Plane or sand it smooth and refinish it. Probably you would need to strip and refinish the whole thing to blend it in but that is an advantage to wooden furniture.

Pass on sticking within the bounds of treason and tyranny. I’m gonna keep idealizing beyond that.

Oh, uh, pass.

Nobody should be obliged to host bigotry. That’s not “censorship” in a way that matters.

Yep, only things my truck has been specifically good for have been dump runs to one particular facility (big pit with low wall) and hauling loads of gravel/soil. A van or a trailer could accomplish much the same, but the truck was cheap and I don’t have anywhere to keep a trailer so it’s a good second vehicle.

The fan base is earned.

This is what I have a problem with. The fan base WAS earned but now is taken for granted.

You can’t just pretend that online play isn’t important for multiplayer games. It’s a huge knock against the titles you mentioned.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land tries so hard to keep gameplay smooth that any enemies more than like 15 feet away drop to 8fps and it still dips when there’s too many effects on screen. Breath of the Wild simply banishes mobs that get too far away (or just run for too long) to keep the memory functional (and many things don’t even render at the edge of bow range). Super Mario Odyssey also aggressively culls actors and gets a bit sad when you force too much on screen (high up in Metro Kingdom, for example) It might not matter to you but it impacts the game enough for me to notice it.

I simply don’t think that you can trust a Nintendo game to be worth the day 1 cost.

Nintendo makes pretty good games but nothing about their product is “top tier”. The online experience is terrible, their flagship games suffer from framerate dips, pop-in, and stuttering because they don’t invest in better hardware, and speaking of hardware they went with the same will-break-down-and-drift sticks because they’ve been coasting for ages. Meanwhile they’re suing fan projects into the dirt and growing increasingly out of touch. (Sony and Xbox are hot on their heels, the big three could really do with some outside competition)

Disagree, I think being in the pilot seat is important. The immersion of control amplifies the experience.

I wish mutton and goat were more available near me. Lamb can be had but I want bigger cuts for stew or curry.

What comic and no it doesn’t. And reading through your exchange with the other guy it’s clear we have very different ideas about the nature of self-identity. I don’t think of my body as necessary for “me” to exist, I am my thoughts and memory rather than my neurons and chemistry. If that information can be copied and transmitted then there will be a “me” that continues from a new location.

You’re not a continuous consciousness anyway. Sleep is a thing.

I kinda wish SOMA hit for me but I was already well-aware of the “teleportation problem” and have an established position, so instead I was frustrated at the slow pace of much of the game and annoyed that the protagonist didn’t understand. It felt like “Bioshock at home”.

I currently recommend staying out entirely because of the paranoid war against “immigration” that has made our borders openly hostile to everybody, but if that ever changes there’s plenty of cities that are only as shitty as global average and if the national parks survive they are unmatched.

It’s not a real fish tale if people are measuring in standard units instead of “c-hairs” or “gnat bollocks” anyway.

Oceans: We know the basic mechanics of currents, tides, chemistry, where all that water came from in the first place, and while there are a few known-unknowns it doesn’t seem like a paradigm-shifting discovery is likely. They mystery is mostly because it’s huge and we just can’t look through it very well, and that there’s too many physical inputs to track them all so models are abstractions by necessity.

The same goes for most of your list (I will not speak to prime numbers, I am an Earth Sciences guy and bad at higher math) in that we may not have a perfect map but we know the shape of it and where the probable gaps in understanding are. So the “why” is questions like “why do waves happen” or “why does the sun look yellow” or “why do we have embryonic ‘gills’” and we have pretty good answers you can drill pretty deep into.

Pushing at the edges of physics is, I think, where the situation is flipped. We have very good models for the behavior of light but questions like “why is there a limit to the speed of information and why does light go that fast” and “why does it behave as a wave and also a mass-less particle” don’t seem to have satisfying answers or even a means to be answered. Admittedly physics beyond its applications to organic chemistry is outside my education (again, math) but I try to keep up.

We generally have a grasp of “why” for that stuff though, even if the whole picture is currently hidden or too complex.

Despite being theoretically most correct, octopodes is least correct in English because it doesn’t actually matter what the root of a word is if everybody uses it differently.

Final Fantasy VIII, almost at the end of the third disc. Hot take: this is my favorite PS1 entry in the series (and IX is my second favorite). I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect game but it takes a lot of chances and I think most of the them pay off.

I got half on my own, but I threw in the towel after half an hour and I’m glad I did.

My uncle (very near my age) also had a Green Ranger costume, I think there was a lot of gold lame involved. We generally weren’t allowed toy weapons though so I’m envious of yours.