I thought of a third gripe! I would have preferred to play this game in Japanese, but only the main story lines are translated. Being loving to your horse or overhearing villagers talking about your deeds is totally lost in playing with just subtitles. You really need the dialogue to be in your native tongue to get the full story and atmosphere. Every spoken word should have been subtitled and translated. This is an accessibility issue, too. Deaf people just don’t get to experience that part of the game.

What an idiot. Didn’t even pretend to be remorseful and turned the court into some performative BS to no one’s benefit but the people she’s against.

I did a Google search for “power tool extension cord” and got some results that look like they’re made to fit the plug on your tool, like it’s a standardized shape.

That’s fair, I loved that side of things, too. I’m more talking about the conspicuous and samey cliffs that look and feel a little too contrived, strictly made for gameplay purposes like creating paths, blocking off areas, providing platforming challenges and assassination opportunities. They were overused and unnatural looking sometimes.

Larger than life beauty for beauty’s sake is done so well, in that game, it’s an amazing experience, the overuse of little cliffs everywhere is really my only gripe. I spend more time walking on my horse along paths than I do galloping straight to my destination. I like just soaking it all in. I’m playing it right now for the first time; I did the first act and the DLC, I’m about a quarter of the way tbrough the second act now. Loving it.

Edit: Oh I do have a second gripe, but with the DLC, and it’s the same gripe I have with all DLC. It was obviously written by the B team, the writing is less subtle and everything is a bit more extreme. Still a good time, but just a wee notch lower in writing quality than the main story.

The world design is very gamey in Tsushima. A bunch of platforming jungle gyms with landscape filler in-between. Such a beautiful game, I would wish it looked more realistic. More Red Dead, less Far Cry.

Mylar balloons should be outlawed. They get sent free and land on power lines WAY too often. Over a thousand mylar balloon caused power outages are recorded in just Southern California alone in a typical year. The cost of repairing the damage might even exceed the revenue of mylar balloon sales.

I wonder when we’ll really start to see the numbers showing how good office workers are all getting the better wfh jobs while the in office jobs are being done by what’s left over.

Lesbian parents have been around for a long time. Some men can be pregnant and give birth. But I assume you mean the issue being that they’d be alone, not the lack of a male parent. Being a single parent when you weren’t expecting to is hard. But of you’re prepared and equipped for it, go nuts. IVF is given to awful married parents. The parents’ aptitide isn’t a factor for couples, why should a standard suddenly exist for single people?

I Vow To Thee My Country: https://youtu.be/GZNJFrb0IGo?si=dqEkteZvzqMGXEv0

I only date women, for context. I’m a sucker for really crisp diction.

And pretty bad.

Look upon my works and despair.

IE was had a near monopoly on browsing for a long time after Netscape Navigator enshittified (the true first door).

We have those MAID pods in Canada, why not just buy a few of them? Not cruel enough?

Yes, people don’t realize that so much of what was used to charge the others came from her. She was the CEO and is smart. She knew everything and gave it all up. This all would have had a very different outcome without her contribution. Whether it’s genuine remorse or pure self-preservation doesn’t matter. Her contribution was the center tent pole of it all.

She was given extreme leniency because she was the main cooperator with police. There would be no FTX case wihout her. She seemed relieved when it all got cracked open and she seemed remorseful in her interviews and testimonies. So she at least demonstrated remorse enough to convince the police and the court. Whether it’s genuine remorse or alligator tears doesn’t matter as much as her contribution to getting the bigger fish caught, though. Rewarding cooperators an essential piece of the justice machine.

Subtle.

There’s a well established tradition of hand-me-down furniture being put out in alleys in East Vancouver. When you move and have no furniture, you can just tour the alleys and come away with a coffee table and a sofa or a couple of chairs. Did it a few times. You gotta know how to check for bed bugs though.

I used to work for a property insurance company about 10 years ago and by that time, no one on the industry was a climate skeptic.

Here’s something they did about earthquakes we might start seeing in areas where climate change hits hardest:

This is on the west coast of Canada, and this company jacked up premium prices in areas they thought would be hardest hit by the anticipated mega-earthquake that may happen any time between now and a hundred years or so. They were hoping to dump those customers except it turns out all the other companies had the same idea. This started a gouging war between them, believing the only solution is higher and higher premiums. So many people just ended up paying more with no option, or without realizing they had one. There was only one major carrier that didn’t do this and if your broker didn’t sell their policies, you just had no option but to pay way more.

Relative to its time, yes, but Sims 3 is peak Sims. It improved on 2 in every way, but the thing they did the best and left out of 4 was the create a style tool, which allows you to make any surface any texture and colour you like. You could have a wooden sweater and metal carpet. No limits. You could make uncanny replicas of most homes, furnishings and all.