The number of native English speakers who can’t pronounce “specific” and instead say “pacific” is too damn high.

Schedule (sk- or sh-) differs between countries/regions. So unless you’re good either way.

It either rhymes with “nine” or with “fin” depending on the phase of the moon.

The above passage, for example, comes from Game Feel, a game design guide written by Steve Swink.

Steve Swink (and his editors) needs to be forced fed a copy of his book.

Being able to design games doesn’t mean one can write about designing games.

IT’S ALL GOD’S PLAN

GOD MADE US THIS WAY AND GOD DOESN’T MAKE MISTAKES

even better if you can find verses to support you and throw them back at them.

I have an 18yo dog. She’s very near the end of her life. Deaf, hair falling out, slowly losing motor control and strength, and can’t climb stairs anymore. She’s still happy, and doesn’t appear to be suffering even though she does require a bit of extra care now.

I can’t bring my self to euthanize her, because she can’t make the decision unlike a human could.

I hope that one day we wake up and she’s died peacefully in her sleep.

For those like me who didn’t quite get it:

The movie that plays at the Mannheim psychiatric hospital begins with The A-Team (1983) theme music, and its credits contain names that relate to the original team’s careers: The first name credited is “Reginald Barclay”. Dwight Schultz, who was the original Murdock, played a character named Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). The next credit reads “Thomas Banacek”. George Peppard, who was the original Hannibal, played investigator Thomas Banacek in Banacek (1972). The third and final credit reads “G.F. Starbuck”. Dirk Benedict, who was the original Face, played Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978).

Those EV R&D subsidies are just socialization of that risk. The risk is still there regardless of who is paying to mitigate it.

Frankly, automotive products are so entrenched that no automotive company needs any social support at all.

IMHO most therapists are just facilitating you ‘sorting your own shit out’. Which means any method of ‘shit sorting’ will help.

The most effective therapy I’ve ever had was from a friend who, rather than saying “deal with it” said “find a way to deal with it”.

That’s very cool.

Art is therapy and you’ve found some that’s less commercialized.

Rock on (or whatever your preferred genres are).

I hope you eventualy find someone or something you can trust.

Perhaps start small? Say, ‘can I trust person X to respect my time?’ Or ‘can i trust person Y to answer a phone a call?’

I don’t belive that trust is only holistic… you can trust only very specific things if you want to.

You know you’re doing something right when an American Corporation is complaining.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

A tale as old as time.

Yeah, that happened way before the current AI slop bubble.

100% this is how I roll.

It’s like complaining that a photograph of a sculpture isn’t the same as the sculpture.

I can be equally disappointed about creative decisions made by an author as well as a director as much as I can be delighted by them.

OK. Science time. Somewhat arbitrary values used, the point is there is a amortization calculation, you’ll need to calculate your own with accurate input values.

A PC drawing 100W 24/7 uses 877 kWh@0.15 $131.49 per year.

A NAS drawing 25W 24/7 uses 219 kWh@0.15 $32.87 per year

So, in this hypothetical case you “save” about $100/year on power costs running the NAS.

Assuming a capacity equivalent NAS might cost $1200 then you’re better off using the PC you have rather than buying a NAS for 12 years.

This ignores that the heat generated by the devices is desirable in winter so the higher heat output option has additional utility.

First one, then t’other.

All I see is ******

I don’t see the link between the chair and OCP.

I got the Use of Weapons reference.

A registration form and backend that would return the error “please choose more unique password” if you choose a password that was already stored (in plain text) in the database against another username.

I shit you not.