It could just be a difference of the liquor, or color balance in the photo, but I think that first picture might be an Old Fashioned rather than just bourbon. It has that sort of reddish-purple tinge to it that you get from angostura bitters.
It could just be a difference of the liquor, or color balance in the photo, but I think that first picture might be an Old Fashioned rather than just bourbon. It has that sort of reddish-purple tinge to it that you get from angostura bitters.
There’s a running gag in archaeology that variations on “ritual purposes” actually means “I have no idea what this was for”.
That said, there has historically been a connection between certain divination practices and games of chance, so this could easily be both.
Tuesday and Friday are named for Tyr and Frigg, respectively.
That’s not the half of it:
Shit in, shit out. That’s AI.
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864
Finally, a worthy sequel to 5nowdog5.
Off-topic, but, if that’s a real cake and the image goes all the way around, that’s actually kind of impressive.
Don’t dumb down the gameplay systems
Bethesda design challenge: impossible.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
It’s guns all the way down.
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Well, it is where everybody gets off…
As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.
“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.
Technically, what he’s doing is election fraud.
Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.
What’s even going on in #19? I see lemon wedges, what looks like okra, maybe, and then…raw ground beef? Surely that can’t be right.
Then you get things like GTA or Saints Row, where whether I want to be using kb+m or controller changes based on whether I’m driving or on foot.
I’ve long thought that the ideal control scheme would somehow incorporate both a mouse for camera control, the sheer number of buttons you get from having your off-hand on a keyboard, and also analog inputs for things like movement/steering and vehicle throttle.