No, it’s better to have awareness of both. What needs to be done, how long it takes, and what dependencies exist. I feel like taking a nap, but I have work and house chores. So I’ll take care of some small things that aren’t too taxing while I drink coffee and regain some energy.
If I press the brake, it should brake. ABS systems work well, but otherwise there should not be any logic built into not braking when I want to brake. Add all the automation into braking for me if there is an imminent collision detected. Extra braking is good. Less braking than I have asked for is bad.
Oh I get it completely, and I was banging my head against the wall looking for something that worked. Ultimately, some clean cable management and a few of those rubber cord grips were so much more functional than anything else I tried.
Also remember that you’ll need to automate those branching switches, and each one can add a bit of lag if they are digital.
As someone who briefly lived a similar dream, I wish someone had pointed out to me that you’re still going to have to get your old bones up to get the wired controllers for those older consoles. I’d just keep the old school composite switch accessible so you can plug in whatever you want to play while you’re grabbing the controllers and plugging in the cartridge. Then you just need an HDMI switcher, which could also be your surroud sound system (if you’re spending money anyway…)
I wonder what sort of lag that would add. Digital converters always seem to make Mario jump slower.
Among Greeks, if you say Alexandros (or Philip for that matter) then people will know who you are talking about. But basically, those names are still in use. Caesar became the word for leaders rather than a name, and it’s relatively rare as a first name.
Charlemagne is actually Charles le magne which means Charles the Great. If you called him “King Charles” you’d need to be much more specific.
I can’t speak for Attila, because I don’t know if the name is popular in any particular cultures. Certainly in the USA, the Hun king is the most famous Attila.
Slim Shady is an interesting example, because its’s basically branding for Marshall Mathers aka Eminem. One of his first widespread hits was a song essentially saying that he’s the only real Slim Shady, and anyone else using that nickname is a copycat poser.
Yes, that’s why most people believe it vaporized completely.
Anything that wasn’t vaporized was likely launched out into space at speeds exceeding escape velocity for Earth’s gravitational field by aat least a factor of 6. So if there was anything left after the explosion and wind friction, it’s out in space, probably moving towards the sun.
The best part of that story is that the engineer on the project initially rejected the metal cap, because he knew it would not do anything to contain the blast. His supervisor overruled him, and insisted they install the cap. The engineer complied, but also ensured a high speed camera was trained on the cap to capture just how spectacularly stupid his manager was.
If ads weren’t obtrusive and deceptive, I wouldn’t feel the need to block them.
Like Nazis don’t have money to spend?
Probably C) they don’t give a shit because profit.
It’s sort of like a cancer patient having a tumor removed. There’s still a long road ahead to recovery, and plenty of opportunities for new tumors to replace it.
So I’m going to breathe a sigh of relief, take a few moments to enjoy the reduced weight of the world, and then prepare for the next steps.
I hope they do an American version that takes place in the same universe but with games more common in America, and an entirely new story. I don’t want a rehash of the same show in English. I saw Squid Games already. Maybe it could be “Squid Games International” because it was so popular among the oligarchy, they brought it to North America.
Yeah, the memes were funny, and he made some fun action movies, but the real man was not worthy of veneration. Dying doesn’t change his legacy, it cements it. There’s no more time for him to become a better person than he was.
Royalties? Did they think there’s some descendants of an ancient Babylonian mathematician living large on the residuals?
That was fast.
You know what, that’s fair. It sounds like this is your first experience with the story, and I concede that it seems weird and absurd at times. In the manga, Reverse Mountain arc was like 5 chapters, and it was two full episodes in the anime. Seeing it condensed into one episode was rather refreshing. I honestly cannot judge if the pacing is poor, because my experience with the anime has skewed my perception of time.
As for the mood swings, I can see that, too. The writers of the show have the advantage of foresight, so they know how moments in the current season will return later to be important. When Oda was writing the manga, he probably didn’t know that Laboom and the Rumbar Pirates would come back around to form the core of an emotional story. It was just the crew got swallowed by a whale and Luffy punched it until it joined the crew. The writers know now that having Luffy sing that song and doing that dance will strum the heartstrings of hardcore fans, but without that context, it just seems weird.
It’s like in Season 1, when Luffy agrees to help Nami, shouting “Of course I will!” If you’re coming in blind, you probably thought the moment was strange and melodramatic. If you grew up with the anime and manga, you were likely choking back tears.
If it helps, think of Luffy like an empathic id. He’s not smart, and he’s often oblivious to subtext, but he has a strong moral code and an absolute devotion to doing whatever he believes is the right thing. He can instantly read people and sincerely wants everyone to follow their dreams.
In the manga, instead of singing Binks Brew, Luffy challenges Laboon to a fight, declaring them rivals and demanding that Laboon be ready for their next fight. Giving the whale a purpose ends the whale’s despair and depression. It’s a classic Luffy solution, in which punching your problems is actually a deeply intuitive understanding of what someone actually needs. This is a common theme, therapeutic punching stuff.
Singing to Laboon instead of dueling him is a controversial change, but I liked it. Luffy recognized that Laboon didn’t need a rival, he needs compatriots. He misses his friends, and would kill himself trying to see them again. By singing and dancing, he helps Laboon understand that when old friends leave (and turn into walking skeletons) new friends can help with the sadness and longing.
Luffy is angry at Laboon for swallowing his friends. But looking the monster in the eye, he also understands that Laboon is in pain, and Luffy has felt the same pain many times over. But you only have that context like 300 chapters later, so in a vacuum it’s just a random choice to sing and dance at the enemy.
It’s a good show. Like, objectively, reviews are nearly unanimously positive. If you are seeing it for the first time, you sort of just have to strap in and accept everything that happens at face value. Trust in Luffy, and things will mostly work out. In fact, I think that’s essentially what Nami says in a later episode to another new friend. Don’t expect to know what Luffy will do, but know that it will probably make sense later.
People who don’t care to learn, but want to have an opinion. Doesn’t matter the topic, sports, movies, business, politics, science, every asshole wants you to listen to their half-brained, malformed thought prions, and then insist that it’s disrespectful to point out flaws in their “reasoning.” I don’t mind people being disengaged. It’s a big world, and nobody is an expert in everything. But respect is earned, and being an expert entitles you to an opinion. Everyone else should shut the fuck up.
I have a slow drain so the shower ends up with a shallow puddle by the end. So, no, I don’t like standing in a puddle of my own pee.
But otherwise, pipes is pipes. No judgement here.
No.