My grandma thought one of her pregnancies was a hangover at first…

A proper long Island is about 5 ounces of liquid with 4 of them being liquor. That’s way more potent than a bee and a shot.

Death Note and Code Geass are some of the best psychological thrillers.

Cowboy Bebop is an all time great.

Seven Deadly Sins is fun and Four Knights of the Apocalypse is a good sequel.

Bojack Horseman and F is for Family are good western adult animation.

Violet Evergarden is a good romantic/emotional show.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon are good shows in somewhat the same genre as vox Machina.

RWBY is worth watching at least through season 3, the creator died during the third seasons and the later stuff isn’t quite as good.

I would want at least a day between those two though. Multiple full days of meetings in a row would be awful.

What is impressive is that Snorlax is still high on the heaviest pokemon list over a literal whale.

There’s plenty of games that you could say the same about that didn’t get the traction. It’s still a hit based industry. It’s not a knock against the game, it’s a reality of the industry.

Nothing much. Republicans have been distancing from trump since solid red elections went blue. This is just more of that.

You’re thinking about it as a user. AI based auto complete is an impressive sounding feature that got someone a promotion or bonus.

AI in Excel sounds great as a prompting system to make features more usable. As auto complete for cell level values it would be absurd. Being able to prompt a pivot table or let AI figure out the combination of functions to get a value you wanted seems useful.

The starter edition bundle is 11.99 us and the ultimate is 104.80 in USD. There’s basically 2 different types of DLCs in the paradox model. The core expansion type that is released every year or so and adds or fleshes out an area of the game, these are generally must haves and reasonably priced if you have played the game for a year(s) to mix it up. The second is smaller focused packs that add a faction or some extra flavor to a more minor mechanic. These are relatively expensive for what they offer, but aren’t always intended for everyone to buy.

If you are a hardcore completionist this model is bad for you, but if you can live with not having everything then it’s not terrible.

I think the big studios lost reality with what the gaming market is. It’s a hit based business, you need a level of volume that they’ve been backing off on. It’s not that the expedition 33 devs were so much better, they just happened to be the lucky ones that put out a solid game that got traction.

Investing is great for retirement funds, over the 30 years or so it’s great for returns. It’s terrible to invest principle you need in scope of months or 1-2 years even.

If you have 20k and a 20k loan, putting that money in the stock market is stupid if you need that money to pay the loan. If you have 20k, a 20k loan, and income to cover loan payments in addition to living, it may be beneficial to invest that 20k, but it’s still relatively high risk.

It’s gone down moth over month many times though. If you are dependant on that principle month to month it’s insane to trust the market.

Having 20k plus the cash flow to pay a 20k loan is a totally different scenario than buying a car for cash. If you need that 20k to pay the 333/month, it’s stupid to trust the market isn’t going to go down, and simple savings would net you maybe $500.

EA is great for small and medium sized studios to get games out that might be a bit more ambitious than they could manage with traditional models. The point of AAA is that they have the money to do big impressive things. They can already do focus groups and closed betas to get community feedback. The thing that might attract AAA attention is you could make a good amount without actually releasing anything.

It’s not just polls, there have been elections, they went badly for Republican candidates.

Early access is more about getting revenue during development and some limited QA potential. There shouldn’t be any surprises in the feedback, that would be a sign of major problems. EA also generally comes with a discount for the player which is anathema to the AAA crowd.

There’s plenty of constraints still, they aren’t technical though. It’s about making a game good despite the monetization requirements.

The average cost of a car is wildly skewed by luxury models and the absurd prices of new cars. The market has gotten more expensive, so it is more difficult to find reliable cars in the sub 5k range, but under 10k is possible. It’s possible to save a few hundred bucks a month and get progressively better cars without financing them, because depreciation isn’t significant at the low end of the market.

Pay cash for a car that runs. You aren’t getting a loan without income in the first place.