I am guessing that it’s different because they spend weeks and months on the ship. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t be too keen to enlist in the navy if it required not having my personal phone for months on end. They gotta make some concessions in policy to keep everyone sane.

Or maybe they’re banned but people sneak them in anyway.

Edit: then again, if they just snuck them in, they wouldn’t have any connection. They need wifi. So it’s probably allowed.

Beat me to it! It’s not my favorite sketch of theirs, but any excuse to share a Chris and Jack video is good :)

To the uninitiated: Jack was the voice of Sokka in AtLA. Chris was a Blue Man.

Not fucking safe for work.

Could be

If you won’t credit the author, I guess I will:

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wolf

In general, old fables need more psyops.

How can you be sure? I think we need to do it and run the experiment in order to find out.

Whoops, yes.

I think we should put all the religious people in half the countries and all the atheistic people in the other half. Both kinds of countries can form whatever borders and laws and politics, I don’t care about that. But if you became religious in an atheistic country you’d be banished to a religious country, and vice versa.

There would be people who could go either way (agnostic or what have you), don’t ask me about the details and the logistics of it. But there CANNOT be a country that contains both a totally atheistic person and a devout religious person. It would be strictly enforced, no exceptions. Never the twine shall meet!

(not a real answer) corporate art / art by committee

It’s an interesting thought, but no amount of software is going to conjure up new physical buttons. You pretty much always need to use the ABXY buttons at the same time as the D-pad, so this remapping trick wouldn’t be possible.

Interesting. I played Hollow Knight on Switch and joycons were my favorite option for this exact reason. The few times I tried with a Switch pro controller … did not go well. It’s too squishy, and I absolutely do blame the controller there! Presumably 8BitDo is much better and clickier.

Silksong I actually played on PC, with a keyboard. It was great for me, the biggest downside personally is the lack of rumble - I love haptic feedback. The game definitely plays better with a controller but the button layout on keyboard was totally playable.

If I’m near an open window, I might have an intrusive thought of “what if I accidentally chuck my phone out the window?”

I have no idea how anything like that could happen accidentally. I grip my phone tighter.

That’s a good idea actually!

I don’t know what you mean, Hollow Knight is unplayable with accidental diagonals. Try attacking in mid-air while moving left, but then oops! Instead of an attack to your left, you do a pogo or an upwards attack. You miss your target, and you die.

I want this controller, but I am so annoyed that no controller on the planet comes with separated directional buttons for the D-Pad. Accidental diagonal input is the bane of my existence. The Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons have separate buttons and I freaking love it! But the ONLY reason they did that is to allow them to serve as ABXY when held sideways. No “real” controller does this.

The only option I’ve found to achieve this is to get a PlayStation controller (PS4 or PS5), and mod it with a kit that separates the buttons under the faceplate. But the extra features of the Steam Controller sound too good to sacrifice just for that.

The only D-Pad I’ve ever actually liked is the 3DS (XL), because it’s so clicky and never caused accidental diagonal input. Seriously, how do people accept this crap?

So yeah, I really hope the D-Pad on this is clicky. I’ll probably be buying it either way.

I recommend this video by Sixty Symbols, the same production of Numberphile and Computerphile in case you’ve heard of them.

But basically, when atoms are close enough to each other they attract each other (van der Waals force), which can cause things to stick to each other even without chemical bonds.

Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. They need to prove that they can cook 0 meals for the base case.

I don’t know if it’s that crazy. The form factor of laptops, and computers for that matter, has pretty much stayed the same for many decades and still going strong. It’s entirely possible that this slab phone form factor will stick around forever.

Off the top of my head, random list of older things that haven’t significantly changed form factor in forever:

• Writing tools (pens, pencils)
• Notebooks
• Chairs, sofas
• Cars (pedals, steering wheel, gear stick)
• Cookware (pans, pots, etc.)
• Utensils (knives, spoons, forks)
• Clothes (for men: trousers, shirt, underwear, socks, shoes, jacket/coat)
• Drawers
• Doors and door knobs/handles

Maybe some of those I’m wrong about, but certainly not all. Sometimes, a form factor just sticks around.

What about this button is anti-vandal? What kind of vandalism does this prevent?

Just that the sun is, and always has been, a higher being observing humanity. She doesn’t look at the “camera” at any point, so I don’t see it as a 4th wall thing.