Besides being painted in reflective road paint, which these ones are, what else would cause a pedestrian to be run over?

As long as it looks like a crosswalk, and drivers can see it, I’m not sure what else you would need.

Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.

Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.

The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.

If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?

Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It’s not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.

Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today’s society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.

On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone’s status is going to get punished.

So it’s not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.

WD-40 is mostly solvents with a bit of oil. It’s not meant as a long-term lubricant.

Genocide is ok, as long as no Christians are hurt.

Arguably the best episode in the entire Simpsons catalogue.

The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.

For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.

Game testing is a shit job. It’s incredibly tedious and the pay sucks.

If your goal is to work in game design and you want to use that as a way to get your foot in the door, that’s one thing. But the career of game testing is much less interesting than gamers might expect.

At first you think ok, Calvin is now bored. But then you can interpret it as a moment of silence while Dad ponders tossing Calvin in.

One state down, 49 to go!

e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location

Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.

I watched a stream of this last night. Some of the mechanics seemed neat, but there was nothing there that made me want to play it. It seemed a little too easy to be any real fun. We’re talking boss fights that are over in 15 seconds. You can just mash the punch button and tank any hits coming at you, and basically can’t lose.

The destructible environments are an interesting concept, but it looked ike a patchwork of testing levels that were ok’ed and slightly upgraded visually.

The chat kept calling it a baby game over and over, and I pretty much agreed with the assessment. From what I saw, it definitely wouldn’t be a game for me, but a 7 year old would probably have fun.

Not enough resources exist currently that are accessible to us, and not enough money exists to pay workers to get the job done.

But pain au chocolat could describe any type of chocolate bread, like a babka, but chocolatine is a name specific to one type of pastry.

Isn’t gold basically at the highest it’s ever been, even in relation to USD?

The gold standard is about basing the value of the dollar on the amount printed/minted vs the amount of gold the government physically controls.

If someone makes a 3d-printed ghost gun, they can destroy the gun beyond any chance at recognition by tossing it into a fire.

Well the US is holding a lot of gold. Most of it for other countries…

Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.