Shihali

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[–] Shihali 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This title is a play on words, meaning "leave Mac owners short change". That is, not having as many coins as they assumed they had. Usually you are short change because you had a little less money with you than you thought, but with malware involved they mean theft.

It's difficult. I didn't understand the headline until reading the summary. "Short-changed" means not getting everything you purchased. It originally meant not getting all your change from paying with a larger bill. For example, if you used a $5 bill to buy $2.20 worth of snacks and got $2.75 back, you were short-changed.

[–] Shihali 1 points 1 year ago

I assume they're trying to model Islamic dynasties exploding out of the desert or steppe or mountains, conquering a big empire, and then fragmenting or falling to a similar explosion. In that light high house unity blocking instead of enabling strong CBs sounds backwards. Seems like you'd want high house unity to enable strong CBs, but house unity should be extremely difficult to sustain as the house grows and spreads out.

[–] Shihali 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars might work. It's going to be difficult (fear the spear) and you'll want to use those items, but it is overall easier than Chrono Trigger. And it has a remake coming out soon with some system changes.

Final Fantasy Mystic Quest was intended for your situation, but it's balanced in all the ways you dislike.

Otherwise, possibly the very easiest remakes of old games like the Final Fantasy 4 Pixel Remaster.

[–] Shihali 5 points 1 year ago

Dragon Quest is the OG for a reason. The remakes are a lot less grindy and don't use ye olde Englysshe so they would be easier to read but less educational.

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

WBridge5 (http://www.wbridge5.com/) is a free award-winning bridge program. It won't teach you how to play the game, though.

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

Seems to vary depending on whether I'm attempting to listen to music on my device ("attempting to" is the right word as it takes 15 seconds to load each individual song as it goes through a playlist) or listen to a YouTube video. It can go further into the background if it's music on my device, no further back than a big window drawn over the screen if it's a podcastable video, and must be in the foreground for a video IIRC.

[–] Shihali 3 points 1 year ago

Filler arcs, such a common cause of show death.

[–] Shihali 16 points 1 year ago

It means that the police believe that the family was targeted because of some relationship, instead of a serial killer or armed robbers looking for whoever left the door open or doesn't keep large dogs. So the police don't expect the killer(s) to massacre another family in the neighborhood.

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

Firefox supports a font technology for less common scripts, Graphite, that the for-profit-corporate browsers do not. I use one of those scripts once in a great while. So I'm locked in until OpenType has better support.

[–] Shihali 1 points 1 year ago

Nay.

I see the argument for defederating from instances with no active administration because they could start hosting egregiously illegal content at any time without recourse. And after going through the initial Hexbear wave I am for defederating instances with a strong trolling and brigading culture until we can allowlist on an individual basis. (This sounds rather like Beehaw, doesn't it?)

[–] Shihali 2 points 1 year ago

Do today's tankies have a habit of moving on to right-wing totalitarian movements like their 1930s predecessors? I ask because talking them out of Leninism could be an own goal if they move to a movement that's more dangerous.

[–] Shihali 7 points 1 year ago

DQ5 wasn't the first generation game or the first monster-catching game, but it was one of the earlier games to offer either and AFAIK the first game to offer both.

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