I cannot speak about the quality of the port (I played it on the DS), but Capcom ports Ace Attorney to every system they can.

Windows (Steam): https://store.steampowered.com/app/787480/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Trilogy/

Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/phoenix-wright-ace-attorney-trilogy-switch/

Is anyone (other than maybe Nintendo) setting up a wait list for buying systems as they restock? I would not mind getting at the back of that line.

There aren’t any release window games I want, but I may want one by the holidays or next year, once more games are released.

The article does not get into detail, but I assume Stonemaier Games is going to argue that the President does not have the power to impose this type of tariff. The company is probably hoping that the judge will stay the tariff until the case can be argued. If this only buys the company enough time to refill their US warehouse without paying a tariff, they could come out ahead.

You still get company swag? In the 2010’s, I got a ton of it, but not anymore. Maybe it is just that the company I was working at got too cheap to give out swag and when I switched jobs, I joined another cheapskate, but I assumed that it was the same everywhere.

I have enough company and recruiter swag collected during the good years that I have not needed to buy t-shirts, especially because I generally wear a collared shirt over them, so I don’t care what logos and slogans they have.

Note, that data is from April 8th, which is before the 90 day tariff pause was announced.

From what my friends working in retail have told me, the trend is (temporarily) reversed. Every freight container going to the US is getting booked solid at inflated rates as brands try to bring in merchandise from non-Chinese factories into the US in case the tariffs resume.

Nintendo is not going to do extensive QA testing for every single Switch game (especially not every third party shovelware game which might have had errors running on a regular Switch). I assume they ran every automated test they had handy and had someone spend X hours poking around the game to try to find issues.

The more interesting question would be how will games be fixed? Are they patching the game to fix the issue or are they patching the Switch 2 firmware to match Switch behavior? The more bugs they fix with the later approach the less important it is to exhaustively test every single game.

The cost of the 100 year domain name registration is $38,000 USD.

A bad price for hosting today (even if you pay monthly, I would expect a very hefty bulk purchase and prepayment discount), but you are paying for services to be done in 2120 with 2023 prices. Having said that, it is probably better to invest the 38k into a government bond or index fund, since hosting costs are not likely to outpace inflation.

Also, you are betting on the fact that the World Wide Web is going to remain a viable technology for the next 100 years and that WordPress will remain a functioning and secure website framework. Also, is there any guarantee that the company will not shut down after 30 years or that the machine you are being hosted on will be kept up to date with hardware standards (ultra high definition 3D movies take up a lot of storage space and bandwidth).

Overall, this feels like either a publicity stunt or an offer in search of a sucker.

It is a state school. The board of trustees are state employees. It seems that they don’t have any sort of tenure or term length. They got let go like any other at-will employee.

Last I heard, many urban landlords are getting out of that business and becoming hotel owners via Airbnb. It helps to make sure that those that do stay in the business have a healthy supply of tenants.

No, I’m a construction worker building houses and units.

So you, the mastermind behind the housing crisis, blame the victim?

Why do people have to rent? Because they cannot buy because construction workers refuse to build enough housing.

Why do landlords charge so much rent? Well, the biggest contributor to that is mortgage costs, driven up by out of control labor costs for construction.

The rest of the rent goes into savings by the landlord. The reality is, most renters are not as gentle with their homes as owners are and when something breaks, they demand that the landlord fix it and threaten to withhold rent until it is fixed. Facing financial ruin if they cannot make mortgage payments, the landlords are forced to turn to greedy construction workers preying on people backed into the corner. The construction workers take all of the set aside “excess rent” and more.

So really, we should stop blaming land lords and start blaming construction workers. They could, literally, build a free house for everyone.

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I am joking, if that was not clear.

Landlords do have to pay an income tax on property regardless of whether it is occupied or not, it is just that when a property is not being rented, it generates 0 income and 30% of $0 is $0.

Do you mean some sort of land appreciation tax?

From Let’s Plays I have seen online, the exploration and base building look interesting, thou I am not too fond of combat.

The Nerf ones are not good, but my dog can play with a Kong brand ball for quite a while.

Markdown is a bit limited (the spec doesn’t cover common extensions like tables of contents, internal links, and explicit page breaks). AsciiDoc is better on that issue.

The only use case I have for being picky about the formatting/layout of a document is my resume. Some people have a threshold for how long a resume is allowed to be (for example 1 additional page per 10 years of experience). Also, I have all of the dates right justified (for easy skimming) but still on the same line as the job title (to save space on the page).

It produces a very readable text file, but not necessarily the one I meant to send. It is good for capturing text, reasonable at formatting, and has no notion of layout. For example, when I send a resume, I format it so that it is compact (to fit in 2 pages, since some people care about that) yet readable (and skimable).

Teleconference is, at best, good enough and will never have the quality of in person discussion.

I am not aware of any teleconference software that uses perfectly lossless audio. Those small losses, though hard to hear, can increase the cognitive load of participants. Even with expensive headsets and good software, audio volumes will vary from speaker to speaker. Automatic volume leveling loses even more audio fidelity.

Due to physics (i.e. we cannot send a signal faster than the speed of light) and processing, there will be additional delay. It makes it hard for people to talk without speaking over each other. It makes discussions trickier since people are hesitant to talk right after one another. Instead of interrupting with questions, they will hold questions until the end, when the context may be forgotten, or don’t ask questions at all.

Even assuming that everyone has good lighting and has their camera pointed perfectly, body language is often lost. Every meeting software I have used hesitates to switch the focused speaker too often. If two people are talking back and forth, one will be religtated to a thumbnail video. When someone is presenting, they cannot easily scan the room to see reactions.

So, when talking on a meeting, the participants hear (almost) everything being said, but they miss out on all of the non-verbal communication and even some subtleties of the sound.

Sure, but many are probably locked into long leases. These leases also cover things like server rooms, show rooms, and storage areas. All of that can be moved, but there is cost (and risk) in moving them. Plus, it is convenient to have work areas for employees to use between meetings.

Also, some people, like me, prefer to work outside of their home, so it is good to have us in a single place so we can have impromptu meetings.

Some companies are reducing office space, taking desks away from employees that come in rarely or even switching to a hot bunk model (several employees share the same office and come in on different days) or a hotel model (employees sit in any open office and are expected to take all personal items home at the end of the day).

In office communication is much more efficient. It is easier to understand (and pay attention to) people in the same room as you than it is to understand people on a call (especially since most people don’t have a great microphone and Internet and LAN quality can vary). Some employers have adopted a policy of grouping meetings to designated meeting days and encouraging employees to come in on those.

I have not played it. I thought that it was 3D graphics with 2D movement and a zoomed out, fixed angle perspective, the same style as Pokemon Let’s Go. That is much easier to do than the full 3D of Sword, Arceus, and Scarlet.

Sure, but Windows Update was already part of the OS and web users were a customer segment that had an Internet connection. They could have pushed patches and bug fixes.