I take it you haven't checked the news today. Sorry.

You can also (lightly) score them down their length before cooking for more surface area (the cuts will pop open during cooking) and a firmer texture. Even one line makes a huge difference in how they come out.

It's basically the same thing as that spiral cut technique that was going around a while back, but doesn't need a skewer and requires a hundredth the effort.

Ballpark dogs also help.

Unnecessary tangent: the main thing that makes them so good* is that they wrap them in foil before handing them to you, letting the bun heat up and steam a bit. You could microwave a cheap bun for a few seconds at home and get the same experience while saving several dollars. Or grill/toast it for one that blows ballpark dogs out of the water.

* Besides cooking them well enough, which most people don't do because the perfect hot dog takes multiple times longer than the instructions say. Simply heating them through isn't enough - blistered is better!

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of conservative talking point posts are made by LLM bots. Propaganda is a perfect match for the Confidently Incorrect Machine.

The hardcoded AppData path is the main reason I had to spring for a larger system drive a few years ago despite not installing any programs to it. Gradle/NuGet/every other package manager were the main culprits, with Microsoft themselves coming second. Every few months I'd clear out their caches and "temporary" file folders and it'd free up tens of gigabytes.

I'd mess around with symbolic links to move it to another drive if I didn't half-expect Windows to break them at some point.

March 4th, 2027.

That doesn't leave them much time to release Trines 3-5 first! \s

(Trine was such a massive Indie darling when the scene was first growing into prominence. It's odd how suddenly it fell into obscurity after the first few games, to the point I didn't know more than half the series even existed.)

And the halfling "follower" is you dragging around your old character's body and Weekend at Bernie's-ing it.

I'd still be worried about those last two...

Ten years ago the local school district was already cutting the school year short because they didn't use up their allotted snow days due to unseasonally warm winters.

Now they just switch to online learning when they close the school, so kids don't even get to experience snow days at all anymore. The future sucks.

Nominative determinism.

How long until all the good portmanteaus are taken, I wonder?

A quick and dirty search shows about ten thousand words starting with un-, so gun puns are safe for the foreseeable future.

The fans have made a local server replacement to emulate unlocks and such. It even lets you run the old timed FOMO missions, so it's technically superior to playing online.

Yes and no. The thing about Bethesda's games is they use a scripting language for mods. That means there should be no ABI compatibility breakages between versions like you'd see with compiled programs; things should only break if an API hook or parent script changes. And Bethesda famously don't fix scripting errors in their games after the first few months of patches (leading to their titles universally receiving unofficial patches maintained by the community to fix the thousands of bugs Bethesda leaves intact), so there shouldn't be any major script logic changes.

Which makes it weird that their updates still tend to break mods, since the parts of the game that mods interact with* should be stable. Granted, they're messing with the Creation Club so some impact should be expected, but the vast majority of mods don't rely on that.

* Mods reliant on the third-party Skyrim Script Extender being a major exception, as that's a compiled library that uses hardcoded memory offsets to target unexposed functions in the engine, meaning unlike scripts it has to be changed and recompiled after every engine update.

Man, I wish we lived in a world where being kind and treating everyone equally wasn't somehow political.

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Boasting about not putting multiplayer behind a paywall, like they weren't the ones to introduce that idea in the first place.

After massive pushback. Their original plan was basically full control. It still is, but they'll allow you to install something if you ask nicely first.

The other issue is the timing. They can claim this is for security all they want, but it was announced suspiciously close to the courts ruling that Google needed to open up their ecosystem to other app stores. This is a blatant attempt to keep control of the app ecosystem by forcing devs to go through Google regardless of where they intend to release.