Right? Google is extremely well known for its A/B testing.

Star fox and rogue squadron were probably my top games for the n64. Diddy Kong racing was right up there with them, and mario tennis and shadows of the empire rounding out the top 5. I think that most of the people I knew with n64s were in agreement on the star fox game being one of the best.

I didn’t realize there were 7 games now, damn. I always forget the SNES and 3DS. If you want a similar game, down to the cheesy pilot headshots and text boxes while flying (with the oh so common roguelike progression and basic lack of story that modern games seem to love), you could try Whisker Squadron. The gameplay is pretty fun, if basic.

I’d imagine strip clubs are going to be one of the few places you won’t see these things. They don’t want private videos of inside their establishment, and they aren’t a ‘public’ place so they can refuse to let you in with them.

Eh, I have my trackball from a more niche company, and it’s been fantastic. Their customer service was waaaay better than I expected from my experiences with logitech.

Also, trackballs are great. I can orient my hand any direction I want!

…but competitive fps is still beyond me. I need to catch 20+ years of mice usage to get the skill to par.

Hah! As a once near-addicted path of exile player, I can understand the basic maths of the mods, I just never really had the entire system click for me.

As for the story, I thought you can’t do the old missions that were time sensitive. I remember playing when there was some ‘dreadnought’ event (I’m probably not remembering the name correctly) where you got to use the giant suit attachment in space, but I only had the chance to play it once or twice before it ended.

Heh, proof again that defaults matter. I never even checked for a chat option.

I never even realized dead by daylight had a chat function. I still remember one killer playing against my friends and I was trying to communicate by interpretive dance, and the experienced friend told us we were going to fake run to get points for everybody or something.

That’s… so weird. Like, sure, having child characters makes it possible for someone to put something disgusting in as a mod, but how can you blame that on the game?

I’m amazed planetside 2 is still going. I shouldn’t be, considering the original lasted waaay longer than I thought it would. I still remember the fun when the one-shot shotguns were introduced. Light assault + shotgun + towers were the best fun I ever had. Outside of the mosquito dives, that is, until the freaking blues figured out that weird ‘accelerate at boost speeds vertically with a shotgun nose’ thing.

Huh. I guess I never really understood the game then, because I never saw any power differences between new and late game. Like, I could tell I wasn’t effective at the higher levels, but I couldn’t even figure out how to get there. Then a family member came to stay for a week, got addicted and played my account and suddenly everything was bonkers.

Plus, like most games of its type, coming in at the end of (how many now? I know I’ve seen like 15+ events) lore missions makes it awkward. Kind of like if I tried to go and play world of warcraft after leaving during the blood crusade.

Is heroes of the storm still going? I stopped playing when I switched to linux, and at the same time development stopped, I think. I always just enjoyed how many people were up for the pve version to roflstomp the computer. Twas a fun side game when you didn’t want to stress with the other randoms on pvp.

My friend keeps chat on, but refuses to say anything. His reasoning is that you can’t get banned for any quick chat messages, but everything typed is fair game. If you can get the other team to say something though… report time!

Me? I change my name to mess with the other players. I’ve made quite a few friends from casuals through that method. Plus if you can toe the line on what’s acceptable to type, you can catch the other guys typing out diatribes as you score.

Where’s that comic about the incredible danger of someone having your password to root versus just access to the computer?

Ah, of course it’s xkcd. https://xkcd.com/1200/

Passwords (saved in firefox or a firefox derivative) are stored locally, and are encrypted. Passwords in a password manager are stored locally and encrypted, or are stored in the manager’s computer and are encrypted. If someone were to breach your computer’s security, there are probably larger vulnerabilities than the encrypted passwords that are stored locally, as noted in the comic.

That may not be the entire story when it comes to security, but I think it’s a good start.

Ugh, I didn’t even think to check, but that’s a pretty bare history. I’ve noticed some shitty questions lately, like the generic reddit drivel the other day about ‘what do you miss about pre-internet?’

Humorously, hospitals really don’t want you to die when you’re there. It’s a lot of paperwork. Nothing kicks the social worker or case manager into overdrive like the doctor saying there is much less than 6 months left to live on the hospice paperwork.

But if you dip each bit of that value in butter…

But it works! Supposedly. Don’t poke holes in the JC penney story.

Throw in that athenian politician who has a name I never remember… One of the ‘charges’ against him was that he was acting as a bottom despite being older. The athenian pederasty had the older man taking a younger man as ‘appropriate,’ while the reverse was viewed as scandalous.

Blackmail tax, or ‘we’ll prosecute you under anti-gay laws or something later’ tax.