The device being described in the image is an alternator: a device that captures energy from the movement of the machine.

I think everyone on this thread understands that alternators do not overcome entropy and that there is no infinite energy, but that’s besides the point.

So an alternator?

Pretty sure a used engagement ring is worse than lab grown in the eyes of the unwashed masses.

I hear ya. I am getting real tired of the paywalls and the rent seeking in something I paid for. It used to be confined to free to play games but it has gradually started to creep into fully paid AAA stuff now and that’s just unacceptable to me.

lol, precisely!

Why do people gamble? Because that’s what this is.

The companies don’t even care about the average player. They are trying to hook rich people with more money then sense, aka whales.

A long time ago the industry realized an extremely small percent blows way more money than all the others combined.

If you ever played a game with any kind of monitization and asked yourself why everything is $40 and how the average player can afford it, this is why.

This isn’t Reddit where there is a firehouse of content all day and at all times.

For doom scrollers such as myself, browsing all is a requirement.

My 1080ti says no

Hey I liked invisible war :/

I just use the heroic/legendary alternative launcher for any single player games I actually want to play from egs. It’s open source and gives epic less footprint on my machine.

Unfortunately if you want to do anything multiplayer then you need the real client.

Star citizen says hi

The problem is there are only two candidates to choose from.

…and it will take place during Christmas time.

Yes.

I work for a company based in the uk, and I get off around thanksgiving until the start of the year. I horde my pto though.

Im with you on this one. Corporations are never your friend no matter how they try to frame it.

I use vs code for programming a node based application written in Typescript.

The only thing I find insufficient is the source control integration. Editing and debugging are well done in my opinion, at least for my target language.

What do you find lacking that you feel makes it not a worthy ide?

Same. My only gripe is that the ui doesn’t scale at all which makes it hard to use on 4K.

Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application’s source code will be open to developers worldwide.

The date is given on the page, which hasn’t lapsed yet.

That’s light novels for you.

When your (physical) book is on the shelf amongst a sea of competition at a store, the title is about the only thing that serves as any form of advertisement. So they tend to be VERY verbose.