sucks, and if you aren’t careful you will set in your mind that experience as the standard for such events. So much random nonsense exists strictly as an excuse to socialize, and when you don’t enjoy socializing because you haven’t managed to consistently do it with people you like (basically all NT people, 85%+ of the world), the random nonsense won’t make sense. None of this is ever outright explained.
Me at 12, taken fishing on a lake. 6 hours later, what the fuck was the point of that. I could have been playing video games. We didn’t even catch any fish! Me at 30, hell yeah, an excuse to drink some beers with friends and get away from the house for a weekend.
Hopefully you can give it another shot one day, maybe at a place that has more comfortable seats. There are certainly places where everyone gets enough grill space and food doesn’t need to be shared so much.
My flavor of sleep disorder, I fall asleep when I’m bored. On modafinil I get through the boring activities like driving without falling asleep. Without the drug I’ve no issues staying awake for hours after regular sleep if I’m really hooked on something, like a good show, game, or project. At the end of the day once the drug starts wearing off, I’ll fall asleep watching shows if they aren’t engaging enough.
They say it promotes wakefulness, but I don’t buy it. I think they’ve misidentified some key mechanism, at least in neurodivergent brains.
When I fall asleep, I hit REM within 15 minutes, compared to the 2 hours it takes NT brains. This was per an EEG taken during my sleep study, overnight and through forced naps the next day. I swear I’ll be in REM while awake sometimes, if I’m fighting sleep, like I perceive the movement.
You’re right, I knew that and still mixed it up. And the real tragedy is the guy was a super stand-up guy that doesn’t at all deserve the sort of mockery his death prompts.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-hero-who-rode-his-segway-off-a-cliff