Why do you think that I was trying to make it better?

You can make a quiet call if you have headphones or earphones but I find that people (myself included) tend to talk louder on a call than they do in person. I’m sure that it’s not necessary but it happens anyway.

It has a lot of content that isn’t available anywhere else. Sometimes the best option is still shit.

You’re right. It often comes from the previous game but if that game doesn’t do well then the chances of there being another are greatly reduced.

Ideally, the restaurant should pay enough that tipping is not required (which does require them to raise prices). As a customer you would then be free to tip a smaller amount if you thought that the service was exceptional.

That’s how it works in the UK although a lot of businesses are adding a tip onto the bill in advance so that you would need to complain about the service to get it removed (technically you can just ask them to remove the tip without giving a reason if that’s how you want to play it).

It should be illegal to buy a company on loan and transfer that debt to the company. You should be required to get your money back via dividends or by building the company up and reselling it.

It’s only meaningless if you’re pedantic.

It obviously means the greatest of all time so far because at the time you make the statement you cannot judge what hasn’t happened yet.

It gets more complicated when you’re saying it about a company or game in the past but I still think that it has meaning. It could mean that at the time, they were the greatest of all time (up until that point in time) but it could also mean that at this point in time that past version of EA was the greatest of all time (up until now, which is beyond the time that that version of EA existed).

Better to not screw them.

Dogging means something different in the UK.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/dogging

Have you been doing mainly stealth combat rather than samurai? I’ve heard that the game goes all stormy if you act dishonourably like that.

You have to trust the contract.

If you use Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace etc then they already have all your data anyway. Most businesses have to trust other companies and the contract at some point.

The only other option is to use Open Source self hosted everything which is beyond most people’s ability.

If you’re a business with a contract with them it should state that they won’t use your data to train their models.

If you’re using the free service then you’re right that it’s safe to assume that your data was already being used.

I think that the bottom left is her with a cigarette that she uses in the bottom right panel to light the gas burner.

I have heard it used as a racial slurs once I the film True Romance (1993). It has a scene where Dennis Hopper’s character is explaining to Christopher Walken’s character (a Sicilian) how he’s “part eggplant” due to the fact that the Moors conquered Sicily in the past.

I’d link to the scene on YouTube but I don’t want to as it’s very racist.

I’d imagine that very few games would be given an 18 due to the unfiltered chat.

Surely they all have a block and a report function at the very least (even if they do nothing about reports).

Deterministic means for the same input you always get the same output.

For AI it would be if you ask it a question multiple times using exactly the same words you would get the same answer.

Cyberpunk 2077. I played that game all the way through three times but lost the love for it when they completely reworked the talents for the DLC. I just couldn’t get back into it after that.

Unfortunately you can do damage after release so you’d need to be careful applying updates too.

In the UK, you can get your license revoked for speeding. You can lose your license if you’re going a lot over the speed limit. If you’re going a bit slower you can get 3 or 6 points and if you get more than 12 points you also lose your license.

It doesn’t seem to do a huge amount to discourage speeding in my experience.

We had that in our DOS C code base. We didn’t have a debugger so we had a function that output debug messages to console if the debug flag was set.

There were more than a few instances where a crash would stop happening if we added debug messages.

We put it down to the linker rearranging modules to fit in memory as our exe was more than a megabyte in size.