BattleBit Remastered

“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.

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.

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

This summarizes Severance

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.

• literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap

FFMPEG is an open source command line tool and software library for audio and video encoding. You’ll find it mentioned in the credits of just about any video playing software ever, but you can also just go use it for free.

I like GIMP but find Inkscape impossible to use

I learned how to count to 10 and a few other random bits of Korean in Tae Kwon Do class.

Terraria is kinda like 2D Minecraft but with a longer but more linear progression path instead of being just a more Freeform sandbox. Kinda like some Minecraft modpacks.

Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.

That’s not an outlandish amount of storage. You can get more than that for $200.

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Oh whoops got the instructions mixed up

You can’t gift, sell, share, or play that game on a new device once the servers shut down.

Open in GIMP. Create a new image of the same height and width. Copy the original image and paste on top of the new image. Export the new image as jpeg.

I know it’s a hassle but that process should absolutely make sure to remove any colorspace or hdr nonsense that is getting messed up.

I’ve worked on a library that’s Python because the users of said library are used to Python.

The original version of the project made heavy use of numpy, so the actual performance sensitive code was effectively C++ and fourtran, which is what numpy is under the hood.

We eventually replaced the performance sensitive part of the code with Rust (and still some fourtran because BLAS) which ended up being about 10x faster.

The outermost layer of code is still Python though.

It lacks the main benefit of a digital game: not needing to keep the card with you.

It lacks the main benefit of a physical game: not needing an internet connection, which also means these fake cartridges will stop working once servers shut down

It captures the vibe of having a physical card, which I appreciate, but that’s about it. Otherwise it’s worthless.