Yeah exactly. I’m not a biologist but I am aware that horseshoe crabs are harvested for their blood and its unique properties. How much evolution (in the last 450MY) have they undergone in terms of their immune system and other microbiological processes? We may never know but I think it’s quite a stretch to assume “none!”
The agricultural revolution was what began the exploitation of fixed tracts of land. Before that people were nomadic; following the movement of prey animal herds.
There’s a lot of advantages that simply come with using a more popular distribution. For one, having a larger pool of package maintainers (and therefore more packages) is pretty important. Have you ever tried using NixOS as a daily driver? I did a few years ago. Very annoying having to create my own packages for so many different (and relatively common) things I wanted to use.
It really began with the agricultural revolution. As soon as it became possible to store enough food for the winter people started trying to steal it.
Did Ben Carson attempt to do surgery on himself? Otherwise I can’t explain at all how dumb he was. Wow! Thanks for the example.
Jill Stein may be an idiot politician with laughably unrealistic positions and a totally unworkable take on foreign policy (even dining with Putin) but she’s also a physician who practiced internal medicine for decades.
She’s not an idiot in general. I think she’s just unbelievably naive about people and their motivations.
Ahhh no wonder I didn’t see this. I already had Beaver blocked.
Instead of the box of mashed potato flakes you could buy a 10lb bag of potatoes. Mashed potatoes are really easy to make in an instant pot! You don’t even need to peel the potatoes, just wash and chop. The peels provide extra nutrients.
I think in both cases you have a small and vocal minority within the group. Then you have the silent majority who never preach but just enjoy the lifestyle and the benefits it brings them.
Yeah it was over on Reddit. There was quite a large discussion about it. Some (including me) are glad to see it go (I had all my equipment blown up by traps one time because I threw it all down a pit; now that’s no longer an issue).
Others called it a “core mechanic” of the game that they use every run!
Hopefully they stick around! Some of them seemed pretty upset about the change! I think Evan is right that people had become too dependent on the exploit and weren’t willing to try on unidentified items or look for other strategies to deal with them.
I love the variety and strategy trinkets are bringing to the game in 2.4! They do add to early game inventory pressure, which for me is the most frustrating part of the game (juggling a full inventory, throwing stuff down pits, running back and forth).
If trinkets were stored in the velvet pouch instead of the main inventory it would at least keep inventory pressure the same as it is now, without adding to it.
And YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, BitTorrent…
People have a lot more choices now than they did in the bad old days of high cable bills. If streaming services charge too much people will just bail back to free stuff.