This also smells of accounting fraud. WM and others did something similar back in the day. I forget the details but WM was artificially inflating the depreciation of their trucks so it made their books look healthier than they really were. The clincher would be if Arthur Anderson never folded and has been auditing…

Android Trackers embedded in each of these apps:

Carrot Weather: 7

Accuweather: 13

FlowX: 0

MyRadar Weather Radar: 10

RadarScope: 0

Weatherbug: 29


Why do you not EVER feature “Wx” in these weather app articles? It has Zero trackers, is completely free and also Ad-free, There is no subscription offered, because you get access…

I agree that it’s not a good universe for storytelling, I disagree on the reasons you’ve given though. You can absolutely tell a good story about bad people. There are plenty of solid series which revolve around villainous protagonists.

They have to go with something more human than the Space Marines to start with, like an Inquisitor or a Rogue Trader. I think that also gives the audience perspective to start with, seeing how horrific the galaxy is for an ordinary human. It would give the later introduction of an Astartes as a member of the main…

They probably got results within the hour, but they just don’t care about your freedom. Shifts probably changed, the next guy didn’t care and then they all forgot. I’m of the opinion that everyone should be arrested at some point in their life to experience this degradation first hand, cause they really don’t give af…

I love beer probably more than anyone I know. I am in multiple beer trading groups so I can try beers from across the country, make plans to hit all notable breweries at every new city I visit (and since I travel for work, that’s a lot of cities), and brew beer myself with friends.

Imagine being so full of hate that you sit down and spend the time to design a mod that removes a flag you do not like in a game.

You talk about people “getting upset over colored bars on a flag”, as if a flag is just an arrangement of colors and shapes - but I imagine you yourself would get upset over a flag with four intersecting bent black bars set into a white circle on a red background, yeah? Flags are symbols of other, larger things.

You know how Mad Max: Fury Road was really more Furiosa’s movie? They don’t even have to do a spinoff, just have whoever the next Bond is in the background, occasionally quipping, drinking, or punching someone (or all three at once, as you please) while it’s secretly Paloma’s movie.

I would watch the hell out of a Paloma spinoff with Ana de Armas.

It should be obvious that “difference of opinion” is a thing that has limits. Like if I argue “we should hunt down, kill, and eat Playstation President Jim Ryan” and he thinks that sounds unconscionable, what we have is not a “difference of opinion” I am just acting like a maniac in this case.

Where is the respect of our agency for our own bodies?

Not only that, but it had TV out and you could plug a controller into it too. It was a Switch before the Switch. Much like the Sega Nomad.

Same. I don’t care what it’s about, I just want to exist in it for a little bit. 

Absolutely right that malware is an added risk of scanning QR codes. I am suffering from COVID presently, so blame my COVID-addled brain for leaving that out. And thank you for adding that risk.

ABSOLUTELY THIS! People are WAY too trusting of QR codes in the wild. Beyond your excellent points, there is also the possibility of loading malware onto your phone. The advantages listed in the OP pale in comparison to the risk. The most that I think would be reasonable would be for the restaurant to hand out single…

Any IT Security professional can tell you TOO MANY stories about hijacked QR Codes that lead to cloned sites with nefarious intents. It really is not too hard to replace a tableside QR code without the restaurant noticing. If it is a restaurant that allows you to pay via that QR code, a bad guy can steal BOTH…

The sense of catharsis I felt when I finished my first playthrough of the Terra Nil demo is something I’ve felt maybe three times in my life.

It’s happening!!!!

Let’s frikkin’ go! Good stuff, guys. Give the bigwigs PR nightmares until they pull their heads out of their butts.