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Also they throw enlarged salt shakers at cars, which are treated as if they now suddenly weigh more. So somehow making things bigger adds mass?

Personally I think of kobo as ‘I liked my Kindle but I just want a slightly more open ecosystem’. It’s still somewhat locked down, it’s just easier to load books from other stores and alter the reading experience on a kobo vs a Kindle.

Boox on the other hand is effectively an android tablet with a custom launcher and modified OS. You get all the good and bad that comes from a generic android device. It’s absolutely trivial to use the ereader app of your choice and it’s much easier to do things like read comics and stuff via your preferred app as well.

If you mostly stick to the stock reading experience and are just looking for ‘better than Kindle’ get a kobo. If you’re wanting full control over your reading experience and you’ve already got a preferred android ereader app, go with boox.

It’s so if we’re ever sued over anything then we’ve only got 6 months of history that we’re liable for during discovery.

Lawyers figured out it was a nightmare going through 20+ years of emails, so the ‘solution’ was simply to just not keep records for very long.

Technically you can archive important emails, but they’ve made that harder and harder to do and it’s not always like you know what’s going to be important later, so it’s really easy to not save something you should have.

I really hate that my work has a policy of deleting all chats and emails older than 6 months… And most of my projects last for longer than that, so you’re typically missing most of the emails from the start when you’re at the end.

Good luck convincing others of this take. People really truly believe in some sort of supernatural ‘can never possibly resist’ corruptive force when it comes to power. As if the idea of a human that has power and isn’t corrupted is so much more impossible than all the other fantasy bullshit we’ve dreamed up. Hell they even had to make Superman an alien just to get people to accept the idea of a good powerful person.

I’d think we’d be far more concerned about critical resource companies before we got to worrying about gaming companies, but we can’t even do that so I’m not surprised.

As long as you’re not hurting other people or breaking their things, no one cares.

If only this were true. Far too many people seem to care rather a lot about stuff that shouldn’t matter at all to them.

As someone who enjoys timberborn, I wonder if the tax mechanics help address the issue timberborn has with the late game lacking any real challenge. Much of the fun is front loaded in that game for, so I tend to restart often. A challenge beyond simple survival might address that gap.

I feel that social media has opened the door to too much open hostility to acts of kindness. Strategizing around a best move politically rather than having an open heart, even to people that may hate you.

It was Harris’ choice to post this publicly for people to react to. If it was simply about being kind then it could’ve been a private communication to the Cheney family directly.

It was performative at its core and woefully out of touch as well.

This isn’t building bridges though. No Republican is going to be moved or softened by this statement. It’s going to actively alienate the people who are supposed to like you though. The best move is to simply say nothing at all.

All this bullshit tells me is that those in power are still seeing this as nothing but business, like what we’re going through is simply a contract negotiation. No hard feelings. That they can watch their colleagues cause the death and misery of thousands and then leave that at the door and go grab a drink with that person.

I played shadow of Mordor 3 times and always lost motivation as soon as you make it to the second area

Similar problem with Dying Light too.

I’m not talking about jobs, just people who do art for fun. Before AI there was still a lot of D&D fan art for example. Tons of people drawing their character or getting a commission done of the party after a long campaign. That kind of thing.

I think AI art has a negative impact on that sort of expression. People who might have tried it instead just generate something instead, never learning they really like to draw. People who would’ve commissioned something now can just generate a pic instead. People who had fun sharing fan art lose their motivation because for every one picture they complete, 1000s of AI images bury their art so it never gets appreciated.

Or where hiring an actual real artists - for example if you were to need dozens of graphics for, say, a TTRPG you’re running.

The only issue with that is that the AI was trained off the art from people who did create art for their TTRPG either paid or as a passion project.

Does that mean that new art effectively stops getting made for these scenarios? That real artists who are inspired to make cool art for their games just disappear or get assumed it was just AI?

I kind of wonder if we just stagnate from here, with very little new art being created that doesn’t come from AI. In 10 years will we still be using the long recycled art from the last human artists? (Not that humans will stop creating art, but less will and they will often be drowned out from the flood of AI output)

One of my team members basically does this all the time. Personally I think it’s pretty obvious, but as far as I can tell the boss buys it every time.

My cousin’s talked me into giving CoD ‘one more try’ like three times now. It’s never worth it. The game is always worse and my cousin also tends to just not play for months after a handful of gaming sessions, so I don’t even get the benefit of hanging out.

Generally stopped trying to game with him anymore. Just too flaky.

Same. Much easier to eat

For me it’s ‘Maintain a reasonable routine for 100 days’. I can always get a burst of motivation and accomplish things. What I can’t do is reliably do the chores for an extended period of time. Repeating, but intermittent small tasks are my kryptonite.

There’s definitely this aspect, but at least for me with strict parents there’s also loads of examples of:

‘Huh, doing this particular chore every two weeks instead of every week doesn’t actually cause any real problems and isn’t a world ending disaster like my parents seemed to claim’

Becoming an adult meant finding out just how much of my childhood was personal preference of my parents and not some sort of objectively correct way to live. Life has been a lot better now that I can do things the way I prefer.

Same. Dealing with a cord was enough hassle to very rarely ever use it.

But because it’s comics and they need to keep selling them it’s not like things are allowed to truly get better. If it ever does the universe is rebooted and they start over.