SparroHawc

....are you seriously complaining like this about the use of the word 'apopleptic'? It was one word, dude, let it go.

EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I'd already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

....Italians?

There's an easy solution to that.

Seed something yourself.

Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn't already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.

'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn't already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.

with no ads

For now.

Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source's funding and taking it for itself.

It's the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.

It's a charm against boredom.

If you don't bring the book, you'll be sitting around bored wishing you'd brought it with you.

If you do bring it, you'll never have time to read it.

Currently my Steam Deck is fulfilling that purpose.

I read recently of a variation of this. You play the game by intending to play it; you win when you forget you're playing the game.

Thus, when you remember the game exists, you realize that you won!

It's a two-fold curse - first, every single program these days isn't a stand-alone program, it's a glorified web browser. Hand-in-hand with that is the fact that, in order for these webpages-disguised-as-programs to behave in the way you normally expect a modern UI to act, it has to have five layers of javascript frameworks, each adding its own pile of cruft to the slagheap that is modern app design. It's horrendous and I hate it.

There's often a lot of fun cheats you can use - bitwise operators, etc - if your numbers are small powers of two.

Also it's easier to organize memory, if you're doing funky memory management tricks, if the memory you're allocating fits nicely into the blocks available to you which are always in powers of two.

They're not necessarily great reasons if you're using a language with sufficient abstraction, but it's still easier in most instances to use powers of two anyways if you're getting into the guts of things.

The more progressive candidates win local elections, the more what constitutes "the Democratic party" changes.