My experience is that the cover images on drive thru will simply be off by up to half a cm in a random direction. It won't be on all copies, just some. I have some copies where the text runs down the middle of the spine and some where the bottom of the lettering is cut off.
In December I looked up a Pottery studio on Google maps. It turned out to be a guy's house.
It's nearly May and every time I open maps in my car, the top of the list is "home" and second is this Potter guy's house as a "recent" option. I've probably looked up 200 things more recently than that.
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Food has, factually, exceeded inflation in recent years. You can look it up.
Inflation as a whole is measured on a variety of goods. But the ones people NEED: food, housing, health care, have all exceeded inflation.
The WANTS are less inflated: I can get a big LCD TV for fairly cheap still.
That's just not true. Even you do not believe that food costs the same now as it did 10 years ago. You are arguing with the actual data: you cannot possibly find me a source that shows that food prices have stayed the same for a decade.
Literally, that is how you establish inflation: you get a basket of goods and you compare the price of the same goods at two points in time.
They just did it for their groceries.
Your anecdote isn't even apples to apples. If your grocery budget is within 1% despite prices rising *obviously* more than that, that just means you're buying less groceries. What the hell is that supposed to prove? That you are innumerate?
Assuming I'm understanding both anecdotes correctly, the other poster was doing a paired comparison: pricing out the same basket of goods. On a big shopping day, that would be quite a decent sample. When I do a big shop, I get like 80 items. Done correctly, that is data.
How many states you guys got down there? More than 6?
You could go full 1930s and buy chicken livers. But when your purchasing can be described as "going full 1930s," that's not "vibes."
As for "real wage growth," how about the minimum wage? How much has it gone up? Oh, it's the same as it was in 2009? I guess minimum wage workers aren't "real."
If you're not very well off, that is where ALL your money goes.
You can still afford rice, dried beans, and store brand cereal. Ground beef is about double what it was, so you're not making burgers anymore. Cheap cuts of meat aren't cheap anymore. Have you seen what they charge for oxtail?
Food prices on many staple products have significantly outpaced inflation. Prices at fast food and cheap restaurants have significantly outpaced inflation. Housing costs have significantly outpaced inflation. Healthcare costs have significantly outpaced inflation if you're American.
Oh sure, I didn't mean necessarily ban, but like *banned from doing self-promo* even if they are a long-term poster.
When you go to the store, you pay the price, not the inflation.
So if you have a big jump that makes something unaffordable, and then inflation goes back to 2%, the thing remains unaffordable. Inflation is low but prices are still high.
The way I read this, it looks like you could get a designer banned just by asking them a lot of questions about their game.
I like the Christopher Nolan films I've seen. But I keep holding off on Interstellar - I just have a gut feeling I'm not going to like it.
My daughter uses my 3ds regularly. I just replaced the thumb stick but the system is otherwise going strong! Such a great console, so many great games.
Check out the plot map stuff in Technoir. It uses random generation based on who the players are interacting with to make a plot/mystery as the investigation progresses. It doesn't make a whole mystery at the start, but it keeps the GM a step or two ahead of the players.
My wages go up pretty reliably and steadily with inflation bc I have a union job. When inflation jumped, did my wages? No! They just kept holding steady, growing with the current inflation. Any ground I lost is still lost!
This is not universal, but pretty common.
"When you fill the grocery cart, pay the rent, cover the utility bill, or renew the car insurance, you’re paying today’s sticker — not today’s sticker minus last year’s. "
Shit became unaffordable a few years ago. The fact that it's stabilized at that level doesn't make it affordable!
What they want is to attack you in order to win the votes of people who hate you, while still keeping your vote.
Also they want you to keep your mouth shut about it so you don't make them feel bad about what they are doing. In fact, you should tell them they are smart and good for doing it.
i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
I have been writing my games. Making progress. I should post about it!
But I log on here and everything is so fucked.
Having to post about your silly imaginary elves alongside reports of torture and mass killing is fucked. We need to go back to forums where you could silo these things.
Diary comic. Purple ink in sketchbook. PANEL 1 A kid holds up a drawing of a round fish-looking shark with a little police hat. Kid: I made this character. It’s a shark that’s a cop. PANEL 2 The kid talks to Gale, who’s sitting at a signing table. Kid:I’ve drawn a bunch of stories about it. Shark Cop. It fights with its teeth and electricity. Gale: oh!! PANEL 3 Gale leans in. Gale: you must love drawing. Kid: yeah!! PANEL 4 The kid looks down at his Apple Watch. Kid: oh also I told my dad about Shark Cop and he got AI to make a picture. PANEL 5 Close on the watch, which is showing an image of a very rendered muscly anthropomorphic shark (as attempted by me). Kid: here it is! PA 6 Gale looks at the watch. PANEL 7 Gale looks at the kid, who brightens. Gale: you know, I like yours way better.
parents, I beg: love your kids’ ideas as they are
Before anyone points out jokes I've included in my own games: I know! I couldn't resist. Sometimes you just have to tell the joke.
RPGs are best when played goofy and/or gonzo.
But RPG books should not have goofy or gonzo stuff in them. That's just stealing opportunities out of the mouths of the players.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
Referring to Jan 6 I said specifically "something like that but sane."
Which I admit was unclear. Because the way you have interpreted it ("murdering a bunch of people") is very much not what I meant when I said "but sane." I didn't think that anyone would take "but sane" to mean mass murder.
I've been to a protest. It's truly not that scary. Yes, it can go bad, but it usually doesn't.
Like, if you don't want to ski because you might hit a tree, that's fair, but the risk is worth it for a lot of people. And skiing is objectively more dangerous than attending a protest.
Also, that account has no posts ever and no replies before a day ago. Maybe this is a newbie just joining Bluesky, but with that sort of aggro posting it looks more like trolling.