I named my cat Dax after Jadzia. He's a boy and we kept his first name from the adoption centre, so now he's Nelson Dax - I thought about this very scene when we chose the name. Such a heartwarming exchange

A food processor will do a very similar job, some food processors even have a grating accessory you can buy. I wouldn't worry about the modest difference in flavour.

Are they failing? The past twenty years have seen a steady shift in laws, political representation, and social views towards their ideology. I don't think they expect to win everything all at once in a sudden orgy of hatred. They're just dissolving the foundations of civilized life to draw us back down into medieval life.

Wouldn't blame ya if you did mate

What about our inaction on climate change? We've made very small advances and it threatens the fundamental existence of organized human society within a single human lifespan of right now. Everything else is rather insignificant by comparison. Rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic

I hover briefly in the air, next to my bed, and hold up a sign that says "uh oh" before I fall a couple feet to the ground onto carpet. I might hit my head on the nightstand, but I feel like I got off easy compared to most other people.

That's also Vegas but with mafia instead of slaves

Return to office mandate

I'm not sure the article convinces me this'll be more than a reskin of stellaris, which is my most played game of all time, but given that this is my favourite IP of all time...? Can't say I won't buy it on launch day.

I think it's more like

Healthy, Fast, Cheap, Delicious

Pick 2

Unfortunately I do believe this is correct. The rest of the world dabbled with cars but their urban design and infrastructure for centuries was pre-automobile. They merely shifted back towards their diversified transportation origins. The Americas, by contrast, began their massive development just as the rise of the automobile began. It is the core and soul of the entire fundamental urban and societal structure. Without tearing that out, which would almost necessitate starting over from scratch with most cities urban design, they are trapped with single (or low) occupancy transit as their only reliable means of transportation.

I agree that level scaled enemies are immersion breaking. I also LIKE being able to return to the starter area and feel like a demigod sometimes for a sense of progress. It would be nice if some areas had plausible reasons to level scale. Perhaps an organization rivalling the PC which is well organized and funded, that is forced to equip it's troops with ever increasing gear to counter your ballooning power. Something like that would allow for scaling in some places and not others.