That looks just like my Sunfire’s dash, other than mph being more prominent than km/h and it redlining over 7k rpm.

Is that an S2000?

There have been a few times where I want to get back into a game, load up an old save, flounder around in it because I forgot some essential game mechanics, decide “fuck it, I’ll just start a new save” and then get back to where I was and beyond quicker than I remember getting there in the first place.

Not to mention the selection of games available is pretty paltry.

For game streaming itself, there’s always going to be the latency issue that will keep a bunch of gamers away from ever using it. I never bothered even looking at the streaming options when I had game pass because of that.

GPU drivers have low latency modes for when the timing of a frame update means your current input will come a frame or two later, and a difference of 10ms in frame delivery time can be enough to call something a stuttery mess.

Now add network latency that is an order of magnitude higher. Streaming video and/or audio is fine because it can buffer enough to absorb typical latency jumps, but games can’t buffer more than the upper bound of input latency, so that brief 1 second network hiccup is a horrible stutter where you can’t even move.

Though at least game pass works more like Netflix in that you can just pick a game available and try it out if you have a sub. I don’t get the appeal of the ones where you not only subscribe to the service but also need to buy the games you play at full price.

Plus the Blizzard name has cashed in all of its previous good reputation, at least from my point of view.

Most fond things I see said about them are from people still playing their older games, other than a friend that is still playing wow classic.

That was the before Presidential powers go back to Trump dynamic. After the 20th, they’ll both be in a position where they could probably ruin the other, and I think the risk will be higher for Musk, especially because Trump doesn’t really need him anymore (he’ll have access to funds to keep him solvent) and has that presidential immunity to avoid consequences if a conflict escalates.

My guess is that the brand names got stuck from their own popularity. People knew what they tasted like and might have reacted badly if they tried to tweak the recipe, whereas the budget brands were easier to either change or even discontinue and replace with slightly different branding. People were buying them for the price, not the recipe.

And then, after enough experimentation, they were able to figure out something that matched or surpassed the brand names.

In Canada, there’s the PC brand that I always considered a budget brand. Until I worked at an ice cream factory that had their own premium brand but also made some PC flavours. The PC ones looked better than the factory brand ones. The factory did things the old way (where ice cream flavours were still more about the ice cream than extras added) while PC focused more on the extras like cookie dough or chocolate caramel cups. I can only speak for myself, but I’m more into the extras than the ice cream itself, so it felt like PC was more in tune with what I wanted than the premium brand.

Additionally, the premium brand sticking with the less preferred recipe kinda feels pretentious at this point, like they are being ice cream purists or think they know better about what people want, given the higher price.

PC also had their versions of various pop flavours that have colouring on the boxes to make it clear what they were cloning and their Pepsi cola clone was just as good as the real thing but way cheaper.

Something Awful, it was a link aggregator and comment site like Reddit before Reddit was a thing.

I didn’t use it much but I did like that they had voting on posts in multiple dimensions (like funny, insightful, etc).

If you sort it, you’ll be able to find any country in log n time.

And those buying the ads would love to know if who sees their ads are bots or humans.

Based on my experience with humans, the ruling class would probably get this turned around to the point where people vote based on how popular various brand names are. It might even reduce the amount it takes to buy or rent a politician if certain logos make them more likely to win.

Even today, I bet a good portion of his cult would just call all that money an example of how good a business man he is, with the assumption that good business man = good leader.

Another prediction is that dummy companies will pop up with good looking mission statements and money to give to candidates who might actually be good ones, only for scandals to break about the company after the name gets associated with the politician.

We can’t have nice things.

I’m not sure how much chemical tweaking they did on aspartame, but I suspect it ended up being overfitted to their test group because I can’t stand the taste of it. It just tastes a bit off to me, like there’s some undesirable chemical in there.

Stevia was disappointing for me because the ones granulated like white sugar also have that flavour. Maybe it’s from traces of whatever solvent was used to extract it from the plant.

I’d rather have water than any diet soda.

Yeah, you’re right, MS hasn’t challenged wine in court and I was thinking of that lawsuit.

Apparently it was since decided in appeals that not all API implementations are covered by fair use.

I was one of the “got game pass, usually forget to use it” subscribers. I ended up canceling when games I was playing were no longer available when I did remember about it so I couldn’t finish them anyways, plus the price went up.

Last thing I did was go through their games and add ones that looked interesting to my steam wishlist. And after I cancelled, when one of the games I had been playing went on sale, I realized another thing that I didn’t like about it that I hadn’t even known: they don’t advertise what games use invasive drm or anti-cheat software like steam does.

Though the main driving factor was wanting to divorce myself from as much reliance on MS/Windows as possible.

Iirc there’s already a legal precedent that says copyright doesn’t apply to APIs themselves, just their implementations, so reverse engineering one to make your own implementation is fair game. I think the original lawsuit was even about wine.

Though it is possible my memory archives are corrupted.

Yeah, I wasn’t trying to say that’s why everyone who supports abortion bans secretly believes. I just think that’s why it’s being pushed politically, as well as to get support from those who oppose abortion for whatever reason.

“I didn’t realize you guys did appetizers!”

And if you’re there with a group, spend some time asking everyone if they want to try the new appetizers before letting them correct the “misunderstanding”.

If you go there repeatedly, have your eyes light up each time they ask.

Judging by history, I don’t think the cycle is 100 years but more like 85 - 90 years.

Which would put us in the economic bad times right now, leading into a time of military conflict.

Yeah MK ultra involved some CIA agents just going around and roofying random or targeted people with LSD and various other substances while also tripping themselves pretty much just for the fuck of it. There was nothing scientific about it. Most of the notes that were taken were destroyed because they knew that if word got out about what they were doing, it would make a lot of people angry. Iirc, the evidence that was collected only still existed because one of the people running it had a bunch of them in his home when it was searched for other shady shit he was up to.

Yeah, the power gamer one is siphon abilities plus whatever two give the best advantage with that. Though psychic might be enough to negate any other, plus would help figure out where to get the others.

Though it’s hard to meta game with just ability names. Like it could be god tier where teleportation works like you said and can be used on its own to find things or people, or it could be the kind where using it at all is risky because you might end up inside a wall.

Psychic could mean you can freely look into the future, past, and present (like knowing your opponent’s poker hand). It could mean you get a warning if you need to deal with danger. Either of those could make invulnerability unnecessary (along with very rich, intellect, physical fighting, and others). Or it could just be con artistry like psychics that sell their “abilities” in the world we live in.

Siphon abilities might be permanent, temporary, or might require contact with the ability owner to use the ability. Maybe you get a copy of the ability or the original owner loses their ability. Maybe it applies only to powers on the list or maybe to any skill/ability.

Magic and divine power are especially vague, could be anything from the most powerful on the list (maybe even including everything else on the list already) to what real life magicians and priests can do.