I’m in the US. Reservations opened at 12pm May 8th, I queued up by 12:01, got my link to purchase last Thursday with the controller arriving a few days ago. Based on that and considering there were likely a lot of reservations placed over those two days, my gut says that you might be waiting a while, unfortunately.

They did straight up say 10 minutes as well. Sometimes it’s good to take your time.

The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.

My understanding is that the reason the brain gets rotted by AI is because you do less thinking per question/problem, leading to your mind thinking less in general and getting used to that. So the solution should be to get your brain thinking more to readjust back to where it was (and beyond!).

A day or two ago in another thread someone posted these two daily brain teaser websites:

https://cluesbysam.com/

https://www.minutecryptic.com/

You could try replacing some time spent scrolling each day with solving these. Minutecryptic especially is requiring me to flex my mind in new ways.

Depends how many beers you’re drinking in those three hours. Three to five, that might be okay if you’re not drinking the rest of the week and keep your vitamin levels up. In my drinking days I could easily put away eight or more in that time though, and that is excessive to a damaging degree if done weekly. Maybe you used the term “to excess” more as a stylistic flair to an internet comment, but it draws to my mind the latter scenario more than the former. I do think it’s very interesting that you gave a time frame instead of a drink count, which is the more typical measure of how much one drinks.

I’m the exact opposite. I’m okay with knife wounds, they get my adrenaline pumping but it’s a problem to be solved, so whatever stress it brings can only be focused into taking the steps to solve it. But needles are way more subtle, the concept of this thin little thing slipping between skin to sneak stuff into the body or pull blood out, leaving barely a trace that anything changed. Logically I know they’re great, and I’m very pro-vaccination (ironically part of my job is importing vaccination records for a school district for nurses to track) but the subconscious part of my brain cannot handle it. Needles just give me the heebie jeebies. I’ve been squirming nonstop the entire time writing this.

In college my job was making pizzas. Late one Saturday night I got a call for a carryout order. As I handed the guy his food later he told me I have a voice for radio, which is a lot nicer to say than having a face for radio.

This prompted me to relisten to the If Books Could Kill episode about a biography of Bankman-Fried. It’s comical how over confident and under competent this guy appears to be.

What’s green, fuzzy, and can kill you if it falls out of a tree?

A pool table.

I feel enlightened having learned a new word, koan, today!

That’s true, I just didn’t want to overcomplicate my explanation with something that’s a little more difficult to calculate than physical healthcare saved.

You may think it’s pronounced IFUKU like the car brand Isuzu, but it’s not!

Why is your post title about the economic implications of teleportation, but the post body is about the scientific feasibility of traveling the speed of light? Lightspeed is slower than teleportation, so you can’t use it to discuss the implications of teleportation (imagine teleporting 4 lightyears away instantly vs spending 4 years traveling at the speed of light). Discussing the economic implications of teleportation needs to assume that viable teleportation is possible for the discussion to happen at all, so the feasibility of any other method of transportation isn’t relevant.

Typically when a government program talks about returns on dollars spent it’s not so much about the profitability (government walking away with more dollars than they put in) as much as community benefits that lead to cost savings within the greater economy. In this case the return is in health cost savings, as parks are a place community members can go to exercise for free, directly improving their physical health and therefore reducing their need for healthcare, saving money spent on healthcare for the community as a whole.

I’ve not played it myself, but one of my favorite youtubers/podcasters (Leo Vader for the curious) is a Hitman sicko and I’ve listened to him talk about it and watched him play a little.

It’s a more action-oriented Hitman game that, like Hitman, still makes heavy use of environmental gameplay like picking up a brick/bottle to chuck at an enemy or oil barrels you can spill to make enemies slip.

If you’ve played the modern Hitman games and only gone through each mission once, there’s probably not enough in 007 to justify the full price, but if you replayed each Hitman mission to try out different approaches there’s a lot of that kind of replayability in 007. He had spent several hours replaying the first few levels just attempting a bunch of different challenges the game offered.

“I’m a fan of Japanese food, sushi specifically.”

“I’m a fan of gaming, Overwatch specifically.”

What’s the problem? My dad was a gamer when I was a kid watching him play Gamecube, and he was still a gamer the way he kept on top of Candy Crush and My Singing Monsters as new content was added when I was in high school.

Would you consider someone who exclusively plays Hearts of Iron IV for hours each week a gamer, even though they’re not playing lots of games?

What you’re describing I might call a hardcore gamer, but I think if someone feels gaming of some sort is a part of their identity enough to call themself a gamer, I’m fine with calling them one. It’s just too difficult to pin down one common definition that everyone can agree on for me to do otherwise.

Maybe you could call them a mainstream gamer, but Marvel Rivals and extraction shooters are not fake games, so I don’t know that the people who play them should be called fake gamers.

It could be worse. I knew flamenco means flamingo and that there’s a Spanish dance called the flamenco, but never made the connection that there could be Spanish flamingos until now.

That’s fair. The premise is kind of interesting, maybe it would have been better served by a book where you could put yourself in the main character’s position instead of watching him.

Mercy is the name of the movie. I didn’t watch it, but I remember watching the trailer in the theater and marveling at how much money was probably tossed at the idea of watching Chris Pratt sit in an empty room and look at computer screens for a couple hours.