Pregnancies over age 35 are considered geriatric as well. So maybe they are just confused because of that..? (I’m being generous)
I wish more games had playable demos. Even after the game comes out, just rip part of it out and let me play it. It’s one thing to watch a gameplay video, it’s another thing entirely to try it out for yourself.
I get that in this case, the demo showed too much (giving the impression there would be more growth), and that was a disappointing experience, but I’d argue that’s an issue with the demo/game combo itself - it’s for a game that only takes a couple hours total, so it’s very limited in what it can do with a demo. It would be like a demo of stray (2 hours to get through the story) or tinykin (under 10 hours for 100%) both also very short games with very limited abilities. You can do a short teaser, but then people would complain it’s too short and whatever.. it’s a no-win there, I think, because the author even says there’s a good story missed in the demo.
But if you have a demo of, for example, dysmantle, it doesn’t matter that the gameplay is exactly the same for 100 hours, and the only thing that changes is -what- you can smash.. there’s some progression involved, but not much.. it’s basically just smashing and exploring, and that’s all the demo would be. And that’s ok too, because holy SHIT is that repetition fun!
I’m imagining them having to change out the bag or.. I guess bag-less bin…?
Unless this goes into a drain which is… equally super weird, actually, because it isn’t sink-shaped or anything.. so now I’m imagining this super tall trash can with like a weak little drain at the bottom full of straws and bottle caps and stuff.
I think that’s the strength of a commons, really.
Because everyone directly uses and directly benefits from it, everyone is invested in keeping it well maintained and useable.
I bet there’s a super strong local culture around protecting that system from harm. It could be deleterious for the whole community if it was allowed to be ruined, and they’d be super aware of that.
Maybe it’ll be a new “line go up” metric and replace the existing line with a better one..?
Wishful thinking, I know.
I’ve always wanted to be crammed into a tiny spaceship with a big fuck-off telescope and the collected works of humanity loaded on the computer, and be launched perpendicular to the plane of orbit. (This is, by necessity, a one-way trip, as it would take a very very very long time to get far enough for good data)
We don’t actually know what the galaxy looks like from a top-down (or bottom-up, depending on how you choose to view it) perspective so it would be a really unique experience and would send very useful information back…. probably. Eventually.
So I’d definitely take the space station. Not the same, but close enough.
So they lied about indigenous peoples living there; did more damage than permitted when exploring to see if it was even worth it, which included fucking up aquifers people rely on and killing livestock; the residents had to do their own impact study and found that people would be displaced; after the permit was canceled, they tried to divide the community to overcome resistance by giving residents gifts and trying to build water infrastructure to “fix” the damage they would be causing; the permit got canceled before they actually started mining (and it was canceled due to their own impact study being wholly inadequate, so it’s entirely their own fault anyway)… and all this is right next to a river that feeds into the Gulf of Mexico (meaning if -or really, when- this wholly untrustworthy company fucks up, we all pay for it).. and yet they want to sue Mexico for hypothetical financial losses?
I hope Mexico tells them to fuck right off and never come back. They made that bed for themselves, greedy fucking swine. Mexico should countersue for restoration costs.
I wonder if this means that people who have already undergone genetic screening should do it again, or if the sample was sequenced fully enough to just report further findings to you like they do when they learn what an unknown mutation does.
I went through testing some 12 years ago or so and all my known genes are clean but this could change that substantially. I guess I’ll see if I can track down the company that did it and see what the recommendation is going to be, once that becomes slightly more clear.
Those and milk bottle rings.
He reminds me of billy the puppet..
Well now I feel kinda bad wanting to use them for practice garbage..
That’s so much worse than I imagined, I’m so sorry. Nobody should have to deal with that for security theater.