Scheduling is how you can be certain that the person will be available at the scheduled time. If you don’t schedule, then you don’t know if they will be available, and so you have no grounds to get mad at them for not being available.

Every phone interview I’ve had was scheduled.

They’re kind of just really damn bad at being currencies. Transaction times and fees make them too difficult to use for anything short of money laundering. But actually decently suited to that one purpose since other forms of laundering are usually even more expensive.

Even worse though is the deflationary nature also disincentivizes ever using them as currency. They’re instead being treated as speculative assets, people buy crypto not because they actually want to use crypto, but because they expect to sell it to another bagholder later. But of course the only way to profit off crypto in this way is for someone else to lose. And yet people still try to pretend it’s a currency even when no one will ever use it as such, because it sounds more legitimate that way.

And this in turn has made crypto an incredibly attractive target for scams and grifts. Pump-and-dumps are everywhere, but even when people know this they still try to get in hoping they’ll be the one to win this time.

Crypto really is just a solution in search of a problem, and every now and then you’ll see cryptobros insisting they have the next big thing in NFTs, smart contracts, whatever bullshit they’re pushing next. But none of it has ever been anything more than a vehicle to try and find a new way to rip someone else off. They just need to convince you they have something to sell here so that you’ll be the next sucker.

Bitcoin has been around since 2008, and in all that time, it’s still not amounted to anything more than one big grift.

Not everyone keeps the same “office hours”. In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up. You don’t know my schedule, you can’t just make assumptions and then get upset when it turns out I may have other engagements. You might even be calling at a time when I already had something else explicitly scheduled!

It is called voice mail. You are expected to leave one.

The person I replied said Nintendo wasn’t making their old games playable at all. You’re complaining about something else.

Panel Attack

Bit of an odd example to cite since both Golden Sun games are officially available on NSO.

Anon’s making it sound like this isn’t something that’s been touched on many times before in fantasy. They even used an image of Marcille, a character traumatized by the loss of her human father and living in fear of the knowledge that she will lose everyone else around her too.

No one is available 24/7, it is not reasonable to expect them to be. If you need to be absolutely sure that someone will definitely be available at a given time, you schedule it.

Or, you leave a goddamn message like a reasonable person. You know that voicemail was invented for a reason, right?

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Shatter. Got the OST alongisde the game from one of the early Humble Indie Bundles, spent far more time listening to that OST than playing it.

No, you can’t expect someone to be responsive at any random time out of the blue. Every phone interview I’ve had was first scheduled via text or email.

To ensure you can reach the person at a time when they are available. If you call unannounced and they don’t/can’t pick up, you’re not allowed to get upset.

Scheduling a phone call is fine. Leaving a message is fine. Doing neither and getting upset that the candidate may have simply not been available when you called is not.

You might be interested in Apocalypse Hotel. Humanity has to evacuate Earth due to an environmental crisis. A hotel run by robots keeps running because that’s what the robots are programmed to do, and ends up becoming a hotspot for alien tourists. No ghosts though, the big mystery is what happened to the humans who left and whether they might someday return.

The top reason being that they don’t like the idea of life being taken away.

Well then it sounds like you know the answer to your question. Are you actually asking to ask, or just to soapbox?

How exactly are you going to get at the battery while the cartridge is inside the Game Boy, with the PCB facing inwards?

If you claim this is doable, let alone easy, I’d like to see a video of it.

The article is about 3DS carts.

Does “We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year” count for both?

We don’t know. Valve has said they have no plans for a Steam Deck 2 any time soon, not until they can offer whatever they consider to be a substantial enough upgrade. It’s possible ARM could be a means to that end, but we don’t know. FEX probably needs to make a lot more progress before they can even consider it. Maybe it will by the time Deck 2 enters the conversation. We don’t know.

Attending Combo Breaker is the highlight of my year every year. In 2025 I was able to fit Frosty Faustings into my travel budget too. Managed to place 17th in Mystery Bracket both times, and they were very wild bracket runs. I saw Gyakuten Puzzle Bancho and turned to my opponent to utter a sentence no one wants to hear in Mystery: “I’m sorry, I know how to play this game.” Also at CB I was able to make it out of pools in Under Night In-Birth II, and it was a hella stacked bracket so I’m pretty happy with that one.

Been focusing more on my mahjong career, attended Riichi Nomi Open and Philadelphia Riichi Open as my first two tournaments. Didn’t do so hot though. But of course, when I win it’s because I’m skilled, when I lose it was just bad luck.

New arcade opened up near me with modded Maimai, Wacca, and Chunithm cabinets. I told myself I’m never going back to Round 1 again, though R1 does have the new official international Maimai now so I guess that’s something. I also got back into Dance Dance Revolution a little, but I’m still not very good.

As for actual new releases, Deltarune is obvious. Kirby Air Riders is a sequel I waited 22 years for, and it was worth the wait. The original is one of my favorite games of all time and I’m blown away by how much higher they raised the bar. Online City Trial is everything childhood me ever dreamed of. And I have to shout out Rhythm Doctor finally exiting Early Access, the final chapter is a wonderful conclusion that gave me a lot of emotions.