Its absolutely infuriating. Origin was, and should *mean* something in the same way BioWare, PopCap, Westwood and Visceral did until EA consumed them and stripped them of what made them special (at best).

Buys storied RPG, MMO (and more) development studio.. shuts it down.

Of course something ~15 years old is old to someone who’s not much older than that? This follows kids/teens/adults for their entire life.. “If it’s before me it’s my entire lived experience ago, which from my POV is a really damn long time.”

I know what JKR was saying and I know why people are criticising it. Do you literally want a definition of “what is a woman?” because that seems pretty obtuse considering we *know*  woman does not just equal “person born with a uterus of reproductive age.”

Cleaning the fans is another step id put between before replacing the thermal paste.. It doesn’t really require any disassembly, just popping off the top casing. Mine was really dusty, just make sure to hold it steady so it doesn’t spin if you’re vacuuming/ firing compressed air at it.

Well that’s utter nonsense as many women have more masc “bone structure”.. I’m a guy with incredibly femme bone structure/height/etc.. I know women built like tanks. I’d be more likely to pass some sort of strict birth sex based toilet policing than some women I know. Womanhood isn’t judged by how feminine someone…

My PS2 mod relied on a strange loader disk and a replacement for the drive tray with a slot in it.. you loaded the disk, then when a requester comes up you insert a weird plastic card into the replacement drive tray front... the card has a hook on it you basically manually unlatch and drag the drive open without it…

I didn’t get the XP booster and I’m not even finding it particularly grindy?.. if you go from region to region based on their level range and clear the local quests and search everything, you always seem to level up enough to move onto the next region/s? Admittedly I enjoy the core gameplay loops so don’t particularly…

One weird thing about Sims4 is how, well.. when it was ore release and leaks showed the beginnings of a subscription model, everyone was up in arms, myself included. There wasn’t any content to begin with, that proposition sucked.

Well, it does. Not that infrequently. I’ve personally known of two <40 year olds (one a work colleague, another a close friends teenage brother) die from brain aneurism without warning, and my father in law died of heart failure/sleep apnea, at atmittedly a greater age, but it was still without warning.

My father in law died this way. Sleep apnea exacerbating blood pressure / heart failure. 😕 I guess passing peacefully while asleep is about as good as one could ask for? (he wasn’t wearing his sleep apnea machine at the time.)

Huh, I’m much more curious about whatever “Strange Telephone” is, looks cute?

Well there are still multiple cheaper entry points than the latest top of the range devices. :) Currently everything I’ve tried runs nicely on the SE, so that has at least another yr before it could possibly be locked out of ios14, (and it might not be), but the 7, 7+, 8, 8+, X, are all still around and a lot cheaper…

Why would you need the latest iPhone when it works on any iPhone since (and including) iPhone SE, 7th gen iPod touch and the Apple TV?

You can pick up a “new“ iPhone SE (possibly from another country where they’re still sold? Not sure!) with 64GB from ebay for £140 - it runs these games, albeit on a cute little screen! I guess it works on the latest iPod touch too, tho i haven’t seen one of those is eons.

Agreed, do you pay for iCloud storage though? I have an 128GB Ipad and most of my stuff is offloaded most of the time. So you can keep them all organised in folders and it just downloads them when you need them (and automatically allocates the space to other stuff when you don’t.) That’d help a bit at least?

All screens and screen protectors scratch easily. It’s always really easy to fudge at least one screen protector application and get dust underneath too so I’m glad they usually come in multi packs now. Takes the pressure off. 

All screens and screen protectors scratch easily. It’s always really easy to fudge at least one screen protector…

Curry is pretty much tied with fish and chips as our national dish here in the UK. :) Curry is a huge deal.

Same here. I know what she’s doing, and smartphones are not the problem. I can think of examples of these scary things happening back when we had dialup internet and no easy way to monitor or control what people accessed.

UK based here.. My daughters high school recommends her having one partly because there are no phone boxes anymore. They have class feedback software and communicate with the parents and kids through mobile a mobile app/site thing. Starting high school at 11y/o here, using public transport it’s good for her to have as…