I believe this is also illegal in some US States. I know of at least a couple that don’t allow biometric data to be stored without concent; I think Facebook even lost a case in one state and had to pay a pretty large sum of money.

Seconding The Shining Force games, the first one is what turned me on to strategic RPGs and I still enjoy playing.

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of places that grow indoors so this tactic wouldn’t really do anything to them. I’d wager there are lots of seeds and clones of thc producing cannabis which would be protected from this. I’m also not sure that you could ensure a whole crop was cross pollenated with hemp, so you could probably “damage” a portion of a crop, but not the whole thing.

This is why I do my best to at least acknowledge the person even if I don’t have any cash on hand to give them. I do usually try to keep a couple small bills in my wallet, but I’m not always good at remembering to add more when I run out.

Personally, I don’t always buy a friend a gift for their birthday. I generally only buy gifts when I find one that is something that I know would be special to the person receiving it. I usually happen upon gift ideas and don’t specifically seek them out. I feel like my friends sort of do the same.

As for having a gathering or a party, I’ve found that as you get into your 30s and beyond you kind of have to initiate it some yourself or if you’re like me and get anxiety from trying to plan my own birthday party you could ask a friend to help out with the planning.

Anyways, happy belated birthday!

Same here, I dropped League of Legends when they added it as a requirement. I can sorta deal with a kernel level anti-cheat if it only runs while the game is running, but an always on kernel level anti-cheat is a no go for me.

Some games do have different behaviors for different enemies, I can’t really point to any one modern game off the top of my head. However, I do remember the first Half-Life touting that as a major feature and it being cool to experience back when that game first came out. I remember some enemies would throw your grenades back at you or fall back and regroup, some would just run straight at you, and others would attempt to sneak around and flank you.

I believe you have to first close Vanguard and then you can get BF6 to launch. If you want to play Valorant again you have to fully restart your computer as there is no way to successfully relaunch Vanguard after closing it.

I don’t know for sure, but I would assume this would effect people with League of Legends installed as well since it also uses Vanguard for anti-cheat.

Since when did keeping kids off of porn sites become everyone else’s problem and not the problem of parents? Oh, right, that’s just a bullshit reason to make accessing porn more difficult and a security risk since they can’t just make porn illegal.

Republicans had control of the Senate when Obama’s last appointment came up and they refused to even allow for an appointment hearing to happen.

I always thought history has taught us that not paying your army is always a massive mistake. I suppose those in power at the current time probably didn’t do well in history classes and were likely even proud of it.

I love Pizza Hotline! First time I heard their music it took me back to the PS2 era of gaming. Their other album, Polygon Island, is one of my favorite music finds in the last year or so. Highly recommend checking out all of their music.

Oh God, please don’t unleash that on the world!

That would be some epoch sex!

If i want to read made up stories about made up people I’ll read a fucking book.

Thanks for that info, I haven’t really kept up with what processes the different foundries are capable of these days or what’s in the pipeline.

I don’t even know what we should do at this point. I feel like the only way to get another real player at the same level of TSMC is to dump an insane amount of money into the problem, but even that’s not guaranteed to work. Also, by the time you catch up to TSMC, they’ll probably drop some new tech and leave you in the dust again.

Hah, jokes on you Science, my circadian rhythm has been fucked for my entire life and I’m also old enough to have had a childhood where cell phones didn’t even have screens on them.

I’ve recently caught myself making this spelling mistake recently, but I think it has only happened since I interacted with a company that makes microphones named Shure, so I blame them.

I believe the correct term is “spaghettification” and it’s not your ordinary everyday spaghettification, but one that happens at an atomic level.