Steam has a decent review system at least. The eShop is truly horrible.

Landing gear were down, so it was likely coming in for a landing when the incident occurred. Based on the height and positioning, maybe an attempted go-around that ended in abandoning the craft entirely.

Mario AI

One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

It’s not a conservative party, it’s a big tent party. At this point the only broadly accepted party line is ‘sanity.’

Far-right manipulation is so effective that they can reasonably compete with everyone else combined.

Graham Hancock

Yeah, this can be safely assumed to be bullshit.

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It’s a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.

I loved the ending of Hero of Ages. There’s a novella to read partway through the second age that does some beautiful stuff around it. The second age is a very different style, but it is a lot of fun. You never regret that extra shake…

I just finished the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin. The first book is from the sixties and the final short from 2018, so it is a fascinating trip through the maturation of Fantasy. The first three books are firmly young-adult, while the last three stick with the characters as adults. The whole series ends with a very short story the author wrote to be published after her death. It’s a wonderful look at the mind of an old person at the end of their story.

Recent publications include afterwords written in 2012 which give a lot of context and interesting insights into how she wrote stories.

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Your description of Taco Time captures it perfectly. It should be their slogan.

TACO TIME

Not Mexican Food

They are very high on my list of things I miss from Washington.

The handheld PC market is still small. Nobody else in the digital space has taken it seriously yet.

If you look at iOS, you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s effectively two products, a piece of hardware and a digital store. To beat it, you have to beat both the hardware and the store at the same time. It took the entire mobile hardware industry forming an alliance with one of the largest software companies in the world to even try to compete with it.

If SteamOS comes to dominate the handheld market, I could see them being forced to make an API so that other stores like Epic and GOG can have the same quality of integration in the non-desktop interface.

If you have two products that are both the best at their respective thing and you tightly integrate them, it makes it incredibly difficult for a competitor to match you. That is abusing a monopoly in each space to benefit the other.

Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

Blocks are a quarter mile where you are? That’s huge!

In Chicago, they are an 8th of a mile, which usually means blocks are 2x2 big buildings downtown.

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Labeling it the beginning of winter is a cultural thing.

There aren’t many details available in that article, but it does mention ‘bird strike’ and attempting to land ‘the other way’. That implies gear-up landing with at least one engine out and a tailwind. Not a lot of options for slowing down.

This was his first movie. He wasn’t a big director. Also, he runs one of the big CGI/VFX studios, Blur, so if they were doing well he was making more than just his Deadpool salary.

The Logitech K845 only has a white backlight. It’s a really clean, professional looking mechanical.

Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.

Have you seen Bojack? It’s more animated show than cartoon.