If I recall, the trick to that one was moving the ball itself before stasising it.

Was it just me, or was anyone else a little underwhelmed by Gaston’s death? It felt a little more anticlimactic and disconnected than the original.

I’ve come across at least a couple of shrines that have permanent rain or lightning storms around them until you complete a puzzle to discover them. The lightning was necessary to solve one, and others seem to use rain to eliminate climbing as a tool for solving the puzzle.

Followed the link, and it says it’s coming in 2016... >.>

Interesting take. I wasn’t considering practicality at all, more like relative experience levels, maturity, etc. Without considering organizational positions of authority, a younger person in a relationship with an older one is at a disadvantage, in many cases. (There are always exceptions that prove the rule.)…

If love to have witnessed the Nintendo employee tasked with going through emails from reviewers. How do you respond to a message from a gaming journalist asking why your product tastes so bad? Ummm, sir... you’re doing it wrong.

At one point I thought that rule was nifty, but discussing it with other people, and comparing it to perfectly healthy relationships I’ve seen, it doesn’t really hold up. When both parties are at least past the mid/late-twenties, I think it’s pretty safe to not really consider age much of a factor.

That’s pretty amusing. Yeah, when I played, there were tons of people sitting in safe places hitting each other a specific number of times with their preferred attack, then sitting to rest up, then repeat. With extra stuff thrown in they got more sophisticated. And resource harvesting was more of the same, where you’d…

Interesting. Maybe I’ll look into it. 100 hours is probably comparable to how long it took originally to reach a competent skill level. If I recall, it was mostly the attributes and resistances that caused the discrepancy. People who set up macros to work them 24/7 for months got to a point where they could take…

Man, I miss the very early days of Darkfall. Haven’t thought about it in a long time. The Beta and then the first year were some of the best experiences I’ve had in gaming.

Something nobody else here seems to have pointed out.

Odd, I didn’t see any mention of one of the more commonly cited advantages of mechanical switches. They activate about halfway down, meaning you don’t need to ‘mash’ the keys to type. Once you’ve been using one for a while, you can learn to apply force in the range between activating the key and ‘bottoming out’. This…

Not a game, but the movie Platoon is often considered anti war, while being a movie following soldiers as main characters. Shows a more real and unglamorous depiction of events.

As I was trying to say, it was more about the tone of the letter than the content. The letter sounded rather hostile to the idea of boycotting the event, when really, they could have left it stating that, as you say, they can’t provide any legal defense if the dancers refuse to work the event.

You’re conflating things. He said they could be fired, just that they couldn’t be sued. So yes, to answer your question, all those people would be well within their rights to refuse to work those events for whatever reasons. They would all likely be fired, but that is the extent of the consequences, and that sounds…

I was thinking along the same lines as you. However, this isn’t exactly the same as performing while an objectionable person is in the crowd. This entire event is in the honor of a person who bragged about sexual assault and got voted in as POTUS anyway. A group of employees organizing to protest this by refusing to…

I’ve spent time thinking about something quite like this. Never spent enough time to see if it would be possible to work it out fully without hitting some kind of contradictions or broken incentives. The gist of my thinking was to make the government work like a stock system, where everyone owns shares that represent…

Money directly translates into influence over other people. At normal people levels, it’s hard to see that influence, but every time you buy a sandwich or get your car fixed, you are contributing a small amount of influence that adds up with everyone else’s to drive the entire industry behind sandwich sellers and car…

That would be median salary, not medium. And it tends to be scewed by people living in SV making far more than people in most of the US, let alone internationally. Software people just don’t make as much outside the US, and within the US, SV makes about twice what is normal for the same experience level elsewhere…

Would that do any good? We have a massive military machine geared toward asymmetric warfare with a heavily conservative control structure. If some kind of liberal/conservative civil war happened, I would expect the vast majority of military assets to be under conservative control and would quickly eliminate any…