I was really confused for a moment. With that said, FFIV is a great game and I had fun with the 3D remake. I never got around to playing "The After Years" though.
This just triggered a deep memory from within me. My brother used to say "half past" when I asked him the time, and when I would say "half past what?" the response was always "Half past the monkeys ass, a quarter to his balls"
I still don't know what it means or where it came from, but when I was 8 years old, it was hilarious.
After reading through some replies, I don't think I'm going to rule out pour-over. It sounds like a lot of people like that method. It looks like I have some research to do, but I've been given some good starting points. Thanks!
Oh hey! I actually read into this recently. It came from wondering what exactly "The Witching Hour" was, and apparently it was invented by Christians and it's between 3am and 4am. I thought "oh hey that's interesting when did that start?", and then when I read that it may have started back in 1535 I was like "Wait how the fuck did they know it was 3am in 1535? When were clocks invented?!"
So then I was like "well how did they tell time at night before that?" and it ends up that all the way back in the 16th century BC, they had these things called water clocks. So basically, they had figured out the sun dial a few hundred years before that, and while tracking an hour, they had 2 vessels, one full of water and the other empty. They would have the water flow from one to the other so that when the top vessel was empty, x amount of time had passed (for sake of simplicity call it a hour), then they would pour the water back into the top vessel to measure the next hour, and they were able to do this without the sun. It was basically the same concept of an hourglass (which actually didn't come around until 1000 AD) but with water.
And before sundials and water clocks? I dunno. I guess they just went to sleep when the sun went down, and woke up when it came up, and didn't plan things around specific times. Sounds pretty nice, honestly.
I met a friend of a friend recently and they asked what I did and I told them I'm a computer systems engineer and they were like "oh you must be smart" and I was like "I like to think that I'm good at what I do, but trust me. I am not smart"
It looks like it's just security updates, not feature updates. So I would take this as a win. If a 0-day is discovered, being able to update systems to fix it without a restart is fantastic. I know plenty of people who avoid restarting their computer if they see the update icon in their system tray. If we are talking security, these people could be leaving themselves vulnerable for days/weeks. Being able to push security patches without restarts is a big win.
It's going to be like that time that GTA3 was a huge success, and a million shitty and broken "open world" games came out (Excluding Simpsons Hit and Run that game was great)
Or when WOW was a huge success and we were buried with a million shitty and broken MMO WOW clones.
Mushrooms. I feel like this one is pretty split between lovers and haters, but I can't stand them. I wish I loved them, because they look delicious and are always in things.
Same with Lobster. It looks so good. It tastes so bad. I try it every 2 or 3 years because I'm like "there's no way it's that bad, it looks so good, I should give it another go" and then I try a bite, and it's so awful that when I try to swallow it my throat stops it from going down, and it comes back into my mouth, and my eyes start watering.
Also Salmon. Fuck salmon. There are so many delicious types of fish, and salmon is not one of them. And I'm so sick of hearing people tell me "oh you just haven't had good salmon." - and then I try some of this supposed "good" salmon, and it's foul every time.
"Now it can see humans, identify who they are, and decide who to kill without ever consulting a human."
This is the technology that I am not confident in, and it makes it the most terrifying. Remember all the issues we have had with facial recognition not working very well on people of color? So instead of having cops misidentify POC and killing them, we will have robots that do it but faster and more efficiently. And if you thought nobody was held accountable before, I got some bad news for you.
I feel like any time a bigot feels so strongly about something like this it's projection. I would bet money this dude has some big skeletons in his closet, and it's usually only so long before it comes out. Also, people who think that laws are what stop people freak me out. Like... You are afraid that men are going to go into bathrooms and creep on women and the only thing that stops them is laws? I don't do it because I'm not a fuckin creep. Like this guys is telling me that if there were not laws against it, that's what he would be doing? That's what I'm hearing.
You dropped an X.
I was really confused for a moment. With that said, FFIV is a great game and I had fun with the 3D remake. I never got around to playing "The After Years" though.