Malgas

but it seems too good quality to be custom work and is definitely an official controller.

Custom official controllers are a thing.

I just looked it up, and apparently it’s /ɡɛʃ/.

Never would have guessed that.

Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.

“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864

Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems

Bethesda design challenge: impossible.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

It’s guns all the way down.

I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.

Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.

A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.

I’m under the impression that these sort of third-party warrants are often accompanied by a gag order. Which is why warrant canaries are a thing.

Gah, you’re right. I had it that way at first, but then glanced down a list to check my count and they listed 2002’s Harem Adventures as a separate game even though it’s just the Java phone port of the original.

In fact Diyonisius Exiguus made some errors when counting back to establish the anno Domini date system and as such Jesus would likely have been born between 4 and 8 BC.

I’d just like to point out, for the record, that that isn’t the original trilogy. Sands of Time is the fifth Prince of Persia game.

Satan Sauron is a baby that lives in the sun.

There’s a board game called History of the World that does something like this, where score is tracked per player, but you play as a new civilization every turn. (And, depending on the draw, may wind up fighting against your previous civ.)

It’s a good game, but, yeah, it’s hard to imagine that working in something like Civilization.

You say that as though he isn’t one of them.

apropos is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.

I think it’s because that’s the more distinctive part of her name. “President Harris” sounds kind of generic, like the fictional president from an action movie.

It may start to constitute a pattern that the same was true of Hillary Clinton, though in that case it was likely that just saying “Clinton” might cause confusion with Bill.

Also Bernie Sanders is mostly referred to by his first name, so…

Yeah, same tune, originally by Samuel Barber. Homeworld used the choral version, Agnus Dei.

One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.