Allows the very important ‘overwrite files while they’re open’ functionality used during update. Write all the new files for a service then restart it. No need to reboot the whole machine for that.
Looking at you, Windows, and your bullshit scheduled reboots.
Also no way that they’re going to build that thing for $200M. That won’t even cover the first round of grifting before a spade hits the ground.
Can’t help but laugh at all the steps in front of it too, when that fat fuck was complaining about the escalator at the UN being broken. How you going to get into that building, Taco? Someone have to carry you?
Pair up a 5090 with a 640x480 monitor and open up your copy of Quake 1. Easy 3400 fps.
If a few minutes of reading TvTropes is anything to go by, the Tolkien never officially decided on an origin for his orcs. All of the possibilities he considered clashed with his legendarium somehow. And he had some of them that actively resisted Sauron, which makes them ‘not strictly evil’ I suppose.
You can’t be evil if you don’t have free will. A tool has no evil except from what comes from the hand that wields it. So to me, orcs make more sense as a constructed organic machine, little better than automatons, and with no moral sense of their own. A dog would have more capacity for evil. But the interesting question would ask who would have the capacity to create such machines, who believes that violence is an acceptable method of achieving their goals. You say that conscience is optional for antagonists? I’d say that a complete lack of empathy is the defining quality of evil, what drives them to seek power without any care for others.
Plus, having orcs lets you roll up a whole pile of mooks for your players to fight whenever you like, and if they happen to be trying to advance your BBEG’s goal while completely indifferent to whether they cause pain and suffering along the way, all the better. Can’t give the masterplan away if they were completely indifferent to why they were asked to do something and never asked questions about it, but it gives your players some goals to work towards and some puzzles to chew on.
And yeah, Strahd’s entire backstory and motivation being ‘he is a dick’ is difficult to make interesting. A well-intentioned extremist that thought they needed power that they then could not control and which led them to darkness has the potential for some characterisation. Strahd wanted the booty but could not get the booty and is angry about it. Plus that module is just two hundred hours of one TPK after another.
I’m still trying to make ‘sloppers’ happen. Perfectly describes the lack of thought that goes into what they produce.
You can turn off “delete”, but modification is a danger, it’s true.
Turning off delete makes it excellent for eg. backing up photographs on your phone. I’ve got it doing this from my Android to my raspberry pi, which puts them on my NAS for me. Saves losing all my pictures if I lose my phone.
Well, at least she looks good in it.
Having hired suits and whatnot before to go to weddings, I’m not quite seeing the logic here. $19k “tax the rich” dress seems a bit of a tasteless disconnect between medium and message, but renting it for $1k doesn’t seem crazy. Committee “did their own research” and thought $3k would be more appropriate, when most attendees pay nothing at all? Surely getting her fee refunded would be more in-line?
Heard it doesn’t take him much at the moment - the slightest chuckle will probably do.
Unless they plan to stay out of caves forever, then eventually they’re going to stumble into the one that you have planned…
Programming a robust global date-time system and having a transparent conversation between metric and *imperial/traditional" units is just a warm-up to show that you can work with the truly demented currency system. Make sure everything is rounded off to the nearest whole ha’penny.
You can only store rational numbers as a ratio of two numbers, and there’s infinitely times more irrational numbers than rational ones - as soon as you took (almost any) root or did (most) trigonometry, then your accurate ratio would count for nothing. Hardcore maths libraries get around this by keeping the “value in progress” as an expression for as long as possible, but working with expressions is exceptionally slow by computer standards - takes quite a long time to keep them in their simplest form whenever you manipulate them.
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No ‘a’, so it’s perfect for ordering some piss.
See, that’s why you start with the demolition. Can’t leave it like this, big ugly scar in a historic building, even if the costs have increased 10x from the original estimate. Got to keep paying.