Leave it to the Terrans to build censorship right in.

It is definitely a nonsense machine.

However, I’d argue that the meme-language in Darmok is not the same as slang. Slang is functionally the same as regular language, with words having particular meanings. The whole point of Darmok is that their language doesn’t work like that.

Wouldn’t the universal translator translate slang? I could see it standing down if people were already speaking the aame language, but Quark is probably speaking a Ferengi language, so the translator would be translating it to words that match the intended meaning

Tldr: capitalist efficiency

There is a neat piece about the OS side; worth reading.

No shade to Civ 5, it was just a case of I realized my tastes had changed. It took me a few games to be really playing it for that to be able to sink in.

It’s perhaps not the best example of the broader point, but I would have to write a literal essay to say why I’m lukewarm on Rimworld, and it would probably piss off the gamers.

Sometimes you can spot a critical design decision that experience with the genre can tell you right off the bat it won’t be for you.

Sometimes you have to play through it to realize it doesn’t meet expectations. A lot of the games I play are deep sandboxes that if I like I’ll sink hundreds of hours into, and often come with a very steep learning period. With those the problems can be subtle and take a depth of experience to understand. I have 108 hours in Civ 5 because that’s how long it took me to realize I didn’t like it at all, despite previously being a fan of the series. There are other games I’ve played for longer and wouldn’t recommend if asked because having developed a nuanced understanding of the systems I see how some design decisions undermine the fantasy the game is trying to sell. Sure I enjoyed it well enough at the time, but for someone who likes to engage with depth this sort of perspective can be appreciated in a review so you know the time is better spent elsewhere.

The prison industrial complex: hold my beer

You can have both, but they go to the same inbox. At least, I haven’t tried having separate inboxes without separate accounts.

That being said, it’s easy to set up filters to folders based on the domain or email.

There’s definitely problems with that option. But in the situation you described I’d just say fuck you and close the page rather than support that. People immediately leaving is probably worse than bad questions don’t get answers.

An abstain, maybe? Would also be useful for questions that you won’t know enough to answer. Then if you keep getting hung juries you know you’re asking bad questions.

They’re just trying to teach their human to hunt. First step is to demonstrate that the mouse is food. Diva is clearly just getting frustrated with how slow a learner the human is.

Dang that is a perfectly shaped box for such a streamlined cat 😍

Merci!

Votre spécéficité culturelle constituera la nôtre. (Pardon, je ne parle pas français. Les commentaires sont appréciés.)

Your cultural distinctiveness will constitute our own

Absolutely. Where can I watch this