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1) There is a burgeoning genre of game - that is, I know of one, called Erenshor - that simulates the experience of playing an MMORPG, but entirely offline, on purpose. I found it to be a very clever idea, likely made in reaction to many Runescape players who essentially treat OSRS as a single-player challenge with a live element.

2) I'm very glad to see some Puzzle Pirates love. I was and still am enthralled by the idea of in-game economies, loosely-narrative-driven cooperative play driven by simple independent tasks; it was such a neat idea in such a simple package, I'm surprised it hasn't really been copied with much success, the casual/puzzle games boom notwithstanding. I've been daydreaming of mixing Puzzle Pirates with FTL as a spiritual successor, but it's a game design exercise beyond my ken.

Would love to see a demo of this.

Yes, I have heard this called a link cloaking hack, methinks.

This is a really clever idea. I have very little energy to behoove myself to get started on fediverse/FOSS platforms, but am always happy if a friend or piece of media provides a link to nitter or otherwise. Making that easier is a good thing.

My snarky frontend response is "devs will do anything to avoid fixing their CSS," but truly the task is too herculean to bother with on any most timescales. (You think "Untangle and reduce CSS bundle by X% with 0% improvement to any real KPI" is a ticket that's ever going to get prioritized?)

As others have said, this might be an interesting way to start zapping bloated CSS assets on aging codebases.

All (or at least nearly 2000) of Mr. Rogers episodes are available on Archive.org. It's really great to be able to share these with our child, and us parents often appreciate the break and quietness more than our kid does!

I was curious to find out a few years ago that a friend of a friend worked for an agency that frequently worked with KFC. They seemingly got paid to just paly pranks and create buzz online; I suppose if it works, it works.

It would be surprising if the author at Eater.com isn't involved in this promotion. I doubt they really think this is different from the other cited KFC publicity stunts.

I'm curious if anybody knows of any 'practical guides' to the four day work week, or toolsets that can help traditional organizations make four day work week a reality. We hear about the 4DWW so often now, but I'd love to actually see how it's done - to be able to bring some suggestions to leadership at my company on how we could actually do that without doing a top-down audit of the company. Of course lots of things are going to be unique per org, but are there any "If you do this, do this instead" that can make the transition easier, or indeed even a feasible thing to broach with coworkers and executives?

I find this to be a bit of a slippery slope argument (not to mention that I think tying panhandling to tipping to be a shaky comparison at best), but it is socially compelling, and is indeed an outcome that I do not want to come to pass, for many reasons. Thank you for providing something to help me understand the argument and concerns.

To "tip" my hand completely, I think my original comment was born out of a frustration that so many social problems will be complained about by a HN-type crowd as some vague social ill that cannot be solved by 'taking our (tipping) business elsewhere.' Sometimes it seems like these complaints only suggest that nothing can be done except 'make noise' about tipping or else it might become something our family members will do. As the author of the featured article points out, facing down the fact that many wait staff need tips to make a real living on top of minimum wage is definitely a big problem, but to me, it's a more concrete problem than 'I'm mad I have to tip because I bought chapstick.' There is a time and place for venting about the screwy society we live in but I hope we continue to talk about changing tipping culture and paying people properly.

Sure, it's becoming commonplace. Does that stop people from voting with their fingers? What noise needs to be made to stop what? I'm really trying to understand. I think I am kind of starting to get it, I have been assuming people are just upset that there is a social pressure to tip. The fact that this pressure now takes place on a touchscreen is nothing new.

Employees are going to want their employer to have a 'give me more money' button at the end of every purchase, and this is just currently in vogue because of touchscreen point of sale systems. I have plenty of neurotic millennial tendencies, but I usually only see older generations complain about the tip screen. If I don't think I should tip for buying a candy bar then I won't. Is there a concern that all transactions will require something that will eventually become more than a tip, like some required fee? Is it so upsetting to be presented with the number 25%? Please help me understand.

It's unbelievable to me how popular complaining about tipping is now, and probably all because a handful of POS systems that are quite common have an option to show default tip percentages. It's like we're running a social experiment about whether people would complain if daily presented with a "Would you like to slightly socially and financially inconvenience yourself? Y/N" screen. Turns out yes, thousands of words would be spilled on the topic.

Don't get me wrong, if you sell greeting cards or whatever and use a POS system that has a tip screen, I find that silly, and yeah, we should have a broader discussion about tipping culture. But all of this getting up in arms seems like solely an exercise in dropping coins into the outrage media machine. Just hit the other button.

I am becoming more and more convinced that many techy folks near the AI scene saw that SD et alia can create an image that convincingly (and perhaps even indistinguishably) looks like a very nice digital painting, and based on that data point alone are calling artists obsolete.

+1, Daniel Shiffman is an absolute treasure. His studio setup is fantastic and him and his team (?) produce incredible videos.

As a West-coast American, I have only ever heard 'hover' as "huvver."