Nah, there’s an apocalyptic phase that goes on for a long time and chances of ultimate survival are quite positive. Six billion could perish, making life much easier for the remaining, though there’d be hard times for a few generations during recovery.

Always look on the bright side of life 😙🎵

Or, ya know, astroid… Whatever it is, it beats dying of dysentery at age 34.

The book states ‘no one knows when’ several times; even in Revelations, the book literally about end times.

And there are many times in modern human history that people were sure it had kicked off. But it didn’t and things just got better again. It’s like our thing to almost wipe ourselves out but miserably kick on for another day.

We only just appeared here anyway so we’ll likely disappear just as recently as well and some other living thing will have its turn, and so on, and so on, until the sun takes out the atmosphere and then the planet. And fin.

It was always going to end. And I’d rather be there for it than be born in some other boring and eventless time. Unfortunately, as exciting as times are, I think there’s still quite a while to go and we won’t be around for it. But you can still enjoy all that’s happening now; sure is a lot!

My bank’s app does it all. Not sure how common that is around the world, though. Much nicer having all my primary finance stuff buometrically locked away, provided by the people actually holding my funds.

If I use Wallet, it’s just for storing music tickets and that sort of thing, but I often forget it’s there to use for that anyway

Then you read your original comment and, no, you didn’t say that; someone’s just trying to gaslight you or they’re straw manning.

No, no, no. This is all about race and not music genres. That’s why MTV is always playing Dean Martin instead of Louis Armstrong. /s

If white people want see more black people on MTV then they need to start liking the genres black people are currently doing. But why anyone would listen to music for a skin colour is fucking weird anyway.

It’s important people read the articles on this one as it’s doing the rounds. It was his choice, but also it’s important to know why it was his choice. I think that part is a much more alarming thing to know and understand.

5. It’s designed to fail the day after the warranty expires.

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Last organisation I worked for—not for profit, health—had around 17,500 employees. One of the cybersecurity managers had every employees details and devices on a Google Sheet private account that anyone could see if they had the share URL.

Home addresses, phone numbers, MAC addresses, IMEIs, columns of PII…

I started getting all sorts of unsolicited contact and 2-step authentication alerts “randomly” after two months there and 8 months later rEvil successfully ransomwared for $3.4M.

So when I found this sheet and no one took it seriously, I declared an internal data breach, submitted it to the fed—as you legally must in this country—and shit hit the fan for that department.

Yeah, that argument falls apart when henry just randomly moves the pick even though you didn’t move the controller.

Literally—well at least from the devs and ever since KCD1—that’s how it works.

How else would they express how noob he is?

Look at Henry like you look at yourself 10 years ago. So confident, knew so much less. He’s your intern. Interns are frustrating. You were also a frustrating fumbler at the beginning of everything you learned.

That “random” movement increases the further through the lockpick acrion he gets. But when he’s skilled, it doesn’t. He’s patient and gentle with the tension.

What more could you want from a lockpicking system that’s super basic for all gamers but still represents the reality of someone learning lockpicking?

Edit: Also he picks locks in the first game doesn’t he? So he just forgets how locks work because of his fall? Bad design imo but a great game other than that one system.

The immersion of this is all explained. I highly recommend you play KCD1, though it is more challenging and realistic in skilling and especially combat. You have to teach him to read before you can read lockpicking books, for example. Becaue obviously not many people knew how to then, especially a blacksmith’s boy in a small village. You can, yes. Henry can’t. And if you try read it appears as gibberish to you, slowly getting better as he learns.

You got the rawdog, mate! Congo rats.

Like all of Henry’s skills, he sucks at the start.

You are him. So you’ve got some faint knowledge that it can be done, but no idea how exactly, and with rudimentary tools to boot.

Just like you IRL, it takes Henry learning how locks fundamentally work, what picking is actually doing inside, then getting better at the feel of it. And just like IRL, Henry gets good at lock picking quite quickly after some practice and being shared knowledge. Sure enough, he too soon understands how easy mediaeval locks are.

All of the skills are like this by design. You may think something is easy, but Henry don’t. He knows as much as you did before you looked into it.

That’s three paragraphs of “I took this serious.”

Don’t! It’s a scam. He never got the money. I felt so bad for him, I gave him an extra $1K.

I like Zoho

BG3 is the same as any of the other games previously. A D&D game with an amazing DM. Immersive story and characters, great system at the foundation, and excellent gameplay to channel the story and system through.

I think BG3 spent most of their time saying no to dull or shallow ideas, rather than reinventing the wheel. And of course it worked incredibly.

I struggle to understand what modern insurance companies actually exist for, apart from money people donating money to them for nothing in return.

Europe needs to step up their game.

They are. They know where this is headed. Whoever comes after Trump will need to play catch up and kiss a lot of ass. Europe is starting to take the steps forward without the US by their side as it’s becoming clear it could be an option.

That does not bode well for the US’s long-term future; neither having a seat at the table nor for their economy.

We might be starting to see them reset back to pre-WW economic boom. Europe was just fine without them before and if they no longer want to offer the thing that boosted their economy back then, then nations will move on and economics will adjust over a couple decades.

Everything the US offers is available elsewhere and with alternative paths. Their military and intelligence has always been their bargaining chip—well, it was England’s intelligence, but they gave it all over to the US and trained them as payment for assisting on the Western Front of WW2. Along with some territories…

Point is, in very simple terms. Imagine the world without the US; now imagine the US without the world.

I think a lot of modern day Americans don’t understand how dependent on globalisation they are. To start losing stability there could be like watching a breeze hit a house of cards.

The US saying, “I’m sorry I turned my back. Please forgive me.” is a lot more likely than all of Europe and some more nations saying, “We need you. Please don’t go.”

And if there’s one thing Europe has gotten good at over a history extending far beyond US history, it’s working as a powerful single organism. Their only notable conflicts—in context—are when they’re responding to or revolting against one to two tyrants that got too cocky, like a cancer trying to destroy the rest. They’re used to checking tall poppey syndrome, whether it red, purple, or in this case, orange.

Europe won’t let Ukraine fall and the US will be in the history books as the powerful entity that ran away. They haven’t won a war since helping out in Europe over half a century ago anyway.