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KON_Air
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KON_Air
9y ago
I every time I heard about EvE the image of it being "a mass of bickering old couples locked inside a large room with alliances forming and dissolving constantly" strengthens.
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9y ago
But it was almost slow enough to not explode.
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KON_Air
9y ago
April 2015; this one looks good enough... then it explodes too.
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KON_Air
9y ago
That and the speck of dust is not really doing much work.
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KON_Air
9y ago
Remove them too.
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KON_Air
9y ago
What if you make it work and there is no more Combine to take it from you?
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KON_Air
9y ago
And there are infinite ways it could be much better then sucidie bombing a Dyson shpere for no effect.
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KON_Air
9y ago
TL:DR; Alyx ruins humanities only chance to one up Combine with time travel and buggers off with G-Man.
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9y ago
They are all "business" in the end after all, I'll stick with the tiny nuance that "startup funding" became a more PR friendly replacement for "unicorn hunt". Not that there is anything wrong with it, but
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9y ago
I'd pin it all on the marketplace starting horrible, being horrible for a long time and somehow managing to be come even more horrible after its figurative-death with xbox thing tacked on.
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KON_Air
9y ago
All word processors should change their default font every at major version so we can have #fontgates more often.
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9y ago
it is a _ favourite belittling expletive goes here _ urinal there are millions of it.
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KON_Air
9y ago
Amazing thing is it is still there, did not cause months long arbitrations, several bannings and enough drama to last five seasons of a soap opera.
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KON_Air
9y ago
Andromeda Strain!
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KON_Air
9y ago
This and the article has to be the only interesting things about those toys.
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KON_Air
9y ago
I'm Turk and living in Turkey and I can't name single positive thing about "that guy" or political islam in general.
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KON_Air
10y ago
Of course there is always that but I think the necessity of a "at least one free trade zone even with free in quotation marks" will always outweight petty rivalry.
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KON_Air
10y ago
Well, given Shenzens whole shtick since its inception is just that I'm pretty optimistic about its "freedom".
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KON_Air
10y ago
Well, I find it hard to appreciate an article I can't read.
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KON_Air
10y ago
That depends on purpose, sure, they are fantastic for "catch the moment" but there is nothing else going on for them about photography (video is a different story, at least from what I hear). On the otherhand yeah, phone cameras g
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10y ago
It is almost as if tools themselves don't do the work on their own.
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KON_Air
10y ago
But that's a stop gap measure at best, sure until the "personal calibrations" can be done programmatically. It would be a neat thing.
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10y ago
White things on white background, supported by shopify... sublime.
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KON_Air
10y ago
Make the plotter(?) programmable via an internets app and find a way to "reset the sand without making everything on it shake" and I'll buy three of those.
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KON_Air
10y ago
Wouldn't a ballista with hollow projectile filled with the stuff work better and be mobile or should I stop giving them ideas?
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KON_Air
10y ago
As long as the container holds. It is not like they are launching the whole lab and staff with it.
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10y ago
I was pointing at HL2. As far as I can remember HL1 had like 2 or 3 lock in sequences (besides the loooong intro), while HL2 stops everything whenever someone talks and episodes have sequences that even lock the camera. Yeah, HL1 was was re
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10y ago
Interactivity, yes. Action, no. Getting locked inside a room or waiting for a progress blocker to be done with is hardly "keeping the action".
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10y ago
While I agree, anthropomorphizing is still a problem when it comes to relations with animals. I mean we are a wee bit special and we tend to expect too much from other animals. They really are simplier beasts in comparison. But then again s
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10y ago
Nobody even remembers Sonique...
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