Dex and Con are for escaping after you roll a 1 on the Cha check.

Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.

Also Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin to make extracting cotton less of a tedious and backbreaking process, which lead to a massive expansion in slavery plantations in the American South due to the increased output and profitability of the crop.

What a thrill…

They took the slop out of Sloppy Joes!

(This comment was mostly an excuse to point out Alton Brown is posting a Good Eats-esque cooking show again)

The best part is Slay the Spire 2 started development as a Unity project, but the devs switched to Godot in response to that Unity runtime fee fiasco a few years ago. Unity lost out on any royalties from one of the biggest indie games ever and Godot got a ton of visibility because of their idiocy.

Mechanicus, most likely.

Most hackers aren’t even picking specific targets. They just scan every server they can connect to for various known vulnerabilities and go after whichever servers they can find a route into.

I can easily believe a hacker would break into a sensitive government server without knowing or caring about its contents.

Their SSDs are/were considered amongst the best options, but I haven’t looked into them since the 970 Evo days and they could be crap now for all I know.

“‘Lurch backwards when kicked’. Lurch means walk like Frankenstein’s Monster, right?”

I just started my first playthrough of Horizon and a few hours in I’m finding it pretty easy on Hard. Does it get harder later, or should I just crank up the difficulty now?

Having played the series back on original hardware, I can confirm it was a nightmare. Save states make old games so much better.

“Item makes strange rumbling noise during operation, possibly defective.”

Obligatory “rights to the Harvest Moon name are owned by the publisher, who now slap it onto their own farming games; the actual direct successor to the original games is the Story of Seasons series”.

Florida would be the first to fall.

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A lot of memes are dumb. At least loss memes like these show creativity, and are a fascinating look into the human brain’s pattern recognition as well.

The guys in plate mail stand in a line because if they’re not clumped up they’re getting a Heat Metal instead, which is infinitely worse and probably a war crime.

Didn’t the actual canceled Battlefront 3 by the original devs get leaked a few years ago? This seems more like a reboot before the reboot.

Still sucks that it got killed by the Disney buyout despite being complete and ready to ship. So many amazing projects have been canceled during changes in leadership, it’s infuriating.

Someone posted a great article about that game a while back. Was that what got you to try it?

How long does it take before everything clicks and you can play smoothly instead of constantly stopping to look things up? The core concept of a realistic investment simulator looks fun, but needing to know and follow all of the real life laws and regulatory minutia from decades ago sounds like a nightmare for a new player.

Relevant xkcd.