Same, but given the time sink I’d like an abridged experience. I heard they doing that with DQX so why not FFXI?

The Subway training videos have gotten pretty weird, it seems.

Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.

They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you’re playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.

Chat is… better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It’s actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.

One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I’m not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I’ve heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren’t afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.

Looks good, never thought about lemon cookies but should. Slightly disappointed that there isn’t a site called Martha Fuckin’ Stewart, though.

Plus we’ve had that shit in research since I was in grad school over a decade ago. People acting like machine learning is new. Smh

Correct, even in progressive CA we have that. Granted, it’s like $30 bucks during rush hour but I’ve seen it used by the worst of humanity.

I just figure people are venting. AOC posts aren’t really the right place, though. I like her videos, and she does give my students hope for what it’s worth.

Idk how to interpret this when I read it while laying on my right side. What’s on my left… the sun?

Only one specific hipster place I’m thinking of in Downtown but yeah. Lol

The downtown experience: $45 burger with a side of truffle fries. It’s mediocre at best.

Actually, real answer is that fears of that are already lowering oil prices. That and OPEC manipulating it again. It’s not so much the ships but the transit after; also less people buying things, typical recession stuff.

Lower prices on gas tends to be seen as a win, although ironically the US is the biggest oil supplier so it hurts the economy here too.

A steam deck lite would probably dominate, lol

At this point I want Switch 2 to flop so hard they go the way of the Sega and start licensing their IPs on other platforms, giving up on consoles. A shame, too, since their tech is little kid hand friendly and the PC market doesn’t seem keen on tiny screen handhelds.

Chevron Shakur subbing in for morning edition. First up… just how many gummy bears can one put in their mouth? Scientists find out.

If anything, this is more how money corrupts tech folks.

Second time I’ve seen this meme lady again. I wonder if she regrets doing that buzzfeed video way back when…

No, it makes very very little difference, I graduated late by about two years and took a gap year after that, too (most people getting PhDs take a gap). People getting into the workforce immediately usually don’t have a huge advantage, either, although they go get a little more pay since they work slightly longer in their lifetime.

What’s generally more important is how you position yourself after graduation. Internships if business, lab if grad school, etc. It’s very easy to shoot ahead or fall very behind, though, as life after graduation is pretty much a matter of luck.

My brain did a weird thing reading this headline: “Michael J. Fox is confirming Marty McFly and Alex P. Keaton are the same character because of time travel?”

Yes, as absurd as that is that’s how I read it initially.

Always have been, as I’ve seen during my UCLA days of people buying exam answers from previous weekends and paying for papers, etc… I’m glad I never bothered, mostly because of dignity but what because I was poor (although those correlate). Rich people have plenty of ways to game the system, though.

I’ll say life-crippling debt roulette is certainly one of the more frustrating aspects of our system, yeah. Non-labor costs are a hit or miss of rejections, especially, since you don’t have the same protections.

E.g. Indiana friend owes 40k for a 15 dollar mandatory procedure, for instance, and he has to fight it since it’s clearly a random rejection. It’s very upsetting. I just don’t want to paint the picture it’s always life-crippling, just… very random.