I think the problem is not the crime he is accused of but the fact that he has outstanding arrest warrants he is hiding from. It would be awkward if all the kids gather for a tournament and as the judge is explaining game rules cops burst in and drag him away.

You still need someone to organize the tournament and generate pairings. You need someone who knows the rules about how to handle game glitches and know how to recognize if someone is triggering a glitch intentionally. The judge also needs to monitor player behavior outside of the game (When does a player celebration cross into taunting? When does a player reaction count as violent or threatening?)

For example this disqualification for shaking the game table: https://aftermath.site/pokemon-go-firestar73-disqualified-statement-community-outrage/

From the one law class I took in college, civil courts are for one person to get reputations from another. Criminal courts are for society to get respirations from a person. A criminal fine is about paying back society because your lack of following the law is making people around you feel unsafe.

The victim of your crime can sue you independently and get additional money from you. I believe they can even use the evidence from the criminal trial and a civil trial is much easier to win.

The VR industry.

Where did you see that first reply?

Disclaimer: I have not played the game or read the rules, so I am speaking based on what I have heard from reviewers.

The game is single use. You read story cards and stick more and more stickers to the board until you have read every story card in the game.

If you are curious about what would have happened if you took the other option on story card decisions, you can flip the board and replay the campaign always doing the opposite of what you did in your first playthrough (you have to do the opposite, since the game does not come with enough stickers to take the same decision twice).

Once you have played through the campaign twice, you should have experienced most of the possible game story.

Handheld computers are competition to the PlayStation in the sense that Sony would want everyone who owns one to buy a PS5 instead but not in the sense that those consumers having an option is hurting sales significantly. I could not find actual numbers, but analysts seem to be estimating that Valve has sold about 6 million Steam Decks in total. For comparison, Sony sold 1.5 million PS5s last quarter, which is devastating since they sold 2.8 million the year before.

Also, that sales gap is going to get worse in the short term. Instead of raising Steam Deck prices or reducing profit margins, Valve has decided to stop selling systems until RAM prices come back down.

Good riddance. I don’t think I have ever seen a positive news article about him as a person. As a coach, his career highlights seem to be developing Gianis and Luka but never having much team success. I am not saying team owners are overtly racist, but I wonder if he would have had as many coaching opportunities if he was black.

Bink from the Xanth novels. He is a magician who jahcndustbdrmicyd vjsybfkauchd auchwnzkhfmaicybfkaubd w

Also, I am pretty sure he becomes the King of Xanth in one of the later books.

It is like saying you like stakes but only like certain cuts of meat and will not eat rotten meat.

Commercially grown strawberries sold in stores are grown for volume and having a (barely) edible taste. About 1 package in 10 is at peak ripeness and even then only half of them are good.

Picking ripe strawberries from a bush, just about all of them are great. Those berries only grow to a quarter size of what you see in the store and it is a struggle to get them ripe before animals destroy them, so I can see why they are never in stores.

It depends on the fish. Growing up, my mom would buy very cheap white fish and fry it in a ton of oil, so I always assumed I just hated fish. As an adult I have been able to try lots of other fish dishes and enjoyed just about all of them.

Job searches benefit from understanding industry specific synonyms and reading between the lines. That should be something a large language model could be good at.

For example, if I am searching for “senior front end web developer”, it may return a listing for “experienced software engineer” because it lists “5-7 years experience with JavaScript”. It could also list adjacent fields the user may want to consider like Project Management or being a Technical Account Manager for the right type of company.

Also, the risk of AI slop is fairly harmless. If done right, the AI should not be hallucinating job listings. At worst, it can show irrelevant listings while hiding good ones, but that is always a risk with search engines. The developers can mitigate this by mixing results from both the AI and conventional search engine and let the user provide feedback if a listing is relevant or not.

Ouch. My company was just about to start moving over to GitLab off of Atlassian.

The truth is; a lot of us feel like we need more internet accounts about as much as we need genital warts.

You are confusing decentralized and fragmented (or self hosted). The promise of fragmented software (like Lemmy) is that there are many instances but an agreed upon protocol. You create one account on one site and then use it to pull and push data to any other site that uses the same communication protocol. Like you and I for example. You created an account on lemmy.zip, I created one on lemmy.world, and we are both discussing a post created by a user on lemmy.nocturnal.garden (an instance I have never heard of).

One of my irritations is that we do not have good language to talk about non-binary people.

For example, instead of a brother or sister, you talk about a “sibling”. It just sounds so impersonal. Instead of saying something that shows your love for a family member while acknowledging the fact that the person does not cleanly fit into either of the gender boxes, it sounds like gender erasure. Like the person is too concerned with social pressure to refer to their relative by an incorrect gender but too proud to use the correct gender. Or maybe it is similar to a gay person talking about his “partner” to leave a little bit of ambiguity about his sexuality.

I am not saying that people should hide their gender identity, just that the English speaking community needs to find better terminology to use when talking about them.

3 is a tab width compromise. It is wider than 2 but not as wide as 4. No one is happy but not as unhappy as they would be at their less preferred extreme.

You missed the joke. Obviously, a man is only going to have 0 or (rarely) 1 woman interested in him, but the woman is assuming that he is talking to many women, which is physically impossible.

I hate when grocery stores collect food for a food bank.

The store makes a profit from me buying food to donate and they get a positive press release when they donate the food.

What discount? Every contractor I have hired quoted me the cash price, though they will accept a credit card via a service that makes me pay the credit card fee (and then some).

With prescriptions, it is not about what the customer wants, it is about what brands the insurance wants to cover (and getting a doctor that does not write a brand specific prescription). If an insurance company only covers a weird brand of a common (but expensive) medicine, the customer either has to hunt for a pharmacy that has it in stock, wait for their local pharmacy to order it (in either case delaying when the insurance company has to pay for it), or buy the in-stock brand without any insurance coverage. The insurance can still claim they cover the drug while paying less for it.

At one point, I was on a medicine that had a very high co-pay for the brand name and would not cover the generic. It was so high that it was cheaper for me to buy the generic uninsured instead of paying the co-pay.