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adjl posted...

It'd be a transition, but it'd ultimately be simpler than the current approach of having to figure out which time zone a given person is in based on what the date is instead of just going by where they are. This would effectively be a matter of shuffling time zones around permanently instead of having to account for them being shuffled around twice a year.

that's only true for present time. past time calculations (so, datetime calculations in general) will still need to know the date in order to determine time-zone. that said, I guess it is true that it is done with time-zones. it's actually the determination of time-zone that becomes slightly more complex.

adjl posted...

Nah, that part's easy enough. "It's 10:00 am now" and you're done.

I meant implementing it in the world, not just as a legislator. The point being, I would not want to be the person who is making a decision like this where potentially everyone in the world will be affected by my possibly stupid decision.

also thinking of it as a programmer where now the already horrendously complicated calculation of dates and times will now be yet another small amount more complicated.

well, what they say is kind of right

easy: we should stop changing the clocks all the time and just use one time
hard: what should that one time be?
also hard: actually implementing it

Wordle 401 5/6

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

the rain doesnt make you sick

this, as long as you're relatively young and fit

I've worked for hours and hours in all of the weather (well anything except sun). my rule of thumb is: if you're cold, walk faster/work harder.

though admittedly in my middle age I think I am losing that ability and harsh conditions are starting to feel dangerous instead of challenging.

got up to 189 after three tries

not really a skill or gameplay element that I admire though, I hate that aspect of gaming

PMarth2002 posted...

wtf does none pizza with left beef mean?

I've wondered myself about this before. when ordering online you can theoretically select what should be invalid pizza options. so what happens if you do? apparently someone tried and picked a pizza with no cheese, no sauce, and the left half of the pizza with beef topping (None Pizza with Left Beef) resulting in bare pizza bread with a small amount of beef scattered on one side of it. yum...

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Ogurisama posted...

None Pizza With Left Beef

what does that mean

DirtBasedSoap posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/8/AAXuu6AADfMg.jpg

a classic

k that's hilarious

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well that went well

Lokarin posted...

are there any absolutely broken healers? Like, they can rerez entire armies and spam full heals?

IIRC at the end of FFX there is a a post-final-boss battle where I think Yevon or something similar can infinitely resurrect the party.

Straughan posted...

Probably me. I've chain healed top raid tanks

this is what keeps coming to mind. probably the most effective healing I've seen in a game was as a druid in WoW. heal-specced WoW chars don't just have a couple of healing spells, they have a whole system of healing abilities and everything about their build is devoted to maximizing healing.

and I'm reminded again that apparently I like druids even though I would normally never say that. my best character in WoW by far was a druid and the only character I've ever beaten all of BG1/BG2/BG2:ToB with was a druid.

Lokarin posted...

There are no named White Mages or Clerics, so... ehhh?

Rosa?

and I mean, in BG there definitely are: Viconia, Branwen, Anomen are just a few.

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KSP, such an amazing game

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doors slamming, objects falling hard to the ground, yelling, etc. yes, but the ones listed don't seem that bad and thunder in particular is awesome

most of those are ones I pick regularly. if I picked one from that list right now it'd be horseradish since I like it and it's not usually an option.

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lately I listen to 660 news radio. it's almost half commercials though.

Wordle 396 5/6

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Far-Queue posted...

That's why I stopped putting the answer in my posts. Only the guesses. Ever since I was spoiled by my wife I've been more careful about it.

I was doing that but then I wanted to go back through my posts to remember my previous games and they didn't have answers. now I just pay close attention to the puzzle numbers.

Lokarin posted...

oh darn, then I spoiled myself :V

I was thinking maybe I should say nothing since it's not a spoiler if you don't realize it's a spoiler, but then saying nothing is also rude...

Lokarin posted...

wait... that's not what my word is today

it's already tomorrow's which is what I was getting at with my timezone question

JigsawTDCII posted...

I live in Japan. Posted that at 12:06am.

right that makes sense. forgot I could also go back a couple hours.

JigsawTDCII posted...

Wordle 395 2/6

what timezone are you in that you did July 19ths puzzle 17 hours ago? (answer seems to be australia if you did it 17 hours ahead of me, also at 2am. there also isn't much room left to go unless you live on some other island in the pacific.)

Wordle 395 3/6

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DirtBasedSoap posted...

You ever had a grilled cheese + soup?

can't say for sure at the same time, but otherwise yes. both homemade and also Tim Horton's has fantastic soup and also has grilled cheese.

pasta and good soup are easily two of the best foods

yeah that's true, I'm counting from end of 2019 to now, so that includes some work from home time, though we didn't do tons of that

seems to be about 15k km, or about 9.5k miles

that will be reduced a bit now since I moved ~33% closer to work

Wordle 394 3/6

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setting timers. this is really useful as you can not just set a voice-command timer, but you can set two or three or more, and give them names. (useful when cooking more than one thing at once.) and you can say "alexa, timer status" at any time to check on them.

hands-free math. very handy, although it gets tricky to do a long series of operations at once. better to do one or two at once. "alexa, what's 3280 divided by 8?", "<answer>", "alexa, what's <answer> times 25?", "<answer>", "alexa, what's the square root of <answer>?"

music. I only rarely use it, but I can just say "alexa play carpenter brut" and get a random stream of carpenter brut songs. probably the artist has to happen to be available for free and won't always be. there's a subscription service to have access to more songs.

weather. "alexa, what's the temperature/weather", "will it rain soon", "what's the low", etc.

definitions. "alexa, what is <strange word>?". this one is nice when it gets it but only has maybe 50/50 accuracy. also "alexa, who is <strange name>?", "alexa, how old is <celebrity>?", or "alexa, is <celebrity> still alive?"

lists. mostly for shopping list, but you can just say "alexa, add <words> to <list>" to add something to a list. you can have more than one list supposedly but I just use the shopping list at the moment.

(you can actually have it look up things for sale on amazon, and buy them on your account, but that seems like a terrible idea.)

one thing is I'd rather say something else than "alexa". in my options I can change the trigger word to something else like "computer" but it doesn't work. probably you need a more expensive one or something, (mine was just $50).

something to remember when using it is that it's not magic, it is still just a computer. you have to work around its interface, it just has a voice interface instead of a screen.

there are also "apps" (can't remember the word they use) that you can download and run (and write, which I would love to try). for example, you can play Akinator if you install it and run it.

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can't remember 100%, but sometimes there is a ... button on the bottom right of the screen, and sometimes I think you can swipe up

the ... button actually has two rows of dots I think (or... maybe not)

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EchoBaz posted...

The dialogue was so bland and went on for so long that I didn't get to the combat. It felt like everyone I talked to had 5-15 paragraphs of dialogue too.

I'm all for a game having a lot of dialogue, but if you got that much dialogue you better make it really compelling. It felt like I was reading a barely edited script that exists to make the players feel smarter for reading all of it.

yes it has a lot of dialogue. if you can't read a lot then the game will not be for you. I don't know how you can say "barely edited"; the game is excellently written, particularly compared to the average jRPG. the writing is the main draw. if you don't like the writing the other parts of the game are only ok. but it works because the writing (including characters and setting) is fantastic. if the gameplay was as good as the writing it would be one of the best games of all time.

hmm I don't think I can order chicken from Swiss Chalet without getting it in a combo with sides that's almost the same

Wordle 391 6/6

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yikes, new streak of 19 but only barely

I just know them from Ogre Battle. otherwise, superstition something something...

I didn't realize Ivana Trump and Melania Trump were two different people

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is originally 2004 I think (PC version is 2014), but strongly recommended. combat is a bit tedious, but everything else is very very good.

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Lokarin posted...

To reiterate, I'm speaking in the abstract - it doesn't have to literally be a dark world and past/future, but just 2 (or more) axis' of world shifting

I can almost think of ones where first you travel to a magical world, and then in the magical world you can travel to other magical worlds. (Narnia, maybe D&D). but I guess what you want is that there are two separate methods of travel, and they both work in both/all places. (so, travelling to a place where further travel to other places is not sufficient.)

a question would be, is it necessary that if you use method A and then B that you end up in the same place as using B and then A? (travel to the parallel universe, then to the past VS travel to the past then the parallel universe.)

(WoW is basically there if you count Draenor as a "parallel universe" since you can time-travel to past events, including I think past events on Draenor. I can't remember for sure though.)

I guess WoW is a game that has both parallel universes and time travel

Lokarin posted...

Light World - Dark World
Past Light - Past Dark

not aware of a game that has both as game mechanics. though I think in LttP there was some small implication that the two worlds were temporally related. locations exist in both worlds and the dark world versions felt long abandoned in comparison to their light world counterparts. it was almost as if the dark world had been created as a copy of the light world that then diverged over time or had been fast forwarded into a distant future.

wpot posted...

My main peeve is when people drive in the left lane at the same speed as a vehicle in the right lane. If you want to drive at that speed, use the lane that's going that speed...dagnabbit.

yes there are lots of people lately that do this intentionally. even worse when they do that and then accelerate insanely to prevent you from passing them. basically happens every day these days where I am.

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hmm, possibly Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Definitely parallel universes, not sure about time travel specifically, but I vaguely recall at least a bit.

also possibly Phantasmagoria 2, but again not sure of time travel specifically.

I don't know know the game but another candidate might be Eternal Darkness, not sure.

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sometimes. it's funner/funnier to get in the way of a road rager and then laugh at them.

actually, there was a situation I was in where I forced myself not to get annoyed and it payed off. hard to explain, but there was a bus that was being driven slightly erratically that I was stuck behind. this was on a "main road" where there's no stop signs, a parking lane, and a single driving lane.

I knew not to get annoyed since it would only lead to me doing something stupid. but it kept driving slow, would enter the oncoming traffic lane slightly, would enter the parking lane slightly and could almost have hit some parked cars or oncoming traffic.

eventually it made it to the next bus-stop which is at a T intersection (if T is the intersection we're travelling left.) there were two crosswalks. I _wanted_ to angrily pass the bus now that it was pulling over into the bus-stop but I forced myself to follow the "don't pass in a crosswalk" rule so I made sure not to go through the crosswalk until the bus did. it was hard to tell since the bus-stop is almost at the same place as the crosswalk.

trying to make sure the bus crossed the crosswalk first, it ended up NOT entering the crosswalk, and only because I was barely paying attention to that I came to a stop right next to it at the crosswalk. and then a kid on a scooter zipped in front of me out from in front of the bus... yikes.