I know better vibes going on here

Bobby fingers came in swinging with high production value from day 1. He doesn’t have many videos but the quality of them is so good.

But why? The cut-off was already very generous at 15 years. How can you live outside of a country for that long and still want to have your views represented?

Care to elaborate?

This sounds reasonable to me. Starbucks is everywhere. But when you do have options they’re far from the top choice.

You could have a look around to see if you have any local coffee roasters and then find out who they supply to try and get something a lot fresher.

I know too many people that think Starbucks is the only place that makes good coffee and refuse to go anywhere else. No, you like strong roasts, lots of sugar, and plenty of advertising, most of which you can get anywhere else if you just ask.

A large factor is probably the increase of phone use. I’ve driven into a lot of shit looking at my phone.

Fun stories like this remind me why my country (UK) just never feels connected to Europe. We’ve got this amazing continent on our doorstep but the poor state of our language education prevents many from feeling comfortable to explore it. I would love to share a story like this.

I’m tempted to bite on Alan Wake 2 or Dead Space but I don’t want to use epic store. Hopefully we’ll get a good sale elsewhere over Christmas

In Rowling’s case it seems to be due to her being alive and directly benefiting from the financial success of her work. Pirating seems like a fair compromise. “I like what you make enough to consume it, but don’t like you enough to pay for it”

Maybe good creators are just horrible people

I don’t agree that this type of response is productive, there’s a lot more nuance to these arguments. It is however interesting which things we’re no longer allowed to like. Disney for example, despite their history of anti-Semitism don’t nearly get as much hate as they deserve and at a time where even suggesting something that Israel did to Gaza is bad becomes conflated with hating Jews

Thanks for the perspective. I’m not a member of the community (or much of a potter fan, other than enjoying the movies as a kid. Nostalgia) so it’s probably a lot easier for me to separate author from work.

It just concerned me that people would be unintentionally flagging themselves as an adversary. The generalisation also seemed unfair and alienating in the same way many marginalised groups are. I do understand though that one side is something you enjoy and the other is something you are.

Is it really? Can someone not just like the potter series and either disagree with or ignore the politics of the author?

I’ve only just realised that with the way federation works, each user effectively represents their instance and it’s community. Now I know to not give anyone at fanaticus.social any attention.

Is this a joke about every day being a 0-day?

Is focus to infinity that different for these types of scopes compared to a conventional camera which focuses to infinity after a couple hundred metres? I would have thought the draw back would be the focal lengths giving you a very small area in frame.

Because the genetics that build the vocal tract could be different, which in simple terms could mean a change in pitch. There are also more cultural differences such as speech cadence, accent, and inflection.

More like 1-2 thousand. Our politicians are surprisingly cheap to bribe

Really depends what you want to create but there’s nothing wrong with just writing html and css. They’re as portable as you can get.

If you’re planning to do a lot of editing/posting then a static site genarator would be the next best thing as again you just end up with html and css which can be hosted anywhere. The generator can run on your system. Most are powered by markdown files so the content can (with little work) be migrated to another generator.

Beyond this you’re starting to get in to cms or other complex systems which i think is out of the scope of your question.

There’s a concept that should be familiar to a business owner called value based pricing where you charge based upon a (usually service) product’s perceived value rather than the cost of producing it. Make a game worth giving time and money to then you’ll have success. Fill it with pointless content to pad out the hours and it is neither worth the time nor the money