I’d say that second one is nearing a sunk cost fallacy making it akin to cognitive dissonance. That’s the term usually described in addiction and certain splurge purchases, meaning that your brain will try to reason around anything against a certain idea.

Example: I shouldn’t have another drink because I still need to drive and I have got a pretty busy day tomorrow. Then again, I could always take the bus home and call in sick tomorrow. I deserve another drink because I worked hard today.

The name comes from what it was supposed to do, displace water. It’s the 40th attempt they made to create something like that and found something that can displace moisture and lubricate. It’s not technically a degreaser.

Yeah and even Sweden is still only about two thirds of the Netherlands. I’m aware the Netherlands is very densely populated, but these Scandinavian countries are huge compared to the Netherlands, maybe with the exception of Denmark which is similar in size.

This is the first time I’ve actually seen an estimate of the population size of Norway and I’m actually shocked there are so few Norwegians. I figured pretty much Scandinavian countries had a population of at least the Netherlands. That said I was aware that Denmark was smaller in population but that Norway has about Denmarks population is news to me.

I saw a headline somewhere stating that Trump was upset by the decision of the court and announced new tariffs.

I imagined him sitting in that oval office and some nerd tells him ‘your tariffs have been deemed unlawful’ and he just goes ‘that’s bullshit, who says? Tariff them’ and then that nerd goes ‘but sir you can’t tariff the Supreme…’ and then Trump farts between every word when he says ‘I. Said. Tariff. Them.’

Zero personal scandals? Are we sure about that? Wasn’t he an alcoholic with a coke habit?

Got it running at playable frame rate, just by lowering the definition of ‘playable’!

I was more or less forced to contribute at home. It was not just cooking, but the whole process of dinner. It started with me having to set the table, clear the table, do the dishes and when we got a dishwasher, load it. Then I also had to peel potatoes, cut vegetables. The older I got, the more responsibilities I got. At some point I had a dedicated day in the week where nobody would be able to cook for me and others would eat later than I would. These days were initially just me and my dad, so my dad showed me literally once how he made pasta bolognese. The next week, it was my turn. I was given feedback on my cooking and the next week I could try again. I kinda liked doing it so in due time, I also had to cook on another weekday. My mom would show me how she handled certain things and after a while, but the time I was 16, I could make a couple of dishes and did so at least twice a week. My sister was gearing up to be a professional athlete (sadly she never made it that far) so she rarely cooked but once she stopped her sport, she would also cook twice a week.

This is less the story of how I learned to cook and more the story of how my parents trained their servants to cook for them.

I bought a collection of the Slough House thrillers by Mike Herron, the books on which the Apple TV show Slow Horses was based.

I find the way Herron writes, very nice. He usually designs every paragraph from the perspective of one of the Slow Horses, or someone useful to the story. But he also changes the tone, the wording, in the way that character would tell that part.

Plus the story kind of takes a modern twist on the tired old spy stories and it contains a fair amount of humour.

Don’t forget bots

It really depends on what the original language is. I prefer to read books in their original language rather than in their translations. But as I’m only comfortable with English or my native language, Dutch, it pretty much means I’ll be reading in English. I haven’t really yet read anything from an author that didn’t either write in English or Dutch. I suppose that once I’ll be reading something by, say, a French author, I might read a Dutch translation if available.

But I do really find that reading in English sometimes requires just a bit more concentration.

I will add that I read Harry Potter as a kid in Dutch, later in English and I find that Wiebe Buddingh’, who ‘wrote’ the Dutch books, is a better author than JK Rowling.

Also, what do the x and y axes represent

Can recommend Color Out Of Space if you’re the type that appreciates a bit of Nick Cage. It’s Lovecraftian horror but somehow also has Tommy Chong in its cast.

And why not make it a more Cage-y by with Renfield and Longlegs? Throw in some Willy’s Wonderland and you’ll be golden.

A Dutch talkshow host absolutely wrecked the notion of this sport, and skeleton as well. It’s basically just going down a slide one at a time on a little sled, was his point. And the difference between these sports is the way you lie on the sled.

No real experience there but it’s worth it to have a look at threads about this. That is, if HDR is important to you at all.

It’s getting more and more viable but as far as I know Linux drivers for GPUs are still struggling with HDR, especially in video playback.

I don’t think the console version is much different than the pc version but if you’re not running a dedicated server you might make the game more difficult than it is. I love just building stuff and then coming back after a few days with all my dimensional depots filled and my space elevator stuff all completed.

The way I see it, it’s best to just build small scale hubs where you produce specific things. If you start your first real factory with some room to expand into, you can always scale up. But once you get trucks and trains, you can pretty much build a factory anywhere where there’s nodes, provided there’s enough level room.

I can see how the oxygen thing gets frustrating in some early points in the game, but at some point it really doesn’t matter much anymore. You’d either never die from it anyway or ride a Stingray everywhere.

In 4 they did the same flying mechanics but without the oxygen which is kind of cool.

Considering the raging success of Borderlands 2, I feel like TPS was more than serviceable. It was received quite badly, even though the gameplay was the same as 2 and the story was at least 65% as good as 2. Maybe the playable characters were not as great. But the world was very well crafted and I actually loved the way the Eridian arc was so much more present, even though there is no Siren character.

I’m currently doing 4. It feels like a soft hommage to the first game, but it also has some references to TPS. But it also feels like it was made for people who don’t even know there are previous games. Of course, the ones who played the original are maybe outside the target demographic, which was already the case with 3 going by the villains of that game.

In short: I still love all Borderlands games equally and The PreSequel is definitely up there!