I'm aware that that's a show that existed, but was completely incapable of falling for the trick because I couldn't name a single character in it (and could only name a single actor).

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According to what I read on another site:

If your PayPal is officially a "business" account rather than a "personal" account, this doesn't apply.

Not a scam. Higher prices give other benefits outside of safety. Better venting or aerodynamics. More fashionable. Might be more likely to have a "free replacement if you crash" type of deal.

I am surprised that the article has no mention of MIPS, Wavecel, or Kineticore, because looking at the study itself I found its discussion of rotational vs linear injury to be the most interesting bit, in relation to popular discussions in the cycling community. It points out that

Nine best performing helmets were equipped with the rotation management technology MIPS, but not all helmets equipped with MIPS were among the best performing helmets. Our comparison of three tested helmets which have MIPS and no-MIPS versions showed that MIPS reduced rotational kinematics, but not linear kinematics.

Which is pretty in line with my expectations. They only had one Wavecel helmet to test unfortunately, but had this observation:

Interestingly, the helmet with the Wavecel technology, designed for rotational risk mitigation, produced the lowest linear risk (0.141) in our cohort of 30 helmets, although its overall rank was #13 due to the high rotational risk (0.301)

Which is very counterintuitive. And no Kineticore mention, though they do say

There are several other helmet technologies that are currently available in commercially available helmets. Although these technologies were not within the helmets selected here, they warrant testing according to the protocol used in this study

Yeah the going theory seems to be the death of classic Reddit.

Why are you conflating criticism of a genocidal regime with racism?

RTS’s need a massive new hit to redefine the genre

RTS is a very broad umbrella term. I would have thought a CoD RTS would be more along the lines of CoH in its design than WC3. Though I could see mixing the two to create a tactical RPG RTS.

Because of the broad category that is RTS, I don't think it's necessarily right to characterise it as the genre needing to "redefine the genre" or have enormous innovation. AoE4 is an excellent and very successful game, but it basically only has relatively minor refinements on long-lasting staples of the classic RTS genre. And AoE2 is still enormously successful despite being 25 years old this month (with the obvious remastered graphics, newer QoL features, and new patches and expansion content along the way).

I'm not sure I agree with the live-service complaints. Maybe there are some RTSes that went that way, but one that you mentioned was AoE3, and it certainly didn't. It was buy-once, play forever. (There were 2 major expansions in the same vein as the expansions of earlier Age games with significant new chunks of content in each, but nothing live servicey.) So has been every one of the Definitive Editions (including Age of Mythology: Retold) and AoE4. They do put out new paid content on a regular basis, which is frankly necessary to be able to keep funding bugfixes, balance patches, and server costs. But nonetheless the content has been very well-received by the community, and is entirely optional and doesn't lock you out of playing your old content at all if you choose not to buy it. I'm not involved in any other RTS games, so maybe they are doing more live service stuff. Shame, if so.

RTS may just be a niche genre. It doesn't need to change to attract a wider audience, because doing that would be to change what attracts its current audience. And that's ok. Not everything needs to be for everyone.

Not that there aren't things that RTSes could do to try to maximise their audience. If the game is esport focused, a good investment in esport prize pools goes a long way, and so does making sure your game is in a high quality state before it gets released—even if that means delaying release. AoE4 is an excellent game today with a pretty solid playerbase, but it could have been in a much better state if it hadn't turned away a large number of both pros and low-level competitive players by the terrible state of the game at release. I'm also really impressed by the work the Age franchise has done around console compatibility with their main games recently, but I think greater promotion of this fact (for example by sponsoring console & controller–only tournaments) would help in that arena. I'd also love to see a real classic RTS game developed for mobile, which is why I was initially really excited about Age of Empires: Mobile, until the leaks came out revealing that it's yet another Chinese knock-off like the thousands of cheap mobile games that have come before...only this one tarnishes the brand not just by indirect association/ripping off its assets in ads, but because it's officially allowed to use the Age of Empires brand. Mobile is never going to have the high level of competition we see on PC, but I think if they put the same level of love and care into a mobile game (designed from the ground-up to be a mobile RTS) that they put into the console ports of their core games, it could be a great experience while on the go, and possibly provide an easier entry point into the genre for some newer players.

What I don't want to see is the kind of RTS innovation that leads to completely new genres. MOBAs are fine for what they are, but that's what you get if you embrace the idea that RTS should completely innovate to capture audiences with wildly different tastes: an entirely different genre that no longer appeals to RTS fans.

Hopefully someone will create a good calculator for the early game macro that he talks about from about 4:00 to 5:30. Similar to this one for AoE2, and this one for AoE4. So you can work out exactly how many villagers to put on each resource when you're going 2 stable hippeus or whatever.

Oh of course. Yeah, purple was a tough one.

all dinosaur species were very old

On a human-scale timeframe? Yeah, sure. On evolutionary timescales? According to a PDF by "Charles Sibley" whose content I can only see a small Google snippet of, "Galliformes and Craciformes diverged at a 21.6." (I assume that's MYA) And certainly a lot more diversification has happened since then. Gallus domesticus is probably less than 8,000 years old.

Though a new sauropod would certainly be quite the marvel.

As you can guess, I’m a dumb American

Actually, quite the opposite. I usually find this puzzle to be designed in a way that's easier for Americans than the rest of us, because of references to American culture or American vocabulary or pronunciations.

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Ron, Ron, Ron Weasley

Oh damn is he a bad bike handler? I didn’t know! That definitely makes it funnier.

Though "notoriously terrible bike handler" in the World Championships is a big step removed from a bad bike handler at your local group ride!

This has implications with digital content in general

Not even just digital content. This is only half a step removed from right to repair campaigns, and that’s all about physical hardware, ranging from mobile phones to tractors on farms.

Yeah the only way that tattoo isn’t utterly deranged is if you were formerly a nazi who came to latter renounce those beliefs.

Sorry, but what is it that "Lemmy does not"? Was it the hyphen? That’s unfortunate. Maybe a colon (:) or em dash (—) would work? I’m surprised, considering I’ve seen users with far more absurd characters, like 𝕕𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 (𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕) 𝕥𝕖𝕩𝕥 in their display names.

Though I have to be honest, I don’t particularly like any use of display names other than custom capitalisation and appending pronouns. If I can’t read someone’s display name and type it with an @ mention and get autocomplete because their display name is significantly different from their username, they’ve fucked up and are misusing their display name, IMO. It creates user experience problems.

But yeah, I didn’t get it either.

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Got lucky. I had no idea what purple was.

Some possible workarounds: you could fake out the space and use a hyphen to separate your pronouns rather than brackets. So Dragon"Rider"-xi/drag. Or, if it’s not essential to you, you could remove what appear to be scare quotes from your name instead, which leaves room for the more conventional brackets.

It's really unfortunate that Lemmy handles deleted posts in this way. It's one of very few genuine advantages of the Reddit platform. Over there, if the OP deleted the post, the text they wrote would no longer be visible, but all the comments under it still would be. And people could continue to have that discussion, so long as they had the link.