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My understanding is that there's now a 15 minute mandatory gap between unlocks but you have to have: a. Interacted with the level editor for a sum of 15 minutes b. Tried out all the new things unlocked last time. Otherwise, it falls back to the old one-unlock-per-day pattern as long as you use the editor once a day.

It's already been said, but Consider Phlebas is by far the most atypical of the Culture books. I'd really start at The Player of Games, which is the second book, and come back to Phlebas later.

Any opportunity for some Key and Peele...

Speaking of not getting points across...

Hey how about everyone lets it go or takes it to PM.

When will we finally get expanded character set options for drive letters, so I can dir ☃:\

You all play with chat on? I just immediately turn off voice chat and text chat in any game where I'm going to be playing with internet people.

No advantage to you. It's an advantage to Microsoft. In aggregate, most people will wait for the invite, which lets them do a slow rollout and see what problems surface before they affect the whole Windows userbase.

http://seriouseats.com is pretty good

You can force an upgrade by grabbing the media creation tool from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10, running it, and choosing 'Upgrade now'. My initial impression is: Seems fine. Feels like Windows.

It also depends on how the respondent thinks about it... For example, if I got an email that said "Hey, want a refund on your Star Citizen pledge? Click here and we'll do it!" I'd totally do it. But am I upset that that's not an option? Not really, no.

Fixed, thanks. Also, Sort of figured out why it's not starting on boot (I hope).

Yeah no.

Banned, thanks.

Should be sending again now. Btw, since PM spam report seem to not be working, can someone who's been receiving it post the username of the sender?

Looks like Mailgun is denying mail from us... I'm opening a support ticket to ask what's up.

The gawker editorial team is also expressing some outrage at the decision: http://politburo.gawker.com/a-statement-from-the-gawker-media-editorial-staff-1718649722

May I refer you to this Thrilling Adventure Hour episode in which they couldn't book John Dimaggio to play his role as Captain Laserbeam that night, so they recast with Keegan Michael Key for the episode and then made it a running joke?

I only backed for $25 back in the earliest days, but I'd totally take it back if they were offering. But yeah, they just wanted to make Derek Smart go away.

Yeah, they were previously going to launch on the PS4 first with PC following, but are now saying they'll release together.

Just a heads-up that the forums should be sending all outbound mail through mailgun.org now, rather than from the web server. Hopefully that improves mail reliability a bunch, but let me know if you're seeing issues.

People who strcmp() version strings deserve what they get.

Should be working now, let me know if you're still having trouble.

I think syntheticgerbil mentioned this already, but the reason early animation is mostly filled in with black isn't (usually) racial, it's because it was cheaper. Here's a breakdown of how this sort of animation was made (at least at Disney, but it should be pretty similar elsewhere): 1. An animator draws keyframes with major poses 2. Animation keyframes are sent to in-betweeners, an army of grunts who fill in all the frames between the keyframes 3. The complete frames are sent to the inkers, who copy the frames from paper onto acetate 4. The acetate cels are sent to painters, who then fill in those lines 5. Then the whole thing goes to be photographed, with the backgrounds as separate painting(s) (in multiple layers in the case of Disney's multiplane system) Basically, it's cheaper to have an army of inkers and painters all working in black with occasional spot color than it is to pipeline them through a bunch of colors for each frame. Color usually came from spots or backgrounds.

Other way around on #1. There are two loading stations for swinging gondolas and one for stationary, in the middle. The line is longer, but moves twice as fast up to the point where it splits into separate queues for the front and back load. That said, the ration of swingers (ha) to non-swingers in line is usually higher than 2:1, so the total wait for non-swinging is usually shorter. The key to making the whole thing fun is to put all the heaviest people on one side.