yeouch

My first RPG was the original pokemon red/blue and as a kid I was utterly baffled by the menu based combat. At first I thought the menus were bushes that you were hiding behind to catch the pokemon. The idea that the battle system was an abstraction over what a pokemon battle would actually be like was completely foreign to me. I got over it within the first hour but I remember being disappointed that you weren't actually slinging pokeballs and such.

Common sense AI control NOW. Ban assault style GPUs

How is this sustainable? What is the solution? Austerity? Inflation?

Cursive really shines with fountain pens. Your modern gel/rollerball/ballpoint pin barely benefits from cursive. It’s like lamenting that the kids these days don’t know how to use an abacus. If you only had enough time to teach a kid how to use excel or an abacus I’d choose excel. If you only had enough time to teach a kid how to type or how to use cursive I’d choose how to type.

This is a good point and I feel silly for my previous comment.

Barbie grossed double Oppenheimer. Feminism is the culture- not the counter-culture.

Fermented foods, psyllium husk, non-strict intermittent fasting and strength training will get you like 80% of the way there while still being able to enjoy sitting at your computer for 8+ hours a day.

I was under the assumption that Stripe, PayPal, Square, etc are not payment processors but either payment facilitators or payment gateways (depending on the platform) in that they don't actual process the payments but rather provide a convenient PCI-compliant way of moving the transactions to the actual payment processor (Something like NCR, GlobalPay, Elvaon, etc). In Stripe's case in particular I thought they were a payment facilitator and as a payment facilitator they board you as a sub-merchant which makes the process of getting an MID easier. Is that right or does Stripe actually process payments?