XBox will still get development as long as Microsoft wants gaming on PC on a way it can somewhat control. Part of the reason why the XBox got made was because Microsoft already developed the software required to make a console.

I feel like D3 had to both be a new version of D2 and not be a simpler WoW. WoW lifted a lot of its initial design from D2 and improved on it. I could see Blizzard trapped with trying to make another Diablo without killing WoW.

Plus my mom was pretty controlling on many aspect of my life, and studying abroad was one “mom-approved” way to be independent.

I know the feeling.

Epstein was a spy who was expected to gather intelligence. Of course he was going to build his intelligence network with anyone that he could corrupt.

Part of it is a different signaling of wealth. Goods outside of real estate get cheaper all the time while experiences don’t.

Part of it is a way to signal willingness to experience the world differently. Saying that you’ve been in a place and experienced it gives greater authority on that place even if the trip is a curated experience.

Poorly.

But he’s the one to stop the genocide!

They spent all their money on overdubbing lines.

Was it the pineapple chunks?

Yes, but it’s complicated (USA)

On one side of the family, I’ve currently lived longer than that parent. That side of the family didn’t have anyone of that generation go to college and I am by far the most educated of my generation. I am also better off economically.

On the other side of the family, that parent took a dip in social standing due to various reasons including marrying the other parent. I’m more well off financially and in education. I don’t have children ,a spouse, or land, but I’m not looking for that.

Wayne Gretzky suggests red wine, Worcestershire sauce, and pineapple chunks.

Well, he doesn’t have a royal title any more.

Including his lies?

First, you always spy.

Second, you monitor public information to determine enemy tactics and develop wargames around those strategies.

For instance, anti-aircraft strategies against the USA changed radically as the USA launched preliminary drones to set off Iraqi radar stations then launched cruise missiles against all known pings.

Lil Nas X used a sample from Nine Inch Nails for Old Town Road and didn’t get it cleared prior to it becoming a success. Reznor decided to clear it, though.

Fight scrapers, provide more targeted advertising, use this as a beginning to get people to make an account.

Google doesn’t have an incentive to keep this information open without an account but several incentives to put it behind an account wall.

The first gaming system that connected to the Internet was the Sega Dreamcast, and even that ran games only off disc. It isn’t until you get to the PS3/XBox 360 era when games would be downloaded to the console directly, and even then games weren’t expected to need an Internet connection to use.

Mario Brothers might have had a small design team, but Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had a much larger dev team.

I keep a bowling ball in my car. It doesn’t make sense to have it at home.

Why spiral binding? It is a relatively cheap and easy way to bind pages together to become a book.

It uses less material than a three ring binder while having more holes to secure the pages. You lose less material at the binding location compared with staples or screws. It doesn’t require expensive equipment that making a book requires, so you can make smaller runs.

The point of paper documentation isn’t to keep it up to date, but to be a snapshot of the time.