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The thumbnail reminded me of Grand Moff Tarkin, the full image not so much.

To be fair, doubling the amount of charge cycles is not great for your battery. So even with a charger available one should consider whether it's worth it.

You probably have a charger at home, though.

By fucking up the region they are also increasing gas prices and fucking up the stock markets, both of which will cause political headaches in the US. They're trying to make it very expensive for the US to attack them.

What I'm saying is that StarCraft didn't so much "have that issue solved" as it just didn't create that issue for itself. It's also a lot easier to do things offline when your game is designed to be sold once instead of the micro transactions hellscape and constant "events" you see nowadays.

Newer games rely a lot more on online features than StarCraft did. You could play that without access to the internet when it came out.

It's all centered around meetings it seems like. But my life is thankfully not.

TFW when someone has an "old-school" trick which uses markdown syntax.

The feeling is old. I feel old.

I actually used to learn names by associating the face with the faces of other people I knew with the same name. In the area I lived at the time, it wasn't uncommon to know multiple people with the same given name, so this helped quite often. Now I live in an area where there is very little overlap, and my brain seems to have fully abandoned that approach, even when I meet someone sharing a name with someone I know.

Thankfully, hearing someone's given name often jolts my memory and I suddenly remember the full name. That's at least somewhat redeeming after the initial awkwardness.

TIL I'm helping out by never changing my wardrobe.

Sidenote: I'm not face blind (I struggle with names instead), but I also sometimes struggle with recognizing people I only met once if I see them in a new context. Possibly because my brain doesn't fully commit people to memory unless I meet them at least twice. This is a problem, because people recognize me after meeting me once, and it makes for awkward second interactions.

That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.

No worries, that only happens if there's a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn't be a problem here, surely this thing won't generate any of that.