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They all challenge you on different ways.

DS3 is actually quite interesting to finish on SL1. You can cast one basic spell, lots of weapons are available to you, but you need to think carefully about your loadout so you've got a good set of resistance and buffs for each area.

DS1 limits you to terrible weapons with boring movesets, and by the time you've heard the pyromancy noise for the ten thousandth time, you'll be ready to chuck your monitor out the window.

DS2 is hellish. Your dodge is tied to your agility, which only a few items boost, and for the first 3/4 of the game, you'll only get that from a crap armour set. Only a couple of weapons are available to you. You'll need to know basically every boss inside out; some of the ones that were comedic before are no longer so funny.

Scholar is like DS2, but you can't run into the DLC early on any more to get some of the powerful rings that are in there. I almost cried when I finally got the ring of the embedded.

Wouldn't know about finishing ER on RL1/no summons. Cleared out the four demigods easily enough, but Morgott was a run ender. RL1 does not leave you a lot of room for mistakes, put it like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin

The three wheels and the fibreglass construction meant that it was light enough to count as a tricycle, so that you could drive one on a motorcycle license rather than a full driving license. Plus they sip quite gently at the petrol by the standards of the 1970s. You still saw a few on the roads when I was growing up in the 80s, but it's been a long time.

The thought of doing 85 mph in one of them is enough to make me fill my trousers, though. Couldn't pay me enough.

Well, the universe is expanding, and we don't know why. Dark energy has come to dominate the energy balance of universe, and we don't know what that is. We've a theory that's great for describing small things, and a different theory that's great for describing large or fast things, but they don't line up, so we can't have them quite right.

If the universe did have a period of greatly increased expansion shortly after the big bang, it doesn't seem too crazy to suggest that you could do it again, at least in theory. Might require some absurd energy density. That much energy in one place is likely to collapse into a black hole, which would sort out contacting the universe again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe

And that very unusual lowercase 'g'. https://www.emigre.com/Fonts/Matrix-II lets you compare them all.

Joke is, that he's counted six toes on her foot. Normally TLP stops at the one that went home.

Really traditional vampires are super OCD; one of the ways to get rid of them is to spill a big bag of eg. rice in front of them, and they'll spend so long counting every grain that they'll get caught by the rising sun. Salt ought to work as well?

One grain of salt, two grains of salt. Ah ha ha ha. Three grains of salt...

Was in the Steam sale recently - bought it, completed it. It's pretty good - revisits a lot of MI1 and 2 with the hindsight that comes with age. There's a lot to like, but it's also fairly blatantly unfinished, some of the puzzles seem like placeholders for the much bigger puzzles that ought to be there, if you see what I mean?

It's not quite as good as any of the original trilogy, but it's not far off. Massively better than 4, obviously. I quite enjoyed the Telltale ones, tho - the episodic structure forced them to keep the puzzles tight, and they had some really good moments.

Oh, cool. Great game, really fun to play.

I'd like to nominate "several different versions of Dredmor" as the update required; maybe have some cryptic clues as to which version he is as you progress down the dungeon. You either know what he's like and have planned your build around it, in which case you'll whip him like a red-headed stepchild with implausibly big eyebrows; or you'll get a complete kicking because he will one-shot your otherwise end-game character as soon as he gets close.

A rogue-like where most of the options aren't good isn't a great one. Everything should be useful in some kind of character build.

Problem being, of course, that you can add more certificates, but you can't revoke the original M$ one. And since it's vulnerable and you can't get rid, then these exploits still work and there's nothing you can do to stop it.

Lots of calories in beer. Need to move yourself over to neat spirits. Make sure that you spend all your money on them, so that you've nothing left to buy food. Then follow the diet posted above, but skip the eggs and replace the large glass of wine with a large glass of vodka. You'll lose a tonne of weight.

Get some Hendo's relish on it as well - meal for for a king.

I'm all here for the green energy. I think it's worth investing in "both sides of the coin", though. Now that I've replaced all the energy-wasting bulbs in the house with LEDs, and the house is well-insulated enough that there's just no need to run a three-bar electric fire to keep warm, then I'm at the point where solar panels would be sufficient for nearly all my energy requirements. That's partly because solar has got better, but mainly because I'm just using loads less

On that note, the secret to not having power and cooling issues running tens of thousands of super-hot GPUs in the desert, is not to build them. Which as they're not being built, might be enough ;-) But investing in more effort processing units and more efficient models would do it too. They wouldn't have their "no one else can afford this" moat if it was all made more affordable, tho.