Seriously, it actually sounds kinda good.

It’s one of my favorite games ever, but I wouldn’t say it’s the best game ever made. I would say it’s one of the most unique gaming experiences I’ve ever had though, and that’s valuable to me. Learning about this cute little star system one mystery at a time is an incredible experience IMO. But if you’re bored by the gameplay loop, don’t expect it to change much. It stays pretty constant. The point is learning one secret at a time and getting a full picture of what’s happening.

Flying is definitely clunky, but to me it feels intentional (or at least fitting). As others have said, always use auto-pilot to go between planets and cancel to move your trajectory around anything that comes in between and then re-engage auto pilot. Usually that’s either the sun or a moon (happens a lot if you book it straight to Brittle Hollow). When you’re near other things, match velocity is very useful either to stop next to something or get nice and aligned with the planet you’re about to land on.

When flying manually, less is more. There’s no friction to slow you down but there is gravity to speed you up.

That’s certainly more accurate than “Hispanic chef” which is just entirely wrong, but I still think that’s not the best way to describe him. Do you have a source for his Mexican citizenship? I can’t find it anywhere.

All I can find is basically a residential history. Born 1896 in Baveno, Italy; moved around a lot in the 1910s (Italy --> Montreal --> back to Italy --> Sacramento --> San Diego). As he moved around California he was involved in the restaurant business and eventually established restaurants in Tijuana to get around Prohibition. So that must have been early 1920s, then he eventually moved back to California in 1936 and stayed there (occasionally moving cities) until his death in 1956.

I think “Italian chef” is certainly the least ambiguous way to describe him. “Italian immigrant chef in Tijuana” is a bit of a mouthful.

Edit: honestly it’s not even clear if he lived in Tijuana or still lived in San Diego and just worked in Tijuana (initially because of Prohibition). He got married in Santa Ana in 1924 (same year as the credited Caesar salad invention). His daughter was born in San Diego in 1928.

Well, not a Hispanic chef. An Italian chef living in Tijuana.

Yeah, all it takes is one cat who goes for it and you’d have to adjust. I just don’t believe it’s super common the way common wisdom on the internet suggests.

I also think the amount of other enrichment your cats get can deter this sort of “naughty” behavior. I see that as them trying to find something fun to do. If they have other outlets I would hypothesize they’d be less inclined towards this.

Sheesh, now I feel actually attacked a little. I was being mostly hyperbolic, but you can do really useful things with complex figures in presentations. For example: revealing elements sequentially to build up to the final figure or altering opacity of different elements to bring the audience’s attention to specific parts of the figure.

This sequencing can sometimes very subtly alter the size of the figure as you change elements, so the default positioning will slightly change from one slide to the next. Most people won’t care or notice when a figure slightly drifts by a pixel or two during these sequences, but it bothers me tremendously so I add adjustments to keep every variation of the figure aligned on the slides.

Either I’m the luckiest person ever or this isn’t as universal as everyone always makes it out to be. My house was always a multi-cat household growing up and I’ve got one cat of my own now. In total I’ve lived with 8 cats and my parents have had another 3 come in since I moved out. We have always aligned the toilet paper over and not once that I’m aware of did our cats ever unroll it.

I feel personally attacked. Brb, making presentation slides in beamer and compiling 1000 times to get the figure to the exact right pixel.

I definitely won’t make any changes to the figure later that will make me have to adjust the position again. Why yes, this is better than PowerPoint, why do you ask?

IMO, an agreement to get married should be a mutual discussion, not a surprise. My wife and I also decided to get married by having a discussion and then went ring shopping together. We went with a blue topaz. Super pretty and didn’t break the bank.

The user always lies. Or even if they don’t, they can’t intimidate the ghosts in the machine like you can.

You need to grapple with this and figure out how to acknowledge the damage the DNC did to the party in 2016. You are only continuing to hurt party unity by pretending it didn’t happen.

I’m not saying Bernie would definitely have won or anything. Chances are Hillary would have won in a fair election anyway. I’m saying the people were robbed of a fair election so we can’t know what would have happened. If you’re truly interested in justifying democracy you should be outraged by that rather than denying it.

But sure, a pithy “lmao” definitely does the trick too.

…In an unfair election with the organizing body tipping the scale all throughout the process. So no, you can’t point to the votes to wave away the corruption that influenced those votes.

Oh, come on. You can’t justify a corrupt process by pointing to the final results of the corrupt process.

I itemized for the first time this year so I couldn’t use it, but I did fill it out completely as a comparison point to make sure itemizing was worth it. It was pretty painless, not very different from free filing through various other companies.

It’s not.

I do the same, metro commuting and a short trip to visit family (~50 miles each way) every couple weeks or so. I don’t even have to plug in every time I get home, I only need to make sure I am charged up at least to 75% for the family visit. Level 1 charging is more than sufficient, I’ve only ever used a charging station just to see what it’s like and try to use up some credit I got for them through my dealership.

For those without EVs: level 1 charging is just plugging into a standard 120V outlet. I have no special equipment at home, though I did need to confirm my breaker could handle it. For my 2023 Bolt EUV I charge about 1% per hour on the reduced charge setting (8 amps). If I do need to charge a little faster I can swap it to 12 amps, but I typically don’t need to do that.

I have an uncommon but not unique name and I have firstlast@gmail.com. As far as I know, others with my name usually include a middle initial in their email address but they sometimes forget it. I’ve gotten family event plans, car maintenance reminders, digital receipts, contractor quotes, and even once added to a daycare group (that one I did reach out to the coordinator to let them know and then removed myself from the group).

My team has one day per week where we have our regular team meetings and the expectation is we are usually in the office on that day. Outside of that, we all set our own schedules based on our needs. Some people just like being in the office or have job duties that necessitate it. Others like me have little reason to be in the office other than specific meetings so I WFH 4 days most weeks, coming in on those if needed.

It’s the best work setup I’ve had so far, and a lot of that is because our manager is actually great at her job.

Getting screenshots or videos off the Switch is laughably arcane. Nintendo is so weird about modern tech conveniences.