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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I got all but one achievement in Subnautica, and all of the achievements in Below Zero (the sequel) in my first playthrough of both games, just from taking my time and thoroughly exploring both of the worlds and completing the story without even consciously trying to go for the achievements.

With that said, they are open world games and at times don't really give you a whole of guidance as to what you need to do next. So you are kind of left to explore and figure it out on your own. If you don't like that sort of game you might end up hating them by the end too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

I was always a bit impressed by those shuttles. They are warp capable and apparently capable of maintaining warp speed for at least several weeks making them more of a starship themselves than just a shuttle. Not bad for something the size of a large van.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The worst one I remember was having to read Great Expectations in high school. Maybe I might appreciate the book more today, but at the time I found it incredibly boring and it just seemed to drag on and on and on. It really felt like a written soap opera from the 1800's, which it kind of was as it was originally published a serial where the reader got a small part of it every week. Which probably accounted for how slowly the plot seemed to move.

Perhaps an honorable mention would go to "Triton", as that's the first book I remember where I started reading and actually got a decent way into it before putting it down as it was absolutely boring me out of my mind. Though I was a teen at the time, and one of my main sources of reading material was whatever I could find at garage sales for cheap. But nevertheless, almost always if I thought a book was interesting enough to buy it was also interesting enough for at least one read through, but that one stood out as an exception. Though I have to wonder if I tried reading it again today if I might manage to get through it this time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have to rank Children of the Mind as one of the just plain weirdest books I've ever read. Just when I thought it couldn't get weirder, Orson Scott Card manages to throw something else at you. After I finished Children of the Mind, I decided at that point I was going to move onto some other book series.

I'll still recommend Ender's Game as that's a classic, but I wouldn't bother with the sequels.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That sounds like a problem with whatever edition you read. I had to read it a long time ago for school and the version we read was more like a short novel and I found it an interesting read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It probably has to do with whether the driver's license is Real ID compliant or not. Here in Minnesota, you have the option of getting the Real ID license that can be used as a federal ID card for things like flying, or the regular old driver's license which soon will really only be good for showing you're allowed to drive a car.

I only have the regular driver's license so I don't know what all getting the Read ID involves, but having your biometric data scanned and stored seems like something they'd require.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's a number that can be played with just a mouse. Though looks like that's not an option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Naw, the best software they've ever produced is 6502 BASIC.

Though Flight Simulator does get an honorable mention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The supreme court left it kind of vague in their ruling. The courts are supposed to decide, but for something like this no matter what the lower courts decide, any ruling would almost certainly get appealed up all the way up to the supreme court. So what is or isn't an official act is basically boils to whatever the supreme court decides it to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personally, I didn't really mind Wesley in the later seasons and a few of the Wesley-centric episodes were pretty good. It's really the first season, and even more so the first few episodes of the first season where he was annoying as all hell. Oh look, boy wonder saves the ship, yet again. Unfortunately that kind of seems to have stuck with the character, despite the show toning down his antics significantly after that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you think that's fun, just wait until you get to the verbs of motion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the bumpers on some of the Ram trucks?

Any of the decorative chrome bits have been cheap plasti-chrome for something like 30 years now.

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