Comparisons between where people "socially distanced" and where there are food deserts that require travelling for food. Excepting some outliers, pretty strong correlation. I live in a major city in Georgia (not Atlanta). The nearest Wal-Mart is a 12 mile drive, and I have one Food Lion between me and it. If I order curbside pickup groceries from Wal-Mart, I come into contact with the person delivering my food and that's it. The absolute minimal exposure without ordering delivery (which most apps don't deliver where I live specifically). But I also just contributed 24 miles to this graph. If I go across the street and interact with dozens of people, spending a half an hour in FL, I contributed nothing. I also see the county where I grew up in Tennessee, where half the population lives outside the small town and their weekly trip to the grocery store is a minimum of 15 miles. They will never be under an average of 2 miles, but they were already using the best practice of minimizing the number of trips out due to the necessity of it. Don't get me wrong, the Southeast is long overdue for Shelter-in-Place orders and to do something to get people to take this seriously. The Governor of Georgia claims he just learned about asymptomatic spread 2 days ago. Florida's Governor still refuses to shut churches down, despite being a massive nexus for infection. The biggest cities in GA, FL, and LA really have the potential to get bad and officials in charge have done nothing to slow the spread or reinforce the medical system, even as people watch New York and Italy. Really hope the theory that the virus slows in warm weather is true, it might save a lot of people down here if it is.
Game Gear and Sega Nomad. Game Gear had a more advanced screen and color options than the Gameboy Color 8 years prior (1990 vs. 1998), a backlight 13 years prior to the GBA SP (2003), and the landscape form factor that nearly every system since the GBA has used. It even had a TV Tuner attachment, and an adapter to play Master System games. It also eats 6 batteries in about 2 hours, actually rendering some longer games nearly unbeatable, as well as requiring a bag to carry around, whereas Gameboys fit in large pockets. The Game Gear was ambitious, but probably too ambitious for its own good. The Sega Nomad has all that, plus it's a home/portable console in 1995, over 20 years before the Switch. Same caveats apply as the Game Gear.
I'm going to join the chorus of Weather Underground, and I also use Storm by WU in conjunction with WU. Storm provides a nice interface for watching radar, tracking storm cells, and following watches/warnings. And you can jump straight into a location-based radar without a lot of menus or scrolling. It also can do notifications for lightning and rain near you. If you live somewhere that strong storms are a fact of life, Storm is an excellent secondary weather app. I was once scared to death of strong storms and drilling into radar and how storms move and form helps me get over it.
Saddest thing is he is actually an extremely talented player that held the record for 18 years and could still compete for it now had he not tried to pass off MAME runs as real hardware. Glad this vindicates Steve Wiebe after all the shit Twin Galaxies put him through though.
Siege has a steep learning curve, but the destruction and strategy involved sets it apart from anything else out there. It take practice and time to do anything cool, but it is so satisfying to pull off a victory you shouldn't have. Watch a site called isthereanydeal for a sale of you're unsure, don't buy the Starter Edition any more. For Dolphin, PCSX2, and I think RPCS3 (experimental PS3 emulator) processor power matters more than graphics card, but a current i5 should run the first two well enough.
Depends on what you like: I've put 300+ hours in Rainbow Six: Siege over the last two years, and it is a fantastic choice if you enjoy extremely intense, competitive shooters. Cities Skylines is another fantastic choice if you like city builders. Dolphin Emulator will now probably be able to run GameCube games at full speed at 1080/1440 enhanced resolutions.
As of today, Craigslist's Personals sections are the first explicit victim of SESTA. They shut it down with an explicit message saying they can't risk the liability of leaving it open.
Congress ignored victim groups that said that this threatened investigations into sex traffickers, ignored the DOJ saying that it will harm investigations and is likely unconstitutional (at least in part), ignored the pre-CDA 230 rulings that said websites were liable for content if they moderated content, and proceeded to pass this shitshow anyway. Really hope someone goes after Facebook, Twitter, and Google with this. Either there will be a push to repeal it if it starts affecting bottom lines or the courts will defang it based on highly paid corporate attorneys' arguments. Especially because Facebook was promoting child abuse searches days ago: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180316/17330139439/did-facebook-violate-sesta-promoting-child-abuse-videos.shtml
I saw their new rules that were implemented hastily following the Parkland shooting, and it banned a bunch of things including drug and alcohol sales, gun sales, and "paid services involving physical sexual contact". SESTA might have played a role in that entry, but prostitution is more illegal than most things on the list. They also banned a dark web market and I think a gun board or two. Don't get me wrong SESTA is a shitshow and I hope the courts defang it to the best of their ability, but the timing is likely coincidental.
Not much immediately. I would expect a lawsuit challenging the rule change to be filed by the end of the day, possibly with a request for an injunction to preserve the current rules that are in place. Even if that injunction isn't granted, there are far too many public eyes on the issue right now for Comcast et al. to do much of anything too anti-competitive. Especially seeing as they've been wiggling NN violations within the current rules for years now anyway (Comcast's usage caps). Down the road, ISPs might start discriminating against traffic, specifically against competing content like Neflix and YouTube. ISPs purposely allowing interconnection hubs to clog up and slow Netflix was the catalyst for implementing Net Neutrality rules. Outright blocking or paywalling sites is unlikely considering the amount of public scrutiny on the issue right now. Site blocking is unlikely ever since it would give the rhetorical equivalent of a nuke to NN supporters. The slowing of competing services is almost a given unless the service pays the ISP. I don't think your going to see paid fast lanes on the consumer side, at least for some time. Most of this is going to take place between Google/Netflix/etc and ISPs playing interconnectivity games. Think of the games of chicken that Dish Network and cable channels play once or twice a year over rates and package composition. The fight's not over. There is now going to be a big court fight over whether the landscape of US broadband has changed enough to justify such a massive rule change. The case itself is probably going to be pretty interesting when the FCC has explain why they ignored the massive fraud that took place in the commenting process, Freedom of Information Act requests, requests for information from state Attorney Generals regarding said fraud, and why the FCC ignored organic comments that were 99.7% pro-NN. The courts have already ruled in favor of net neutrality before and none of the circumstances leading up to these rulings have changed. Then there's congress. Congress can throw out the FCC's new rule right now. They also could codify Net Neutrality into law. A lot of people have believed for a while that the whole show with the FCC was to get congress to "settle" the NN debate by codifying rules into law, but the problem with this is that congress is so flush with ISP cash that there is a real possibility that any rules they codify into law will be so filled with loopholes as to be useless. It has happened before with the FCC's original NN rules that Verizon got the courts to throw out. This is why it is still important to contact your representatives. Best case is they actually listen and we get a decent Net Neutrality law that can't be thrown out easily and the worst is that it makes the public's voice unavoidable when they sell out the internet to large ISPs. Don't stop there either, contact anyone that will be challenging them in 2018 or 2020 and get them on the record supporting meaningful Net Neutrality rules to put pressure on the incumbent. Keep doing this every election cycle until we get meaningful rules protecting the internet. Net Neutrality is nearly universally supported by every political tribe in this day of extremely divisive politics and supporting it scores free points for nearly any representative. 1) Now what?
3) What are the foreseeable consequence through ISP's newfound unregulated consumer control and monopoly?
4) What else should I know about this decision?
Rainbow Six Siege is what I'm on almost every weekend. A streamer I hang out with got me into it and it is the most intense game I have played in a long time. Extremely tactical FPS that takes elements from CS:GO and elsewhere and makes it into one of the most unique and satisfying shooters that I've played. It's too bad that uPlay's servers are complete shit but it's pretty much the only game worth fighting them for, at least that I've played. Got back into Starbound recently too. So much fun just to mess around in, although I constantly get sidetracked base building. A really good exploration/mining game with an extensive modding community. Really need to actually get a ways into the game for a change. Finally, I've got Shining Force. It was the first SRPG I ever played as a kid but have never finished. Nice short play game on the go or while matchmaking on Siege.
The only song that stands out to me this week is Red Vox's In the Garden: Between this and From the Stars I have to say I'm pretty excited for their new album. They're really starting to find their sound, not that What Could Go Wrong? was bad by any means.
Lost Media Wiki article on the series I'm still amazed that the series (of episodes) managed to actually address kids' fears about the looming Cold War without talking down to them (assuming the remaining synopses are as accurate). I hated it as a kid when things were overly sugar coated for me. I'm hoping the coverage of the uploaded episodes doesn't scare off TROG from uploading the other three if he has them. I also don't know how to feel about the politicization of it. I agree that PBS should be well-funded, but taking a shot at Trump's budget kind of goes against the message of the arc (people should talk about disagreements instead of taking shots at one another). On a more practical level, if a Trump supporter who has the other three episodes sees this, they may not release them is they're being used to take shots at Trump. In any case, I was lurking around LMW when they were found so I have them mirrored on MEGA if anyone (am_Unition; rd95) wants them. Hopefully someone gets 3-5 uploaded somewhere soon.
https://vine.bandcamp.com/album/what-could-go-wrong A streamer I watch put out an album last year, and it is really good. Pretty much the only album I've ever bought for myself, and it is so good. Check it out before buying on YouTube if you want. I didn't realize that some of his older music was on there, I'm going to grab one or two of them now.
1st, to celebrate the number: As for what I've been listening to, the only one that really comes to mind is:
Don't think it's quite there yet for me, price or content wise. It's been on my radar though because one of the streamer/youtubers I watch has played it and the fact that I've never seen anything be creative with various forms of slimes except Dragon Warrior, so it immediately popped out at me when I first saw it.
Slime Rancher is on sale, but only 20% ($16) and it's still Early Access. My general rule for Early Access: But what's there now, not on anything that is promised, so it's up to you. I've been interested in that one too. As for waiting for better deals: IsThereAnyDeal can tell you if a game's been cheaper before. It's always a risk that something will go cheaper later and it usually does with the rare exception. They don't do the whole 8-12 hour deals anymore and everything stays the same price until the end of the sale, so you have through this Sunday to decide if something's worth it.
I grabbed Cities: Skylines finally and lost 3 hours on it immediately. I can see why people laud it as the true successor of SimCity 4. So worth the price. Also grabbed an RPG called Siralim that reminds me of Dragon Warrior Monsters for the Gameboy Color. Haven't gotten to play it yet, but am excited to try it out.
I'd heard of them before, but never considered them. Seems useful enough and I could use it with my phone and other stuff too.
Yeah, it's bad enough that I have to use up my Nexus's charging port to use a controller or USB drive, I'm not doing this with my headphones too. Examples of shit I do every week that would be difficult/impossible with this: Hooking my phone into my speakers and charger every night Carrying one set of earbuds for all of my devices without having to carry an adapter that will inevitably get lost/broken Anything about Apple locking out competitors aside, this is just going to be annoying with very little to gain for any phone. The only possible reason I could see lightning/USB-C headphones being useful is if they provided a better sound quality, but only as an alternative to 3.5mm for high end headphones, not as a replacement. Lastly, I really like the earpod headphones that Apple makes and am going to be pissed when the 3.5mm version inevitably gets ditched to push the lightning version. Voice chat on Discord with my phone
I have no clue how what3words is assigning words, but this could be mitigated by not assigning similar sounding words to areas anywhere near each other. If your first example was in Monogolia and the second example was in the U.S., the chances of confusion would be low and it would obvious when it does happen.
The problem with this is that litigation is expensive, even for the winning party. This had made suing journalists for what they write popular in recent times. Had Hogan not succeeded, we'd simply be having the conversation a year or two later when repeated litigation had taken it's toll, regardless of the merits of said litigation. Almost all of the people who were suing Gawker had merit to their case, but this would have eventually ended in the same result either way.
I am torn on this. I have wanted to dance in the ashes of Gawker (and affiliated sites, of course) for quite some time due to their attempted hijacking and destruction of my passion (gaming) to line their pockets. At the same time, this has created a blueprint for the ultra rich (top 1% of the 1%) to use the legal system to destroy journalist outlets (and theoretically other organizations) over personal vendettas. If you didn't know, a billionaire funded Hogan's, and others', lawsuits against Gawker because he did not personally like the website. What happens when Scientology uses this method to silence critics? Or any number of other potential abusers of this methodology. Anyone with enough capital and a bone to pick could copy Thiel, giving money even more power over speech than it already has. Gawker was slimey as they come, but I do wish they could've died in a way that doesn't have the potential to chill free speech everywhere.
I do listen to 8-bit remixes from time to time, although I've not really listened to anything original. As for the Dream Collection, I bought it back when it came out and absolutely loved it and its CD. One of the best game compilations out there with a lot of history about the series and went well beyond having a few emulated games on a disc.
Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack (and a bunch of other DK music as well). This was the second game I ever owned and it has an amazing and fitting soundtrack. I've also been listening to a few other soundtracks as well, mostly SNES: Kirby Superstar - Virus Theme: A pair of great games that had really amazing soundtracks to back them.
Been playing Assassin's Creed: Rogue from the Ubisoft Humble Bundle. Well worth the $15 so far and it is a lot of fun sailing around and taking ships for my self. Also played a bit of the AC Chronicles: China on my laptop and it was pretty good as well; Very reminiscent of Stealth Bastard and Mark of the Ninja. uPlay aside, that bundle is probably one of the better bundles I've seen recently. At the least, Rayman Origins is worth the $1 if you don't mind uPlay. I was also playing quite a bit of Postal 2, but my enthusiasm died out a bit recently. It does have a good, if really twisted and dark, sense of humor. Finally, been a bit on a Portal kick. Sat down and beat Portal in one setting and now am installing Portal Stories: Mel and Thinking with Time Machines mods as well as Blue Portals.
Been drawing a bit recently: A Raccoon: Mimic: A Giant Rat soldier (still might add more detail here): The rat and mimic were the first 2 drawings that I did completely on my own with no reference image (beyond looking at pictures of actual rats on Wikipedia). I do occasional art dumps on my blog as well. Coincidentally, art dumps are the only thing I've done on the blog yet. P.S. Notice the Art Academy logo on the mimic? I got it about a year ago but didn't really do the lessons until recently. Surprisingly powerful tools and good lessons that give a good foundation for visual artistry. Would highly recommend it if you've a 3DS or WiiU, if just for the tools.
The Struts - Dirty Sexy Money Always happy to see a new Struts single, plus they're re-releasing their first album worldwide soon, which is nice. The Ballad of Nobodies - Red Wanting Blue Have been listening to RWB since they popped up on my Spotify playlist a few weeks back and have been really enjoying them since. Here's a few more of my favorites:
I find old viruses extremely fascinating. Destructive payloads aside, they are really cool and visually impressive and are one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube.Far more interesting than the modern VB interface that says "You have virus, give me money" malware that have become popular these days.