[-] monotremata@kbin.social 14 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I feel like the article should have made reference to De Morgan's Law in order to explain the two interpretations. That's the one that says !(A && B && C) = !A || !B || !C, and !(A || B || C) = !A && !B && !C.

In English, there's no proper grouping operator, so it's basically it's a question of whether you distribute the NOT or the AND first over the list.

The Justices are saying that the ambiguity is completely resolved by the way the restrictions don't make sense if you interpret it the other way. But the underlying assumption there is that the laws of this country are logical, free from needless repetition and contradictory requirements, which is a TERRIBLE assumption. Our laws are at best written by a committee of people not very familiar with the subjects of those laws, and at worst written by scam artists who then paid to slip them under the radar and into the books. They're full of idiotic errors, deliberate sabotage, and absurdities. That's the whole reason for the thing about the lenient interpretation, and this decision will change that in a way that gives judges a whole lot of power to do more harm.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 13 points 3 months ago

And for those thinking that maybe time could have turned the THCA into delta-9 THC, that's true, it could have; but time would also turn that delta-9 THC into CBN. So the delta-9 levels would be unlikely to have increased much over the baseline regardless of how old the weed was.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 17 points 4 months ago

Or it won't happen when you're watching, because then they're thinking about what they're doing and they don't make the same unconscious mistake they did that brought up the error message. Then they get mad that "it never happens when you're around. Why do you have to see the problem anyway? I described it to you."

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 14 points 4 months ago

I've heard his segments get rebroadcast on Russian TV fairly often.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago

It sounds to me like she intentionally phrased it so it could apply to both of them, and maybe be interpreted to apply to the several news outlets owned by billionaires as well (fox news, washington post, etc.). It's a weirdly common feature of our dystopia at this point, and I think that's what she was expressing exhaustion with. So while she may not have initially intended to exclude Musk, I genuinely think it wasn't just about him, and phrasing her reply in this way was funny and pretty much guaranteed to get more people to see the message.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago

Frustratingly, these lists keep going out of date, because apps are marked as incompatible with new devices unless they're constantly updated. So I have a limited number of recommendations. E.g. the game Trainyard was terrific, but it looks like you can't get it anymore. Auro and Glyder 2 were also excellent. And Trap! was great on the original G1.

Some of these games also do have in-app purchases, but they'll be strictly "you pay X money for Y more levels" deals, which is basically fine in my book. No currencies, no gatchapon, no "pay or wait" mechanics.

10000000 and You Must Build A Boat are fun match-3 games. No in-app purchases.

The Room 1, 2, and 3 are all escape-room games.

If you liked doing constructions in geometry, the games Euclidea and Pythagorea are both good.

Puzzle Retreat by The Voxel Agents is, well, a puzzle game. Pretty fun, good slow difficulty ramp.

The Quell games (Quell, Quell Reflect) are a bit like Puzzle Retreat, but I didn't find they had as much variety. I got a little bored with them. They're quite polished though.

Star Realms is a two-player card game with deck drafting mechanics, sort of like a cross between Dominion and Magic. It's available as an actual physical deck game, but also as a decent android game with both multiplayer and a single-player campaign. Since it's a drafting game (i.e. you both recruit from the same deck), buying card expansions just changes what mechanics are available to both players, so it's never pay-to-win. I'm very fond of it.

Freitag is a single-player deck-drafting game. The android app isn't the best thing ever but it works. It's based on Robinson Crusoe.

Spaceplan is an increment game, a bit like Cookie Clicker or Clicker Heroes, but it's got a plot and an ending and is over in a couple of days. Plus it's really silly. Recommended.

Super Hexagon is a very brief action game. Only uses the edge of the screen as its two buttons, so it basically works despite the touch screen. It's only got...I think it's twelve levels total? I forget. I think I've gotten to level four. It's better with the sound on, though.

Slay the Spire is another great deck building game. Touch controls aren't perfect and the UI is kinda small on a phone, but the underlying game is good enough that it's worth playing.

Ridiculous Fishing is a very simple game, but very well made.

Pinball Arcade is pretty good, though you have to pay for each individual table you want. There are always some free ones on any given day though. It was easier to recommend before they lost their Williams and Bally licenses, since then they had all the classics like Theater of Magic and Attack from Mars; now it's all Stern tables unless you already own the old ones. The simulation quality is pretty good, though. It's all a bit more forgiving than the real thing, but I don't think that's entirely a bad thing.

Bart Bonte's games, which are all named after colors (black, blue, green, etc.) are pretty amusing. Not very difficult but kinda diverting for a bit. Kind of like an escape room game crossed with warioware? Each screen has unique touch-screen mechanics, and you have to figure them out to advance.

SetMania is a decent implementation of the card game Set. Make sure to turn off the (frankly bizarre) setting that randomizes your settings constantly.

Nonograms Katana is a pretty good nonogram (picross) game. Gotta buy levels though.

Monument Valley and 2 are kinda fun. Easy puzzles but diverting, with nice graphics.

If you find it fun to make fine distinctions between colors, I Love Hue is interesting. But I can also see other folks thinking that's a circle of hell.

Oh, and I'm enjoying Cryptic Crossword by Teazel Inc. They're not very difficult ones, and it would be nice if it had some kind of "explain" option for when you really can't grok a clue even after seeing the answer. But you usually get an "aha" from most clues and the packs of puzzles aren't too pricey.

There are a few more games I enjoyed, but that was at least partly because I got them from a Humble Bundle, and those versions had the in-app purchases turned into things you could earn in the game, which was way better. E.g. the Kingdom Rush games. I can't really recommend the versions you can get now, because they're all microtransactioned up. I think the same is true of some of the games I used to enjoy like Cut The Rope as well.

Emulation is also a good option, but if you don't want to bother with that there are a few purchasable apps that will basically do it for you, like Sega's Shining Force games.

Hope this helps someone. I wrote it up partly to get myself to organize the things in my own brain.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 14 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't really call it a favorite, but I definitely ended up liking Nier: Automata pretty well after bouncing off it really hard when trying it at a friend's house. That's because we were trying from the start, and it starts with a section that's about half an hour long, with only two checkpoints, vastly harder than anything else in the game, and in which the first half isn't even the same genre as the rest of the game. It's seriously one of the worst intros I can think of in a video game. The rest of the game is, y'know, a pretty good third-person action RPG.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just use swipe typing, but my dad absolutely loves MessagEase, which is basically a 9-key keyboard. The gimmick is that every letter is a gesture; nine letters are just taps, and everything else (including some punctuation) you start on one of those nine keys and swipe in one of eight directions (up, left, upper left, etc.). I think there are a couple of other large keys, like a space bar at the bottom and delete and "switch to numbers and extra punctuation" on the right, but you mainly use the nine for words. It's not terrible, and he's gotten moderately fast at it. Might be worth a look.

Edit: Oh, I've just seen that MessagEase is now unmaintained, and the "thumbkey" mentioned in another comment is basically a replacement. So I guess this is just another recommendation for that keyboard! Oops.

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Certainly! Here's how this might be phrased in a more casual manner if it appeared as a comment on a web forum: "lol git gud noob jk"

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Nota bene that author asks that folks use the printables link so they can earn filament from the downloads. It's linked in that thingiverse entry but here's the direct link:

https://www.printables.com/model/27814

[-] monotremata@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

If you're using Chrome, that's why. Chrome bypasses your DNS settings and uses Google's DNS because they found using the system settings was affecting their ad revenue. Using Firefox fixes this, although in Firefox you can just use ublock origin anyway, which works even better.

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