But that would give players a sense of, gasp, ownership! Can’t have that!

https://thegamepost.com/sony-cracks-down-concord-custom-servers-dmca-takedowns/

Hard to do that when you decimate the staff.

Some reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.

Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…

The files are sorted by the numeric year first, up to 1950.

The two files for 1950 are together, as they should be.

But the letters are sorted alphabetically, so XI comes before XV. It doesn’t see that they are numbers, it’s reading them as letters.

If they want it sorted correctly, they should rename the files:

“1950 - 018
1950 - 019”

That would work. Interestingly enough, so would:

“1950 - Eighteen
1950 - Nineteen”

Babylon 5. You don’t fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.

Like “O” and “0” in some fonts. The O is slightly fatter.

In the case of Il, the l is slightly taller. Don’t get me started on |.

Have you considered seeking professional help?

CNN is not a broadcast network.

I mean, if I had, essentially, unlimited money, and there were places in the world I liked to visit repeatedly, and I don’t mean “for a weekend” but months or seasons at a time? Hell yeah I’d buy a house there.

At a minimum, one Southern Hemisphere, one Northern Hemisphere. Never see Summer again.

Yeah, 181 is extraneous to the point, the “psst” at the bottom of 180 is the neighbors pulling him into a conversation, which is 181, same with the top part of 182.

I wanted folks to focus on the matches story which is relevant here.

But really, all of Maus is excellent.

Are they communists because they are red or because they have seized the means of production? 🤔

There’s a similar bit to that in the classic graphic novel Maus:

(edited for clarity)

Next on my reading list:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588857/toms-crossing-by-mark-z-danielewski/

1,232 pages.

Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.

My favorite story along these lines…

Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.

https://gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-vs-a-coat-hanger-363154

“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”

I don’t like this.

“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow.”

Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

That’s not a bad idea. I’ll need to measure the space once the shelves go up to get a better idea. Thanks!

Yeah, the pattern makes it intentionally hard to tell. It’s a vacuum formed plastic square with 4 circles.

I dunno if they’re transparent enough for that, would be worth looking into.