Counting Crows - A Long December

Well TIL, thanks for educating me.

Though it occurs to me that she was speaking with an American accent though so I’m not sure of saying she should pronounce it the British way.

I’ve played it for about 6 hours and so far it’s kind of meh. I’ll admit I’ve not made it to the full in deep desert with PVP and so forth so my opinion still might change. But the early game is kind of slow for my tastes and the script writing / story is just senseless video game tripe.

Also a side note is that so far the voice acting for the story stuff is pretty bad overall. My favorite so far was when you’re exploring a shipwreck and find a voice log from the crash and the speaker identifies herself as Ensign whoever. But she mispronounces ensign as “en-sine” which made me do this:

Surely you can’t be serious.

I may have misspelled Shirley

Subaru

Had a previous car that was manual. Then I bought a car with a CVT (continuously variable transmission) and it’s such a nuisance because it is always unpredictable when it will shift. So you go to pass someone, step on the gas and sometimes it takes off and other times it fiddles with shifting for a second before giving you any power. Can also be a real pain in stop and go traffic because it will have unpredictable amounts of power when starting from a stop. I’ve had this vehicle since 2017 and it’s always been this way. I don’t miss having to shift constantly but I do miss having a reliable amount of power when I’m in a certain gear - that’s what is so nice about a manual transmission. You feel more in control of the car. That said, my daily driver now is electric with no transmission and that is the best of all.

I truly hope this is the spiritual successor to the first game. I am one of those who was disappointed by Below Zero as I felt like they abandoned the core elements that made the first game so great.

I’ll confess I was a bit disappointed when they were like “We know you guys really love the Seamoth and Cyclops but no they aren’t going to be in the game.” If they just made a new (big!) map and story with all of the game play elements of the first game I think it would be a smashing success.

There’s a lot of truth in your observations. As a physician who has worked at multiple hospitals over the years I would love to share my own perspective on what you’ve said about healthcare.

Basically it’s mostly true with a few notable exceptions. Many of the hospitals I’ve worked at did not leave me feeling warm and fuzzy and I would not want to be a patient there.

There are exceptions however. The most notable would be pediatric hospitals. Every pediatric hospital I’ve worked at has left me feeling in awe of the level of care that is consistently provided. As far as my respect of other specialties goes, it’s hard for anyone to top pediatrics. The people who choose to become pediatric healthcare providers are just on another level. They are usually highly intelligent, compassionate, and patient. Things you would hope for from all physicians but the pediatric folks almost always deliver.

I also want to say that I do not have those negative feelings about the university hospital system where I did my residency training. Nowhere is perfect and I saw mistakes made but the overall level of care I saw in my years there was very much on par with what I hoped to see when I went into medicine.

But since then I’ve worked at multiple private practice and religious hospitals and yeah…. There’s a lot of room for improvement in a few of those places.

I really have enjoyed the show so far but oh my gosh you are so right. He completely breaks immersion every time he’s in a scene.

Search for “digital nomad visa” plus the name of whatever country you might be interested in living in.

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The drone giving a “strong wind warning” is perfect.

Moreover, Tails 6.15 removes firmware blobs for Broadcom’s aging BCM4301 and BCM4306 Wi-Fi chipsets. The project believes machines carrying those radios are already too old to boot current Tails images; nevertheless, users who see their wireless interface disappear are encouraged to report back.

I’m a parent and I massively struggle with this. I am trying to be completely open and honest in age appropriate way but it’s really hard to do that without it becoming a conversation about how we are all deeply, deeply in for a bad time.

I’m using an RTX 5800 with Nobara and although I can game fine I get multiple graphical bugs in the desktop (parts of windows not fully rendering, flashing artifacts when moving windows, and aliasing artifacts around fonts (yes I’m running the correct resolution). So Ulrich is right, it’s absolutely a problem even on newer hardware too.

I think you misspelled incellectual.

Anything can be used as an excuse by those people if they want, same way that cops can pull you over because “you swerved” and can search your car because “it smells of weed.”

It’s totally a reasonable precaution to have an inexpensive phone that is used for international travel and has no significant personal info on it in the event of theft, loss, or other threats.

I’m a huge DRG fan but wasn’t interested in Survivor because that’s not the type of game I usually play. A friend bought it for me so I felt obligated to try and it and holy heck it is so much more fun than I thought it would be. It is my go-to game when I’m on my Steamdeck.

Meanwhile, Kim’s US publisher, Disney, is continuing to support Dreamslinger‘s rollout in American bookstores while organising a “belated” in-person tour towards the end of the year, “with the hope that the landscape has shifted somewhat by then”.

American here, I think the idea that things here will have shifted in any sort of positive way by the end of this year is a staggering level of optimism.

I was let down by the Rogue Core trailer. It seems like all of the creature design has heavily swung toward horror genre instead of big silly bugs the first game had so many of. It’s not terrible just not what I was hoping for.