They're changing references to "precombat main phase" and "postcombat main phase" to "first main phase" and "second main phase," respectively.
This would've inadvertently nerfed a few cards that otherwise were able to take advantage of taking extra main phases via extra combat step cards to trigger their effects multiple times in a turn, like Neheb, the Eternal. Now they're keeping the old wording on that group of cards so it doesn't result in any functional changes.
Humble used to be an event that celebrated and showcased indie developers while at the same time raising many millions for charities. Then IGN bought it and rapidly enshittified it into a bog-standard, for-profit corporate enterprise like any other, and I'll never forgive them for it.
Do they even give any of the profits to charity any more? If they do, I bet they only keep it around to take advantage of the tax writeoffs.
Weezer did a cover of Enter Sandman for the Metallica Blacklist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riLJwQ9PqKM
Gordon Ramsay saves his anger for those he feels deserves it, and probably plays it up quite a bit for the cameras when doing his TV shows. There was some cooking show he did (I forget what it was called) where he was working with children, and he was patient, gentle, and compassionate with each of them, even when they "messed up."
The problem is that "keeping the government out of the church's business" is not the goal of the religious right when it comes to gay marriage. They want theocratic rule and the criminalization of what they see as sin. If both sides agreed on the principle of separation of church and state, most battles over LGBTQ rights would've been over long ago.
Separating the legal concept of unions between individuals and the religious institution of marriage would be almost as unpalatable to many evangelicals as fully legal gay marriage, because they'd rather outlaw homosexuality altogether.
In any sane universe, a presidential candidate being forced to back out right before the convention would be a source of absolute glee for the opposing party. It'd be considered a huge loss of momentum and a sign that the party is disunified and collapsing on itself.
The fact that MAGA is genuinely upset about this really speaks volumes about how resoundingly unpopular Biden is, and what little appeal Trump has to campaign on outside of anti-Biden sentiment.
This timeline is weird as hell...
Is this implying that a publicly-traded corporation whose software is installed on millions of computers around the world has the same level of agency and responsibility as a preschooler?
I mean, yes, Microsoft bears responsibility for blindly accepting whatever deployment package CrowdStrike gave it and immediately yeeting it out to 100% of customers via Windows Update without any kind of validation or incremental rollout, and should probably be sued for it. That still doesn't negate the complete and catastrophic failures at every step of the development process on the part of CrowdStrike. It takes a lot of people to fuck up this bad.
Is the 4x10 really worth the extra day off? Tbh I'm not sure it would work very well for me... I find just one 10-hour day to be kinda draining, so doing that 4 times a week every week feels like it might just cancel out any benefits of the extra day off.
Don't most indemnity clauses have exceptions for gross negligence? Pushing out an update this destructive without it getting caught by any quality control checks sure seems grossly negligent.
Reading into the updates some more... I'm starting to think this might just destroy CloudStrike as a company altogether. Between the mountain of lawsuits almost certainly incoming and the total destruction of any public trust in the company, I don't see how they survive this. Just absolutely catastrophic on all fronts.
Huh. I guess this explains why the monitor outside of my flight gate tonight started BSoD looping. And may also explain why my flight was delayed by an additional hour and a half...
"Product Degradation" has been the modus operandi for nearly every online service for like 10-15 years now, but it's the Gamepass price increase is what got the FTC's attention? Where was the FTC when the movie/TV streaming service market balkanized itself in an arms race to reinvent cable?
Granted, I doubt the FTC could really do anything meaningful to stop enshittification given that corporations are effectively above the law these days, but it's been blatantly obvious that this was going to be Gamepass' strategy from day one. If this actually surprised anyone at the FTC, they really haven't been paying attention.
Not really a logo edit, but we have so little activity here and it reasonably fits the spirit, so I'll allow it.
Although, would you mind editing the title to something more directly related to the post? Generic titles can get repetitive and are also harder to search on.
If it weren’t for the political realities of how voting works under first-past-the-post, the progressive wing of the Democratic party could have easily split off into a separate party whose younger leadership and willingness to push for actually-meaningful change could probably have run circles around the Dems at this point.
...Man, I really wish I could vote for a presidential candidate that I actually believed in, instead of this "vote for the status-quo neoliberal or democracy dies" bullshit.
"Loco" is Spanish for "crazy," which is used here to form a pun with "locomotive," a term for a train.
Options for equalizing temperature between the basement and the rest of the house in summer?
I live in a pretty old house in the midwest, built 1929, bought in '21, single-story, ~1300ish sqft, and with a large, spacious basement. Every time summer comes around I've had issues with the basement getting MUCH colder than the rest of the house (like >10 degrees F difference), presumably due to poorly-insulated floors and cold air sinking. The HVAC is still capable of keeping the main floor at the temp set on the thermostat, but the temperature differential indicates it's working quite a bit harder than it really needs to be, and is probably wasting quite a bit of money.
I'm planning on getting an insulation specialist in at some point to go over options for shoring up the insulation, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I could do to recirculate air in the basement through the rest of the house - even with good insulation, I feel like the laws of thermodynamics would still result in a basement at least fairly colder than the rest of the house.
Is there anything I could look into that is reasonably cost-effective for circulating air from the basement to the rest of the house so my HVAC doesn't have to work so hard in the summer? Thanks
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Drenched Bluff
Why yes I have been playing a shitload of Pokérogue lately, why do you ask?
Wikipedia lists five composers for this game, so this is composed by one or more of: Koichi Nakamura, Hiroaki Tsuru, Mikiko Ohashi, Kunimi Kawamura, and/or Hitoshi Yamagami
Good setups for the multiplayer mod?
A while back, my brother and I tried out a colony with the multiplayer mod, but it didn't really work very well. We never really got past the first few in-game days because it didn't seem like there was enough to do to keep two people engaged, so either one person was handling everything while the other sat around, or we were stepping on top of each other.
I'm thinking of trying it again but with a multi-colony setup where we can each do our own thing, but still be able to assist the other when needed with combat support or exchanging resources/colonists and whatnot. I'm still a little concerned that it wouldn't be that much different from playing our own singleplayer games in parallel.
Anyone got any good ideas or tips for setting up an enjoyable multiplayer game?
Sourdough French bread!
Recipe from "Homemade Sourdough: Easy, At-Home Artisan Breadmaking" by Jane Mason with Ed Wood et al.
I halved the below recipe, but used the same amounts for the levain.
100g starter 850g bread flour 550g water 15g salt
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Make a 100g/100g/100g starter/flour/water levain, let sit for ~8 hours/overnight until peak activity.
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Add remaining ingredients, knead until passing the windowpane test, then bulk proof on counter for 4 hours.
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Shape into baguettes and set on a heavily floured dish towel with pleats between the loaves. Cover with plastic wrap and let proof again until it passes the poke test. The recipe estimated 3 hours, but I let it go for closer to 6, as mine weren't really passing the poke test, but that may be because I'm bad at loaf shaping and didn't get a tightly shaped surface.
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Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet, score the tops, and bake at 450 F for 20-25 mins. I also added a tray of water to the bottom rack of the oven to try and steam the crust a bit.
They aren't perfect loaves visually, and they may be slightly overproofed, but not disastrously so, and they taste delicious!
Trivium - The Crusade (United States, 2006)
I'm not even normally a Trivium superfan, but this one random instrumental is somehow a goddamn masterpiece.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Hell March
I'm gonna be real, I've never actually played C&C, real-time strategy usually doesn't click with me. All I know is that this song goes hard.
In the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium, there is only... ham?
Not OC. Source: https://www.tumblr.com/sepiachord/731919891501809664