Dunno if it’s “on track”, but I’m pretty good with my current situation. Able to afford a mortgage for a studio apartment in a HCOL area where real estate is kinda fucked and plateaus at worst for the past few decades and in the process of looking for a better-paying job in the IT sector. Still single since the pandemic but tbh I’m kind of okay with that still for now - probably will enter the dating scene again next year if anything.
I always thought the cover to Ben Harper’s album “Fight for your Mind” was a good representation about how I felt, when they started forcing me to integrate letters and numbers, in that way:
Yeah and you know what? Fuck that, I work hard on my stupid little comments, even check spelling and shit, so when I come back and what I see? 6 upvotes? That’s like twice as much than when I was still on reddit! Normally I would get one, from myself. So thank you very much, I appreciate it!
Darwin articulated the theory of evolution by natural selection.
It goes like this:
Individuals in a community vary in their physical properties. Some may be larger or smaller, faster, stronger, or smarter.
This variability can affect the chances for those individuals possessing more favorable characteristics to survive and reproduce better than the other variants.
If those physical properties are inherited, then the ones who reproduce more leads to having the next generation of their population having more individuals with that property.
What it boils down to is that evolution is the change in the gene pool of a population over time. Natural selection was the term coined to mean that nature breeds animals and plants just like farmers do - it chooses based on the characteristics it “wants” - by which I mean the ones who survive and reproduce more successfully.
So far, so good.
The problem is that while Darwin was working that out, biology still held to a model that we call “blending inheritance.” They knew that offspring could inherit traits from both parents, and they thought the result was a blend of the two - a short person having a kid with a tall person would produce a medium sized kid, and so on.
Blending is completely incompatible with Darwin’s theory, and he worked really hard to fit that square peg into the round hole. He never did.
The irony is that during this same period Mendel was doing breeding experiments on pea plants, crossing tall with short, or different colors of flowers, and so on. He demonstrated that inheritance is particulate. Rather than a blend, it was a random mixture of alternate individual genes that caused the variety in the offspring. Basically, if you cross a plant with wrinkled peas with one with smooth peas, half the offspring will be wrinkled and half smooth. You don’t wind up with plants that had semi-wrinkled peas or which have a mixture of both. Unfortunately for Darwin, Mendel’s work remained undiscovered for decades. (I’m not sure whether wrinkled is actually a 50/50 or not, I’m just using that as an illustration).
It wasn’t until the 1940s that the two biggest ideas in biology were brought together in what’s called the modern synthesis. That’s where we began what could be considered modern evolutionary biology.
Mendel was extremely fortunate to have been working with plants that showed dominant and regressive characteristics so clearly.
Y’all should try Ingress. 😅 Doesn’t really have fog of war, but you do get to visit art in search of portals for portal-keys. 😜
It’s the company that made Pokemon Go’s more-serious first app that came out years before P-Go did, as one of the first of its kind, though it only got interest from the more niche communities. I played it until G+ got slaughtered, as it was the main base of communications and Ingress communities.
I haven’t really played it in a while, but last time I did, gameplay still prevented that. You were able to buy way too many of some things you are limited in using anyway, but things that would give you a boost in mass weren’t for sale. Only thing you can buy yourself out of is maybe 1/4th of the reasons to go outside, but you can’t really play without the other 3/4th, and I have never paid, nor been beaten by somebody that did…
Anyway, all that was at least 3 years ago, so I’m not vouching for any possible changes to the contrary right now…
But It would amaze me if they did make it pay to win now, though. Niantic was always very strict in fair gameplay when it came to Ingress…
My entire city is owned by one guy and my math makes it either he’s been hoarding for a decade just to dunk on me or he bought his way through. He would literally, for weeks, undo any progress I made within hours until I just stopped bothering.
I can do that and like I said, I never paid nothing. I didn’t hoard, but as a longtime player you got stronger. So it’s not pay to win, it’s still play to win…
No offense, but your conclussion doesn’t fit your description. You’re angry you can’t win against someone that you say might have been hoarding stuff (or is maybe doing the work for getting it daily as I used to do…) I could literally bring down Level 8’s since I was Level 5, and they stood no chance if I had been scavanging with Ingress all day first and they didn’t, yet catch me after one of those as a second player and you might win easily until I restock… That’s gameplay, not paygame. 😅
And the fact any player on his own can only max build level 5 portals and you need 3 other people at level 8 at least to make a Level 8 portal kinda stops pay to play. On your own you stand no chance against a group… So if your entire city is just 1 guy, the portals can’t be over level 5, if they are he has help.
Either way, when you attack portals, you should go stand on the Resonators, not the center of them, and when placing resonators you need to be as far as your circle allows you to stand from the portal, so they spread further apart and aren’t as easily destroyed by someone bursting in 1 spot.
I’ll have you know I sprinkled the first 3 spices I could find on that microwaved dinner, if that’s not fine dining I don’t know what is. yes the first 2 were salt and pepper, next question
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