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Rule

Game Dev here.I WISH we could still ship with N64 quality textures and audio. We'd use so much less disc space and probably finish sooner and cleaner.

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Sorry, can't do scarves.

I appreciate the joke, but the rules are exactly why they go "oof". The scarf has higher requirements for precision and a more constant overhead than a one-off giant summon.

You could make them go "oof" on the summon if you added a requirement that the lava properly flow along the ground and interact with all characters near the event.

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Not me but I get it

It's social convention to say "ow" when you bump something, so I say "ow." When I actually hurt myself (and I notice it) I don't want to draw attention to myself. So I stay quiet. Really, they're both masking.

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We have one at home

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I loved mine! Did exactly what I bought it for, emulation on my TV and playing media from my server. Replaced it with a Shield eventually, but don't regret backing it on Kickstarter.

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Facts and minds

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I actually react well to combative. Not right away, but it puts me into a "I'll show you" mood that drives me down a rabbit hole of research. If you're right, I come out the other side with the data and admit I was wrong. But I assume I'm not normal.

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RIP

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Additional context: the squirrel bit one of the officers that was confiscating it. So they absolutely needed to test for rabies.

Don't post your crimes to social media folks. Or do, I'm not a cop.

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This is a cool idea.

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My city does something like this as part of our homeless program and we're at "net-zero" homeless. It doesn't work on it's own, but the tiny homes give people a stable place to keep their stuff safe and the elements off their bodies, it gives them an address they can use for things like mail and applications, and it gives social workers a place to find them reliably. It's the start of a long process to help them back to their feet.

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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

Half Life 2. Wasn't a big fan of the first one, but the second had tons of hype, so I gave it a shot. The physics stuff was cool, but the gameplay, story and characters were boring and flat. And the "revolutionary" storytelling method of locking you in a box to talk at you rather than making a proper cutscene still sucks.