Some things used in water treatment may be more detrimental to plant growth. You can try letting the water sit for a day before using so some things may evaporate out.

Yep. I use an instant-read thermometer wherever I’m cooking whole pieces of meat. If I’ve cut it intobite-sized pieces, I do not. I don’t cook beef at home anymore, but would only use it for things like roasts.

I don’t daily drive linux at home because of the video editing software I need to use (Davinci black magic) not reliably working and often breaking on upgrades. Secondarily, some games won’t run. If I’m afraid to upgrade to not break things, that puts my security at risk which is not an acceptable situation.

Could the monarch technically (I know they aren’t typically involved in politics in recent generations) force a change? Is there any way to petition them to do so? I don’t really know the UK system or if this would actually be a good idea.

Needs something green on the plate (and maybe some gravy). Now I want mashed potatoes.

Noise-cancelling headphones and allergy meds (at least this time of year)

Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman’s job or such. It’s getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.

I don’t know that FF had a specific hero as it were. DQ I suppose did in that they were at least named and had some story. Megaman is a good callout, though. We did have them in the computer gaming world in the more nebulous sense (like how I see FF). I guess I’m also thinking about how hero is used here; is it an existing character with a backstory (more like DQ or even megaman) or some character you create (FF again but also all the old SSI games on PC and many others).

I was thinking of fighting games but OP said nowadays it seems that all games are made for teenagers and adults. and I kinda threw the early SF and MK games into that bucket.

I’d argue that xennials didn’t really either. I certainly didn’t think of Mario, Sonic, Doom Guy, etc. as heroes. The closest that jumps immediately to mind as a named person is the protagonist of Wolf3d whose name I won’t attempt to spell here, but even then I didn’t give a shit about his story which, if memory serves, amounted to a blurb in a manual.

My heroes were in print in books and I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with that.

I wonder what the Japanese source is. I thought we recycled PET and burnt all the rest for power here. I guess not.

The Kosmos 482 probe, a relic from the first Space Race, crashed harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia at 2:24 a.m. EDT (6:24 a.m. GMT), the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced on Telegram.

From https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/soviet-spacecraft-kosmos-482-crashes-back-to-earth-disappearing-into-indian-ocean-after-53-years-in-orbit

So my guess would be it hit R4 or S4, maybe?

(For clarity, my initial guess was V1 purely to spite me)

When I was still a fairly small human, giving me a screwdriver was a great way to find disassembled appliances (and a somehow-not-electrocuted gradeschooler).

No more tax exemption. Even better, ban them.

Seems fine to me. I’d rather someone juggle than loudly play some instrument.

Counterpoint for the general case: games also have a much larger playerbase these days and manufacturing of cartridges and components can be done at much greater economies of scale. In many cases, there is no physical media manufacturing cost to a lot of the sales.

For the specific point: Gearbox/Take2 have lost all faith from me so, while I don’t generally mind some games being in that price range, there’s zero chance pitchford and his ilk are getting that from me.

Souslikes, yes. For metroidvania, I would disagree. You did not mention soulslike in your post, unless I’m blind, or else I would have said nothing.

New metroidvania

Hey, hi everyone. We here at IronRaven decided to make a metroidvania, in the style of Dieselpunk and the 20s, art deco, art nouveau and so on. Tell me, what is the most important thing for you in metroidvanias, besides their appearance?

I prefer dark meat but, if your white meat is always dry then you’re doing something wrong.

Nice! Basically impossible to find here in Japan. Lehmen’s out of Ohio used to ship internationally, but quit by the time I was ready to buy one and did not respond to my email to try to work anything out (it was a multi-thousand dollar order of a bunch of stuff and I live near a port).

Everything is being centralized to the My Number (MyNa) system (national ID card, basically). Starting this year, insurance cards are no longer issued but the MyNa card is used. They plan to do driving licenses and the zairyuu card for foreigners as well. As an aside, foreigners’ cards expire with their residency which can be a paperwork nightmare for some things, especially with immigration having lately been very slow running over the SoR expiry.

Now, does consolidating that mean that they will have easier access or access at all? That I’m not sure of. I wonder indeed how the government would have known.

Chiaboard.