What, never?

Force feedback codpieces.

There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.

https://youtu.be/pOgf3IaWlgU?t=172

252.6 hours played, last played October 2024.

It’s enjoyable, but I’ve never been really engaged with it. There’s no progression, I don’t feel like my character, equipment, or ships are getting better even though I’m upgrading things. No planet is special, even though they’re all unique.

I think it would be better if you started out in a “settled” region with interesting factions, hand-designed planets, optional quest lines, etc. The infinite procedurally generated stuff would come into play if you push beyond the edges of known space.

I’m assuming the answer was wrong, but as a non-musician I don’t see it.

Were they generating a new recap every time? If not, then why automate it? If so… why?

You may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

Funny “Haha” or funny “Uh Oh”?

A .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?

Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.

So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?

That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.

There is no such thing as an innocent billionaire.

Yet Trump can declassify documents by thought alone.

It may be possible…

It may not be necessary…

What, no avocado toast?

So… it’s an order, then?

Bill Nyehilism is for me.

Depending on what counts as a “magnet”, the loss of magnetism could destroy the universe.

You have died from dysentery.

And stop sighing so much.

For soon, the quivering mass of life within me will depend on us both. Even now, I can sense it feeding, squirming, searching, questing. And shortly, it will rend my loins in twain, burst forth and pull us down, down, down into the deep, dark waters of commitment.

But not small ones.