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This is what i figured, so long as you can output to a generic non drm enabled monitor like a VGA, you can just feed it back into a digital capture device. It might take some work / bandwidth to do it much faster than 1:1 time, but it just needs one person to do it once. In likelihood there’s a software way to do it perhaps with the right hacks to a display driver.

For involving the PC i’d say nameless one and annah in planescape torment.

Good banter , good complementary skills (i’d usually focus on magic in pst and have annah do the sneaking around and lure them into the blast zone ), some teaching/learning, some anger, some grief, mutual dependency / ass saving; literal resurrections of course; some infidelity possibilities or at least jealousy. And , of course, you can get the tattoo even though she’s scared of the tattooist.

It wasn’t plot linked as the other stories involving Deionarra and -spolier- and arguably not even necessarily a meaningful romance, but really good interpersonal dynamics over the course of the game that make the adventuring group more than just a collection of bashers walking from a to b.

Actually retrospectively -spoiler- might also be a good answer even if it was a bit unrequited desperate and mutually destructive. maybe i just really liked that game. I haven’t played many modern games though.

One of the videogame characters I was most attached to was Agro the horse in shadow of the colossus.

The only way to stop a bad guy with an arrow is a speeding car with go-fasta arrows paintjob.

unless I have to pay for parking, which is exceedingly rare

I guess that one of the hidden subsidies. Mandatory parking cost (of land) gets factored in to cost of business and socialised over customers that way. Hard for people to visualise that though as the true cost of that land is probably the opportunity cost, since the market price is probably skewed by the regulations.

Also EU govts might get crippled by losing out on all that tax revenue. /s

acknowledged!

So you cant kill anyone with the lever?! no fun.

totally , check out this one. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fvplwvjho7jw81.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=1daceedf488d025d41edc41f326aeac2cbfb578e41918c6a4fc609a23db9aa4a

fucking ridiculous, I can’t believe the council allows it.

yes as far as i can remember debian has always had this option.

I think it mattered more in the days of install cds, limited space on the disc and slow internet.

Maybe it also helps them prioritise maintenance of the repositories in line with user needs.

I’m just agreeing with mrfinnbean that science is to an individual what science is to society.

My point was individuals can do science without society, but they probably will still need a language/database before too long. Maybe I’m wrong about that in he small scale, but i’d think after several hundred experiments most people would struggle to keep track.

This zen meditation thing sounds very different - presumably there is no recording of the observations or conclusions?

Society will for sure be better at science than any individual, but the individual can still do it if they follow a scientific system of observation, hypothesis and test. Making the results and data accessible to others is a huge bonus, no doubt, shoulders of giants and that, but systematic documentation is intrinsically useful to the isolated scientist too even with no prospect of collaboration.

I don’t know about this zen malarkey. but if there’s no systematic study of reality, no observation , hypothesis, and testing cycle then i just don’t see the corollary with science.

The individual will need some way to record their observations to do science, some sort of a database. This probably involves something with characteristics of a language even if it’s just to communicate their observations accurately to themself in the future, or just organise their observations so that they’re amenable to analysis and testing new hypotheses.

I guess you could do some rudimentary science with non-language/non-abstract recording, like marking a single subjects height height on a wall, or putting sticks in the ground to mark sunrise and sunsets across the year or collecting stuffed animals. But eventually you’ll want to record more complex data and do more complex analysis, or get so many specimens that you’d need an abstraction like labels and a card index or something.

Isn’t monasticism being like a religious monk or something?

For sales , word of mouth. and consumer organisations doing “independent” testing. That’s sort of where the line gets blurry between a genuinely charitable independent consumer testing and review organisation, and a corrupt for-profit youtube “influencer”.

Consumers need to trust reviewers but that trust should always be tested and not unconditional.

Maybe regulated advertising, where they can be sued or fined for lying and misleading people. This should be covered under general fraud laws but probably so common you’d want a regulatory body that didn’t detract from law enforcement.

if you don’t institute battle royal, you’ll pretty soon end up with mad max.

Should maybe be the Toecutter in Oz.

I’m sure I can think of vertebrates that have things that make them “them” that don’t also apply to fish. For example do any fish have hips of any type? If not i can use “hip or not” to group vertebrates distinctly.

It’s similar to the process that lets me differentiate vertebrates from invertebrates in the first place. squishy worm, worm with teeth, worm with jaws, worm with backbone etc.

However good it is and however many certificates it has i personally agree with the dogshit classification. It won’t install on any of about 8 computers in my house, including one I bought from apple. Literally unusable to me for the last 10ish years. Windows would probably install on one or two of them I think, so I’ll give it a few hypothetical points for usability for that.

They need another column for the approximate population of twats.