valaramech

Speaking of sea urchins, I learned a while ago they like to wear shells and such like little hats to protect them from the sun. It’s adorable.

Also, an aquarium 3D printed some hats for their urchins. It’s pretty great.

Getting repeatedly beaten in competitive multiplayer games is just kinda par for the course if you haven’t learned the meta, strategies, etc. If you lack game knowledge and your opponents have that game knowledge, you will mostly lose.

If winning in the game is the only way you find enjoyment in them, then those kinds of games require significant investments of time and energy to “git good”.

I say this as someone who is repeatedly shit on in every game of CoD I’ve ever played and will play in the future. That said, I don’t gain particular enjoyment from winning alone - not that it isn’t fun to win, just that I get just as much enjoyment from other aspects of the game.

It sounds to me, mostly, that these games just don’t really appeal to your idea of what’s fun.

If you really want to make everyone mad, it’s not “gif” or “jif” it’s “jyfe”

Parade raining time: https://feddit.de/comment/3373323

1. I believe flags are sorted alphabetically by how they are internally represented. All flags are a combination of two special letter-symbols. For the UK flag, these two symbols are “GB”, therefore the UK flag should be much earlier.
2. 🇺🇸 (Flag of the USA [code: US]) ≠ 🇺🇲 (Flag of the US Outlying Islands [code: UM])

Yes, the first US flag, which most people pick, is actually the flag of the US Outlying Islands. Whenever you see someone use the US flag emoji, check whether they accidentally used the " wrong" one.

Yes, that is how it works. Lockheed Martin isn’t a governmental body within the United States and is not bound by our Constitution in any way.

Regardless of our opinions on the matter, those are both private companies with their own rights that are not bound like a government under our current laws. People forget that because “corporations are people” they also get Constitutional protections. Our rights end where their rights start and vice versa.

Tourists have been carving their names into shit for - and I’m not exaggerating here - thousands of years. I"m having a hard time finding evidence for this now, what with most of my searching only returning content for this particular modern incident, but I swear I’ve seen documentaries where they show ancient people doing, essentially, the same thing.

It’s far more likely that Google, AWS, and Microsoft are using tape for high-volume, long-term storage.

According to diskprices.com, these are the approximate cost of a few different storage media (assuming one is attempting to optimize for cost):

• Tape $0.004 - $0.006 / GB
• HDD $0.009 - $0.012 / GB
• BluRay $0.02 - $0.04 / GB
• SSD $0.035 - $0.04 / GB
• microSD $0.065 - $0.075 / GB

Potentially unpopular opinion, I like running into random other players in the world, particularly when doing events. I don’t give a fuck about Blizzard’s cosmetics and, frankly, unless I’m examining people, I can’t even tell what they’re wearing half the time.