Right there with you. :) And it’s tough, because a lot of these things are, by nature, not something I can control myself: I’m not choosing to be a dick with low blood sugar, but low blood sugar makes me such a dick that I don’t bother to eat anything to fix it. Sometimes, if someone wants me to not be a dick, I…

This kind of explanation is useful, and I don’t want to belittle the thought and intent that went into it. I would, however, caution that this kind of view - “Here’s how to deal with me when I’m...” - is inherently self-centered. If you’re a dick when you’re hungry, the solution isn’t only “you feed me,” but also, “I…

Almost any car will do, but you have to understand how the interior of the car goes together, and what space there is between the interior and the exterior. Older cars often have more unused space, but typically require some tools to break the interior down until you can get there; modern cars tend to have better…

That seems to me like the greatest challenge of democracy in our modern age: the toxic effect of money on the political process. How can we allow freedom of expression, keep wealth from distorting influence, serve minority groups, and be democratic, all at the same time? And even if we figure out how to do that, how…

Rather than require these companies to provide internet - which I would classify as “not quite a necessity, but not quite a luxury,” being someone from a remote area myself; I’m still completely confounded by people who feel internet access is “essential” - because the state sanctions their monopoly, would another…

Why is that? What services does this apply to: internet only, or internet, electricity, food, and water? What about car dealerships or cellular providers or opera houses? And why (as I asked someone else; apologies for the double question) do the choices of the residents create a responsibility on internet providers?

So what if the population is 494? The service providers should provide them options.

There’s nothing wrong with isolating all of the radio, air conditioning, bluetooth, and navigation controls into one screen.

Hey! I still have that HP keyboard (from the first image)! You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get drivers for it these days...

This is a generation of people whose days are ruled by a slow, annoying, spam-ridden app.

Twitter fascists will kill anyone who suggests there’s such a thing as movies with a gender-centric appeal because it argues with their non-denominational view of things in which everyone is everything...

Sadly, I think many if not most people don’t keep their TVs for five years. If you’re just going to buy a new one next year, future-proofing sadly isn’t really a consideration.

The same thing they got for fossils showing the effects of millions of years of evolution: “God created the Earth that way; we don’t know why, because God’s huge and knows things we don’t, but we think it might be as a temptation.” And there’s really no logical counter-argument, except the ultimate one, which is that…

See, what you’re describing - the actual tabletop, with animation and realisticish “minis” - seems totally fine with me, and desirable! But I don’t need avatars of my friends sitting around a table added on to that: just gimme the awesome table itself, VR or not VR, and that’s plenty for me.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but aren’t the sets just generic “room in which you’re roleplaying?” I’m not interested in more immersion in “fake room full of avatars,” because I’m more interested in immersing myself in the actual game. Like, it’s swell that the background looks like a guild hall or whatever, but unless…

Right. That’s why “I would rather either get around a table and play, or play using non-VR presentation of just the essential information (like, say, just the map).” [Emphasis added.] Basically what I’m saying is that existing remote-play solutions are more preferable, in my view, than a more complicated solution with…

That seems more “creepy” and “dangerously close” than it does “hilarious,” but I wasn’t there. Perhaps the two knew each other. Perhaps there was a poisonous snake on the girl’s sock and he just saved her life. But touching stranger’s children’s feet while riding down the expressway is pretty no bueno in my book.

How very skeuomorphic. Keeping in mind I’ve never used this, and keeping in mind that apparently testers who did use it loved it, this just seems like the wrong way to go about this. Everything on the screen should do something, should have a purpose, and for me, this wastes huge amounts of screen on pointless things…

Another issue which I see often increase distance errors is simple measurement error: if you look closely at a straight-line GPS track, the errors - seldom lower than 4m, often much higher, at least in places I frequent - result in a wandering, wavering path. Even if you accept that they’re equally in error “forward”…

My experience - and it’s apocryphal as hell - is that cats are obligate carnivores, while dogs are actually omnivores (or at least mostly-carnivores-with-options). That wouldn’t explain ferrets, though, which in my experience are also obligate carnivores.