Devs have numerous options for how to address the SKG initiative. The top three that come to my mind are:

• Release server binaries (along with modifying clients to have a setting to connect to the right server)
• Modify multiplayer to work over LAN (good when the server’s only/main job is matchmaking)
• Modify the game itself to no longer require online connectivity

In the case of live service games, I would suggest option 3 is the most appropriate. If the main gameplay is singleplayer, but it’s online so you can dole out achievements and gatekeep content, the answer is simple: stop doing that. Patch it to all work in-client. And keep in mind that this will be a requirement at end-of-life from the beginning. If it’s an unexpected requirement, that’s going to be a huge development cost. If it’s expected, making that EOL change easy to implement will be part of the code architecture from the start.

Find a pub … without pokies

challenge: impossible.

Happy cake day!

The earliest recorded peace treaty was between two Middle Eastern empires, and was written millennia before the religion of Islam came into being. Many of the ancient world’s most famous conflicts happened in the Middle East, long before Islam. The Judahite Revolts against the 2nd Babylonian Empire, resulting in the destruction of Solomon’s Temple. The conquests of Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great. The many wars Rome fought with inhabitants of the Middle East, including the Parthians, Sassanids, and Judeans.

Well, I went to an Aldi for a grocery shop for the first time today. Self-checkout was great! Not as nice as scan & go, which I’ll miss, but worth it. Cheers for the tip.

Not a fan of the bagging area though fwiw. It’s just an “area”, without hooks. I didn’t notice the camera thing. I think I’ve only ever really seen that at Coles.

If it takes you 3 hours to walk a return trip to the grocery store, you don’t just live in run-of-the-mill car-centric design, you live in an absolute barren food-desert hellscape. Which is precisely the sort of thing people in this Community advocate against.

There’s a big difference between what’s “comfortable to carry back by hand” and “what’s feasible to carry to a bus stop 100 metres outside the store, and then 400 metres from where the bus drops you off to your home”. That’s if we’re assuming a situation where you did drive to the store, planning to drive home, but an emergency means you can’t drive the return leg.

But also, if you do have good public transport, it becomes much easier to adjust your schedule to more frequent, smaller shops, where it’s not just feasible but easy to carry the groceries. Or in a good city for cycling, to drop the groceries in your paniers, basket, or even full-on cargo bike.

I’m not sure what you mean. I didn’t hold out Australia as some bastion of urbanism. I simply reinforced OP’s point that North America is bad.

Australia is also terrible at this. It just wasn’t relevant to mention.

No clue where coffee machines come from

You can probably get a cheap one from Kmart. But I’d recommend JB Hifi or Good Guys.

Kmart and Bunnings are your go-tos for most things. Target and Big W are good too for the things Kmart would have. Kmart particularly is good for quick cheap stuff. Bunnings is mostly trady stuff, but you can also get a lot of home electronics like powerboards (I particularly like my outlet tower with 3 USB-A ports and one USB-C).

For electronics where quality matters a bit more (particularly your kitchen stuff), JB Hifi or Good Guys.

(Note: if you’re American, our Kmart and Target are effectively entirely unrelated from yours.)

Out of interest did you see the rest of the story? Looks like OOP deleted the tweet.

with vast portions of the land outside of larger cities without public transportation

I mean, yeah? That’s the OP’s point? That too much for North America consists of poorly-designed car-centric urban planning.

Just fyi you got autocorrected (I swear, autocorrect feels like it’s more and more often these days changing from one correct word to a different word that’s grammatically correct but not what I wanted to say) from “food” to “good”.

Anyway, django’s point was the same as OP’s: that car-dependent urban design is bad for people. Food deserts are a feature of car dependency. They’re not a necessary feature (as in, it is possible to have car-dependent cities that don’t also have food desert), but by definition a 15-minute city, the thing this Community exists to advocate for, cannot be a food desert. A well-planned city makes it possible to get to a grocery store within a 15 minute walk or ride.

In Westminster systems, the Government does not refer to the entire legislature, it refers to the executive branch, which is made up of people who happen to also be members of the legislature. This is a pretty basic and very well-established convention, and the fact that you’re steadfastly refusing to admit your clear, objective mistake in this case says a hell of a lot more about you than your arrogance in the matter that this thread was initially created to discuss ever could.

Believe it or not, this is how I found it.

It was already perfect.

Wowza, that’s some spectacular stupidity. Where does this guy get off?

From the pinned comment:

Main takeaways:

• No this is not worse than the OGL scandal, however the license is currently objectively worse than what Hasbro currently publishes D&D under and can be revoked/revised for future works and updates to previous works at any time.
• I share Dungeons and Discourse’s main point: we want a competitor to D&D to succeed and for any TTRPG having a thriving a 3PP community is vital to that. That’s the purpose of these critiques.
• Yes, I have seen the Roll for Combat stream where they say that people are overreacting to the license. I respond to it at 9:13, and welcome people to see RFC’s stream.
• I make specific comparisons between Darrington Press’ GCL and other companies’ licenses post-OGL crisis, which do not have similar problematic provisions.
• I learn during this stream that DP has said they have heard the community’s concerns and suggested there will be changes when they release a Homebrewing Kit for Daggerheart. I’m happy they are, and hopefully this video helps ensure they make changes addressing community concerns - I did this stream/video because I was worried that the video I respond to would make DP (and other TTRPG companies) not feel like they have to. As I say in this video, one scenario is that this contract was drafted by a lawyer not familiar with the TTRPG hobby (and that DP’s leadership “left it to the lawyers”).
• DP may have valid reasons to not go with the licenses I cite that other TTRPG companies are following. But if that is true, they should explain what they are.

0:00 Intro
3:13 As bad as OGL scandal?
4:15 What other TTRPG companies are doing
6:03 Analysis of license
15:00 Dungeons & Discourse: Clickbait?
20:49 Darrington Press’s response
21:42 Reacting to Bob World Builder

We remove any comment attacking other users and DOUBLY so when it’s attacking moderation.

That seems completely arse-backward. Which I guess makes sense given who we’re talking about, but it’s still disappointing. Mods would be held to a higher standard. Making the punishment for being mean to a mod harsher than any other user is like when bootlickers believe police should be entitled to abuse the public but the punishment for defending yourself is more extreme than for actual violence against random people.

Forget any specific case. I’m not arguing for you to reverse my ban. This is just bad on principle.

I resolved to do better, and the way I go about it is with transparency.

A laudable goal. But one you are so clearly not actually attempting to live up to. If you were, you might have realised all the people telling you that you’re being a lower tripping hastard have a point.

You can’t ban a person for saying “get rid of genocidal institutions” and then claim it was a Just act on the basis of a no violence policy.

If you were a good mod, you’d say “mea culpa. I made a mistake. Let me reverse it and unban the user.” But you’re not a good mod, you’re a power tripping bastard who has doubled down every single time you get called out—except for all the times you’ve chosen to try to deflect the conversation into irrelevancy.