My argument is that that is not the case.

There are many systems in nature that have randomness fundamentally built in. You can model the broad strokes, but the low level details are inherently unpredictable because random processes are involved at the low level. You can predict the general pattern of airflow over a jet wing, but it’s not a lack of input resolution that makes it impossible to project the path of a specific molecule.

I’m not convinced you can ever get that resolution. There’s a big difference between modeling the broad trends and trying to remove the uncertainty from a process that’s inherently probabilistic.

Still waiting on the Secret Projects I ordered a week before that though lol.

There is no actual logic to having time windows to access confiscated devices that are not ever going to be returned. Anything that’s not technology is completely unaffected by that silliness.

There’s no world where a legally confiscated physical object is held to the same standard.

I don’t see the issue here.

The seizure of the devices happened with appropriate warrants, the actual search was done with appropriate warrants, there’s apparently some weird time limit on the search warrant on a seized device, and some of the maintenance involved took place outside that weird time restriction.

The actual hacking of the device and the actual search of the contents of the device were with a warrant.

What they did was perfect, and there’s no way they could have just added stuff and had it be the show it was. They stuck to the vision and nailed the fuck out of it.

But I could also sit and watch a lot of episodes of reboots 2-5000 or whatever. The chemistry of that cast playing those characters with that writing was all magic.

People are spending hours on the phone to get basic support or cancel their internet because they just enjoy the interaction so much.

So what they actually did was basically flawless from start to finish.

But give me 100 more episodes of the Good Place anyways.

I can’t comment on “space fantasy” specifically, but I like when fantasy builds complex science and engineering on top of their magic. The magic in something like the Stormlight Archive is compelling in its own right, but it’s massively enhanced by seeing how the ancient civilizations leveraged it to build advanced societies, and how they invent new things using the lower level tools over the course of the story.

Read about a book and a half more of Red Rising. Something about it makes me want to take breaks, even though I do want to see the story play out. I’m not sure if it’s his writing style or the narrator, but it seems I need to read it one book at a time, which isn’t my norm.

Still reading Shaye Archer book 3 on ebook, started Altered Traits as a physical book after reorganizing my bookshelves (because of the buying spree I’m hopefully almost done with? Maybe I’ll share a new picture of the silliness once all my outstanding orders get here), decided to go back and do some lighter reads as audiobooks and am up to C is for Corpse in Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Milhone series. I’ve read some in the past, but will probably just bust them out until Wind and Truth comes.

A 5% refund?

That’s almost more disrespectful than nothing.

lol I have to go back to the bank (when there’s a manager, because there wasn’t last time🤦‍♀️), to turn online banking back on for my account.

It got turned off because I didn’t pick up some spam call they made.

It’s not odd. If that’s who you interact with, that’s who you’ll be friends with.

Age is a number, and friendship with someone with life experience isn’t going to hurt anyone.

There’s way too much time between the start of the slide and the hit.

Functionally any forcible contact on a sliding QB is a personal foul. If you push him down hard with your arms after a slide, that’s a penalty, and an offensive player is going to get in your face bare minimum. The ball is stopped, and further contact is illegal, as soon as he starts the slide. That’s the play over. That impact was helmet to helmet several steps after the play was over.

You know he’s responding to a dude knocking his QB out with a headshot after the play was over, right?

Getting pushed is automatic.

It’s not the ratio.

Gamepass’s entire library of “not dogshit”, cumulatively, isn’t worth a year of the subscription to actually own. They don’t publish a meaningful number of games worth playing if they were free, and you can count the indie games (which are cheap to actually own anyways) that are actually good on your hands.

every single new game

Their catalogue is dogshit and has a very small selection of games that are even worth considering on a steep discount.

It is. His point is you can replicate the gooey texture with a cheese that’s actually edible with almost zero effort, though.

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It’s an incredibly far cry from the “all” he mentioned, and it isn’t close to the best or most desirable.

I’m well aware of what it has available, and it’s genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.