Romana: “Roman­ad­voratre­lundar.”

The Doc­tor: “By the time I’ve called that out, you could be dead. I’ll call you Romana.”

Romana: “I don’t like Romana.”

The Doc­tor: “It’s either Romana or Fred.”

Romana: “All right, call me Fred.”

Oh, but if you pick up an item called the Skull of Mondain be sure to use it in town! (j/k it’s not in VII.)

Fair. But it is cute, though.

Yeah, well done! It’s beautiful.

As long as you can use a phone as a weapon I’m all for it!

Best rock.

Time spent in pleasure is never wasted.

“But not through direct eye contact!”

showing people ads is not anti-competitive

Sure. Sort of. But this isn’t about competition per se, it’s about abuse of an already dominant market position.

The ultimate purpose of ensuring competitive markets wherever possible is to protect and benefit consumers. Since firms that dominate their markets tend abuse that position to price-gouge or reduce the quality of their products without fear that their customers will go elsewhere – because they can’t – foiling anti-competitive practices is part of that consumer protection mandate – but only part. Preventing harm being done to consumers by market-dominating firms once they’ve attained that position is another part.

The fact that Microsoft has so many of their users captive (because their job makes them use Windows, or because it runs software they can’t get elsewhere, etc.) and is now forcing exposure to advertising upon them should run afoul of the consumer protection goals of anti-trust law.

The fact that they were once brought to heel just for bundling a browser that you could completely ignore with Windows, and yet face no regulatory blowback from literally forcing their captive audience to view advertising is what irritates me to no end.

Live Forever, by Oasis.

I dunno, but it might have something to do with external factors. Like, once upon a time Microsoft was sued by the US government under anti-trust laws for bundling a web browser in their operating system. Now MS force their users to experience unavoidable advertising when they try to use their own computers, and there’s not a peep from regulators.

I loved Inquisition’s story, acting, and art. The moment to moment gameplay, exploration, and combat didn’t click with me though, and I found it a challenge to finish. The thought of slogging through area after area kind of makes my heart sink. But I appreciate the hard work that goes into game creation, no shade on the team.

I’m keeping an open mind, but it’s going to take a loooooot of positive word of mouth to get me to even think about picking DA up again.

rednecks, to the religious cults

I see your point, but usually those groups don’t have the ability to accelerate the arrival of the end times, whereas the billionaires might.

As stated, the companies that push AI aren’t concerned with the long-term consequences. But if you want to know how the individuals who run those companies personally feel, do a search for billionaire doomsday preppers.

TL;DR: They’ve got a vision for the future. We’re not in it.

“Guess what?”

“What?”

“CHICKEN BUTT!”

Maine Coons are super sweet – thanks for the pic, and congrats to your friend!

That’s the one!

I had an ASCII Grip for the original Playstation that I really loved. It was a one-handed controller that I mostly used to play RPGs, and although it took a little getting used to, I eventually got so comfortable with it I could menu faster with the Grip than with a normal pad!