kingbirdy

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by kingbirdy 2mo ago
So the website doesn't work and the discord is private for no reason? Unfortunately this is reminding me why I stopped playing MUDs :( For a genre that's entirely dependent on keeping up an established and invested user base, the
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by kingbirdy 2mo ago
> There is an ongoing project doing this (that launches this weekend I believe) to revive a MUD called Shadows of Isildur Interesting, could you share more info? I couldn't find anything on Google. I played a fair amount of SOI back
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by kingbirdy 3y ago
This seems like a premature launch, there's nothing on the page that's useful when playing the game. It would be great to actually see what the skills do, their work abilities, and all the other info that's available in the g
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
Yes, high-achieving teenagers are mostly tired all the time
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
You're missing two things, one for each age group: For the younger kids, each hour earlier they start is an hour earlier they finish, which means parents need to either finish work earlier (not possible for most people), or pay for an
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
I don't think you responded to the comment you meant to
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
I've been listening for about 30 minutes and it's pretty neat, I've already found some new music I like. However, the weather forecast told me it was 275° F.
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
Price fixing increases profits as long as nobody undercuts you, that's the whole point
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
A new score would certainly qualify as "materially different", to GPs point
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
> I was once unmasked in an old video game though because of a mistake specific to that game and people from my country, a mistake I had internalized since childhood. That was quite shocking to me... I'm curious to know what the &qu
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
Because there are many large companies who's entire purchasing procedure seems to be to select whoever's furthest in the top right of Gartner's quadrants
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
For many people (esp. kids and "Disney adults"), Disney{land,world} isn't a type of theme park, it's its own experience that could never be substituted with Six Flags or Universal Studios, and Disney clearly has a "
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
How are Germans using two orders of magnitude more electricity than Americans?
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
There are limits to how much he can borrow against his assets, both due to banking risk models and Tesla bylaws. He's too close to those limits already to borrow another $20B.
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by kingbirdy 4y ago
Concert tickets _are_ dynamically priced, at least for some events. See Ticketmaster's "Official Platinum"[0] which is a dynamic pricing system for the best seats, I imagine other companies have something similar. [0]: https
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by kingbirdy 5y ago
Ukraine is not a dictatorship, their most recent election was widely recognized as fair by international observers.
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by kingbirdy 5y ago
The point of enabling that option is that users want you to use the relay so they don't have to give you their real email address. If you're just trying to send an email, why isn't the relay acceptable?
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by kingbirdy 5y ago
Could you provide some substantive backing you your claims? Why won't this ever happen? Why do you think this is about "being bold" rather than "managing things rationally"? What's irrational about electric veh
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by kingbirdy 5y ago
> Knee-jerk virtue signalling is not a sign of a good historian The author isn't and never claimed to be a historian. Their bio on Atlas Obscura says "I'm a senior editor and writer at Atlas Obscura, bee steward, mead make
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by kingbirdy 5y ago
You aren't obligated to accept anything given to you as a gift or in a will.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Pitchfork is the name of the website that's hosting the article
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
> What prevents their neighbour parking in their stall for a few hours and using their power? Presumably the same thing that stops you from parking in your neighbor's driveway and charging using their outdoor outlets - it's ill
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Why does this article not have any pictures of the watch? It only has renders, even though the author supposedly has one.
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Datadog Is Acquiring Sqreen(investors.datadoghq.com)
12 points by kingbirdy 6y ago|0 comments
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
His post implies he's dropping support for all Google platforms, presumably including Android, where Terraria is consistently one of the top selling games. That seems like a much more difficult decision.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
I believe this was done occasionally in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
They marketed it as a game that could played that way, so it's on CDPR for setting incorrect expectations, not on the people playing for doing what the marketing told them would be part of the fun.
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
> The transaction is anticipated to close in the second quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2022 It seems like it will be a little while before Salesforce can start integrating into Slack at least
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
Chainmail is bite proof in that it will likely prevent the tiger's teeth from puncturing your skin, but a tiger's jaw is strong enough to snap almost any bone in your body through the chainmail, so it's ultimately not going t
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by kingbirdy 6y ago
All three New York library systems are independently run, they're not controlled by the city or state of New York.

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