That’s actually a great subject for an XKCD What If - What if all of the CO2 was suddenly removed from the atmosphere, all at once?

There’s a number of apps that actually help with this; I used to use SleepCycle, not sure if that one’s still good. Basically, you set up the app and tell it how long you want to sleep, then set the phone on the side of the bed. It uses the accelerometer to detect when you fall asleep, and how deeply you’re sleeping (there’s some that use fitness bands or other monitoring tools, if you use them), and will wake you up close to your desired wake time, when you’re in light sleep / between REM cycles. For instance, if you set the alarm for 2 hours, it might wake you up after 1 hr 45 minutes, if that’s when you’re sleeping lightly, rather than wait the full 2 hours and wake you up in the middle of a deep sleep.

The end result is that you don’t get those times when your alarm goes off and you feel awful, as that’s typically caused by an interrupted REM cycle.

YMMV, but they work fantastically for me.

That one really baffles me. Prey 2017 would have been right up my alley, but I completely ignored it because I didn’t like Prey 2006. By the time I discovered that it was a game I’d have been interested in, I picked it up on sale for $10 or so. I wonder how many other people had similar experiences.

I love the callout that the story was delivered via text logs, as if voice acting was typically present in anything except FMV-based games in that time period. “Bog standard FPS” is a really funky term for an era when there were only really a few well-known FPS games out there at all.

You’ve got to remember that Marathon 1 was released in 1994, the same year Doom II was released. What else was there at that point? You really had Doom, Marathon, Pathways Into Darkness (also a Bungie title and only sort of an FPS at all), Wolfenstein 3D, System Shock, Hexen / Heretic, and some really niche ones that most people had never even heard of at the time, never mind now.

Could it be that people just don’t want yet another fairly generic live service PvP extraction shooter? No, can’t be.

Man, I’d forgotten how utterly baller that theme is.

Marathon 2 (1995) let you go underwater.

That’s no planet. It’s a space station.

No, because the title has absolutely nothing to do with any of the content in the article.

What the title is trying to convey, I believe, is the installation of benches that are designated for people who are interested in conversation with strangers, to help people connect in an environment where typically folks would keep to themselves.

Here’s a different article (from 2021) talking about something similar.

The article is about AR glasses.

TierZoo vibes.

The same could be said for any form of communication, really.

I remember when phones used to be good. Now it’s all

• We have important information about your car’s warranty.
• Here’s information on new solar panel installation that doesn’t work with your home / location.
• You’ve been selected to answer a quick 15 question survey.

I remember when mail used to be good. Now it’s all

• I’m a disgraced Nigerian prince and I need your help to protect my multi-million dollar fortune.
• Here’s all the important sales WalMart is having this week! Don’t miss out!
• Here’s your electricity bill that you’re enrolled in auto-pay for. No action is needed on your part, but we’re sending you this 12-page summary anyway.

I have exactly this problem. It’s also very difficult when watching a movie adaptation of a book I’ve read, to associate the character from the book with the actor in the movie. When I read, they’re just a name.

Agreed on this. They’re just so good at making new interesting things that it feels like a bit of a shame to waste time on sequels. I even really enjoyed Pyre, despite it being generally considered the weakest of their games; it was such an interesting setting and premise.

Bastion and Transistor both had very satisfying conclusions to their stories and revisiting either doesn’t feel necessary.

Maybe it’s a magnetic field or some such that reflects the attack, but it’s powered by a capacitor and discharges as soon as you raise the shield. Best explanation I’ve got.

The fact that executions are popular enough that they need to specify ‘front row’ is pretty fucked up. I’ve never lived in a state that does this; are these actually people who have some connection to the event, or is it just random people who decided they wanted to see someone die?

There really is always a relevant XKCD.

It’s fun to imagine a self-driving car somewhere basing its decisions on the results of those captchas. “Come on, someone tell me where the traffic light is, I really need to know, like, now, this is important, hurry up!”

I didn’t say that the overall review is ‘mostly negative’, to be clear; I said that almost all of the (many) negative reviews that exist seem to be talking about the failure to live up to remnant 1.

Thanks for the detailed review; it’s helpful to have a nice comparison between the two. I did enjoy Remnant 1 quite a bit. Would you say the DLC you played is worth buying even considering the generally mixed reviews?

I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.

Can you elaborate? Specifically because almost all of the negative Steam reviews, of which there are many, say more or less the opposite - that it tries to do that, but fails to capture what made Remnant so good.

(Not to criticize your opinion, to be clear; it’s on sale and I was strongly considering it as someone who likes Remnant. Sell it for me?)