OpenMW has been fully playable for years

Not going to create an account, so I can’t view the column.

To anyone wondering, I think the answer should be “Tell everyone it’s a potluck and assign them various dishes”.

The Elon-oi.

I’d be OK if my descendents got to eat them.

Not just blocking new marker changes. This paves the way to revoking any previously changed passport markers as well. Fuck.

It looks like the evolutionary advantage is still debated. There’s a newer hyopethsis that, because psilocybin evolved during a period of heightened gastropod diversity, it could be defence against snails.

Reminds me a bit of a previous campaign (not DnD). We (the party) spent so much time and attention murdering and threatening our way into a coup against the sickly King that we stopped paying attention to anyone else in the story.

Then in our campaign finale, we flub every single roll to execute the coup, and our whole plan gets hijacked by a more competent NPC to seize power for herself. Queue TPK* while we all get hunted down as traitors.

* Except for the party poisoner. He was happy to spend his life in prison so long as the new government let him brew poisons for use against enemies of the state.

Even if androids could safely navigate and share a space with humans, I’d still not want to risk a 2m tall, several hundred kilo machine tripping over my pet.

I got a mixture called “Butcher block conditioner” for food-safe surfaces, and another called “Feed-n-wax” for surfaces that don’t touch food.

No, morse requires a short gap between letters. For example, it would be impossible to tell the difference between -- (the letter m) and - - (the letter t, twice). Then there is a slightly longer gap to delineate the space between words.

When I was a student, my school had analog clocks that were synced via some electric system.

My only counterpoint to the “suicide booth” argument is that people have some semblance of consciousness during transport.

It was a TNG episode where we learn that Barkley is able to see an energy monster during transport. If he was totally ripped apart and “dead” then I’d expect there to be a blank part of his memory during the moments the body is turned to energy.

Enough ghost stories! They should open the sarcophagus immediately if there is any chance that it could save Grendel.

I’m sure the construction of towers is different from chimney stacks, but Fred Dibnah did it with a bunch of firewood and some shovels.

https://youtu.be/0L1WOnR2KBY

TempleOS was written mostly in HolyC, not assembly.

Hey, not everyone was born to be a king.

You should! Quick calculator check suggests a moxon in the 900MHz band could be as small as 12x5cm. Very stealthy.

You inspired me to test on 6m. Not a good match at all (SWR 40+). Gonna explore more, but from what I read about moxons on Wikipedia, they don’t lend themselves well to multi-band operations. I guess the measurements can be very band-specific.

Honestly, my plan is to use it as a minor propaganda tool: Call up a local ham friend for a “radio check”, and “just happen” to mention that there’s a protest going on and nobody is being aggressive, etc. I hear way too many maga guys on the airwaves, I want to do what I can to counter it.

Plus, if the cops do get violent, there’s no downside to having a communication tool that doesn’t rely on big tech or cell phones. One more way to get the word out.

Of course, something like this could be adapted for tools like meshtastic, or used with digital modes in order to coordinate a group.

I think it’s called Shobie Story. It’s part of Fisherman on an Inland Sea.

I enjoyed reading Ursula Le Guin’s stories about instantaneous travel.

The process of instantaneous travel is so bizarre and unexplainable that every crew member experiences it differently. Some people think they haven’t gone anywhere, some people think they’re on the other side of the universe, and some people think the ship has disintegrated around them.

The only way for the process to succeed is for the entire crew to agree on a shared reality. It has the effect of making FTL travel a dangerous thing that requires training and planning. You can’t hop on a ship with random people and expect to survive. Everyone has to train together to really trust each other’s perception and experiences.