WolfLink

“It’s fine if it’s in a bag and off or silent” has been cell phone policy in my experience (decades ago).

The checked bag weight limit is to protect the worker who has to lift 100s of bags per day.

The only announced Nintendo games that are Switch 2 exclusive are Mario Kart, Kirby Air Ride sequel, and the new Donkey Kong

I got nitro for higher audio quality so I could stream background music while running a DnD campaign over discord.

It also increases your streaming resolution and file upload size limit which is quite useful.

It also lets you use emojis from any server in any other server, which isn’t “useful” but is fun and I do it all the time.

For these 3 things I think it’s worth it. It’s worth noting I have a grandfathered Nitro plan that is more features than “Nitro Basic” but less features than the next tier at a cost that’s in between.

The real enshitification I’m worried about is the gradually increasing prevalence of ads in increasingly prominent places.

The syntax is a bit messed up, but I have a programmer joke

Probably the simplest answer is protons and electrons repel themselves with a force far stronger than gravity. Neutrons don’t repel themselves in that way.

Before the electronic calculators, “computer” was a career. Much like today, the scientists and engineers would write out the equations that need to be solved, but then pass the work to a “computer” to plug in actual numbers. The difference is modern computers are electronic and historic computers were humans who did arithmetic as a career.

Here’s the relevant Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

But those scientists and engineers still knew how to do math, even if they were offloading that work most of the time. The point being, it’s still important to learn how to do math, even if you won’t be the one actually doing it most of the time, and this has been true for hundreds of years, well before electronic calculators and computers.

I wouldn’t keep my stormtrooper bust in my incredibly thematic medieval styled DnD room.

The work historians do is ceases to be science the moment they start filling in the blanks.

Bro what do you think science is? You interpolate, then seek evidence that your interpolation was bad, and if you can’t find such evidence then you accept your interpolation as good.

This summarizes Severance

The AI absolutely doesn’t get the point.

The art is supposed to mimic an action figure case, complete with the person drawn with more specular lighting than they should to look kinda plasticy, and all of the components have an outline because they are held in plastic packaging.

The AI of the person looks more like one of Apple’s nightmare emoji than a toy, the cat isn’t even in a segment of the container, some of the containers are broken, and the details I mentioned above are completely missing. Not to mention all the wrong text, or that the box looks nothing at all like an action figure box.

The human art isn’t that good, but the AI one isn’t even coherent.

Some particular reasons why I’d recommend Minecraft for this:

• it’s very easy to get started, but there’s a lot of depth if you get into it
• its pretty slow-paced
• its a multiplayer game where someone of a much higher skill level and someone of a much lower skill level can play together without the noob player feeling that they are holding the advanced player back
• if you set the difficulty to peaceful it’s hard to die, and it’s impossible to fully “lose”. You can also turn on keepinventory.
• it’s a very open-ended game where you can come up with your own goals, which makes it something that everybody can find fun in their own way
• if they do get into it, it’s a good segue into a wide variety of other games. Just figure out what part of Minecraft they enjoy. You can also extend Minecraft by playing with mods.