I…what?

In your mind, what happened to the rest of my comment that preceded the literal final line you quoted?

And European countries usually have some form of mass transit that would aid protestors in getting to the capitol. The most populous US cities are not the political center of the country and don’t have cheap access to them. An Amtrak ticket from NY to DC is like $130 minimum and can barely hold a normal day’s amount of commuters, let alone an influx of mass protestors. And the Amtrak NE Corridor is some of the best interstate public transit the US has.

What do work hours of people not in the farming industry have to do with the raw costs of food?

The “cost of food” has been abstracted from the “amount people have to pay downstream to afford food” by companies’ desire for profit. One guy can manage acres of land with a few good machines. Food is cheap: that is why people can afford to ship it around the world to be processed in one country and then sold across the ocean in another country. We don’t have to work as many hours as we do to sustain ourselves to the level they did back then. Industrialists have just countered work efficiency improvements with…more work.

“May contain leeches”? It’s landlord meat: it is leeches.

Babe Ruth?

You really have to press your advantage to prevent them from thinking about that

Do you…think Hisense is in charge of releasing those? Or TechRadar?

Kids can’t contribute to FOSS because then it’s child labour.

Always knew Spain and Italy got that basic pussy smh

“Stop leaving me ‘unread’” isn’t even a grammatically correct sentence. Instead of thinking it was something they weren’t aware of, they assumed the writer was both spelling things wrong and using poor grammar, in lieu of any evidence.

I don’t get that opinion. It’s a place where you, depending on what you pay for, get to eat and drink as much as you like, while reading in the sun. Sometimes you even stop in ports and find other cool places to visit later. If you can’t ignore the other passengers, then you need a higher level in Ignore.

That’s why I try not to touch most things with my hands.

I should also order more handkerchiefs

First, Epic, now Oracle.

I’m never gonna get another job in software, am I?

Edit: I physically let out a cry of pain after reading possibly 10,000 engineers of varying seniority had been fired (incident was reported on LinkedIn and judged based on the dip in Oracle’s internal Slack membership count).

Yeah, I should just start trying to move into a new field, huh.

The only reason touching doorknobs is gross is because people don’t wash their hands.

Unless you’re willing to opt in to some kinda bathroom panopticon that locks the bathroom until everyone trying to leave has properly washed their hands, it’s probably best to just avoid a knobbed door.

I played the demo of the first game but I had never played a Souls game before, so I couldn’t properly compare even though I had some dissonant vibes with the combat pacing.

Glad they made enough to continue working.

I do exactly that. I have complementary libraries on GoG and Steam, although Steam is obviously bigger.

That is a really cool idea. I think the problem is it’s just a bit too niche. A good portion of the people intrigued by the narrative and world-building might get stymied by the travel simulation (I’m envisioning both flying and sailing) and the simulation nerds might just skip past the text and story to get back into flying.

It’s certainly something that an indie dev has to shoulder for pure passion of seeing an idea come into the world, and that requires an idea that grabs you. Targeting it as an underserved market will only backfire.

I’m not against the idea, but I’m wondering what’s the trigger for non-child-havers? Or is it just the idea of a sabbatical?

On a sidenote, what’s the terms on parental leave? How soon after one can you take another? If you’re popping 'em out quick as can be, is it months off every 12 months?

Assuming you aren’t from Ukraine, how much did Ukraine impact your daily life/touch your daily awareness before it became a battlefield? Countries shouldn’t gain more respect just because they’re incorporated as a country, especially when it’s halfway across the world.

(Researched, via Wikipedia and WorldPopulationReview) Missouri has a population of 6.3 million and total land area of ~178K km; larger in size than countries like Greece and Hungary, and more populous than countries like Denmark and Finland and Ireland. So it should be less regarded than any of those countries because it remains a state?

My stance is: either you should believe any population center of a reasonably large size/population density is worth memorizing or you should just memorize the ones relatively important to you.

There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?

A lot of trouble comes from people’s declining reading comprehension.