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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.

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

acknowledged!

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.

yes as others have said. microcontroller with decent io and wifi, fairly easy to make web interfaces which is handy. A step up from arduino and i dont think it eats too much more power if the wifi is used sparingly.

I’ve got a wildlife infrared camera made off a pi zero. I reckon if i can switch that to esp32 the battery life might stretch quite a bit - or i can shrink the case to a smaller battery. raspberry pipico would probably do similar tbf, but i bought like 10 esp32 for cheap. but i’m not quite sure how well they handle the image processing triggering.

Recently i’ve been making these: https://github.com/gadec-uk/departures-board as gifts for people who i know that live in London who i sometimes stay with. extremely useful.

There’s loads of projects like this that people have done and you can just put them together for a few tens of quid and a few hours of time if you dont have to write the software.

I think esp32 is more commonly used. i think they’re pretty similar capabilities and both dirt cheap. I just see more projects with esp32.

16gb raspberry pi was always weird, even 8gb. It’s more just a desktop pc or something at that level - the used pc market has usually been similar vfm when you factor in storage and peripherals.

The pizero2(W) is still very cheap for real raspberry pi stuff - where you just want an OS for some reason instead of esp32.

If I got that question by text though I’d normally ignore it until Monday. Bumming around doing nothing is one of my most valued hobbies.
“are you bored ?” might get a response, but better to reveal something about the proposed alternative. “want to do macrame on Sunday?”

I especially hate this one in work. “you free?”
Unfortunately, a polite reply is expected in that context so i can’t say “no” (I’m at work, as you fucking well know).

The question normally means " i fucked up x and don’t know what to do about it"

If they don’t tell me what “X” is, how do I know where their fuckup ranks in the wider population of fuckery.

yeah that’s what had me confused.

Maybe they mean open some process management tool ?

Things like archwiki and forums and manpages / open source made it possible. LLM might give you their answer faster, but risk of missing some context that might be important.

Might make open source more trustworthy, It can’t be any harder to check than closed source.

UK law basically doesn’t use the term.

My point was that proving dominance and abuse is rarely objective fact. It sure isn’t showing market share and that some games companies go out of business. They have to show the things that valve does to restrict competition - being popular isn’t enough alone.

Your last question is quite a good example of how hard it is to prove because it includes counterfactual comparisons.

This might be why it seems (if the journo is to be believed) that they’re going down the tie-ins angle for the DLC, not necessarily headline pricing. Thou the latter would probably a worse outcome for valve if guilty.

There are not many objectively provable monopolies and i doubt that English law would support that claim without extremely strong evidence, generally utilities are the only ones that’d get close. A necessity with high fixed costs and infrastructure lock-in.

Steam has high market share in a segment, but not necessarily a distinct segment, I’m sure steam would argue that there are enough consumers who can and do substitute between pc and console and mobile, as well as other vendors so that their market power is mitigated by a fair amount of consumer mobility.

So what you’re looking to prove is unlikely to be a pure “monopoly” but ‘excess market power’, and ‘abuse of market power’. That is a complex legal art that the competition regulator is usually not that successful at proving, at least in English law.

Abuse of market power has to impact consumers not producers. There are always marginal producers struggling to make a profit - that happens in competitive markets, producers bidding prices down, some going out of business. I’m not saying I agree, but that’s more or less how the law sees it, lookup what they let supermarkets get away with in contracts with farmers.

To show consumer harm from upstream market manipulation you’d probably have to show a material dearth of choice being created by steam policies in order to jack up prices. Maybe that can be demonstrated, but it’s not simple and more likely to come down to subjective interpretation of the arguments and evidence from both sides rather than any unarguable objective truth.

If it were unarguable or objectively true then the CMA might lead the investigation itself instead of this being a private action. Though maybe this is too small a market for them to worry about.

I think prawns can become horseys and (however unlikely) rooks and bishops too.

If they can transform species like that then I think a penis or a womb here or there is no big deal.

I think maybe they’re more like snails, who’ll do whatever it takes to secure a mate.

Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end. That’d probably spoiling the visuals - though clear acrylic might work.

The tuning was the the other huge issue, he didn’t actually say how long it took to get in tune tune, nor how long it held tune.

cool though

Is it even true?

I’d have thought if i find the right wine prefix, use some winetricks type thing on it, execute whatever installer, then it should modify that game files / env?

I’m not saying i’ve ever done it, but it feels like that would most likely work just fine.

I mean as a uk steaming turd, i’d take the cash ( so long as it didn’t require age verification), but there are way more egregious infringements of competition in this cuntry that get off scott free even after CMA “investigations”.

It’s worse than that, lots of these linuxes actually have this builtin virus called wine, which means they are really just windows in disguise.

It also makes them look like a hacker to the FBI, that’s why TYOTLD has never come. Most linusers are getting dissapeared to guano bay.

Far safer to stay on windows, linus is only suitable for real hackers who can grep their way into cia mainframe to expunge their records.

Nah, the data just sounds better on vinyl. Especially if you use valves instead of silicon transistors.