You could turn that around: if everyone eats at different times, the waiters never have time to eat because they have to work at all times.

But if everyone eats at the same time, then waiters can easily eat before or after that.

Sock puppet porn.

But my itch to crush orph…. I mean, to help orphans always comes back.

Most people on the fediverse might not (although I have my doubts about that), but even among my fellow developers the majority use Google Chrome and Google search. Looking at my circle outside tech, it’s pretty much everyone.

This is exactly the reason Billy Joel wrote We Didn’t Start the Fire.

Every generation has its challenges.

Go the other way: create a RAM disk.

On Voyager you should see your account in the bottom middle while browsing. For you, it should say “lemmy.world” underneath an icon of a person. Tap it once to see your inbox, posts, etc. Tap the same icon again and you get a list of accounts. You’ll probably only see one. Tap edit to add a new one, then tap + and follow the prompts.

You use that same icon, again tapping twice, to switch accounts.

It’s time we all start speaking lojban.

The reasons you give are exactly why I don’t like the modern Diablo games. Except that to me, D1 was peak and even D2 was a step in the wrong direction. I don’t begrudge you your fun with D3, I only lament that it’s not for me anymore. And it’s clear that a lot of people agree with you, evidenced by the sales numbers.

D3, D4, and D:I have all been disappointing to me, for different reasons. I’m quite certain D5 won’t be for me either. I am no longer the target audience for Diablo.

Which is a shame, because I adore D1. And it’s not just nostalgia: I replayed it last year for the first time in decades, and had a blast. And D2, although I have my gripes with it, is my most played of the series by a long shot.

Unfortunately I believe one of BG2’s biggest strengths is also a huge weakness: its scope. Where BG1 offers enough side content to keep you busy, BG2 has so much as to be overwhelming or even tiring.

And so much of it can trigger in quick succession. I literally had a situation where I was trying to get somewhere for a specific timed quest, and in entering an area triggered a fight for a completely different quest. During that fight, an NPC appeared and took away one of my companions for a third quest chain. So then I had to finish the fight with a smaller party, rush back to town to get my companion back, and hurry back again to be in time for the other timed quest, all the while ignoring the reason for the fight completely.

This not only gets tiring, but also makes it hard to remember what you were doing and why.

Don’t get me wrong, I still think it’s a great game. But there’s a reason I’ve finished BG1 multiple times and have yet to do the same with BG2 even once.

I was a moderator (we didn’t call it that) at an online chess server, with live chat. When the attacks happened, people started to talk about it. At first I tried to moderate them, sending them to appropriate chat rooms, but soon the admins told me these were special circumstances and to just let people talk.

What was especially strange for me was that I might’ve been among the first people in my neck of the woods to hear about it. People were not chronically online at the time - I just happened to be online, and in a live chat environment with Americans, so I heard about it that way. When I turned on the TV, there was nothing yet. I kept switching between channels, and finally CNN was the first to interrupt their programming for a special bulletin, followed quickly by BBC. Other channels followed a bit later.

As for the conversations online, I mostly remember shock, and later fear of what this might start. Jokes and memes came later.

Gothic 1 got overshadowed - especially in the west - by The Elder Scrolls, but to this day it remains the most immersive RPG I’ve ever played.

• Before Oblivion’s “radiant AI” it had full schedules for every NPC. They sleep, eat, go to work, sit around the campfire talking, …
• It has a full open world (admittedly smaller than Vvardenfell) with no loading screens except when going underground. That includes houses: everything is one world.
• NPC reactions that make sense: start to sneak and they’ll ask what you’re doing. Draw your weapon and they’ll draw theirs and tell you to put it away. Enter their home and they’ll chase you out.
• Animals in the wild are not just there for you to get XP. They eat, scavenge, hunt, and sleep.
• Speaking of animals, they’re also not constantly in a “must murder the player” mode. Non-aggressive species will warn you not to get close, and only attack if you don’t back up. Others may stalk you, seeing you as prey. They just make sense.
• Stealing also makes sense: if nobody saw you do it, you don’t get in trouble. No loot ever gets a red “don’t buy me I was stolen” mark on it.
• And so much more.

If I sound like I’m picking on The Elder Scrolls, I kind of am. I actually do like TES, but I wish more games took inspiration from Gothic.

There’s also a remake, which is too recent for patient gamers (and for me), but it’s getting good reviews. And there are sequels and spinoffs, some more liked than others.

Will you help me hide a body?

Ah yes when I buy a book nobody else can read it either.

“You want the pizza to taste the same every single time.”

No. You want it tasting great. And that means fresh ingredients, which the cook knows well enough to vary their proportions compared to the others.

But people who are easily fooled by such things are exactly the ones who need extra protection. Many laws exist to protect the weaker members of society.

Yes but I’m sure you need at least 5 different Volts for it to work.

I love the passive aggressive ones that say “we love our European visitors” only to block all access to the site because they’re not allowed to sell our data.

IANAL but there should be no need to ask consent to know when users quit the signup process. You need to say that you use cookies, yes, but unless you process personally identifiable data there is no need for informed consent.