Zarkonnen

Quite, let's not bury the fact that the HST is a modified KH-11 spy satellite aimed the other way.

Adorable!

True, it's for Engaging With Brands and data mining.

Wouldn't that just be a regular wall?

Secret option X: Reconsider your life choices and how they have led you to be part of an imperial occupying force.

This is more or less the same thing as a steganographic file system, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system

I was a huge Ambrosia fan back in the day, so thank you for stopping by!

One thing I don't understand is why Ambrosia never put their back catalogue on Steam. At least with EV Nova's Windows version, it seems to me that if you stripped out the licencing system and tossed it up on Steam, you could have had a nice income stream from there. I'd have bought it.

Most of the other games you might have been able to package into an emulator, like GOG games running in DOSbox.

But that's my outside perspective, so maybe there were bigger legal or technical hurdles?

Can I ask what you're doing these days? I was heavily inspired by modding EV to become a game developer myself.

Or use normal banking which has actual regulations for a reason.

Yeah, "transfer" is so... bloodless as to be a lie.

Ooh, let me post my comment from the last time this was posted here back in 2015:

One day, an anti-dragonist on a speaking tour visited a town. When he arrived, most of the town's inns were already full, and he had to make do with a small room in a small in in a run-down part of the town. The next morning, he stood outside the inn on his soap box and told people about how the dragon could be defeated. A small crowd gathered around him. When he had finished speaking, a woman asked: "My children are hungry. My husband went off to war against the tigers and never came back. How does killing the dragon help them?"

"Well, they too will one day be fed to the dragon!"

"But they are hungry now. My baby is very weak. She cries all the time. Even if she doesn't die, she's going to grow up stunted."

"I'm sure you can find a way. Anyway, I'm here to talk about the dragon, it's..."

Another interrupted him: "My son was killed by the king's men three weeks ago. They laughed as they cut him down. No one will hear my case."

"Well, I'm sure they had a good reason. Your son was probably a criminal."

Another said: "My family beats me because I don't want to marry the man they chose for me. Right now, I wouldn't mind being eaten."

"Listen. I'm not interested in the problems of you little people. They're not my problems, and anyway, you're probably lying, or exaggerating, or just not trying hard enough. But I'm scared of the dragon, because the dragon's going to eat everyone, including me. So we should concentrate on that, don't you agree?"

And the people rolled their eyes and walked away.

This is an oddly incoherent article. It fails to mention Borges' "On Exactitude in Science" or Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation" despite re-hashing their ideas.

Someone did this, kinda, by inverting Yahoo's nudity detection network. The results were, uh, unsettling. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12756462

This has been reported, yeah: http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/30/68577/lax-immigration-ag...

(Also, hi, developer here. Noticed this thread via itch.io's visitor analytics.)

Bikeshedding. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

Yes! I was confused by this, too. Everything else I've read about toxoplasma has stated that in humans, it increases risky (or risky-feeling) behaviour like motorcycling or sky diving.

But an infection that makes people more sexually submissive - that reads like the plot of a really silly piece of sci-fi porn.

It can be pretty polarized unfortunately. For example, in 2002, an (in my opinion, pretty extreme) anti-immigration referendum was defeated with a margin of 4208 votes. https://www.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20021124/index.html