monotremata

I mean, only a misdemeanor offense, and the caller ID thing only cost them $6 million. Sounds to me like this is definitely within budget for a bunch of candidates.

It's not exactly the same, but Slay the Spire scratched some of the same itch for me. It's got the same meta-structure as FTL, but the fights use a deck-builder format. It's really well done.

One Step From Eden seemed like it should be even better for me, since it borrows the positional strategy stuff from the Mega Man Battle Network games, but I couldn't get into it. Mostly I remember it being just way too fast. I really wanted to like it, but basically didn't.

And yeah, as someone else mentioned, Advance Wars is good, too. The thing that Into the Breach did that Advance Wars didn't, for me, was that Advance Wars basically depended on the AI being a bit crap so that you could overcome an initial disadvantage and work up to victory. Into the Breach gets around that by making the enemy wholly predictable instead, which is arguably more fun. The only other game I know of that worked that way was an Android game called Auro, but I don't think that's playable anymore and I believe the dev has abandoned it. It's a shame, as it was really well made.

Other than that... you could try learning Go (aka igo, baduk, or weiqi). It's a board game with very simple rules, but very deep strategy that emerges from those rules. The main disadvantage is that it's multiplayer only, but there are puzzles, problems, and AIs you can use to turn it into a solo time killer.

I don't even get how they have the authority to do this. Measure 110 was enacted as an amendment to the Oregon constitution, so it seems like it would require another amendment to rescind that and recriminalize possession.

And for those thinking that maybe time could have turned the THCA into delta-9 THC, that's true, it could have; but time would also turn that delta-9 THC into CBN. So the delta-9 levels would be unlikely to have increased much over the baseline regardless of how old the weed was.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/greatestgen/images/1/14/Drunk_shimoda_%28full_song%29.ogg

They're actually kind of doing that in the E. Jean Carroll case. His "appeal bond" has to be 110% of the judgment award, so he has to put up 91.6 million instead of the 83.3 million she was awarded. My understanding is that the extra is to cover the interest that might accrue during the appeals process in the event that she still wins.

Edit: e.g. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-asks-to-delay-his-bond-in-excessive-carroll-verdict/ar-BB1iNqcq

Or it won't happen when you're watching, because then they're thinking about what they're doing and they don't make the same unconscious mistake they did that brought up the error message. Then they get mad that "it never happens when you're around. Why do you have to see the problem anyway? I described it to you."

My favorite is "and there was some kind of error message." There was? What did it say? Did it occur to you that an error message might help someone trying to diagnose your error?

They did them first. I still keep seeing ads for "free" turbotax, though, so I'm not sure what effect it's having.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-issues-opinion-finding-turbotax-maker-intuit-inc-engaged-deceptive-practices

A recent (satire) headline from The Onion: https://www.theonion.com/alabama-middle-schooler-jailed-after-taking-basketball-1851186115

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Yeah, I agree about the textures, but I think you're overestimating the existing LLMs. I think folks are already starting to recognize the style of the current LLMs and finding it off-putting. I think that's only going to increase as people try to apply them in even more places.