wizardbeard

So, at the absolute most charitable interpretation, this punishes patients for having a slow surgical staff or for a surgery having complications. Like most insurance things, punishing the patient for shit completely outside of their control.

On top of this, best outcome of this (for doctors to try and ensure their patients don't need to decide between potential financial ruin or surgery) would be for all surgical departments to wildly inflate their surgery times so they can't ever be over estimate. This will significantly reduce the amount of surgeries able to be completed per day, and hike up the price even more as they have to bill for more time.

The only possible justification for this is attempting to find another place to lower financial costs to the insurance company at any "cost". I miss when these people had enough shame to not go this mask off.

Megaman Legends 3

Our boy is still stranded on the moon!

Worst thing is that they had a nearly complete demo of it for the 3DS, and released some video of the demo and testing stuff in-engine during development, then like a day before it was supposed to drop they cancelled the whole damn thing because supposedly not enough fans participated in their fan forums/events.

They could have at least released the damn demo! It was already finished! Would have cost them fucking NOTHING.

And then the series creator Inafune fumbled making a spiritual sequel to Megaman when he Kickstarted Mighty No.9, so when he tried to Kickstart Red Ash as one for Legends it failed to meet the goal.

Still frustrates me.

I've noticed that no one has mentioned Decay yet. It's a two player coop expansion campaign also made by Gearbox for the Half Life 1 release for PS2. There's a PC port with a singleplayer mode.

Yes, I'm well aware. I didn't ignore your point just because I used your own streamlined instructions for my stupid joke about how clueless the average user is.

You're correct that the complexity of installing an OS isn't Linux specific, and that certain Linux distros are significantly easier to set up than say, Windows.

But just because the instructions are straightforward if you already have some familiarity with computers, or are driven enough to look up shit and learn, doesn't make them accessible to the average joe. That's the point I was making.

I did tech support for my school in my youth. I've tutored and led lectures for a freshman intro to programming course (two separate semesters). I have roughly 5 years of corporate internal IT under my belt, and over 4 (and counting) years of sysadmin/engineering.

In all that time, at the absolute most generous estimate, maybe half of the people/end users would have been capable of installing even a simple to install OS like Mint. Yes, including the new Computer Science majors. Less than that would be willing to put forth the effort (to learn the terminology, search and read to clarify confusion, etc).

There's an official The Thing game that has gotten a remaster that will be releasing soon. If it hasn't already come out and I just missed it.

Download Linux Mint

From where? Which download? Where should I save it? Where did I save it?

install a burner like Rufus

What's a burner? What's rufus? How am I supposed to know what any of this means?

select iso and click burn

What does iso mean? You mean the file from earlier? Where did I save that? Why do I click burn? I don't want to start a fire. I'm not burning a disc!

boot into it from bios

Now you want me to kick my computer with a boot? I don't think you know what you're talking about, that seems wrong. The fuck is a bios? How do I get there? What do I do once I'm in there?

I'm obviously exaggerating but holy shit you have to realize that even being able to begin to understand your shorthand instructions through context clues requires a level of domain knowledge far beyond the average user.

Yeah, welcome to the era from before they were ubiquitous.

If you haven't seen Mystery Flesh Pit National Park yet, it's in the same sort of vein, but a bit more direct about the otherworldy stuff.

I love this sort of fiction.

Not my Arlo

Depending on your development plans, you could potentially prototype character designs and abilities using MUGEN (if you intend for a more traditional fighting game) or Rivals of Aether (for a platformer fighter like Smash).

Depends on how many people are working on the project, how duties get split up, and how long it takes the engine itself to come together.

If we're doing OSes, there has to be something for TempleOS.

Most that become memes or get wider exposure to the open internet peanut gallery usually are.