NaibofTabr

Always buy local if you can. It has the lowest climate impact.

Even buying a less-green local product vs. a more eco-friendly import might have less climate impact due to resource extraction, production in areas with possibly less environmental protection regulations, and above all shipping.

Climate cost-benefit outweighs all other arguments for rational people.

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Learning not to take everything so seriously.

“Vhat are you… sinking about?”

If you meet a bear in the woods today, you met a bear. If all day long all you meet is bears…

you’re also a bear.

Is there water access on the property? Potential for drilling a well?

Without a steady source of water, farming is problematic.

Eh, column A… column B…

It’s not just pining for my misspent youth, it’s the sense of community… the shared common experience of playing games together and shouting insults at each other across the room, getting together and comparing PC builds, helping each other with troubleshooting, plugging two 360s into each other for a 4v4 on Snowbound…

In some ways the activity doesn’t matter that much, it’s the spending time with other people… but that time and place where a really good game matched with a good group of players was where the most fun happened.

No game can ever be really great without a community, and there are aspects of community-building that don’t translate into online spaces, especially not ones that charge rent.

Oh I’m absolutely into board games. I’m playing through Jaws of the Lion with a friend right now.

There’s a fair bit of nostalgia in this lament. I don’t just want to have a LAN party… I want LAN party culture back. The ubiquity of the online services has killed it.

Local multiplayer.

That is, I want my “peripheral” to be the capacity for the game to support a second controller and another human in the same room, not just over the rent-seeking network service.

I used to have to mess with these things:

Now it’s easy, you can just have 4 controllers wirelessly connected to the console, no problem, but most new games don’t have a splitscreen mode. Personally I’ve gotten to the point where I often won’t buy a game if it only has online multiplayer.

Also, I want LAN parties back.

Online services have taken so much away from us.

Everybody has a test environment.

Some are lucky enough to also have a production environment.

then the spiders crawl all over you and build the web

No, stores pay the fee to the provider (MasterCard/Visa/American Express/etc) for processing the transaction. This is why you see those little signs that say “minimum credit card purchase $5” or w/e in smaller shops, because if the transaction is too small they lose money on it.

You might actually inflict $2.50 in losses on the location for processing a single transaction for a $0.50 sauce cup.

Hmm… isn’t the credit card transaction fee usually about $3?

Don’t get me wrong, I bought one of these right away, hoping to see some interesting data.

But, we are talking about network technology from 2008… it’s kind of like announcing that you’ve developed a tracking exploit for Bluetooth 3.0, or that you can reliably take over user accounts in AIM.

Previous solutions have also focused on attacks on the legacy 2G cellular network, which is almost entirely shut down in the U.S. Seeking to learn from and improve on previous techniques for CSS detection we have developed a better, cheaper alternative that works natively on the modern 4G network.

Calling the 4G network “modern” is a bit of a stretch at this point. As they said, previous attempts at this have been 2G so it’s cool to see something for a newer standard, but it’s about 5 years too late for 4G.

Almost all of these turn into attempts to get the target to buy into some crypto scam or other.

It’s not meant to catch people who are moderately aware, it’s meant to catch the stupid, ignorant, and easy to manipulate. Being an obvious scam is part of the utility - it saves time by naturally filtering out anyone who is too aware to actually give them any money.

and you have to choose to boot into desktop mode to even mess with anything.

You say that like it’s a bad thing, but I think having the two separate modes is a fantastic setup. You get basically a console experience, smooth and straightforward and easy to use for just playing games, and you still have access to the underlying system anytime you want.

Ukraine is the fire.

America is currently trying to put out the fire by dumping more fuel Russia on it.

Anon caught a bullet.