Huh. I hadn’t thought of that. Kind of like zombie insects, then, as can be found in the real world.

...and now imagine if that AI director was in charge of WW2 shooter like Enlisted, designed to give players a war movie experience, with procedurally generated, hierarchal (secret!) goals for both sides down to giving individual squads separate missions, with carefully-chosen random events to drive the over-arching…

Simply beautiful! Ancient Eastern operatic singing supported up by modern Western instruments makes for a profound statement of how even traditions that are worlds apart can blend in glorious harmony when unity is earnestly sought after.

Tragically, this type of horrific outcome is only to be expected with the aptly-named ‘criminal justice system’. Retributive justice has long been proven to just have the power to make things worse. Only restorative justice has, at its core, the drive to reduce or eliminate suffering.

...and restorative justice is…

Oof. I’ll just leave this here. Make of it what you will. Just know that BLM does NOT ‘own’ the raised fist and Ubisoft should have used this opportunity to educate, not capitulate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist

Something that people seem to be missing in this is that this a *HERO* costume. Whomever wears it will do so because that character has traits that they *admire*. The article even starts with “Disney’s latest film Moana is a celebration of Polynesian culture”, for Pete’s sake! How on *Earth* does children…

For those who are gluten-intolerant, if you use buttermilk instead of milk in your batter, even pure rice flour pancakes (NOT a good idea - flour/starch blends are much better) will turn out light, fluffy, and delicious.

Now they need to get some sci-fi horror writers and release ‘Betrayal in Jupiter Orbit‘, amirite?

I am in full agreement. This article describes what is really a storm in a tea cup. I am 49 years old, 196cm, 125kg, of European descent, with medium brown, salt-and-pepper hair, a trimmed full beard, and glasses with a rounded-rectangular frame. Should I get upset because *I* am not fully represented in most games?…

One thing that has puzzled me for the longest time is where is the evidence that the structure of DNA itself has evolved over time? Is it just not talked about much? It just doesn’t seem *reasonable* that it has remained completely unchanged for *billions* of years. How could there be one single system for every…

While I don’t generally use emoticons or emoji, I will often use things like </sarcasm>, /ducks, or :cheekygrin: to add clarity to my informal communication.

Unfortunately, you are absolutely correct about many who self-identify as Christians in North America. The sheer blind ignorance is frightening, though not *nearly* as scary as the fury that is released if you question the ‘perfection’ of the (relatively) modern English translations of the ancient Hebrew and Greek…

How about starting by making the GPS just intelligent enough to not think that I’m driving through the buildings/fields/etc. beside the road? Wouldn’t that be a good place to start?

As someone from northern Canada who well knows the sound of clouds of hundreds of bloodthirsty mosquitoes, as well as having seen the results of someone on crystal meth, may I say “Thank you” for posting a sound that will haunt my dreams for weeks to come.

So, in general, you are saying. “Men are best at innovation, while women are best at making sure that there can be renovation.”, and “One man plus one woman equals one complete coder.” That sounds about right. (I’ve often envied a woman’s ability to multitask, especially when I’m trying to support a complicated coding…

Sorry, my friend, but the ‘equity feminists’ aren’t in power any more, and haven’t been in a looong time. The ones who are making the big money in the industry and political arena are the ones screaming ‘rape culture’ and ‘patriarchy’, and they have no interest in facts or reasoned debate. Don’t believe me? Ask Erin…

Smoothies are great, but rather inconvenient when you need something to give you both long and short term energy during the day. Trail mix does the trick, but can be a hassle to eat neatly. To combat that untidiness, I love something that I came up with and called ‘Trail Butter’. Simply put (warmed) trail mix (i.e.…

What pops instantly to my mind is “Can you partner with/hire an NPC to sort and take stuff apart for you? Craft things for you?”

I would *definitely* advise epoxying a flat magnet on the main body to hold the blade in place, or slip it in a sleeve. I dropped one, bare, in my pocket one day, and, well, to make a long story short, I now have a 1cm scar on my leg and a good warning story.

Honestly, the word ‘Duh!’ immediately came to mind, quickly followed by ‘Who doesn’t know this stuff?’, which, once my prefrontal cortex kicked in, was capped by ‘Oh, right. North Americans, who largely eat processed food and often don’t have a single clue how to make things from scratch. Never mind. Carry on.’…