With homelessness, the secret is simple: Don’t park anywhere you’re not wanted, and know your rights.

This does not, however, fix that, inflation adjusted, I should have been making $115K five years ago and instead cleared $49K.

And we were expecting … what, exactly? Part of the joy of being homeless is avoiding this crap.

Made today, Falk would have cut in with “Westley doesn’t fall at this time.”

VFX can be amazing in bringing something to life that words alone can’t convey.

The main issue here is that you need a cohesive story that would work without VFX, with the latter being additive instead of a replacement for plot. Whether it’s CGI or anything else, the storyline still rules.

Let’s go back some 40 years, to the Cliffs of Insanity scene in The Princess Bride (by S. Morganstern) – the effects weren’t great, but no one fucking noticed because the story itself was compelling.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike how often Android phones home (no pun intended), but not having my phone ring from bullshit calls is fine by me, even if Google retains the data. Creditors and healthcare providers can’t legally leave messages, so I’m not sure what practical impact on privacy this has.

Don’t get me wrong, I prefer anything running on-device, but this is a weird thing to point out as a deficiency in Android.

Also, no mention of iOS 26’s new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring. And, again, it’s all happening on-device.

I’m no fan of Android, but it’s had this capability for years. This feels like Apple inventing the rectangle again.

I’m merely pointing out that your thesis – “You make it seem like Microsoft didn’t do everything they could to kill Linux and Mac.” – is categorically false. Of course no sane business decision in the current economic climate is altruistic, but this is scarcely news.

Like literally investing in $150 million in Apple in 1997 and porting Office to MacOS to get in front of a possible antitrust trial ahead of Jobs’ return?

I’m not an MS fanboi, but at least get your facts right if you’re going to make such a claim.

So far as the internet knows from my IP address, I’ve not been in Texas for years. VPNs are crucial for navigating the modern internet, and not just for porn. Why should my ISP be able to sell my browsing history when I’m paying for the service?

I took a look at the first link, and I don’t mean to be rude, but what you’re expecting of users is downright hostile. Downloading a game engine and then runtimes to manually compile your game isn’t going to snag a lot of casual interest.

From your description:

You need to compile this project, and to compile this project you first need to have the godot engine with C#/.NET support which the download link is underneath this line, second you put the Bowling Mega Mix folder on your local machine, third you need to open that same folder in the engine, fourth compile the project either using the play button or something else.

To put new files in this repository you need github desktop, Here is a link to ubuntu based linux distro version of github desktop: https://gist.github.com/berkorbay/6feda478a00b0432d13f1fc0a50467f1 and whatever you do, do not use gitkraken as your github desktop replacement or linux version, it does not work.

Before you get the engine or compiling the project, you are going to need the .net sdk and runtimes and you may want to install an older version because sometimes the latest version does not work and here is a link to the directions on how you install it on linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website, to install an older version you change the version number to a lower number in the terminal.

To use mods you use the version 2 or later folder, you drag the mod folder in that very same folder and the mod folder must be called Bowling Mega Mix Mod and .tscn file must be called ModBowlingBall.tscn and lua scripts must be called ModBowlingBall.lua and ScoreLayer.lua

You posted as though you’d like feedback from people spending five to 10 minutes with your game, but you’re turning this into the better part of an evening by not having something one and done. That’s not how you draw testers.

It’s cool that you’re being so prolific, but please don’t ask people to install software other than yours for your software to work. If a .NET download link needs to be thrown into the .msi, so be it, but this should not be a multistep process (for *NIX, provide a script).

Not sure where you’re deducing that from … anything one applies a voltage to produces heat. Even microSD cards can get absurdly hot, and the controller is on the host end.

Honestly? This isn’t even new … I posted plenty of porn of my ex-wife, leading to a guy offering to buy her a house if she left me. Being creepy, uh … finds a way. I still don’t quite get why people don’t want to just meet someone and angle for a relationship instead of getting off in front of a glowing rectangle.

Toyotathon isn’t until the end of the year.

That’s easy enough to say, but it’s unlikely it would have turned out how you’re envisioning. “Common sense” is not so common, as it turns out.

If half of any platform were to be rude and/or inappropriate, I’d exit, stage left.

I don’t follow you to your conclusion, though. The way most people treat strangers in the U.S. is basically “when are they going to fuck me over?” We’re less pleasant in meatspace because we expect deceit.

Let me tell you how excited I am that we’re getting yet more slow-moving heavy rains.

This falls into the category of “other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

News would be Local Jewish Community Totally Fine With Holocaust Denial.

That aside, please stop posting full articles on Beehaw. It opens the site to copyright liability. Excerpts are fine, falling under fair use, but the point of a functional news-aggregation site is to drive views on publishers’ sites so that they continue producing the content being shared.

Let’s be reasonable here … they aren’t running out of options; they’re running out of monetizable options by hosting a centralized repository. Patreon is still an option, as are many others geared toward individual creators.

I shot a fair amount of porn of my then-wife starting in 2010 – predating OnlyFans – and the monetization options were so terrible (she categorically refused to hand over a 40% commission on principle) that we just posted to FetLife for free. Payment processors hold far too much power, essentially being extragovernmental censors

It’s obviously technically possible by going double-sided, but the cooling again becomes an issue.

All these damn website changes. Last week, the camera spex were in Ohms.