All i can say is, you have been a very lucky individual.

It’s clear what is required. There are no blockers to contribution. It’s immediately rewarding, and progress is rapid and measurable.

Just about the opposite of any other project you might be involved in

Different experience for everyone I suppose :)

I found the space controls and conservation of momentum to be such a fun aspect. I loved getting consistently good at it, and feeling like a competent rocket pilot when I nailed fancy manoeuvres.

Silksong on the other hand, I had to give up because it was way too hard for me!

Outer Wilds (not Worlds) is incredible, I doubt you’ll regret playing it.

Well, you might. Some people do bounce off; usually due to not knowing where to go next, or what to do next. But if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want your hand holding and are okay to persevere a little, you’ll probably have a good time.

No other game for me has ever matched the feeling of exploration and discovery, and that is only possible because the game gives you a long leash.

I chose intentionally obscure and wacky gadgets to overstate the point. I don’t genuinely think everyone has these :)

I love how which devices get countertop space is a real reflection on culture around the world.

Here in the UK you can always find an electric kettle, without question. In Italy a Moka pot. In Japan a rice cooker.

It says a lot about what’s important to people.

It’s only really in the US that you see such a proliferation of hyper-specific gadgets. Smoothie maker, waffle maker, electric egg poacher, vegetable spiralizer…

I don’t know if that says anything about American culture, or just that you guys have really big kitchens.

Or how flashlights make a little circle of light in otherwise near-total darkness, as opposed to real flashlights which light up a pretty wide area.

The defendants challenged the order in the state’s high court, pointing out that the cited orders were fake. The high court acknowledged this, but accepted that the junior civil judge had made the error in “good faith” and went on to agree with the trial court’s decision anyway.

This is a recurring and troublesome pattern in AI use. Institutions and individuals trying to dodge responsibility like “It turned out to be wrong but I can’t be held responsible that it was wrong.”

You don’t get to blame the AI for this. You’re the human, and the buck stops with you.

We need to set strong precedents that people are always the ones responsible for outcomes, not AI. If we fail to do this, there will be no accountability for anything.

1-2 years

I think it’s just New York

“Party-size” bread stick.

Is that a baguette?

Looks like a bash shell command to me

If they actually think Halloween “isn’t real” that’s pretty nuts. It exists regardless of whether they want it to or not.

That said, a lot of holidays have become pretty corporate to the extent I can understand people wanting to opt out and not celebrate them, or do things in their own way.

Big difference between that and thinking it’s “not real” though.

Pro tip: It’s easy to be clothed and on the couch at 6AM if that’s how you fell asleep

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I’m glad to see people going public with these sorts of shenanigans.

The thing about maker communities is that makers generally appreciate the importance and ethics of “not stealing other people’s shit,” and putting companies on blast for it does in this community hurt their bottom line.

And when it hurts their bottom line, that drives action.

Elegoo wouldn’t release their firmware for the Centauri Carbon claiming it was proprietary, until someone proved it was just modified Klipper, and therefore in breach of Klipper’s license. And the community backlash was strong enough that Elegoo were compelled to release it.

So yeah, do the good work and keep making these companies accountable.

It will certainly bang

If the attachment is what makes it a screwdriver, then the attachment is also what makes it a drill.

An electric kitchen mixer is not a drill. At least, it wasn’t designed to be one. But I could weld a drill bit on there and turn it into something which can maybe drill - if terribly.

Similarly, the ‘device’ part of what we call an electric drill can’t drill anything, not until you put the drill bit in. It’s not a drill in its base form - just a handheld spinny thing waiting for a purpose.

But I could add a whisk and turn it into a kitchen mixer…

We generally call the body part of a drill ‘a drill’ because that’s what it was designed to be. It’s got speed settings and torque control and hammer function and all the things that were engineered to make it good at drilling. But it’s not a drill without the bit - both practically and philosophically - and what community is more philosophical than showerthoughts.

The PS5 version of GTA6 is going to sell pretty well then

What about Hyper Casual and Legendarily Casual?