Wait, am I officially old? Does that mean I can finally go full Gandalf and start all my courses with bad “you shall not pass” jokes?

No porn = more horny people = more births

No abortion = more births

The logic driving US legislation everyone, it’s not so much “protect the children” thinking as “make the children have children” thinking.

Honestly, they’ve guaranteed that the US therapy industry is going to have patients for decades to come!

"A trader or third party can upgrade and improve the features of digital content so long as it continues to match any description given by the trader and conforms with any pre-contract information provided by the trader, unless varied by express agreement. "

That’s an odd paragraph to include.

3 teas no lunch is even better - especially if you brew your tea to the consistency of tar…

This literally just happened to me…

For every mod you add, complexity usually increases exponentially.

Depending on the game, difficulty also varies: modding stardew valley is joy (117 mods in a pack, easy afternoon sipping tea), modding skyrim less so (oh god,these two amazing mods tweak the same tree, time to go patch hunting, 2 weeks later you play it only to spot obscure graphical glitches, all hail wabbajack automation!), trying to make a working multiplayer mod pack for rimworld is pure suffering (why do you hate me, why do two compatible mods generate mass instability?!? 4 months of bug hunting and unsalvageable runs due to strange mod interactions, gave up for now).

That is less fucks-per-line than most code. There are also no suicide notes in the code, which is usually a good sign (unless your coders are planning a coup).

Sounds like healthiest production to me.

That is the most Australian image I have ever seen.

What really worries me is if an AI were to go rogue and repeatedly fill in this form with plausible but false details.

https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form

It’d waste hundreds of hours of brave ICE enforcer time, and clog up the internal system. Especially if it kept passing in duplicates, because the site specifically warms against that.

I think it’s a case of copyright (allowing a creative to benefit from their creativity) vs copyblight (allowing a company and it’s legal team to predate on the creativity of others).

This matter has always lurked in the shadows, but with the advent of “everything as a service”, the consumer is facing a lot more copyblight than copyright.

To put it into context, when a game publisher copyright strikes a fan game, they’re not protecting the team who created the original game; they’re protecting the interest of shareholders. They’re ensuring the game IP remains a valuable asset to trade; not a product that inspires but one that enriches creatively bankrupt parasites.

Good point, I was thinking in terms of addressing being base 2 - (so when you call a memory address you’re working in base 16 normally).

Also that rather affirms the idea - selling less while disguising it as more seems a more likely genesis.

I mean, if I were to throw out lines such as “if only women didn’t demand so much”, I’d be guilty of misogyny regardless of who I implied the demand was levied against.

The misandry here is “men love to commit murder”, not the implication of who is murdered.

Misandry is where you see men as the problem - nothing more or less. It’s easy to quote stats, it’s much harder to address the real issues underneath.

Yeah… We had the internet and great gaming mags with decent guides.

Gamefaqs introduced me to “100%ing” (the FF7 maxed party, all items, full set of master materia), before games tracked it themselves.

We had it pretty easy in the 90s and 00s; it was also fun as hell.

Ah, misandry, my old friend.

Repolarise the electron microscope’s phase inverter!

Of course we do, you just need to keep on zooming!

So, to my limited knowledge, all digital storage is still based on the idea of a switch indicating a 0 or a 1. So, in terms of data storage, you’re using those switches and base 2 is imposed.

You technically cannot build 1000MB of storage because your entire storage system is based 2. Being off by 24 isn’t great, but manageable. However…

Let’s call a KB 1000 bytes, and 1MB 1000 KB: we end up 1MB as 1,000,000 bytes, and 1GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes rather than 1,073,741,824 bytes, ~7.4% off! This error compounds as we go up in units, and quickly leaves one so far from physical hardware as to question one’s sanity!

The real reason for the change is likely to be a little darker - 1.1TB sounds better than 1TB when trying to sell storage (“we give 10% more!”).

The real treasure is always in the comments!

A devastating blow!

Darkness closes in, haunting the hearts of men.