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Also, my political campaign will hinge on every child getting at least one set of building block, because they kick ass.

So you know your bucket of Lego? It’s a bunch of blocks that can move around each other. (Swish some around to demonstrate)

Water is made up of little tiny block that can swish around too. When you make them cold, they start to stick together. (Start connecting Lego blocks)

The colder it is, the more they connect, until all the water blocks have joined up together and made a bigger block of ice.

Then, when you heat the ice up, they start to come apart and move freely again.

So, heat is movement and cold is connected. This is the same for almost everything!

Lava from volcanos is just rocks that have been heated up enough to move. When the lava flows out and cools down, it hardens back into rocks.

Might need to get those checked out.

I think that aspect has improved, then. The player base seems to have discovered that grouping up to take on fullgears is more fun than wrestling in the mud.

It’s a mixed bag. Bambis have nothing to lose, so you’re more likely to make friends.

I’ve had a few good runs by talking to people. You get betrayed every now and then, but it’s part of the game.

Same. Bohemia Interactive’s rep took a big hit (in my mind, at least) so I’m a lot more cautious.

This is after I backed the Arma3 Supporter Edition and had to wait like 6 hours after general release to play. Sadtimes.

NGL, DayZ has improved massively over the last few years. (I too had a very dim view of it after they took a massive step back moving from mod->Standalone)

Also, they made the Livonia DLC free and launched the Frostline DLC.

W I T H D R A W L S

D E T E C T E D : ….

This is literally how it has always been.

You don’t own any of the games you paid for, you bought a license to play those games under specific circumstances. It’s the same with books & movies.

Valve have (allegedly) stated that in the case of Steam shutting down, games they can update to remove Steam DRM, they will.

“Hostile posture”

I really like that phrase.

The Harsh Internal Critic has been the bane of my life. Every hobby or achievement has been hounded by that little voice. And as you say, when I think I need to get help, the voice tells me :No. Don’t do that, just sit there watching YouTube for another hour."

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On iOS the web rendering engine is the same one used in Safari, yeah.

But everything built on top of that is custom.

I can think of no higher honour in this day and age.

Fixed rates are safer, for sure.

But during the pandemic, when rates went to near zero, I was very glad to be on a variable.

Mortgages can change repayments amounts as the central lending rate changes.

We’re in a squeeze in Canada right now because rates went up and a bunch of mortgages are up for renewal. (5-year fixed rate is standard here)

On top of all this, what really irritates me about epic is they talk like they give a fuck about consumers, but never act like it.

Too many knocks to the head.

My first and current distro is Pop_OS and it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass. I need to run terminal commands to get Bluetooth to work, Rocksmith is a lost cause, my display signal dies randomly, forcing a restart.

Thinking about Bazzite, but read this article and maybe Ubuntu is just easier, for now?

(Nvidia gpu giving me pause over which will support it better)

I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

And when high-level languages started appearing.