Newbies are often afraid or insulted to use “handicap” pieces, but the few free pieces given to a lower-rank player are actually quite effective at adjusting the balance with unevenly ranked players. It’s not a huge advantage and doesn’t fundamentally change the play of the game.
Using different sizes of board is also neat. I’m very fond of a short game using only a 9x9 board. Plays a lot faster, but trades strategy for a more tactical game.
This is the notion of Heidegger’s “thrownness”, which I love as a philosophy concept for how straightforward it is. We all have this feeling that we were “thrown into” the world without choice and have to make the best of the situation we’re born into.
I mean, what kind of immortality are we talking about here?
If your cells have been locked into “last known good configuration” then there’s no reason for anything inside you to evolve because nothing is changing.
Or maybe you aren’t immutable, but like a ship of theseus, in which case why would your internal biome evolve away from the eternally balanced environment it lives in? Crabs haven’t evolved for millenia because once perfection is achieved, where else can you evolve?
Tldr, what I’m saying is, vampires should be more worried about bursting with crabs than dinos.
The “less strain on bees due to monoculture crops” thing is doubly silly. Monoculture has a lot of real problems, no need to make any up. Increasing crop diversity reduces the need for fertilizers, poisons, and reduces risk of plant diseases running rampant. Reducing our usage of chemicals for agriculture would help save the actual bees!
We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… -MLK jr
I reject “sus” being zoomer exclusive. Among Us has been a huge hit for 5 years now, was popular across demographics, and made an appearance in Glass Onion, which is the boomeriest Millennial movie ever.
This is too cruel! Spock could at least be smoked chicken! He has seasonings, and they’re actually more intense than human seasonings! It’s why he must struggle so hard to control them, with white bread and mayo, (maybe some capers for a light touch of alien zing).
Once installed, a new team of people would have to maintain it. Mechanics with biotech engineering degrees. Cleaning technicians with advanced degrees in medicine, robotics, and hygiene. Eventually an aftermarket for used jizzbots would form, resulting in cum-puter resellers and replacement part manufacturers. Unlicensed spunkdroid hotrodders overclocking their barely legal Frankenstein fuck factories for orgasms previously inconceivable to the human mind. Soon we’ll all be slaves to the perpetual pussy motion machine, our minds melting into one… unnnnnngggggg… wow, that was a lot to type one-handed, where am I, what’s happening? (jk but this stupid gag really got away from me!)
Too embarrassed to crank one at the hospital, but not too embarrassed to have a machine suck you off while you stand at the row of machines with all the other donors. Urinal etiquette does apply, btw! Don’t be That Guy who goes straight for the middle BJ Bot!
In 1990, a series of CGI animation collections began release on VHS tape. The Mind’s Eye was the first experience many people (myself included) had with pure computer animation.
The best known segment from the first tape is Stanley & Stella in Breaking the Ice, which was first released in 1987. You can just watch it online now of course!
The animation style reminds me a lot of Reboot, a childhood favorite. It still amazes me how interesting this style is even today, really shows how much more artistry and vision matter than technology. I believe this is also the first public demonstration of a flocking algorithm.
My dad asked if I could look at a spreadsheet he uses at work, maybe fix a couple of things that he has to manually adjust. This meme is frightfully accurate, the earliest parts of this thing are older than some of the junior devs on my team.
It’s funny how this isn’t even an odd request anymore. Most places will make burgers into lettuce wraps now. I wonder which factors (keto, gluten-free, broader health awareness) or combination of them had the most influence on changing perception about it?
I love to watch caving videos: much better for someone younger and foolhardier than me to actually do the climbing and clambering with their gopros. I’ll continue to enjoy things like air, vast open spaces, and vicarious experiences.
People take a lot of safety precautions now, reasonably, but every once in a while the cavers on YT will do something just stupid and it baffles me. “The water’s ice cold and up to my nostrils, but I really want to see where this tunnel goes! Going to turn my lamp and camera off for now to save battery, see you in a few hours!”
Seems like a technicality: she legally* couldn’t hold a job but was obviously doing the work. (fingersnaps, yassssss nagus)
Likewise, Garak has a job (tailor, salesperson) and also, allegedly, has real power and influence within the Cardassian spy-network/government.
The Prophets though, legit, those trans-corporeal bums can go get a real job. “We exist beyond linear time” yeah buddy, I like to get high and sit on the couch too but we all need to eat.
Someone talk to me about Go (the board game). I'm in the process of learning it right now. (lemmy.world)
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Living forever (lemmy.world)
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「SERENITY NOW」と (lemmy.world)
Me after Christmas dinner (lazysoci.al)
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Happy MLK day! (lemmy.ml)
We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… -MLK jr
poor Dean (lemmy.ml)
fr fr ong (startrek.website)
If X was a sandwich: Spock (startrek.website)
Beef Liners (lemmy.zip)
Oh, you guys want my opinion? Well... (startrek.website)
18+ Milking machine (i.imgflip.com)
What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of? (kbin.social)
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
Well, the hits start coming and they don't stop coming. Fed to the station and I hit the ground running (static1.srcdn.com)
it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... (lemmy.ca)
8 December 1980 (sh.itjust.works)
Why do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Batman's secret identity [Pictures in Boxes] (startrek.website)
gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss (startrek.website)
Undiscovered country music (startrek.website)
MIGHTY MIGHTY HETEROMORPHIN TIME (mander.xyz)
Layers of KETR (lemmy.world)
This old meme format popped into my head, but honestly I was lost on what the best punchline would be.