Done that way completely on purpose, of course.
The numbers all have their binary value in their low nibble, too, which makes Binary-Coded Decimal completely trivial to convert into the equivalent string, or vice-versa. Nearly as easy to convert 'normal' binary numbers in either direction, too.
As soon as the ball at the end rotates, you'll get fresh ink again - the amount that dries at the very tip is miniscule. This change dries up the slight detritus that builds up around the tip, too - we used to wipe that off onto your other hand if it was the first bit of writing you were doing that day. But damn, that was a few years ago.
Fortunately, wages have increased to match, right?
Made worse in nu xcom because shooting generally ends your turn and leaves you open to retaliation - sixty percent shot implies forty percent chance of death, and death of an experienced trooper is extremely bad. Old xcom, you could duck out of cover, take a shot, and duck back in, so "bad" chances to hit aren't such a problem.
Which leads to my other part of the problem with nu xcom. The original, you could load fourteen dipshits into the skyranger and they could all take their 14% shots; if half of them came back alive, then it's promotions all round. A meat grinder for sure, but the loss of a couple of soldiers isn't a disaster - your fault for sending your most experienced guys first through the door if it is. The new one requires exceedingly cautious play and luck. Nothing like as bad as Phoenix Point, of course, but spoiled it a bit for me.
Tactics is choosing who to send in first. Strategy is being able to recover if that goes wrong. Nu Xcom is all tactics and not enough strategy.
Unless they plan to stay out of caves forever, then eventually they're going to stumble into the one that you have planned...
Bless her. If someone that really 'loves and appreciates wine' but 'hates eggs' finds that a complete nightmare, then I (who am the opposite) should leave it alone.
She'd absolutely cooked the shit out of those eggs, though. I'd probably hate them too if I only got 'yellow cooked until it's a powdery dust' as my options.
Well yeah. You barely use groups on a personal machine - maybe once and done for audio and VMs, depending on what distro you use - and at work you'd automate that shit, probably have it centralised.
I think this is still one of the strips where he was forced to have the top line of the strip as something that could be cut off and yeeted by newspapers that wanted a smaller comics section? He wrote a bit about how he hated it, forced him to waste space on a throw-away joke, couldn't compose things just the way he wanted, and he was always experimenting with ways to disguise it.
Shows his skill as an artist that it's so hard to tell, of course - like you say, so smooth.
Filesystem-as-a-db is why MongoDB is webscale. You just turn it on and it scales right up.
For when playing Nethack over telnet just has unacceptable protocol overhead, it's time to bust out some RPC.
Was it as long ago as that? xcancel.com still works, if you can't live without your fix of Baalbuddy.
I think even when the companies have a bit of money, they tend to go overboard. I think eg. Baldur's Gate 3 is actually so long that it's problematic, I would have been quite happy with it at 2/3rds the length it is. Even worse would be something like Pillars of Eternity 2 - it's great, but it goes on forever and didn't make any money. There's too much of it.
Give us more games like Disco Elysium. Not that long, tonnes of replayability, and more importantly, it's different. Really different. And the "moral choices" actually mean something.