Ah, the discordian fallacy. A similar principle also applies to propaganda. One does not need to make people believe it. A saturation attack will bury the truth for so long that people stop looking for it.

An archer cares not of the feelings of the arrows. He reminds me of the quiverfull movement.

Many of the Nintendo 64 era games are textbook examples of how to do the leap from 2D to 3D properly, OOT among them. It pioneered many mechanics that are nowadays regarded as genre defaults. Going back can feel odd. Story-wise, the structure is very similar to an another classic, Link to the Past.

When some of my coworkers forced me to pick a Republican in the Before Times, I picked Rubio purely from a damage control perspective. Now I know better. The downside of picking an empty suit is that it will do what it’s told.

It was a limited time event which also featured Prune, a pint-sized witch hunter.

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Also founded her own coven.

My favourite character in the Tekken fighting game series was Yoshimitsu. As a cyborg ninja, it’s in his nature to be unorthodox. His cheesiest move was the humble low spinning kick. If you managed to get an enemy airborne, you could kick them repeatedly on their way down before they could react.

Prioritization of information. I get a lot of email, so I cannot read everything. Put the most important information first and let me choose when to stop reading. Even if I don’t get every detail, I will at least get an overview.

Some serious "What was Hitler right about, Curtis?" goose meme action going on.

One of the big obvious problems was that Bluetooth signals do not follow the same constraints as the virus. So it could warn you even if were actually safe.

Low adoption rate skewed the results the other way; If an infection was not reported, anyone who was exposed would not get that warning.

Re: Contact tracing app. It didn’t track locations per se, it tracked pseudonymous identifiers sent by mobile phones to other phones in the vicinity. When an owner of a phone got a diagnosis for Covid, their phone’s ID was posted on a public list. Your phone would recognize that ID and warn you.

There are direct messages, but those are not encrypted and the contents are visible to administrators and moderators.

While the DLC is a mostly self-contained locale, it does integrate into the overall mystery seamlessly and adds a new instrument to The Tune.

And extra fuck you to services that don’t have a “reject all” button, but require you to go through 100+ options manually.