That’s honestly something I appreciate about wube, and further makes me want to buy ASAP. I’ll be buying the expansion regardless, but the knowledge I probably won’t be missing out on a future potential sale does feel nice.

The expansion price is more than justified IMO.

I’m honestly surprised that their pricing model isn’t more prevalent. As I see it, it’s always on sale price, so it loses out on the $x2 early buyers, but makes up for it in spades in brand loyalty.

I suppose the bean counters elsewhere have decided it’s not really a viable strategy unless you’ve got such a game, though.

Seriously. We’re on fire because of you, big oil.

“Traditionally the FTC has been a wet noodle. Seeking to actually fix anything would be overstepping their bounds.”

Am I reading that right?

“We take a zero tolerance [approach] to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this."

Come on, this is ridiculous. Can I carry a chisel? A utility knife? An ice skate? A screwdriver? A lawnmower? A stirrup hoe? Those are all bladed articles. This is on the level of what this man did.

Give him a fine and move on.

I believe it’s a joke. He gets 2 years for slander because it’s a false charge, and 5 for leaking state secrets because what he said is true.

I almost never buy games at launch, but this is the one dev I absolutely trust to make a good product. Even if I absolutely hate the expansion (which I won’t), I’d still be happy for them to have my money.

Now I just gotta get going and finish my k2-se play through.

Typical Texas L.

Did you read the paper from my 2nd link? There seems to be a growing body of evidence that suggests that is indeed possible:

Similar to the increase in the prevalence of persistent median arteries of the forearms, the prevalence of other anatomical features such as spina bifida occulta (Henneberg & Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010), tarsal coalitions (Solomon et al., 2003) and fabella (Berthaume et al., 2019) has increased over the last 2–3 centuries. Evidence indicates that changes in the natural selection pressures acting on these specific anatomical features could have caused microevolutionary processes, leading to the observed increases in prevalence rates (Henneberg and Henneberg 1999; Solomon et al., 2009; Lee et al., 2010; Rühli and Henneberg, 2013; Berthaume et al., 2019).

Obviously actual research would have to be done to confirm or deny it in this case, and I probably should have stated my original thought a bit more skeptically.

I was reading over the paper and found the source of that particular usage:

Furthermore, in a study by Henneberg and George (1995; Am J Phys Anthropol 96, 329–334), has suggested that increasing prevalence of the median artery during the 20th century was a ‘possible secular trend’.

LOL. I kinda want to follow that citation for the full quote.

Edit: I found the original source that gives some further context:

The occurrence in historical times of changes in human body size and in the timing of events in postnatal development, such as, for instance, sexual maturation, is well known and documented. Such changes occurring from century to century or decade to decade are known as “secular trends.”

So I guess it’s actually domain specific jargon.

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Seriously. I’ve seen letter openers more threatening than that “sword”. Was it dumb? Sure. Does he deserve a slap the wrist, absolutely. But prison?? No way. What the actual fuck?

I’m not sure you’re understanding what I’m laying down. If all previously extra-judicial actions are now potentially on the table, that opens new avenues for changing the members of SCOTUS.

Except that we know for a fact the refs are incredibly biased against specifically one team.

The ref’s just gave either team the power to choose new refs that are biased against the other team.

Except it does. Microevolutions can absolutely occur on time frames of under a hundred years.

https://news.sky.com/story/human-microevolution-sees-more-people-born-without-wisdom-teeth-and-an-extra-artery-12099689

https://www.sci.news/biology/median-artery-08939.html

I mean, it makes sense. With widespread adoption of vision correction, there’s no longer an evolutionary advantage to having naturally good vision.

My better judgement is wrestling with my morbid curiosity, but what on earth is that sign: “BLEACH BLONDE BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY”

Being cringe A.F., as the kids say, is a power that grows with age. (:

I didn’t even realize where we were until I read your comment.

I cast counterspell. I’m now thinking of puppies.

This is the most efficient (known) packing of 17 unit squares inside a square. If you’re asking why it’s like that, that’s above my math proficiency level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_packing

See also: https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html