I almost always start digital, either ebook or audiobook then buy a physical copy later if I liked it. It's just a lot less friction for starting something new, no needing to go out of my way to a library/bookstore or wait for something to be delivered. Sometimes I'll just take a gamble on something physical if I'm looking for a new travel book or I'm killing time in a library/bookstore though.
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I sometimes tell people to try the network troubleshooter if they're having issues because it's idiot proof. All it'll do is occasionally disable and enable a network adapter which can fix some common problems. If you're even the slightest bit tech savvy though, ignore it.
Startup Repair has been useful when I've actually gone to use it, but I can count on one hand how many times I've gotten to that point.
Otherwise, no.
My coworkers were talking today about all the hoops they were going through with streaming to find the content they wanted and navigating the byzantine extra charges to share it with their family. If piracy wasn't an option I still wouldn't go through all that, it's madness how much worse the paid service is to the high seas.
It's a basic ass answer but Sisko. Star Trek has tried moral compromise a lot by now, but Sisko remains the only one where it really hit for me. Later Trek, where it's more common, just doesn't have the same level of professionalism or idealism for it to feel meaningful.
There are companies that still sell new machines of archaic operating systems for this reason. I'd really recommend anyone in the situation of justletmeremember to look into it, all that stuff could be backed up and given redundancies pretty inexpensively considering the risk.
And yeah, it's really common. There is way more horrifying applications than research that rely on legacy machines. Everyone has heard that nuclear weapons required floppy disks until very recently, but it wasn't some isolated case. Stuff like that is all over the military despite the insane amount of money it steals.
Shh, we're not supposed to tell anyone about it lest that guy gets any worse ideas.
It's true though.
Nah, this isn't comparable to stealing something while the PCs are sleeping or sacking a stronghold offscreen. The OP's example clearly has the player there so they had agency to do something here, but failed to save it. It's never your stronghold until you've successfully defended it.
Without RSS I'd stop following the vast majority of online content. I'm not checking all these different websites individually, where their follow options have substantially less functionality.
I currently have 121 feeds. Podcasts, youtube channels, TV show releases, some blogs, a surprising number of reddit searches, etc. I used to have substantially more feeds but I trimmed it heavily a couple of years ago - mostly I stopped follow the news so closely for my sanity.
It might sound kind of overwhelming but I create pretty strict filters so I get maybe a dozen updates on a busy day.
I struggled with The Outer Worlds' really ham fisted centrism. While it's been awhile, I remember the best result on every major planet was to find compromise between the two factions. It's done so clumsily that it makes none of the factions feel authentic in any way.
It can be easy to dismiss it due to the 90s TV budget and effects
It's a plus for me. Something about the sets and effects being more 'attainable' makes them more interesting to me.
Given every single system in Starfield is already explored and built on, I think they should have just given up on the jump system and gone with a gate system like Freelancer or the X series. You get to fly to every point without menus while still being time efficient. The reason they didn't go with this is presumably because of the supposed "exploring the unknown" angle, but you never explore anywhere new in Starfield anyway.