well ancient egypt did have payrolls and quarterly reports because that’s kind of just a necessary function for a civilization of that scale. I know everybody hates payroll and doing quarterly reports but that isn’t because sharing and / or having that type of information sucks, it’s because it’s all to do more nickel and dime shit

The lowest bar of entry for a soviet university degree was engineer, because you need a lot of those. the highest bar of entry for a soviet university was something like actor, pianist or trumpet player, because you don’t need a lot of those for your national project.

It’s why former soviet states have women in stem numbers that windmill-slamdunk on every western nation. We need some railway engineers and I don’t care about your bits, get planning.

yes, obviously the people that figured the lowest bar of entry for university should be engineers hated anything scientific

may I interest you in destroying the entire concept of copyright and/or the idea that any such venture should be undertaken by a legal entitity that can just quit existing

don’t have to wait, that’s happened already

If you don’t wanna do streetcomplete like Skua said but rather have more of a mission to enter every dog poop bag station in your area or whatever give it a quick google, if stumped, ask around on the forums. From my experience the OSM community is incredibly friendly to newcomers trying to contribute. I once fucked up like 50 entries when I had a field day and some guy just mailed me saying he fixed them all and how to do it properly in a very nice way

I’ve tried / made dandelion honey and that’s basically just 1:1 as far as I can tell

[popping out of a frog butt] listen I think you’re a dick, but still, I think you should see a doctor

my local library recently introduced a library of things and they’ve hit a fucking homer. It’s all either things you need for like 2 weeks out of 5 years (like a machine for laminating paper), expensive hobby stuff you can try out before you drop your own cash on it (like sewing machines or button makers) or full-on throwing a rager equipment (like a karaoke machine). It is such a perfect mix of things to get on a library model. If I ever win the lottery or something I’m buying them a whole makerspace department with staff and all the equipment you could dream of.

I don’t even. Every individual part of RDR2 is pretty good. It looks good, sounds good, the writing really deserves recognition for managing to keep a 100 hour plot interesting and at no point was it ever clear to me why this needed to be an interactive medium because the gameplay and all the other bits don’t really interface. Inside missions you can’t leave the very narrow developer intended path at all, your choices boil down to “what gun do I shoot this guy with”. Outside of missions you’re free to do “whatever” except whatever is also just mostly shooting guys or animals - none of which you have to do or affect anything.

The exploration is and stumbling upon odd sidequests initially is like the only part where it makes sense to be a game, because you couldn’t recreate that in another medium and some even ask of you, the player, to use your noggin to solve shit. All the rest of it though, you could basically get the same experience by watching The Sopranos and after every episode you finish a level of Quake.

Which on it’s own would be fine, a piece of art can just be a good time for a (long) while and that’s good but RDR2 ranks among there as the most expensive videogame, especially if you exclude obvious scams like Star Citizen and live service games like WoW that have just been getting content forever and everybody involved in the production was reportedly forced into insane crunch times to make the horse balls react to temperature. And for what?

RDR2 belongs in a museum because it’s so much less than its parts

I gotta hand it to them, as far as wildly outlandish conspiracy theories go this is entirely internally consistent

I’ll repeat this as often as this comes up, Wind Waker was widely hated in online forums back when it was announced because the 12 year old who played OoT were now 16 and wanted LoZ: More Tits and Gore and that whole debacle predated Gamergate by 12 years despite basically just being “LoZ has gone woke!!!” with the particular words put through a thesaurus.