These share a lot of similarities with Segway, and the inventor of that was a pretty smart, stand-up guy. Still, he died tragically riding his Segway off a cliff.
Every time I see one of these, my brain goes between that story, and https://southpark.wiki.gg/wiki/IT
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I'm all for the theory of the 2A being there to dissuade tyranny. But I was middle school aged when I realized that stopped making sense sometime between 1910 and 1945.
This government will bomb citizens, given the chance (it wouldn't even be the 1st or 2nd time they've done it). A shotgun won't help with that in self defense. Nor would it help with the tanks, the jets, the drones, the special ops, the automatic guns, the chemical agents, or any number of classified weapons that would roll over the next most powerful militaries if that's what they wanted to do.
I'm not saying don't get a shotgun. I'm saying, if you really want to prepare to have to exercise your 2A rights, you probably need to be getting something that actually poses a threat to those in power. It probably won't even be gun shaped, but it will be arms in conflict.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I'm putting this down and probably not picking it back up.
Music is great. Environments great. Love Samus the character.
UX is terrible. I could write an essay about it, there is no redeeming element. There is no chance anyone with a good taste for UX and influence over the direction of the game actually touched this at any point during development.
Game formula is dated and anti-fun, I was ok with this major progression tied behind upgrades playing Super Metroid, but useless power-ups dangling behind obvious missing upgrades in your face multiple times during every linear mission is not it in 2026. Combat is boring, IDK who they are trying to appeal to here other than super fans of the Prime series. Maybe the harder difficulty would improve that but I doubt it, and I'll never find out because you can't play the harder difficulty before beating the game. Maybe they are appealing to super casuals, it definitely isn't appealing to kids despite that being the difficulty level of the various gameplay and combat elements.
The "open world" sand zone is unredeemable. The bike is unredeemable. The fact that we have to suffer through both for so much back tracking is one of the most depressing experiences I've had in gaming in 30 years.
The extra characters only detract from the game, especially the technician guy. If you are intending to play this game despite what you've read so far, I suggest you immediately turn the sound level down for voices.
Ugh
You need one existential crisis step further. With very rare exception (some life we've found living near thermal vents in the deep sea) all calories are derived from the sun through photosynthesis. I suppose you can muddy the waters with man made light sources powered by non-solar energy, but with the rare exception of nuclear power (or tidal, since that's moon's gravity, or geothermal, and a few other niche sources, but even out together these make up such small percentages), most man made energy is just harvesting the sun's energy with more steps. Oil, that's just ancient plant matter. Wind, that's just air currents which only exist due to heat energy from the sun. Solar, lol. Not that grow lights even make up enough to matter, but it's a fun part of the existential equation.
We eat the sun.
Valid reason is you want the online features because messages from other players is content. Counterpoint is, pvp is also content. Counterpoint is, people can want one and not the other, and it's not that complicated to just give people a toggle. Elden Ring is not worse because of its improvement over the DS invasion system.
I've seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I'd imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that's a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.
Going to try to convert two 2-post racks into a 4-post rack today. Dreading the mess though.
Maybe the prompt said some shit about making sure you couldn't see that it's AI, or hide that it's AI. There remains to be an issue that prompting it not to generate something increases the chances that it will do that.
I'm confused, toner = laser. Toner is the media, it's fine powder, applied to the paper via the drum and flash fused via a laser. Inkjet, liquid ink is the media, sprayed through a nozzle while moving back and forth.
Unless something about inkjet has improved in the 15 years since I was more inclined to know everything about them, the "goes bad" is what anyone with a brain should be focusing on. The first time you use a cartridge to print, it has a shelf life. It gunks up, prompting cleaning cycles that use dozens of pages worth of ink. If you only print a few pages a month, there's a good chance you're getting <40 pages out of that $63 cartridge.
I have a Brother DCP-7065DN, paid $64 for it in Feb 2014 (obviously a very good deal), page counter reads 3626. We're on toner #3 including the starter, first was replaced in 2019, second in July 2025. Toner was $55 each.
I hope there aren't people seriously advocating for inkjet printers for black and white anything. The only thing they are good for is photos, and even then you are paying more per print for a worse photo vs local print or online order options. That holds true even if you get good deals and somehow actually use the entire cartridge set without waste, I did the math a few times over the years. The only use cases are printing shit you're too embarrassed to risk printer shop seeing, or is illegal/copyright, or you just like giving money to these garbage companies.
Maybe projects like this will change the math. I think if they targeted commercial print specifications it would be quite interesting. The jump to larger format printers is so expensive.
You're right, I knew that and still mixed it up. And the real tragedy is the guy was a super stand-up guy that doesn't at all deserve the sort of mockery his death prompts.
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-hero-who-rode-his-segway-off-a-cliff