What I’m saying is that StarCraft didn’t so much “have that issue solved” as it just didn’t create that issue for itself. It’s also a lot easier to do things offline when your game is designed to be sold once instead of the micro transactions hellscape and constant “events” you see nowadays.
Newer games rely a lot more on online features than StarCraft did. You could play that without access to the internet when it came out.
It’s all centered around meetings it seems like. But my life is thankfully not.
TFW when someone has an “old-school” trick which uses markdown syntax.
The feeling is old. I feel old.
I actually used to learn names by associating the face with the faces of other people I knew with the same name. In the area I lived at the time, it wasn’t uncommon to know multiple people with the same given name, so this helped quite often. Now I live in an area where there is very little overlap, and my brain seems to have fully abandoned that approach, even when I meet someone sharing a name with someone I know.
Thankfully, hearing someone’s given name often jolts my memory and I suddenly remember the full name. That’s at least somewhat redeeming after the initial awkwardness.
TIL I’m helping out by never changing my wardrobe.
Sidenote: I’m not face blind (I struggle with names instead), but I also sometimes struggle with recognizing people I only met once if I see them in a new context. Possibly because my brain doesn’t fully commit people to memory unless I meet them at least twice. This is a problem, because people recognize me after meeting me once, and it makes for awkward second interactions.
That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.
No worries, that only happens if there’s a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn’t be a problem here, surely this thing won’t generate any of that.
This article says the director was a friend of a friend, and “the first animated film made in Scotland” played on his national pride.
It also says I got the order wrong, and that he declined all those roles after The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/bizarre-story-sean-connerys-final-film/
Probably more muscular than the stalks pictured, though? Those are the legs of a skinny man.
I agree. If it looks like that on the inside, why show the cross section?
It always meant manchild.
Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?
You seem to be suffering from imposter syndrome. Step 1 is to understand that we’re all just winging it.
Are you getting the job done? Plenty of people you perceive as smarter than you are not getting the job done.
Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn’t understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.
Any jargon is like that. If I’d prattle on about Linux to my parents, they’d have a very similar reaction.
It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.
You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.
You probably have a charger at home, though.