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I haven't seen the film yet but surely the trojan horse, Odysseus' clever ruse, does appear.

The nice thing about the Switch 2 is you can find a plethora of games at your local library (if you have one, that is). That's essentially how my wife played 20+ games with her Switch 1.

gambling commercials that are so pervasive on streaming platforms/cable

Right. And "written" isn't the best way to describe these, rather they are "published" after so-and-so.

Awareness, I suppose.

Mass Surveillance is a slippery slope. It does not belong in Free and Open Societies.

I’m currently on iOS 16 with iPhone 12 mini. I don’t even see an option to update to anything but iOS26, so I’m staying put.

My worst fear is buying a 13mini that is already updated to IOS26, then I think I would be screwed.

Yeah, I was like your friend, fumbling through the game and texting him to receive some hints on how to proceed further, as I lost patience with the repetitive nature of the game. Still fun though.

I keep wondering if there's a way to have that baked into the game.

Demon Souls' system of leaving little messages behind for other players is sort of similar.

The community of AI "musicians" should absolutely have a place to share their "music". Just identify it as such so everyone else can avoid it. :)

You can't take one tragic mistake or bad-apple cop and draw conclusions

When have Trump's administration ever suggested it was either? So far they have said:

-it was an act of self-defense by Ross

-Ms. Good ran over Ross

-Ross has immunity even if he committed murder

-Ms. Good was very disrespectful to law enforcement

Perhaps they are less forthcoming about taking it. I wasn't aware my father was on it until I saw his medicine cabinet.

You know that golden ballroom Trump has been constructing with your tax dollars isn’t going to be for the public either…

The genius label we bestow on a select few is often a license to behave badly. I always enjoyed Richard’s music but never quite bought the stories told about him.

This administration’s FBI is run by podcasters and completely incompetent.

Yes, please.

I’ve mostly had pleasant experiences at my local theatre, even some memorable encounters with strangers, and find the notion of a home theatre rather depressing.

Too reductive for my liking. I always found Zappa’s persona to be hypocritical—-making a point of condemning the drug culture of his contemporaries while drinking gallons of coffee a day and smoking like a chimney.

To dig deeper into this style of tape loop ambient music, check out William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops. William Basinski used a similar concept to Brian Eno, only the tapes he used rapidly deteriorated upon playback, causing the musical material to degrade over the length of the recording.

I've never "bought" the story of Disintegration Loops that Basinski tells about its creation. The idea he composed it literally during the 9/11 attacks was just a silly attempt to add gravitas to abstract music. The more you think about it, the more off-putting it becomes. Reminds me of Stockhausen's stupendous remark about 9/11 being "the biggest work of art there has ever been".

In the same vein, tape doesn't normally just deteriorate before your eyes. The gradual change in sound of the loops is more likely due to the guitar pedal chain he was running his loops into (Basinski tends to omit this part of its creation).

I've completed dozens of solo games on arkhamhorror.app, what an awesome project!

I would reach out to those friend for freebie parts.

I don't think its quite reducible to that. Take a step back and look at how you have an Emperor whose power is offset by both the Landsraad and the navigator's guild. This arrangement has all come about because of a scarce resource only available on one desert planet which makes space travel possible, and which has a population who have been fiercely fighting a guerilla war for centuries. It was all bound to come undone whether Paul accepted his part or not.

What slave labor are you repeatedly referring to?

Not me.

Subject matter, as they are just portraits. As opposed to something like the Night Watchman.

it's very 'scoldy' too

Historians will probably mark the end of the American Empire to sometime around the financial crisis of '08 or perhaps even the invasion of Iraq.

anyways...

Zappa smoked like a chimney and drank coffee incessantly. He was hardly as sober as he claimed to be.

There’s only one reason she was forced out and it had nothing to do with plagiarism.

Ironic that a good chunk of your comment history is evaluating this or that news story, conspiracy, or talking point from this or that social media outlet. What a miserable way to live.

Genocidal activities with the goal of removing the ethnic people entirely from a region. I didn’t wish to “refute anything”, not sure what you are commenting on.