skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago

It's what is known as a canary statement. Taken from when miners used to take canaries into the mines so that the bird would die first if there was toxic gas.

If the canary is dead, something is wrong. Google had it in their mission statement to not do bad things, then that was quietly removed. The canary is dead.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

She looks like Muriel from Courage the Cowardly Dog

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anecdotal, and I am a Windows idiot, but I've never had a problem like this with Firefox in my life. People always talk about how slow it is and how half the internet doesn't work on it but I've personally never had a single problem. It's just worked perfectly out of the box since the very beginning.

Makes me wonder what the difference is.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

North Carolina, east coast USA.

Though to be fair I last looked a few years ago. Situations may have changed by now. But when I was in the market for a cheap bike none of them seemed reasonably priced to me.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Everyone saw a convenient economic scapegoat and just "forgot" to lower the prices again after the crisis was over. Now, everyone has been paying these new and improved prices for 3 years, so they're never going to go down again.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The bike that's in my price range is the Walmart Huffy intended to be sold to ten year olds. The cheapest adult bike I found for sale new in my area was $1,500.

So I just don't have a bike. I might buy a used one someday.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's nothing wrong with monetizing the filming of vulnerable people without their consent?

Okay

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's pretty great in a party of players who enjoy puzzle box combat. Like you said, if you're paying attention to who used what action and reaction, you can either expect the counterspell or bait out the reaction so you know it can't be used when it matters. It's just like burning off legendary resistances before you hit a boss monster with your real big-dick spells. Except this time you're just annoying the enemy wizard with lightning bolts and thunder step until he actually uses the counterspell and you whip out your Feeblemind.

For players who aren't paying attention though it can be oppressive. Every DM who decides to use Counterspells has at least one situation come up where an enemy is primed to counterspell a heal. Whether he makes his move there or not is up to the particular DM, but every player who has had their heal counterspelled will remember that forever.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But yet if they released it Early Access to crowdsource their QA, people would have dogged all over them about "what's with the EA bullshit, just release the full game when it's finished"

Personally, I'm a huge fan of Early Access, I like playing 3/4 finished games and having actual tangible input on the finishing touches. It's made several games that I already really liked in their EA state, into masterpieces.

But your average gamer just wants to buy a game and have it work perfectly. When it doesn't, tantrums happen.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

This looks exactly like the one we're about to attend soon in North Carolina. I'm pretty sure there actually is just a prefab castle wall company that's cranking these out.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

If you want to give birth in the hospital they're going to need to create a birth certificate. That probably requires ID.

Otherwise if you just get dropped off at the front door of the emergency room with no ID on you, you'll get treated as a John Doe. Basically, unidentified person needs assistance. I don't know how exactly that situation works its way through the billing department.

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