That’s helpful, thanks!

Could you give an example? I’ve never seen any but the most unobtrusive of ads.

I said what I said. Thanks for listing alternatives, though!

If you’re on a budget, make sure to redeem the weekly free games from Epic and Amazon if you have Prime. You can play them all on your deck via Heroic Games Launcher.

That’s easy, it’s a chromium browser with built-in ad-blocking that hasn’t been kneecapped by manifest v3.

Yeah, I meant rewrites of complete shipped products, so your exception fits

Exactly. Full rewrites nearly always end in failure.

Bottom center Santa is holding the reindeer’s hoof, but the reindeer’s leg in the same side is also down below Santa’s arm

Cool. Your comments are coming across as hostile, rude, and unhelpful. Bye.

Care to elaborate?

The Venture Brothers did a great sendup of this trope in “The Handsome Ransom.”

Matteo D’Ottavio if you want in depth moka pot geekery

Elden Ring because I bounced off it the first time (open worlds make me feel tired) but this time I have some good momentum going

I’m far from an AI apologist, but rewrites and refactors really should be covered by automated unit and integration tests.

I don’t get it either. My wife loves the stuff but to me it’s in the uncanny valley of food. Unsettlingly almost, but not quite like food.

That’s not all! It’s also less rewarding!

Dark Souls 2. The level design felt so much worse than DS1 and every area felt like a joyless slog. I have no desire to return.

Elden Ring. Open worlds make me tired, because I try to explore every nook and cranny. I have returned to this one, dealing with the open world as just a place between major points of interest. I only explore if I see something interesting. I’ve made it further than I had before and still want to keep going.

Nioh 2. Nothing bad to say, just put in 60 hours and still wasn’t done so I went to play something else for a change of pace. I will definitely be back at some point. It’s a lot of fun. “Too much content”, as if that’s a bad thing. I hear higher difficulty levels are new experiences with new gear and enemy types and placements, too.

Why anyone signs up to listen to these “influencers” will forever elude me

It’s literally adding the coffee after pouring the water. It supposedly helps reduce filter clogging with the Clever. And yes, the Clever is an immersion brewer with a little bit of percolation at the end, as a treat.

Gets better every loop