The additional missing context is that in recent years the poppy has been co-opted by right wing flag-shaggers to the point where people not visibly wearing a poppy become a target for abuse. For anyone in the public eye it’s become literally mandatory if they don’t want to risk their job.
What was supposed to be a way to honour the war dead has been turned into a gross nationalist purity test.
Perhaps of note that the pronunciations of some penny amounts are not intuitive, e.g.
In all cases, the ‘pence’ is commonly squished together so it sounds more like ‘pns’ (like in comeuppance).
FYI you can just post the link without shilling for your preferred search engine
People who came to Steam later on probably don’t realise that when it was new it barely fucking worked.
Downloads crawled, games refused to launch because of authentication issues, friends/chat was offline for literally months, etc.
The only reason it became widely adopted was because Valve forced you to use it if you wanted to play the latest CS or, later, HL2. Everyone hated it.
“We are confident that what we’ve seen here is plain and simple union busting, and we will mount a full legal defence with our expert group of caseworkers, legal officers and barristers,” added IWGB president Alex Marshall. “Employers like Rockstar would do well to understand that private spaces such as trade union Discord servers have protections, and that their company’s contractual clauses do not supersede UK law.”
Yeah! Get ‘em!
I feel like the people complaining here have no idea how much work is involved in compiling and maintaining the OED.
This is a full reference of the English language intended for academics and professional contexts, not just a place to check spelling.
Yep, exactly this.
I use OED as my standard reference when writing - I can log in from anywhere with my library card number and get full access without paying a penny.
Yeah, when I was at school in the early 00s we were specifically banned from referencing Wikipedia as a source because it was seen as untrustworthy.
If you’re not copying setting, characters or story then you’re not copying everything. Those are also part of the recipe that makes the game work, through things like level design, narrative design, and game feel.
Copying critically means not just copying blindly but understanding how things work and why they were designed that way to begin with. You talk about wanting to make changes, but do you know how they would affect all the other parts of the design?
It’s very common for new game designers to dive into making changes without a full understanding of what they’re even trying to solve, let alone the knock on effects of their proposed solutions.
Probably didn’t help that the base model 17 has been widely reviewed as one of the best-value flagships on the market.
The Air is a step down in battery life, camera capability, and thermals, but costs more. I’m honestly not sure who it’s supposed to be for.
Developers can - and should - lift systems, mechanics, and whatever the hell else they want from any other title (occasional sticky legal protections aside). The problem arises when those things are copied uncritically.
Good games are intricate systems of interlocking mechanics, and good game designers put a lot of work into designing those things to create the specific play experience they have in mind.
If you want to reuse some or all of those aspects, you need to also understand how and why they work, so that you can apply them correctly in a new context. If you don’t, and instead just lazily copy with no plan or vision? That’s when people start calling things out as rip-offs.
At killing batteries faster - the wasted energy creates heat, which degrades the battery.
Non-magnetically-aligned wireless chargers are far worse than fast charging.
Yes, but it had only previously been released on the Wii U, so for most people it was brand new.
Hey, it worked for Sega
No they don’t? The games are only sold on physical cartridges (or built-in in some models).
There’s no online store or downloadable games, besides the ‘game of the month’ trial thing they occasionally run.
The fundamental problem is not about tone of voice, it’s that LLMs cannot be truly creative. All they can do is recombine ideas that already exist, with a tendency towards cliche and no understanding of creative principles.
In my experience, the only people excited for AI to take over fields like art and writing are people incapable of creating those things themselves.
Mandarins or clementines last for ages in the fridge, don’t bruise, and taste amazing when cold.
Wow, I’ve not thought about Soldner for a very long time
No need to speak for the USA, Rockstar North is British