Exactly. They’ll back down a little bit to reduce some of the bad publicity, and then later they’ll quietly expand the remit until the same end is reached anyway.

The frog is boiled slowly.

Yeah, I’ll definitely wake up a few times for the food. It’s already paid for after all, can’t waste it :)

Wake me up in 30 hours

It’s fascinating when a much-loved and now quintessential aspect of a show only turned out the way it did because of bothersome real-world factors.

Just like how transporters and “Beam me up Scotty!” only happened because it was too expensive to be doing shuttle model shots every episode.

As the audience, we tend to assume that every aspect of what we see on the screen is intentional and deliberate, but just like any job there are surprises and curveballs, and the production team are making things up and solving problems as they go along. I always love learning about stuff like that.

My seven-year-old niece showed me that movie.

I didn’t have high expectations going in but it’s an absolute banger, largely because of the excellent songs. It is, fundamentally, a musical.

And yes it’s silly, but not in the ways that matter.

I remember watching an anime years back which has an anthropomorhpic bread bun who is depressed because he came out the oven burnt. He spends his days working a miserable office job and his evenings getting ‘drunk’ on ‘milk’, wishing he wasn’t burnt so he could dare ask out the girl of his dreams, the beautiful and perfect strawberry bread.

The guy is literally bread. The premise is as silly as they come, but the characters are real and their feelings are intensely relatable, so it works.

Demon Hunters is the same show. Main girl is trying to make it with her band, but is secretly worried and self-conscious because she’s hiding a terrible secret that she knows would tear her friendships and her life apart. And the movie is about how she comes to terms with herself.

So yes it’s got unbelievable fights, and earth-protecting barriers that are somehow powered by music, and a group of demons that for some reason decide to form a shit-hot boy band (they’re very good). But that’s not the movie, that’s just the vehicle.

For anyone else on the fence, you don’t need to wait. Lots of distros support gaming right out the box. I switched my gaming desktop (nvidia card) to Pop_OS!, installed Steam, and it just works.

What factors lead you to select Cachy?

The interesting thing about clarifying and localising is that you’re always consciously making a trade-off between multiple competing factors - the original direct meaning, the emotion, tone and intent, and the ease of consumption in the target context.

And so how you choose to translate depends not only on the text, but the circumstance, the speaker, and who you are translating for.

If in a manga for example a character says (in Japanese) “the child of a frog is a frog,” you could make the choice to localise that with an equivalent English idiom, as “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” or you could perhaps instead take the speaking character’s personality into stronger account and preserve their meaning, such as “He’s a piece of shit, just like his old man.”

But it all depends on context. If that idiom showed up in a piece of poetry you might decide to leave it exactly as “the child of a frog is a frog.” - Perhaps there is related symbolism to preserve, and the ‘frog’ metaphor is important. But in that situation you can do it, because the reader will have more time and desire to study it, and preserving the original words may be more important than making it easy on the reader.

Translation is as much of an art as writing is.

Same for me. When the third party API fiasco happened, Reddit was dead to me.

If I can’t engage on my terms, I don’t want to engage at all

That’s a very considered answer, I like it.

I expect if I was asked this question back when I was 20, I’d have said “20 lol”- because why on earth would you ever want to be older than that?

But that answer completely overlooks there’s a lot of external factors to consider which are increasingly relevant as your mental age diverges from your physical age. Right or wrong, perceptions matter and people will judge you on how you look.

30 is a very good middle ground where you could participate in just about any social group you wanted without sticking out too much.

The point is, this is not an overclocked chip.

The factory speeds for released chips topped out at 3.8 GHz, but this is a factory Pentium 4 with a base clock of 4GHz.

The red route makes sense, because you’re connecting two of the most populous coastal areas of the US to each other.

If you compare this fictional map to an existing map of freight rail there are a lot of similarities

My opinion is they don’t have antigrav shelves because generally speaking they don’t need them.

In TNG for example, we are no longer in an era of battleships, where everything is stowed away and strapped down. We are in a time of warp drive and aritifical gravity and smooth cruising.

But more importantly, we are largely in a time of peace, where diplomacy is favoured over war.

You can imagine the quarters of every starship captain might be similarly furnished as Picard’s, with trinkets and little personal items, and that most ships fly around uneventfully on their missions for years, without ever even spilling a cup of tea.

That Enterprise and Voyager happen to be in a scrape every two minutes is like an in-universe statistical outlier.

Compare to DS9 where the Defiant is clearly a ship of war, and is furnished like one.

Genuine question - what aspect of it didn’t work for them?

That’s the thing - we just can’t know. Sometimes a feature is just a feature, but with commercial software there’s always more risk it’s going to change under you for the wrong reasons when they find some way to monetise it.

Except it will, because developers aren’t going to bother maintaining an app where the install base is just pixel users with Graphene

Both true, but for totally different reasons, right.

Early Internet was kinda bonkers because it was disconnected and unregulated and anonymous and nobody yet understood UX design so every site was different, yet always cluttered and overwhelming.

Modern Internet is bonkers because UX patterns and user behaviour is so understood and homogenised that every site is basically the same simplified interface, along with the same dark patterns that manipulate user behaviour to maximise corporate profit, rather than trying to give users what they actually want.

The old type of bonkers was far more preferable.

Finally, some good fucking website

1. Fuck preorders

2. This isn’t a post complaining that Silksong brought the networks down, it’s people celebrating it, because it’s amazing to see a small studio doing so well and absolutely crushing their launch - not because they had an insane marketing budget, but because the community is just organically so excited for it. And all at a low price that puts big studios to shame.

Tap to pay is a choice, with a viable alternative.

You could choose to NOT use tap to pay, carry a bank card, and it would have basically no impact on your ability to conduct your life.

But I agree the banking app itself is a big problem, and something that cannot be lived without.

Yes. If the planet was stationary in space, it wouldn’t work. Approach from ‘behind’ the planet and you get a boost, approach from the ‘front’ and you hit the brakes.