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by jghn 2y ago
> do nothing but describe America as a hellscape online To be fair, the largest news network in the US spends a lot of time doing the exact same thing
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by jghn 2y ago
Yeah, I did go down that rabbit hole several years ago. It is what it is. One big part of it for me are the graphics. If the graphics/UI aren't kind of shitty, it's not going to "feel like Rogue" to me. I don't
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by jghn 2y ago
I did see that Epyx Rogue is available on Switch as a port from an Amiga version, but it's not without UI bugs [1]. Also previously when I mentioned Wiz 1 I'd forgotten the Switch was part of the sub-thread, it's available on
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by jghn 2y ago
My biggest beef with modern roguelikes, including everything you mentioned, is almost none of them make me think, "Wow, this feels like rogue to me". Which is not to say that I don't like some of them, but I like them for com
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by jghn 2y ago
I do not have this problem where I live in the US. Perhaps the issue is that specialists don't want to live where you are?
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by jghn 2y ago
Also a lot of our terrorist attacks aren't described as such by the media. it seems you're not a terrorist if you're a white US citizen.
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by jghn 2y ago
Locally they're required to either not recirculate water or to chlorinate the water a la a pool. Most localities do the former.
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by jghn 2y ago
> the many decades-long standard of 15% tips The 15% standard supplanted the previous 10% standard somewhere in the 1970s and lasted to the early/mid-aughts depending on where in the US one lived. I don't agree that ~30 years i
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by jghn 2y ago
The argument, which one can choose to agree with or not, is that this allows them to scale BOH pay with how busy the night is. That's similar to how tipping works for FOH staff, but at least in my state BOH staff are not allowed to sha
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by jghn 2y ago
autograts for large parties are done because large parties tend to be poor tippers vs normal sized parties for various reasons.
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by jghn 2y ago
To be fair, by "more than once" I meant 2-3 times, not a regular occurrence. :) The last time it happened was ~300 + 20% service charge + a tip that'd have been in the low-mid 20's. That works out to be a bit under $100.
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by jghn 2y ago
> It's standard to tip 15% for decent service in a restaurant This is not true, and hasn't been for some time [1] [1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-reported-tip-rat...
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by jghn 2y ago
When this started showing up near me the places that did it trained their staff to tell you up front that it was on there. They'd make a comment that you can add extra if you wish, but no obligation to do so. Over time I've found
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by jghn 2y ago
Quite possible. To loop back to my first post, my point was I could have sworn there were at least strong implications at times that it was male-coded, although without gender. But perhaps it is just my own personal mandela effect. What I
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by jghn 2y ago
It's entirely possible that there's never any point where "observed gender" is even implied and my mind just filled in some blanks when it talks about passing for human. To be honest I never gave it an ounce of thought b
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by jghn 2y ago
Yes, I was surprised by all the people here who had a female mental picture for this reason. While obviously it is genderless, my recollection was that there were plenty of times where the narrative had it passing as male.
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by jghn 2y ago
> It is just hard to comprehend all the communication pathways and what happens in the system. Having worked on large scale actor-based systems before, I'll attest this is quite true. However, what often gets lost in these conversat
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by jghn 2y ago
I found the Westfield Seek-No-Further [1] this year and it's become my new favorite. [1] https://www.scottfarmvermont.com/westfield-seeknofurther
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by jghn 2y ago
I get what you're saying. But as the person directly involved, and as someone who has managed people over the years since, believe me when I say that the fault was my own.
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by jghn 2y ago
As someone who has been in that situation, it's better than "your performance is shit, you're fired". In my case a large part of the problem was that I was not picking up on what should have been obvious cues. This provi
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by jghn 2y ago
I too was put on a PIP early in my career, and worked my way out of it. It was fine. That said, I agree with the general sentiment that much more often than not the employer is not acting in good faith. Over the decades I've seen way t
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by jghn 2y ago
> Didn’t even have to open the link to know it was Author and Punisher. Had exactly the same reaction
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by jghn 2y ago
Also there's no planet where his music is "industrial metal". Could see him getting lumped in with the Power Electronics genre though.
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by jghn 2y ago
> On phpbb forums It wasn't a phpbb thing, it's a size thing. It was basically every message board style format for all time before that too. Including any usenet group that was under a certain size, which was most of them.
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by jghn 2y ago
> It can vary even within the same county. I went to a mennonite wedding once several years ago. One thing that I had no appreciation for before that was how splintered the overall community was. LOTS of tiny little "denominations&q
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by jghn 2y ago
This is exactly what I thought of when I saw the headline!
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by jghn 2y ago
Fair. I almost always refuse to click on videos in twitter-like sites, so wouldn't have noticed this. I (usually) hate video content, especially the massive shift towards video content in our media sources.
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by jghn 2y ago
> It's not just that X/Twitter shows you politics whether you want it or not But this is not true. I always use my "following" feed and not my "for you" feed. Other than sponsored ads the only thing I see ar
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by jghn 2y ago
But not really. I only ever want to see people I follow in my feed. And I can follow people from wherever, not just my instance. So the decision of what instance I chose was inconsequential.
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by jghn 2y ago
This is what I want. I basically never want a starter pack for its intended usage: I'll never just click a button and inherit a ton of follows. But I'm interested in following the graph of connections. If I like Person A, and they

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