People died of the flu and any other number of diseases even before the ‘rona times . Perfectly healthy athletes will die of heart attacks. Demanding that the world come to a stop because of a statistical outlier seems unwise.

My gut feeling is that 1) she was infected/sick before PAX and 2) there is some medical history that we haven’t heard. The article’s assertion that she must have been infected at PAX is essentially unprovable. You’re right that this could be a case of very bad luck - those happen - but by and large the…

Mine is, too. Very excited! :)

What am I missing here? Because it sounds a whole lot like Disney (de facto) took out a billion dollars in debt to avoid taxes on themselves, knowing that the taxpayers of Florida would be on the hook for it if Florida ever changed the situation. Shouldn’t we really be outraged that Disney screwed over Floridians like…

Thanks. Know what I’m doing when I get home. :)

Dance moves should not be eligible for copyright, full stop.

Pancake mix itself is the real scam. I discovered that I could quickly make my own from common household ingredients and it tasted as good, or better. Never bought another box after that. :)

If Atelier bothers you, absolutely do not pick up Ar Tonelico. :P

I melted down AOL’s entire email infrastructure for a few hours. It’s amazing what happens when you don’t block any spammers for a bit.

These seem like a fantastic idea. Removing all your situational awareness (in terms of sound) is a pretty big problem if you’re walking around, and these look like they make that a little less of an issue.

Yes, I get that the author’s core grievance is that these guys are perpetuating orientalism with certain aspects of the show. My response is that they made a good faith effort not to do so, and writing massive articles about what appear to be small mistakes is insane.

No, I understood it just fine, but it’s still essentially aggrievement porn that is being manufactured wholesale for clicks in this particular case. The author acknowledges this, and then moves on. Critical Role made an apparent genuine good faith effort to try to avoid what the author is complaining about, and that…

“This may seem like an overly cynical and bad-faith interpretation of what Critical Role is doing with this new campaign.”

“does this program make money” as opposed to “is this service providing a social good?”

I haven’t noticed Win11 being a showstopper on my SP7 with 8gb, but I also don’t do much more than office stuff.

Five years?

They’re never going to get to cheap if they’re unprofitable and go out of business. Give it some time...

Yeah, it’s just not a thing that can happen. Way more likely that we see Microsoft chomp down Take-Two than Nintendo. But I think Microsoft is going to need some time to digest AB before they make another buy.

Why in the world did these guys let themselves be acquired again? Did they not learn from their previous mistake?

Sony’s reality distortion field has historically been pretty epic, and I would not take anything they say on face value.