Willie

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Well, a little bit of 'yes' and a little bit of 'no'.

If it is possible over the course of the game for turn orders to be changed, or for a player to choose to draw a card, or cause another player to draw a card, then it matters in a way.

If I can cause actions to make another player draw a card, then it is more meaningful if the deck is shuffled already, because the card that I caused the player to draw is the same as the card I would have drawn if I drawn a card instead. However, from the perspective of the user, there is no way for them to know the difference.

I feel like it is better for the integrity of the game if the deck is shuffled for real, though. Because if ever a user finds out that it doesn't work how it is expected, then it cheapens the experience in a way. Kind of like how the old Mario Party games determined the outcome of dice rolls when the die appeared on screen instead of when you pressed the button to 'roll' them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

There are a few inaccuracies in your statement, but It was clear the whole thing was about money from the start though, you shouldn't be surprised about this. If you were hoping for AI to be free to you, you should have only been supportive of software that you could run on your own hardware.

Anyway, these companies are in the position of ISPs now, where they have customers, but they don't want to pay for the infrastructure to support the amount of customers that they have, since they can make the same amount of money without making their customers happy.

None of that helps you... Sorry...

Welcome to episode 1 of Black mirror reality TV series!

Well, have fun with your pig, I guess. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Haha, I know they're doing it for the wrong reason, but it's still a pretty alright idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Woah, that's the first good idea ISPs have had in a very long time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure Reddit is just down right now, even the app isn't working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I suspect the but am not sure that the same nothing would happen if you plugged it into a different outlet in the room. Since reason nothing happened here was claimed to be that the connections are all shared, and since outlets are wired from one outlet to the next, they would still share the hot, neutral, and ground.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

But if they have more customers then they have to spend more resources making more product. So 1 customer at 1000x the price is more valuable than 1000 customers at the a lower price. If it costs 28 dollars to make a year's worth of doses like this screenshot claims, then they'd make $42,222 charging a single customer the current price, while they'd only make $12,000 charging 1,000 customers the proposed price.

So for the company to make more money than they are now, they'd need 3,519 new customers for every one current customer. Since Google says there are 1.2 million people with HIV in the United States, if they have more than 342 current customers in the united states, they are making more now than they could ever make at the proposed price. Therefore the amount of new customers is almost certainly not worth it to them.

Money seems to ruin pretty much everything about healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think I want to watch a video about cats dying, but, yeah, it's a really bad thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

One of the litter boxes must have killed his cat...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

But it would be unwise to trust them again. They could change their minds at any time, just as they did before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just do it, once your city has enough money if the bank, or your income is large enough, double down on making a highway. Demolish some buildings and tear your city in half, just like in real life. Most of the time if you have enough traffic that you need a highway in the town, you could probably avoid it in game, by enhancing the public transit options, however, that wouldn't be realistic as to how cities are really run, so doing a highway every now and again is a fun change of pace.

The best way to get good at making a highway, is to make a highway, you can do it, set it up however you want, and see how it works. If something doesn't work right, change it and find out how to make it work for you. Or if it is broken, it may be more fun to leave it broken. Stuff like that happens in real cities all the time.

Make sure you adjust your public transit options when you're done splitting your city in half with your highway, since your bus routes will be interrupted.

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