Happens every spring. Why do you think they’re called nightingales?

I’ll be honest that first screenshot is not a very flattering representation of the game’s graphics.

If your math uses numbers it’s not real math.

§6.7.9 of the C11 standard says they have elements with indices:

If an array of unknown size is initialized, its size is determined by the largest indexed element with an explicit initializer. The array type is completed at the end of its initializer list.

The bark also peels in thin layers as it grows, which can make it harder for mosses, lichens, and other organisms to firmly establish on the surface.

Oh so that’s why birch bark is the way it is.

They do in most countries.

When there’s a murder or a rape or a burglary, someone has to collect the reports and perform the investigation. Someone has to enforce the rules of the road and screen for drunk drivers and document traffic accidents. Someone has to show up to stop crimes in progress when they happen. Whatever public official does this job is functionally police. Calling them militsiya instead of police doesn’t actually change their job description.

A society where none of these things happen is not something humanity is currently capable of creating. It will require a lot of social, cultural and possibly genetic evolution to manifest.

People choose to vote politicians who enact and uphold this legislation. If your path to a better world relies on every single person just magically choosing what’s best for society, you’ll be waiting for a while.

Besides, there are countries that aren’t failed states like the US is, and those countries still have police and by and large the existence of police is a net benefit to them. As long as there is crime and antisocial behaviour, the social contract needs an enforcement arm of some form.

Yeah I mean cops enforce the law. What this meme is criticizing has almost nothing to do with the police and instead is a problem with law and policy.

I don’t know if RunUO is still being updated, but ServUO, a fork, is still being developed. Our shard runs on POL, which somehow is also still in somewhat active development.

I’ve been adminning/developing for a small UO private shard for a few years now. It’s such a great platform for MORPGs, with only one M and heavy emphasis on the RP (our shard has a strict no-OOC policy).

Sadly the engine is very obviously 30 years old and it’s such a pain to develop for, even given all the community tooling that has pretty much reversed everything about it. Even though I love what’s built on it and have lots of ideas, implementing those ideas with all the technical limitations kinda sucks. One day I’m definitely going to make my own standalone spiritual successor. Yeah I know, add it to the pile, but this one would be different!

SecuROM limited you to 2-5 activations per CD key.

You haven’t been able to resell your used PC games since the invention of the CD key and SecuROM.

They have, since that post was made, banned skin gambling sponsors from being featured at all CS2 and Dota events: https://www.strafe.com/news/read/valve-bans-skin-gambling-sponsors-from-all-cs2-events/

I’m all for not cutting the eyes off of shrimp for no particularly good reason, but I just want to devil’s advocate the argument for the complex internal lives of shrimp used here:

Researchers discovered that when shrimps are subjected to ESA, they try to escape it. They also flick their tails and rub their eye area. When the wounds are covered or medicine is given, the shrimps calm down. This suggests that the ablation caused them pain and distress.

Ants seek to escape the heat of the magnifying glass, flies seek to escape the flyswatter, most plants show signs of stress after being damaged and many plants are capable of sensing and learning, and even single-celled slime molds are capable of learning simple behaviours. This is not evidence of complicated sentience, this is something most non-microbial (and some microbial) life on the planet does.

Shrimp are ocean bugs with such a small number of neurons (less than 1 million) that we would probably be capable of simulating them on a present-day computer. As far as animals go, they’re pretty far down the sentience ladder. If you’ve ever killed a cockroach, that was an animal more complicated than most species of shrimp.

His nose is quite distinctive. In front-facing photos (e.g. [1] [2]) the tip is the lowest part of his nose with the nostrils being above the tip. It’s reasonable to draw this as a hook nose in a caricature.

Where the caricatures, particularly the one in the top right, go wrong is in drawing his nose with a prominent bridge (like this real nose), which he doesn’t really seem to have.

GabeN is a CEO, rich, probably greedy and has a yacht, but by all accounts he isn’t a douchebag.

I don’t simp for him, but he is different from most other billionaires in that he got rich doing what he loves and just kept doing it, and has kept his company on course on a mission that is, all things considered, pretty good for everyone involved (insofar a for-profit company is capable of such a thing).

Exaggerated noses are a trope in caricatures regardless of ethnicity. But more importantly, the guy actually does have a bigger than average nose and big ears. What are the caricaturists supposed to do, not exaggerate his features? That’s the point of caricatures.

I mean…

Landlords are worse than people who hold house parties in apartments, but only barely.

It was not my intent to be mean, it was my intent to be cynical. Good things almost never just accidentally happen in this system. When the AI demand dies down these companies will go back to making consumer/general purpose hardware and gamers will ravenously buy that shit up, because they haven’t been able to upgrade their rigs for years.