That’s because crappy mobile game art looks like 1993 computer games :)

At least we finally answered the Fermi Paradox.

We user / have used Slack, Zoom, Meet/Gchat and a VERY brief trial of teams.

We have O365 AND Google Workspaces so we get teams and meet for free.

Zoom is the best to host a large meeting with a split presence. It’s the best at dealing with variably poor connections. It shines on being able to share any specific app and sound control.

Meet is the best for small, low-friction meetings. However, it is hampered by its inability to share anything but browser tabs with sound, poor camera control, and poor user display.

Slack is a fantastic, too-flexible chat system with organizational issues. When it works, it works pretty well. However, it has intermittent video and mic problems on many systems. It is not good on poor connections and occasionally not good on fast connections.

Teams is bloated, many systems run it poorly, and there is an unacceptable amount of server-imposed downtime/issues.

Oh damn, I just started learning Godot yesterday…

shrug

Dunno, I was involved on some of the Zynga titles, so maybe I’m biased.

Two looks really decent. Maybe One could have had a few more cosmetic upgrades. It looks to me like maybe they leaned in a little hard into HDR.

If they were going to take the art much further than they did it probably would have been prudent just to make a new version.

You know, I’ve never tried it with chili, but I’ll bet it would be wonderful. I’m thinking the cardamom’s going to get lost really quickly, I would probably add it once at about the middle of the cooking, and then lightly dust it again at serving for the aroma.

If you use cinnamon and cloves in chili, the cinnamon and cloves should be almost undetectable. The spice is meant to provide a warm undertone.

Realistically, if you want to properly experience it, forget adding cinnamon and add good quality chorizo. It has cinnamon, but brings a lot more to the table.

I make chili for work once a quarter or so. I make two batches, one Vegan, one Fantastic (ok kidding)

Yes, you can use just about any meat substitute they are all fantastic. Slices of seitan, TVP, Small chunks of drained and pressed low moisture tofu, morning star sausage. The spices destroy any of the finer flavors, so you’re just in it for the texture you really can’t go wrong because the only no-no is gristle.

Before the meat alternatives got decent in the past few years, I always just made both batches with beans.

Some people want convenience of accessing the data between devices.

It’s okay to store stuff in the cloud just make it’s encrypted deeply and thoroughly and that the user is the only person with the key.

There’s absolutely no reason for them to have access to this data.

Since the US is about to become buddy-buddy with some communist entities, maybe they’ll relax restrictions?

sounds like if you can’t scalp it inside the return period, you probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.

The edge of Ukraine to Moscow should be something like 450 - 500 miles.

Quadcopters we’ve been seeing on the news aren’t anywhere near efficient enough to make it that far much less carrying a payload. Off the shelf dragon link uhf would only give them vision for about 27 mi.

Commercial fixed wing planes could carry a little more and go a little further.

If they’ve managed to get their hands on some proper military drones They could get there at low altitude with almost enough range to get back.

I was reading up on the satellite hacking communities back in the 00’s. 1969, that old stuff had only basic security if any at all. It’s possible that anyone all the way down to an amateur might have commanded it to move.

From the description it sounds like it’s orbit has become somewhat elliptical. If some state entity was trying to screw with it, they probably would have left it in more of a stable geosynchronous position. You don’t have to move it far to make a point.

Seeing that it’s dead and they’re not likely to have logs from it, maybe it had a malfunction or a propellant leak.

Oh, let there be no mistake, Trump doesn’t give a damn about manufacturing inside our borders. Trump wants to do what the companies pay him to do. It’ll be the US corporations that have to allow the invasion of Taiwan, I suspect that he’ll have a vested interest in keeping Taiwan around.

I wore out 2 copies of Short Circuit. I could start working on a third.

With the change in political atmosphere I suspect they’re going to get a lot more leeway to do things we don’t care for. I wonder if they could lobby to make ad blocking illegal.

I strongly suspect that is exactly what they’re trying to stop.

“If you go into a shop and you pick up a few groceries, usually you would pick any of the cashiers that is around and you go scan your goods,” he said. “When someone is planning a sweethearting theft, they will always go to the same cashier, which is most of the time a relative of theirs, and this is an anomaly in the behavior compared to the other customers. Our system is able to identify this anomaly and alert on that.”

I usually go to one of two cashiers because they are faster and actually know what they are doing. I will always return to them simply to save time.

The system sounds costly. It’s merely another version of the “inventory robots” that never gained traction. They’ll end up spending six figures per store on hardware that constantly triggers false alerts until they eventually shut it down. Weren’t groceries supposed to be fully NFC by now, allowing you to scan everything at once on your way to the door?

The managers know who’s gonna steal. They see them sweet-talking and complaining about fixed income.

Had that happen once on a game. Guy was exploiting a bug for free currency, selling his service to add money to peoples accounts. Studio started banning people purchasing, Exploiter started giving away money to vast swaths of people.