Sometimes I make video games
I genuinely thought erudite was a noun. Thanks, TIL
I’ll take a crack at this one. For what it’s worth, I think the first couple are just loanwords from another language which sometimes gets used incorrectly, and the last three are uncommon words in conversation. Know your audience.
“This isn’t a meeting about the budget per se”
“This isn’t exactly a meeting about the budget”
“The victim met their demise vis a vis poodle attack”
“The victim met their demise by way of poodle attack.”
“Steve’s a real erudite.”
“Steve’s a real reader.”
“Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the juxtaposition of the relationship between cat and mouse.”
“Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the oppositeness of the relationship between cat and mouse”
“I don’t understand, can you elucidate on that?”
“I don’t understand, can you explain?”
I was fortunate to not only have a typing class in school, but also the only computer game my grandma had was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Now I type for a living, so hey, I guess it must have paid off.
If you’re already a hunt and peck typer, your brain wants to look at the keyboard to confirm where the key is before you press it. When learning touch typing, you’ll want to shift your focus from the keyboard to the screen.
There are formal methodologies for learning where the keys are in relation to your fingers, but imo the most important thing is to not look at the keyboard. No matter what you end up typing, it’s pretty easy to find backspace and try again. Your eyes verify on the screen if your fingers are giving the correct output, and your fingers find their way eventually.
Many students did benefit from having their hands visually obscured from them when typing. If you find you keep looking at the keyboard then you might want to look into that.
Just because a killer confesses to killing someone, doesn’t necessarily mean they did the deed.
If a serial killer is into notoriety and self promotion they might be willing to confess to anything. The police might want to shut a bunch of cold cases and the killer will happily admit to them, whether or not they were involved.
This famously happened in the case of Henry Lee Lucas
I’m definitely writing useless git commit messages
For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id
For personal stuff, it’s sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed
As an outsider looking in, it seems that to be a Republican you have to be crazy, ignorant, or evil. Any combination of the three will do, but if even one of them was applied to a person it you’d think it would be enough to make them re-examine their beliefs.
This tidbit is sometimes presented like it’s a pro-trans win, but the truth is far from pretty.
If you get caught as a cis-gendered gay man in Iran then you’re potentially facing the death penalty. In a legal move that wouldn’t exist anywhere else in the world, you can plea-bargain your ding dong into a hoo-hah.
If the state is offering you a choice between mutilation or death, is it even really a choice?
Not that I doubt the locals or anything - and like, fuck Microsoft - but what kind of industrial waste would a data center have?
From the article, it sounds like the facility is still under construction, so I imagine there might be construction waste, but that’s not really my field and I don’t know what that looks like. Runoff cement?
I’m waiting for the app that offers home delivery.
Your Killr has arrived
When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!
60kg of coal to make 1kg of margarine!
I don’t know the chemistry behind it, but I suspect even if I did I wouldn’t want to eat it
Imagine learning divination magic to be able to detect copper wire
If you’ve never tried it before, a grilled cheese sandwich cut into your favourite shapes just calls out to be dipped in ketchup. And if ketchup is too much, a creamy tomato soup is also acceptable.
I second this.
I’d eat a peanut butter sandwich without the jelly, but I don’t think I’d ever eat just a jelly sandwich.
Similar question for cheese and ketchup, you’d be more likely to eat a cheese sandwich without ketchup than a ketchup sandwich without cheese
I recommend Dusk to people just for the music.
I mean, the game is good too, but the soundtrack just goes so hard
If things can always get worse then the corollary is that things can always get better too
Maybe when the horrible people see that a horrible person just melted away into nothingness after some rando snapped their fingers they might change their tune
In a statement shared with GameSpot, Humble Games confirmed that Humble Bundle will have "no impact on its operations. Additionally, ongoing and upcoming games from Humble Games will still move ahead and be published by the company.
“Yeah, we just laid everyone off, but it’s business as usual, nothing will change for the consumer.”
The friggin’ dogs in Resident Evil.
I have a kind of funny story about that. I was too young to be playing RE when it came out, but that didn’t stop me from sneaking it out of my dad’s collection of grownup games to try it anyway.
So there’s this well known jump scare, probably in the first fifteen minutes as you say where you’re running down a hallway and suddenly some dogs jump through these glass windows. I screamed, fumbled the controller, and was eaten by dogs. Might have been the first jump scare of my life.
So I hadn’t hit a save point, so you have to start the game over. So I decide to just leave the mansion through the front door instead of going out that way. And you get a cutscene where a dog jumps through the door and you have to wrestle it away.
I still haven’t played the game since.
But my wife and I are a big fan of the series, so eventually we decided to marathon them on the condition that she plays RE1. She’s playing the remake and goes into the room where the dogs jump through the windows and I’m holding my breath waiting for it to happen. Only it doesn’t.
So I’m a little disappointed, but I figure it’s a remake so maybe they’re switching things up a bit and going to put the jump scare somewhere else in the mansion.
Sooner or later you have to backtrack through that corridor though, and on like the third time going through this “safe” corridor the dogs jump through the window. She screams, fumbles the controller, and is eaten by dogs.
Seven-year-old me was vindicated that my adult wife also got punked and I’m not alone.