It’s like an inverse IQ test

Noclick summary for the less brave among us?

Walter White in Breaking Bad? Dunno how officially canon the autism has to be.

Yeah good ones allegedly last 200 years if stored correctly. Cheap ones are 5-10. 20 can be expected for quality CDs stored correctly.

But no matter the claimed quality, it’s a gamble. Our local library had a lot of 10-20 year old CDs that had developed microbubbles.

5 years is low range for CDs, but common enough that you should be taking backups for anything you keep longer.

True, with some modifications:

Some games had online activation built in. Some games would simply not install on a second or third machine without getting permission from the publisher.

Regular CDs have a lifespan of 5-10 years, shorter if not stored ideally. Almost all games had sophisticated mechanisms to prevent backups being taken.

Even if you could take a backup, record associations and publishers lobbied to make it illegal and punishable by severe fines in many countries.

Sony shipped fucking root kits on their CD that would hijack your PC and screw with backup software. EA shipped CDs with autoexexuting software that would actually delete CloneCD and other CD copying software and prevent new installes from working. My copy of Sims 2 came with that bullshit and OH MAN I was not happy about it.

At 50 your hands finally heal from that injury at 45, so you can start punching walls at full strength again.

Good catch. I misread the post.

No. Q35: https://www.ada.gov/resources/service-animals-faqs/

Thanks! I honestly surprised myself when writing it. Things just pile on and I don’t notice until it goes bad, which is not good.

Far from free here, but yeah already tested of course. :) No covid.

Yessss, that was an embarrassing omission in my list.

My bank: “We have a new valuation on your home! Open your app to see it!”

…

“It’s down 2%!”

Fair! But why “Pirates!” but not Civilization? Formally, they are all named with the prefix.

I was heartbroken when it ended. Was a big fan of Dara already, now I love all of them.

Thanks for the recommendation!

• Satisfactory
• Starcraft / 2
• Slay the Spire
• Saints Row
• Sam & Max (tons)
• Serious Sam
• Scribblenauts
• Shadowrun
• Shadow Warrior
• Shapez / 2
• Shovel Knight
• Skyrim
• Soma
• Slay the Princess
• Space Engineers
• Spelunky
• Sid Meyer’s Everything
• Stanley Parable, the
• Stardew Valley
• Stronghold Crusaders
• Subnautica
• Sunless Sea
• Sonic (all)
• Super Mario (everything)
• Superhot
• Super Meatboy
• Surviving Mars

I got mine from Audible.

The audiobook is voiced by her, if that’s your medium :)

That’s the best response, imho

As a software dev, any code library named SimpleWhatever or whose documentation contains the word “simply” anywhere makes me afraid.

Because they never are. They are a sign that whoever makes them thinks the subject is too hard to understand.

The end result is a code library that doesn’t make the inherent important hard parts organized and clear to work with, but obfuscates them.