And when I like this, people think that I have a fetish.

There was a major collapse of the Democratic Party in 1968 which never really recovered until Obama: Carter got elected because of Watergate, Bill Clinton got elected because of Perot.

And bad as it looks in retrospect, Nixon and Reagan were very popular presidents at the time.

The bigger deal was that, for the elections from Nixon’s second term to Reagan’s second term, there wasn’t a major Democratic base in a state which varied differently from the nation. Bill Clinton had a near equivalent percentage of the vote in 1996 yet lost 19 states.

Yeah, but we’re already at a point of subscription multiplayer, significant DLC, and major patching already. There may be a market still for discs, but physical rental is mostly dead.

We’re already at a point where the physical space to sell media in stores has shrunk substantially over the past decade. We just might be at a point where it is small enough to no longer be worth supporting it.

I think it will depend on the studio. Not every studio is going to take the Nintendo approach.

I understand the argument you’re making. What I’m saying is that those who care about your argument are likely in a tiny minority of current players as most would have already left the market by now due to other actions made by console companies.

I can see consumers being a lot more sensitive to prove increases than the removal of discs.

I don’t think the sales are going to be that affected. Hell, most of the people complaining probably were never going to buy a new console at all.

I’m going to have to look at that, that seems to be the closest to what I’m looking for. Thanks.

I need a map for that.

I don’t have one yet.

I want something more zoomed out and cleaner.

Build infrastructure to make Europe more heat tolerant.

A lot of what Americans do to deal with the heat, like air conditioning and ice water, need to get adopted in Europe. As for the concern of the energy needed to power air conditioners, most demand generally follows peak solar production. Also, if you install heat pumps instead of normal air conditioners, it will help lower carbon requirements for heating.

Most countries can, especially if you aren’t a citizen of that country.

There are some communities that are made which aren’t made for beginners. They are made for in depth fans who want to have conversations deeper than helping new people getting into whatever. Moreso, if they haven’t hit an Eternal September event, then new people have to adapt to the old culture rather than the other way around.

I imagine that Linux is esoteric enough and picks various platforms which keeps an Eternal September from happening. Because of that, they aren’t going to bend to new users like other online communities are forced to.

Yeah. How else are you supposed to play beer pong?

I don’t think it is a dark age. It is just that there isn’t anything worth to increase on the hardware side; we’ve hit the point of diminishing returns on performance.

Is it garlic NaN?

This sort of requirement comes up in civil engineering all the time.

Your job may include running finite element models (FEM) and the office uses STAAD. When getting new candidates, the preference will be like this: those who have used STAAD, those who have used several other FEM programs, those who have used one FEM program, and those who don’t. Usually, it gets presented as requiring FEM experience with a preference to STAAD.

There may even be cases where a program may be different enough that the requirement is knowledge in that program. For instance, Bentley’s Open Roads is considered to be very different from AutoDesk Civil 3D to the point where Civil 3D experience only gets considered if there is no better applicant even though the two software packages do mostly the same thing.

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