Yeah nice, if your question is so straight-forward that it takes two minutes to think of what you need to know and the answer can be summarised.

However, I suspect that if somebody is reading an entire book, they might be looking for something a bit more nuanced.

Robolovers are such low hanging fruit but everybody loves a piñata.

This is beautiful! Such a cool style, and such a solid foundational theme running through all of the images. Love it!

Inertial Measurement Unit, Quintessence, Nybbling, and Lookup Table are deffo my faves. Great choice of colours too

Funny you should mention that actually! At work, I’m just finishing up a website for two companies that are merging. One is English speaking, but the other required multiple languages to be available for the whole site.

We used a system that uses DeepL. None of the non-English speakers (across 8 separate languages) say that the result is satisfactory. I know they might be being difficult etc but I was genuinely a bit surprised that entire swathes of the site is so poorly translated by DeepL that they’ve delayed the launch to go through and manually translate lol

But what is “boner misinformation”? 😂

Haha whoa that looks so sick! It’s huge!!!

Apparently it was up there for around a decade before breaking up, with one of the largest fragments finally “deorbiting” in 2016.

I do! I see okay, so it’s like the private key is stored within the ROM somewhere, and that activation code is like a public key that just decrypts based on the locally stored private key, making anti-piracy software work whether online or offline. Quite clever, really! Thanks 😊

Comma. Hyphen. Apostrophe.

Does DRM work without an internet connection? I always assumed that sort of thing needed to be able to communicate with a server somewhere to check… Something? 😅 Or is it just that the DRM used in this case actually just breaks in an unintentional way when running on new Windows systems and locks the game into not being able to boot?

There are so many American flags in this picture, what the hell 😂

I’m a total dullard when it comes to these things but like, if you disconnect your machine from the internet so no outside checks can be made… Wouldn’t it just run as usual?

Punishment is part of justice. Seeing that somebody who does wrong intentionally and with malice suffers, proportionally, is part of the lesson that the justice system teaches.

In my opinion, punishment is important for the victim (to see that they are protected, and to satiate any craving for extra judicial revenge), society at large (to demonstrate that there is a governing body that will not let people get away with causing harm), and for the criminal themselves (to show that harmful acts will result in reprisal).

It crucially can’t be the whole lesson, though. There has to be guidance, forgiveness (on a legal level), and a corrective path available to people who hurt others. Punishment on its own often just perpetuates systems that produce criminality, and isn’t enough to effectively reform people who have done wrong.

That’s a miserable situation to be in, I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. It can be shocking to see how people you know and feel close to act around others. I’m surprised that they all felt comfortable excluding you from conversations like that - to me, that’s super weird and would feel very strange to be on either side of that interaction. Odd behaviour from Mandy.

It could be that the effort they’re putting in now will peter out over time, and the boyfriend will be in the situation you’ve found yourself in; excluded by a language barrier.

Yeah, it terrified me too! It was also just one of those things that kind of made it seem like games were magic, in a way? Like, it was so unexpected and it expanded what a game could do in my child mind to such an extent that suddenly they could do almost anything! I miss that.

Ugh, sucks to hear it’s unlisted due to some legal technicalities. That’s a shame.

The panic and immediate sadness after you drink in a dream, and the misery when you wake up and still feel like you drank because you can’t remember going to bed sober immediately both suck… But the realisation that it was a dream is SO sweet!

Yeah absolutely, I just find that it’s tough to be motivated at first, so while trying to keep my social life alive and kicking (it’s sort of died lately but I’m comfortable with that cos I’m realising a lot of my friends are more like drinking buddies) I did let myself be lazy. It feels good to be getting more active!

Good on you working with other alcoholics though. Good work 🙏

Thank you for saving us the click 🙏

Black and White 2 is SUCH a great game! I didn’t realise you couldn’t get it on any storefront!!

Is it B&W2 or B&W1 where the game whispers your name if you play it at night?

She’s talking about the industry, not the music. It is a bit of a weird article though, misspelling Tait’s name in the subtitle and missing a word further down (“published a lengthy article said to be the result of a two and a half investigation into Tait”). I thought rolling stone usually didn’t make those kinds of editing mistakes!

Day 56, and the dreams are back. In them, I’m either feeling guilty and sad about drinking, but drink anyway, or I’m drinking a pint but am unsure whether it’s alcohol free or not, and spend ages trying to figure out whether I feel drunk. Weird!

Either way, though, IWNDWYT! Finally started to get some motivation back in my waking hours, which is handy because my work has become incredibly stressful and busy. I’ve tidied the flat up, applied to some volunteering opportunities, and have been walking about 10km a day since last week. Fun stuff!

I hope everyone is well ✌️

“spewing boner misinformation” is absolutely hilarious, what does that mean?

I have no idea what order to read these posts in 😂