It’s a “choccy (chocolate) coffee”

Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I’m glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)

I’m sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren’t new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!

The blogpost was made four years ago, though.

Quite a fascinating read, nonetheless :)

For real. It’s an amazing game that just can’t be the same again once you know all its secrets.

I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol. I don’t blame them, but I think it’s very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.

One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.

Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I’d done 90% of the journey before.

Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.

Yay! Glad its fixed :)

Dang! Best of luck getting it sorted. You might be able to return he mobo as defective if it was nothing you did to cause it.

So, did you find the problem? :)

If there isn’t a single hint of life it does sound like PSU. If something is defective and going to die, then it’s liable to do it sooner rather than later, brand new or not. Unlikely from Seasonic but these things happen.

Could be motherboard. Could also be something silly like the front panel header for the power switch came off!

Not applicable if you are US, but if you are in a country that has individually fused plugs, like the UK, then check the fuse in the power cable or use a different one.

Good luck!

I also got “Pattern on the beach towel is wavy lines rather than straight lines” but now I’m not certain it isn’t just image compression artifacts.

So, Calyx or Graphene to ensure this AI garbage can be disabled, I suppose.

This is great, honestly.

If you go back to antiquity, education was about philosophy. It was about learning how to observe, and think critically, and see the world for what it is.

And then in modern times, education became about memorisation - learning facts and figures and how to do this and that. And that way of teaching and learning just doesn’t fit any longer with what our digital age has become.

In my opinion, we are heavily overdue for a revamp of what education should be, and what skills are most important to society in this post-truth world. Critical thinking is an important foundation to real knowledge that we don’t teach enough.

Slow motion bullet takes about 30 seconds to reach the target during which time we get the inner monologue of every character

“It’s going to miss! But wait, what’s happening? The bullet is bending in midair!!! Look at his incredible pose! Did he put spin on the bullet!? This must be Free To Play Ojiisan’s legendary hidden technique!”

Totally. This would be great.

If you want to see an amazing and unlikely sports show that actually exists, try Ping-pong the Animation. Art style takes a bit of getting used to but it’s just such an engaging watch.

Then I think I was wrong, and you are right.

As someone not from the US I knew of zelle but never used it, and believed it was a direct competitor to Venmo or PayPal.

The reason I thought it was its own thing was because it has its own app, and a catchy silicon-valley-startup type name, and a brand logo, and all of that.

Contrast that to the UK where the ability to send free person-to-person payments has been integrated directly into the banking system for decades, and does not have it’s own brand, or app or anything.

That’s just a different third party, though.

Thanks for the context. Here in the UK I never experienced a website that didn’t take payment via credit card directly as a first option - that’s always been there default, with some sites offering PayPal as a second or third way to pay.

And about punching the numbers manually then well, sometimes a bit of Mechanical Turk works just fine lol! :)

I don’t understand the PayPal one either.

Who is the ‘first party’ in this case? The banking system as a whole?

If it’s the whole banking system then I’m not sure how that’s solved, because as I understand in the US it’s still not easy to send money to another private individual via the banking system. And there are Venmo and cashapp and such now but they are just other third parties.

Meanwhile in the UK here it has been possible for decades to send money between bank accounts directly, and free. I still use PayPal though, because my use for it isn’t sending money to individuals, it’s being able to buy things online without creating an account and without giving my card details.

Maybe people are thinking in phone terms, and the first party is “Apple” or “Google” and the solution is Apple Pay or Google Wallet?

I heard about the diaper thing, it’s garbage. Definitely illustrates the point though; Amazon don’t care at all because whether they act or don’t makes no difference to their bottom line.

Someone comes to Amazon looking for a reusable diaper, they will search and usually buy whatever is near the top of the first page, because that’s just what people do. Amazon make a sale and are happy, they don’t care who the vendor is.

And oh - Amazon retail has more turnover than AWS but AWS makes more profit.

Sadly not even new, I’ve noticed it going on for at least the last five years, if not more. Amazon could easily detect and stop this but they don’t because (surprise surprise!) better reviews = more sales, even if it is for the wrong product

I couldn’t give two hoots about this, but it’s probably a good thing for ‘normal’ people.

My dad for example can never find a file once it’s disappeared from the notifications, so he always just goes back and downloads the file again whenever he needs it, duplicating it over and over because he has no idea “where it went”