Yes, but it isn’t just :chicken: or something like you’d see in Discord. It’s unicode, so it’s actually U+1F414. Egg is U+1F95A.

I played it on PS4 and the load times were hilariously awful but the game ran fine. But seriously, like 6+ minute load times in the late game, compared to around 20 seconds on PC. Don’t know how the Xbox would compare, probably depends which Xbox.

The games were pretty clearly intended for PC but they control fine on console/controller.

Pretty sure it does, actually. If I look up a route and my partner looks up the same route at the same time both from within our house, mine usually has about a 3-5 minute faster eta.

I do a lot of highway driving. It’ll frequently tell me “in X miles take the exit towards [whatever]” but it will refuse to tell me what exit number I’m looking for until I’m within a mile or two of it. This is frequently a problem when I have exits with A/B/C branches which is often. I don’t give a shit if I’m exiting towards I40, just tell me I’m exiting on 13B, and tell me that from the beginning.

It used to do this, it changed a couple years ago, and I’ve been pissed off about it every time I’ve had to drive somewhere since then.

It’ll also randomly change voices on me, it’ll flip flop constantly between the American accent and a thick British accent. No rhyme or reason to it either, it’ll be a different voice on the same turn on a different day. Drives me nuts.

Ever seen birds standing on powerlines?

The difference between a regular idiot doing a dangerous job and an engineer doing a dangerous job is the engineer knows which parts of the job he’s risking imminent death on. There may often be no other difference.

The staff is nice if you’re nice. Most of them will be ready to throw down if you’re an asshole though. Especially the cooks, if the cook exits out from behind the griddle, you have done fucked up big time.

If it’s not for you it’s not for you, but I will say the Persona series took a big turn for the better around Persona 3. The modern ones don’t have a whole lot in common with the first couple beyond some basic play structure. If the last one you played was on the PS1 and you’re at all interested in an anime JRPG then P5 is worth a second look.

And last year you could have also said “nobody is going to threaten nuclear escalation with all of NATO at once” and I’d have believed it, but look where we are

You should take a read into some Gnosticism. You’d be interested in what they have to say regarding the Demiurge.

Thanks I hate this, but you’re absolutely right.

First one, then the other, and that’s why Kroger is getting their asses sued off by the FTC under Biden appointee Lina Khan. The avian flu issue was a legitimate supply/demand squeeze for a little while, until it wasn’t, and Kroger didn’t back down an inch, so the FTC is stepping in.

In modern fat American terms, sure. But in the Depression? You better make that spoon last at least an hour or two

Makes me wonder what will happen on Jan 6, 2025 if the shutdown continues - who pays for the National Guard folks, Capitol police officers, and so on?

This is a really big, serious problem that I didn’t even think about at first. Holy shit. Dollars to donuts this was a major consideration in the timing.

EU4 is pretty much exactly as difficult as being a real king in history just without any of the long term consequences. Paradox worked pretty hard to make this the case.

I had Mint up and running within an hour of deciding I was going to do so. Nvidia drivers gave me a bit of trouble but I had those solved in another hour. It really is that easy.

It’s just The Game all over again. When you’re reminded about it once a year, you facepalm and take it in stride. When somebody reminds you of it every 45 minutes, it gets real old real fast.

And “the American experiment” took place in a world that didn’t contain mass surveillance systems, automatic firearms, remote control attack drones, EMPs, radar trackers, and god knows what other military secrets that can be brought to bear. A second American revolution is guaranteed to be extremely bloody, has a much lower chance of success than the first one, and nobody wants to be on the first wave of it.

Besides, the stakes are different now. The American Revolution succeeded largely on the back of the fact that the rebels in question were all the way across the ocean and not taking land from Britain directly. That’s no longer an option.

I see the point you’re trying to make here but you’re ignoring an awful lot of context both for the original American Revolution and also for the modern day.

Don’t worry, the wiki nerds have been keeping a list.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump

Sure it would, if the writers had written it that way. South Africa is full of white people, it might have even made sense.

But since they didn’t do that, and then wrote their entire storyline around having not done that, this is a poor argument.