Even if it was, condoms come in sizes.

I’d argue that accurate color perception isn’t necessary if one makes an assumption about the average age of the riders. Given that bright hair in humans is either blond or whitened by age (excepting albinos, which are rare), all of the riders having bright hair means that they’re either blond or old. Assuming that there are few large groups of senior riders, Legolas could come to his conclusion based on brightness alone.

Unfortunately I don’t know enough about optics to say whether this makes any difference.

Or, for the Europeans in the audience: https://europass.europa.eu/en/create-europass-cv

Not for me. In my case, the party accidentally one-shotted the big bad the first time they met him because everyone had severely underestimated the amount of firepower that system gave PCs who weren’t deliberately gimped.

It’s okay; I declared that the guy had a cloning device. From then on he died once per session and the tone of the campaign changed into “zany splatter comedy”.

Why do you go for a MIRV if your warhead doesn’t even leave the atmosphere?

One problem is that in a world without major problems, stakes have to be low (which is perfectly fine and can make for an engaging story) or an external threat has to be introduced. The latter can easily feel forced or disconnected with the world.

I wonder how it would be to have a nonlinear game set in two time periods. One is a solarpunk-ish idyll under threat (with the protagonist’s actions focused on protecting it) and the other is a preceding industrial dystopia (with the protagonist’s actions focused on effecting change for the better).

Throughout the game the player first learns that the dystopian protagonist’s actions did succeed in changing the world for the better but also that the threats faced by the idyllic period are consequences of those actions. The message is that even ideal decisions can have negative effects down the line, “happily ever after” endings don’t really exist, and happiness requires maintenance. Yet, change for the better is both possible and worth the effort.

We really need kei cars with tax rebates. Maximum width, length, height, and empty weight. That’ll incentivize people to get cars that actually fit into existing parking spots and should also help with road wear.

And then your European players wonder why the color artifacts are all wrong. PAL and NTSC had different distinct looks (and presumably so did SECAM).

Welp, there goes the neighborhood. If they want to do an IPO they’ll probably enshittify the hell out of the platform and jettison all remotely raunchy communities. Because nothing says “good investment” than a service that just drove out a fair chunk of its user base.

That’s not a problem if executive orders are treated as law; the first amendment doesn’t curtail the president’s power.

With the caveat that the majority of its “solutions” are wrong. So it generates output that looks plausible enough to be accepted as an answer but is not exactly correct. That’s pretty much on par for LLMs.

The lack of precision may be acceptable for a chatbot or a summarizer. But for coding you need precision and that’s something LLMs don’t offer.

And if you have a bike with a belt you can replace all chain-related maintenance with “check if the belt looks weird maybe once a year”.

Given that prisons are an industry in the States and that inmates are one of their main sources of cheap labor, the high recidivism rate is there to maximize profits.

I’d say that Microsoft’s Fluent design language is even worse. Material at least tries to use rounded shapes and animations; Fluent has been pretending that monocolored rectangles are interesting since 2010. And it has been consistently wrong.

You can turn messages into threads so you get something that looks kinda sorta vaguely similar to posts if you squint.

The real problem with the “improved” SMB from the post is not that it has ways of making the game easier, it’s that the “fixes” amount to a microtransaction hellhole, complete with intrusive prompts.

I’m all for games with configurable difficulty. Nobody thinks less of Doom for having difficulty settings. But everybody does think less of games that pair frustrating mechanics (like difficulty spikes or countdown timers) with bypass MTX.

To use the default controversial genre, I think that a soulslike with difficulty settings would work just fine. But a soulslike where your healing flask only restores one charge every ten minutes unless you buy more charges from the store (but store-bought ones can exceed the normal maximum) or where game-breakingly OP equipment is available as MTX would not go over well.

Or they’ll do Elden Ring 2 with GoW gameplay as a live service game because surely people just want a new but proven IP.

Good point. If you look at the Yakuza games, they’re typically set in a little entertainment district. The map isn’t huge but it’s not supposed to be. It feels the correct size for a busy little part of town.

Meanwhile, yeah, Fallout 3 gave me the impression that even before the war the DC metropolitan area was home to maybe a thousand people.

If you use a .local domain, your device MUST ask the mDNS address (224.0.0.251 or FF02::FB) and MAY ask another DNS provider. Successful resolution without mDNS is not an intended feature but something that just happens to work sometimes. There’s a reason why the user interfaces of devices like Ubiquiti gateways warn against assigning a name ending in .local to any device.

I personally have all of my locally-assigned names end with .lan, although I’m considering switching to a sub-subdomain of a domain I own (so instead of mycomputer.lan I’d have mycomputer.home.mydomain.tld). That would make the names much longer but would protect me against some asshat buying .lan as a new gTLD.

And that’s one of the annoying things about snap: It’s fundamentally a nice system with neat capabilities but it’s spoiled by Canonical’s proprietary backend.