Yes, it was the cheap camera tricks obscuring parts of the map that you could go to that did it for me. It was, like, basically making you check for every possible secret despite the limited abilities of no camera control nor destructible terrain… I get that there was an era of games with this mindset (sorta like some Metroid-&-other games, I suppose), but I just don’t have time for that any more.

This may sound odd to some, but my stance towards quality games is: punish fairly. Life is hard enough as it is so I don’t need a game also going, “Haha, well, screw you here, too.” Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

They will have their own wash cycles/protocols because everyone knows that filth slows things down, especially joints and moving parts. Indoor ones will be programmed to stay sanitary for our sake, so they may even have UV-based self-cleaning capabilities.

They can’t perceive any sense the way organic brains do, but they can still pick up on chemical composition; I recommend that you get an air filter with a reactive/smart detection system. We already have carbon monoxide, radon, etc. detectors, after all. They’ll be really sophisticated! And they’ll cost accordingly…

US Mobile is a self-proclaimed “supercarrier” which offers SIMs across all major networks (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile), so you can change as you like according to your phone’s compatibility. However, the CEO (who is active on /r/usmobile) has been known to kick existing customer loyalty to the curb in favor of new members, and their customer service centers are in Pakistan, where he’s from.

These may or may not be good or bad things depending on your threat model, but one thing’s for sure: their price is unbeatable! Come to think of it, I have a referral link for anyone who may be interested, but that’s up to you. I actually dislike the CEO’s practices, but I’m already locked in for a year and didn’t know until later…

Your Android device doesn’t have a personal dictionary section in the Language & Input page? What phone do you have? Yeah, keeping it offline is probably fine, but I’m just surprised since this has been a thing for at least 7 Android versions now, as far as I know.

By the way, HeliBoard (an offline fork of the now-defunct OpenBoard) seems to have its own private, built-in personal dictionary; I migrated to that since finding out.

Ha, I just made [email protected] recently!

Why do you use a separate Android app with all of those hostile permissions instead of the built-in personal dictionary and its shortcuts? I have thousands of shorthand lines in Android’s personal dictionary, like wdyl = what do you like (type the first part and the second part appears in the autocorrect pane for you to touch if you want).

Rethink is better than NetGuard.

That makes sense. The extent of my desktop-publishing work has typically involved bifold programs, so I use LibreOffice Writer’s “brochure”-printing mode (which automatically sets every 4 pages as double-sided quarters of 1 sheet) because I can’t stand how bad element selection in MS Publisher is. I’ve never used InDesign and want to avoid Adobe as much as possible since my org is already neck-deep in Microsoft’s subscriptions as it is.

Don’t get me wrong; Scribus can clearly make a lot of beautiful stuff. I just can’t even start to figure it out; I gotta find video tutorials or something.

The picture’s off-center stance is bugging me lol.

I didn’t downvote you! I only downvote trolls. Anyway, that’s fair, since the lack of prep forces players to be quick on the trigger, so to speak. I guess I seek a bit more “realism” in a sense, since actual restaurants always prep. I wonder if 3 might strike a decent medium…

Thanks, I had tried Scribus for something unrelated to this, but found it to be horribly counterintuitive in terms of how to even get started. I think it had a major update somewhat recently so I suppose I could retry it…

I actually disliked Tunic, just saying. I got more enjoyment out of Cosmic Express and Delver (and I didn’t even like the final fight in Delver). Whatever floats your boat…

Really? 1 doesn’t let you do advance meal prep, whereas CSD2 does (I haven’t tried CSD3 yet). Anyway, both 2 and 2 are in this bundle.

I was just thinking of exploring that, yeah! Thanks for the nudge. “Parasites” is certainly an interesting word to appear on that webpage…

Out of curiosity, what can N++ do that VSCodium can’t? That’s what I’ve been using and it’s been mostly fantastic.

Wow, thanks for sharing Scoop; I had no idea of this software, and dang, that is one huge games bucket… I’m gonna have to crawl through this sometime. I’ll check out XnView as well! I think I knew of that one earlier, but never actually looked into it and then forgot…

Update: Unfortunately, XnView can’t do anything like the interior cropping that I’m hoping to do. There is a “Suggestions” subforum in their forum, but I can’t even register; despite disabling uBlock Origin, I get met with the nonsensical error The solution you provided was incorrect as I see no CAPTCHA test, so I’m unable to pitch this as a suggestion. Alas…

Haha, thanks to you, I discovered that graphical ADOM is free (I thought it was paid). And MegaGlest is an unexpectedly awesome RTS!

Fine, I edited it into the post. Still, OCR fails miserably at sheet music in my experience. These files are a mix of people scanning papers and PDFs coming directly from file-download websites. I can’t have a single mistake from an OCR converter in my line of work.

Oh, man, a paid subscription? I’d rather stick with Windows, in that case… Thanks for sharing, though.

True! I wonder which are really active nowadays (for the greatest chance of it getting implemented)…

I am, unfortunately, on Windows, mostly because of my inability to find adequate Linux replacements for key features in AutoHotkey and IrfanView. Believe me, I’ve been looking and trying to learn…

These are all PNGs, though! To be specific, I work regularly with sheet music (especially sheet music with no source files, so it’s PDFs that I adjust into PNGs and manipulate from there: mostly deletion of unwanted staves and whitespace).