Wow! Between BG3, CO:E33, and Sliksong, all the AAA lies are falling away. They don’t have to cost the user an arm and a leg, they can be beautiful works of art and love from small(ish) teams, and they can be an experience that is so rich in player choice it’s practically unique and highly replayable.

~40M copies, ~8B ppl, so ownership rates are about 0.5%.

You might meet one of the lucky 10k that learn about Stardew Valley today, and you can enable them with a gift purchase.

My solution for this feeling is to gift copies to others. I figure that worst case I support ConcernedApe and best case I help spark more Stardew joy.

(Right now, I’m between jobs, so I can’t buy for you, other readers.)

The hacker known as 4 Chan is BACK, baby!

Global warming is independent of population, emissions can be controlled without population controls.

Yes, they do need more people, and immigration is a possible “solve”, but right now they aren’t getting the immigration necessary – tho largely due to their own policies.

We need less people

No we don’t. And, S. Korea in particular will need more people than they have available, soon.

Smaller economy is fine, I guess – tho deflation has certainly caused problems in the past. Better distributed wealth is a shared goal. Depopulation, and other forms of Degrowth, are largely driven by eugenicist ideas and are neither necessary nor desirable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8vkUY93i8

The future for S. Korea looks bleak, not better.

I agree that infinite growth was always impossible, but in some countries birth rate is well below replacement rate (if they matched, population would be stable, not growing), and in many birth rate + immigration rate is also below replacement rate – we are failing not at growth, but “mere” stability.

I agree with your premise, but I don’t think it implies your conclusion, which I disagree with.

I don’t think it is shrinking globally, yet. But, some countries (e.g. South Korea) are in dire situations due to shrinking and aging population already.

Well, maybe I’ll try again in the future but I don’t currently own a Samsung.

I guess the answer to at least one of those is no. Last time I tried a battery replacement, I broke the screen either during assembly or disassembly. I build my own desktop PCs, and have fixed laptop monitors and drives, but every time I attempt hardware repair on something phone-ish, I make it worse (even going back to when I owned an OpenMoko).

Agreed. I tend toward more literal translations for instruction/explanation – it made things stick better for me when learning Spanish. But, yes, in context “harder” is a definitely a more useful translation.

“tres bien” is “very good”

“si vous plait” is like “please”

“plus fort” is like “more strength”

I’ve never studied or learned French, but you can pick up some of this stuff from “throwaway” French in other context and the etymology shared with other languages.

So, basically just the stock U.S. porn phrase translated to French.

Nobel prize-winning anti-parasitic for humans, yes.

Several studies show no statistically significant effect on COVID-19 length or severity.

You can do single-blind. You do prep, anesthetize, then open the card that decides if the surgery continues, or if the patient is simply awakened at the expected time.

You can also do it for surgeries that use locals, but then the surgical staff has to do a lot of miming/acting instead of actual cutting.

Medlife Crisis did a couple of Placebo effect videos, and mentioned that he participated in a single-blind stent study.

I don’t know how you’d do double-blind.

I saw one that claimed “plumber approved” and it made me so mad we don’t have meaningful laws against deceptive advertising.

I’d like really sewer-safe wet wipes. If tried several bidets and did not like them, definitely worse than wipes IMO.

I agree, but when you wouldn’t let Aspyr do a Linux port for BL3, I stopped being a “real fan”.

Link to how to?

The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.