I think the only reasonable answer is to just leave without it. This one's on the gift giver; I can't possibly accept it. For one, it definitely can't go in my apartment, and it would cost a shit ton to keep it healthy. It would be an extraordinarily bad idea to take it under my care. I would be getting all sorts of new and exotic fines for all the damage it will do to neighborhood cars etc.

Lol what? Their system makes more sense

This, I've never understood the learned helplessness of some people. The 12,000 employee international company I work for doesn't pay for any Adobe products. You can just use literally any other product or open source alternative, I promise you there are multiple good ones with extremely well supported professional workflows used by millions of people every day, for every conceivable Adobe product. You can learn a new workflow I believe in you, it will take like three months to get used to.

To make a circular mask in gimp, use the circle select tool, then fill your selection.

If you're not suicidally stupid you'll already be holding onto the rope leading to safety with plastic arrows attached every few feet pointing to the exit so you know which way along the rope is out. Never let go of the rope! (You're usually tied to it also, but ofc you gotta unclip to switch rope or go around an anchor where the rope is attached to the rock)

Idk, pretty much all the deaths I hear about are open water divers who decided to go into a cave, ignoring the part of their training where someone shouts at them for an hour to never even think about going in a cave even a teeny little bit, no not even just the entrance, no not even just to look.

This includes people going in to recover bodies. You'll notice the people dying doing that are often military divers who've never been trained for cave diving (true of the recent Maldives incident and also the diver in the Thai cave rescue). I don't say this to be like oh training is some magical panacea but rather that you specifically really should not go in a cave even if you really want to without getting cave trained first. It's not even remotely the same thing as open water diving.

Oh and yeah it's definitely cave diving that's the insane one. Never done it myself and never will but it's an interest of mine because of all the procedure, backups of backups, redundancy etc needed to make it safe. It's more like spacewalking in that regard.

In the case that you have an earthquake or something big enough to cause the cave to collapse yeah you're just dead. This is also true of rock climbing, or walking over a bridge

I think a big part of the problem is the time investment and the fact most people really vibe with only a few types of games.

On time investment: in order to say anything interesting about the game, anything you couldn't get from watching someone play it for two minutes, you'd need someone to take the time to finish it, often 50+ hours, and probably more to digest it and to play stuff around the sides (achievements, collecting. Given an 8 hour work day, and reasonable breaks, that's easily a week or more of just playing before you start writing. Then you've got to write with better insight into mechanics, design etc than the average guy, which a lot of critics fail at. Not just what mechanically does the game do, but clearheadedly why is that different, what makes that good and bad, how do they reinforce or work against the games themes.

On subjectivity: I could not review a first person shooter. I could not review an RPG like Skyrim. It's not because I couldn't play those games, or even derive some enjoyment. But rather that I know my mind, and I know that I have a strategic optimizing mind that left alone would rather play spreadsheet simulator stuff like rule the waves or dwarf fortress or football manager. Complexity is my god. But that's not the route to good design for most people. Similarly, guy who only plays CSGO probably shouldn't be reviewing disco Elysium.

All of this put together means an ideal reviewer would be working on a narrow selection of games, taking weeks or more for each one. And they'd be competing with people making excellent video essays for free on YouTube or whatever. Text is already a niche (hence declining film/book reviews also)

Not liking it isn't the same thing as not doing it, or even not knowing how to do it well. It's a necessary evil, one of many things in life like having to do laundry, or waking up earlier than you'd like to. Sure there are some people who don't do those things either (and fall out of society), but there are few who deeply enjoy them. So too with small talk, it's for colleagues and acquaintances. The way someone becomes my friend is immediately when I realise that they are open to deeper talk

Enforcement.

It's not hard to build public trust in this sort of thing if you aren't a coward. Visible enforcement.

He's mad that people are selling stuff in the temple when it should be holy (and commercial activity is NOT holy)

It's more that it is part of the culture war, so if someone is very against even the idea of tofu, they may also not be so great in other areas of the culture war, like thinking of women as fellow intelligent beings with rich inner lives that deserve respect.

Unlike what I thought from the headline, it's not literally about feeding men tofu. But rather some kind of first date question?

Not sure exactly how great a test it is, I suppose some people might not be able to help but lecture about the subject which is an obvious red flag.

I would humbly submit what they think of horoscopes or tarot cards could be another filter question. When I was a younger guy I would probably have been fine on tofu etc but an arrogant little shit about horoscopes or ouija boards or whatever.

But but but... Ec2 instances aren't ai, you could have done this with a cron job in 2018.

An ec2 instance is just an Amazon server, like a computer you can use for anything. She does mention ai but token use isn't what's incurring the cost here.

It's a reference about Ferdinand Demara, a famous con artist who among other things pretended to be a navy surgeon and "served" onboard a destroyer in the Korean war and performed many surgeries. Mixing it in with the classic doctor on a plane trope

Tests are good vibes we like test. I feel safe warm embrace when test. Test brought dog back to life.

Damn I thought you were being sarcastic

Penicillin? Dust mites??

Halal finance is an entire massive industry. Because taking interest is a sin in islam (based), and used to be in Christianity too. Ursury.

I'm in india at the moment! Left Europe for the first time in my life to visit a friend's wedding. Sadly I can't say I've heard much about this, and I have been talking with a lot of people, travelling about and reading newspapers. Was it some weeks ago or?

Idk dude I'm still playing it on steam pretty regularly? Ive got some weird auto-generated username which I guess comes from an epic account made for me but I never had to do anything it just works fine