My local stores are always full and can’t take more. Still doesn’t change how much oil always gets on the outside of the containers
All in good fun? Maybe I’d laugh it off. But negligent or malicious intent? Well, you could call me captain aggravated too
To a stronger degree, yes, sometimes what I want is an interactive story - a normal game on easy mode. I no longer take joy in increasing difficulty, for the most part, because my backlog is too big and I want diversity, not mastery. But that’s not the actual point. What I was really thinking of was more when glitches wipe your progress, when other players wipe your progress, or whatever else is beyond expected (or accepted) risk. Players get upset, replies tend to act like they’re ridiculous for being upset in a game.
My specific complaint is within an MMO where I choose to play either solo or in a non-PvP server, but constantly see people being toxic about few players playing in open. There’s a discovery aspect involved (Elite dangerous, exploration gets my player name tagged to it for everyone) but if I die before turning in the data, my tag is lost. I may crash on my own fault, but I don’t want to be ganked by station campers and don’t want to have the game glitch me into a wall and blow me up.
While I’ve seen much less of this, it extends to be toxic to players choosing easy mode.
Playing devil’s rusted avocado, if I know anything about mature content submissions, they’ll latch onto any whitelisted combo as soon as it’s discovered and dilute the actual desired content.
The local schools exist, so why would anyone really think to check if a school is locally applicable? It’s a type of problem I see often, in general: you wouldn’t have known what precise things to research until you’re faced with the actual problem. Sometimes kind and scarred souls will blast their warnings across the relevant initial source of information, but most people just move on.
But, that being said, that’s not a terrible amount of money for, presumably, a ton of relevant knowledge to any homeowner or home owning friends. I’d love some electrical knowledge and confidence, spent all my point son automotive. But I’m glad you found more passion in a different path, too.
I’d credit the global reduction of lead exposure
Losing in-game progress is as real as losing real life progress. No, I will not starve if I lose game credits (regular credits, not microtransacrion credits), but games are a transaction. For any progress, real or virtual, you’re spending time and effort to get a reward back. Having fun while earning credits is like having fun while learning how to build/repair something. If you fail at the end, you’ve invested time with little or no payoff. The game credits are there to get you better equipment and such, making your future play better in some way. As I’ve gotten older and busier, my limited play time is more valuable, and I want to progress. If I don’t or can’t, then the game doesn’t provide as much reward, and the game loses entertainment value despite a fixed monetary cost.
All to say if progress is at risk in MMOs, I stick to solo modes or non-PvP groups so I can remain the main character who rarely dies
Watt’s been dead longer than the horses
Have you seen them outside of light pollution? I’m not saying they’re draw-by-the-numbers, but there’s a ton of relevant stars that aren’t visible to 75% of the global population from home. You can count the stars of the little dipper to gauge your light pollution. It has 7 stars. If you can’t see at least 6, you’re missing most of the bears
It’s not most cases. It’s entirely contextual. Even with your example, the year is significant because that is over 30 years ago, giving the entire statement historical context rather than leaving the recipient wondering if this was recent events. “It was January 4th…” (7 months ago?) “1994” (oh, a long time ago) “when I last saw Nirvana” (oh, obviously this is a historical event).
Had you said you saw them in 1994, the month and especially day are likely irrelevant unless the story involves the weather, association with an event, or your story has something to do with how close to was to the singer’s death. Kurt Cobain died April (“this year?” - someone unfamiliar) 5th (of??) 1994 (oh wow, right by the date you already read in this conversation, providing plenty of context).
It takes all 3 bits of information to make a complete statement. Any single bit can be used alone effectively to convey enough meaning. You could say you saw them in 1994, a few months before his death, and provide plenty of context to convey the meaning. You could say you saw them 1994 (oh wow, how close to his death?) January (3 months prior) 4th (I do not care about the 4th)
Ill die on this other 3rd hill
Oil change services for my vehicles. Despite doing tons of my own repairs, I hate dealing with the oil. It always gets on the outside of the container and my recycling locations are always full. The service (including oil) used to be about 50% more than the oil I could buy to do myself. It was worth it to me to spend an extra dinner’s worth of money ~4 times a year. But now a service costs at least twice as much as the oil alone, even at independent shops. Plus, I now get oil in slight bulk, so the service is 3x what I pay in oil. I treated myself to a nice catch pan and dedicated funnels as a compromise, still costing less than a service on my first DIY in a decade.
Overheating is a massive issue outside the atmosphere. There’s no passive airflow to transfer heat through convection and there’s no air at all to utilize conduction. The only method left is radiation - the mechanism that let’s you feel the heat of a fire from the side. That’s the slowest option of them all.
Space is not cold in any sense of thermal management because space is essentially empty. Representations of people/fluids freezing when evacuated into space isn’t a good representation of actual thermal management. While there is some freezing effect, it’s because the rapid vaporizaiton of water cools the remaining water and can go below the freezing point. But, realistically, bodies don’t really freeze to an appreciable degree. Meanwhile, for everything else not containing water, there’s nothing to cool it down. In fact, of the very few particles that are flying around, they’re actually quite hot. Atoms flying for millions of years are still over 20,000 degrees.
So no. Thermal management makes orbital data centers the actual worst option.
"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they’re wrong? It’s like you don’t even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor
“her music is not deep” - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels
No. By people who adapt their lane position to the situation, like cooperatively riding shoulder lines to not be mirror to mirror with a truck in the middle of a desert. By people driving vehicles that can’t consistently pick a lane position. By people who have experienced the camera wrongly identifying a tight dashed line as a solid line and reacted aggressively. By people who have tried to fight lane assist politely, had the vehicle fail to allow it, exerted extra pressure on the wheel than should have been exerted at highway speeds, then had the system suddenly detect the input and relinquish control, jerking the whole car into the line or further. By people who’ve driven a system that picked a lane position based on the lines, came up to an exit lane cutout, had the vehicle glide into the new larger “center” and point off the road, then had the vehicle realize it lost the lines and relinquish control as you suddenly got pointed at the crash barrier, all in under a second (aka the Tesla method, disengage prior to crash, deny responsibility).
I have an older car (not a tesla, either) that has a system that stays disabled when I turn it off and isn’t even a persistent lane assist, but more of an emergency drift correction system. I set it to vibrate the wheel without actually steering.
And I use my turn signals religiously.