Areldyb [he/him]

The game may not be for you, and that’s okay.

Not sure whether it matters, but Guy 3 and Guy 1 are the same Guy, who also sent death threats to the author years ago. Dude needs some serious help.

The article talks a little about it. It’s more of an unwind+rewind cycle:

The pull from this force then rotates the ground-based drum at a high speed.

This rotation then generates electricity that can be stored in a battery system for deployment wherever and whenever it is needed.

After 45 seconds, the kites are levelled up so that the pull from the wind is momentarily minimised.

This enables the tether to be wound back in, using only a fraction of the electricity generated when it was being spun out.

The result is a net gain in renewable power at the simple cost of flying a kite.

Then the cycle is repeated, again and again, potentially for hours on end.

It makes sense to me. I hope it catches on!

a glance at their artist image and bio should be enough to persuade even the least skeptical observer.

At least we know the article was written by a human.

It once was. Sounds like it could be again!

I mostly rely on built-in “scheduled send” features these days, but in the past (and possibly future, can’t remember!) I’ve used Time Cave and been happy with it.

Pinball Deluxe Reloaded has been an excellent time-waster on my phone for a while now. It’s available on PC too.

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This is an argument for why Biden is able to lead. Speaking for myself, I’m not so worried that Biden is unable to lead. He’s old and obviously slowing down, but he’s got decades of experience and, as you say, a whole administration’s worth of expertise.

I’m worried that he is unable to win.

“This campaign is bigger than me or you. Everything we believe in, everything we stand for, and everyone we are fighting for are at risk in this election.” --Joe Biden campaign email, July 4th

“if I lose it’s cool lol” --Joe Biden on ABC News, July 5th, paraphrased

Please don’t assume that it’s all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night’s “debate” performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people’s worst fears, my own included. I just don’t know how he wins after that, and if he can’t win, then I’m sorry but it’s time for an open convention.

If your router isn’t even a Linksys router, then it’s most likely a false positive result and can be safely ignored. If you want to be extra sure, you could attempt to actually exploit the vulnerability with routersploit and see whether you get anywhere.

In general, the fix for a vulnerability in an end-user network device is some combination of “update the firmware” and “disable the vulnerable feature”.

… … are you secretly a mosquito

Hey, um, you’re all over this thread and you seem like you’ve really got an axe to grind here. What’s your story?

It’s been like that. I have some uBlock rules that clean up most of it, but the last time I got on Facebook it wasn’t behaving well so I probably need to update them.

Can you recommend some Sonic Adventure mods?

I had to look it up: apparently an “egg” is a maybe-possibly trans person who hasn’t “hatched” into self-acceptance or self-recognition (yet). It seems like a really presumptive kind of thing to me, but also I kinda get it so maybe I’m an egg too 🤷‍♂️(🤷🤷‍♀️)

Same behavior on mobile web front-end. This is a serious issue.

Chrono Break

It’s a very uneven game (some 9/10 “this is cool!” gameplay loops bundled together with some 3/10 “how did this ever get released?” segments) and definitely not for everybody. The object pop-ins were noticeable, the sudden 2D-perspective-locks on later islands were worse, and it took me a while to really find a groove and get into the game, but once I did I had a great time with it.

If you want to continue playing, I recommend hunting down and completing all the “?” map challenges before working on other objectives. Some of them are designed to train necessary but non-obvious skills, and having a full map makes it a lot easier to get around and pick your battles.

Also, starfall events give you so many fishing tokens that Big’s fishing minigame becomes the single best way to gather resources and level up. It’s totally gamebreaking but it’s Big the Cat so it’s great.