Strayce

So how does reducing their range "add choice", exactly? This is the most balls-out corporate doublespeak I've heard in a while.

FWIW, I'm not deadset against this as a concept (because honestly, who needs fucking 50 different kinds of toothpaste or toilet paper), but there's no way in hell this is about customers. This is about exerting power over suppliers.

And it won't reduce their prices, either. They could just, you know, do that. They could always have done that. They just don't.

Any job is like this if your time management is bad enough

Not familiar with those particular games, but if you're lucky there might be a third party mod manager that takes some of the hassle out.

I just picked up Heart of the Machine. It's a turn-based RPG/4X/city builder (which apparently also includes multiversal time travel) in early access. You play as a rogue AI trying to survive in a dystopian cyberpunk city. If that sounds insanely ambitious, that's because it is, especially for a solo dev. I played the (surprisingly full featured) demo and got immediately hooked. The different systems seem to tie together surprisingly well; the RPG elements provide a bit of drive to engage with the strategy side, and choices influence how you build out your tech tree. Probably not for everyone but the demo is free and worth checking out if it sounds interesting to you.

It's been a while, and like I said, I haven't done proper analysis (that would probably be another three or four days work at this rate) but from memory soylent is a lot closer to an actual meal (at least an attempt at a complete protein, a reasonable amount of carbs, essential fatty acids, a wider variety of micronutrients) even before you add whatever liquid you're using. Total is just fortified wheat flakes, sugar, honey and salt. Pragmatically, if you absolutely had to subsist on one of them, I'd say soylent is probably the less-bad option, but I wouldn't recommend either.

Plenty. I have actually tried soylent. Before I got into nutrition properly though and I haven't done any kind of thorough analysis on them. In my personal experience they're .. fine? .. flavour wise pretty bland and neutral, better if you blend them with some fruit or something. The sensation after having one was pretty weird though. Like, you've just taken in a ton of nutrition, but you don't feel "full" -- just kind of not hungry. It's also a lot of liquid that hangs around in your stomach for longer than it feels like a liquid should.

Nutrition wise, off the top of my head, I don't think they're a bad idea, at least conceptually. Lifestyle wise they're a pretty good solution to the "no time / skill to cook a decent meal" problem that a lot of people run into. They're also good for those "need to eat but don't want anything" moments. I'd hesitate to have them for every meal because IIRC they do lack a couple things (fibre, maybe?) but once or twice a week shouldn't be a massive deal.

I'd have to do a ton more work to break down the actual nutrition, value for money and any other possible knock-on effects though. Off the top of my head there might be long-term issues with digestion and possibly oral health, but that's just a guess.

I'm not from the states so I might be missing something, but I'm not sure they actually want to. I feel like this is more to do with birthright citizenship. If they can fabricate enough evidence to classify any Mexican as an enemy combatant, they don't actually need to contradict the 14th amendment.

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