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Is there a name for apartments that have flat sides, but are protruding like a clover?

For example the living room is a middle square and the kitchen and bed rooms are not aligned but just smaller squares added to the sides

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The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise
  • That's not the point, I never said if I like it or not. Your answer didn't help the other guy Why do you like it? He said why he doesn't. Explaining your point of view may help people enjoy the show.

    Your answer is " Just because"

  • Have you ever seen coal in real life?

    I just realised that I have never seen or used it, neither crude oil of course, but there are more variants of it than this natural mineral that powers a lot of the world.

    What led to you seeing or touching coal?

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  • Companies are deathly afraid of introducing a new main character in the same series, her story was finished in the first one, would have been good as a mentor for a new character. Maybe MGS2 scared the market

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    Dune and Jack Reacher shows whats wrong with Foundation
    1. Recurring characters.

    Movies in general get away with this better than multi season shows with actors contracts and killing off a character early.

    Sean Bean humourously being killed off in LOTR and Game of Thrones. This also ties into later seasons when the writers were afraid to kill lead characters. Jack Reacher does well not bringing back 2 of the leads from season 1.

    Foundation is deathly afraid of this, having 6 characters that carry over season to season where in the books there are none.

    1. Faithfulness to source material.

    For people who have not read the books, Dune part 2 does end with a white saviour story and includes holy war, religious imagery. The distance from 9/11 helps though the middle eastern conflicts don't. A few actions scenes and techy stuff is added and some ideas and scenes are moved around. The daringness to commit to the source material is amazing, weird worm bile, talking babies, drugs and hallucinations

    Foundation ignores this, having pacifist characters shoot at each other, adding pointless sex and action scenes that have no impact on the plot. The core premise abandoned very early on. It's like they wanted to make their own sci fi show but just slapped the name on it

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    Question about First Law series

    Hi, I am on a driving trip and downloaded a recommended books, "Best Served Cold" and then the reviews say read the original trilogy first. After several hours of "The Blade Itself" there is no sense of a plot or where the characters are going, they are just meeting up.

    I understand that this is a common criticism of his early works. Should I finish the Blade Itself or go on to the sequel standalone novel? I got a bit of the sense of the world.

    Incidentally, I loved "Project Hail Mary" and started "Three Body Problem", but the pronunciation of the chinese names turned me off, so I'll read the book instead.

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    TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge
    www.nbcnews.com Meet the 25-Year-Old Wedding Photographer Who Became CEO of Lonely Planet

    Daniel Houghton, a former wedding photographer with no prior executive experience, has been trying to turn around global travel guide company Lonely Planet.

    Meet the 25-Year-Old Wedding Photographer Who Became CEO of Lonely Planet
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    Have you had a "Walter Mitty" moment?

    There's this Ben Stiller movie where he gets pushed to travel the world alone and find himself.

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    Engineering feels more like being Tony Stark while Programming seems more like Dr Strange

    Am a civil engineer working in tech now. I never felt like engineering was magical, we studied materials and stresses and tested stuff and built things.

    While I know software engineers basically do the same things in a digital concept (hardware included) they are basically speaking arcane words that make the machine do things like conjure up images, transport information across the world at the speed of light.

    Maybe fantasy writers should write more infrastructure into their stories for their wizards, like undersea cables or satellites built by the generations before

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    Were Arkane, Bioware, Rocksteady and Naughty Dog done in by live service strategies?

    4 top tier single player games developers tasked to build live service games.

    Naughty Dog hasn't released anything new, both sequels then silence. Suicide Squad kills the game studio. At least Arkane and Bioware are given chances to carry on with the next game.

    We could have had the next big WB superhero game or Wolverine. Prey 2? There's a higher chance of Amy Henning working on a Soul Reaver game than ND coming out with an original IP

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    Cant really get into Mihoyo games on my commute

    Been playing mostly Marvel Snap and Match 3.

    Apparently Mihoyo have expansive games that take hours, but I haven't found one that is pick up and play for commuting. Which ones do you recommend?

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    Old articles are clogging up search engines

    The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it's old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant

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    Why is there a common belief that Sound travels upwards?

    Or that sound travels across water? I assume it's because usually there are blockages, tree/buildings horizontally, while in high-rises and boats there are nothing blocking sounds

    Edit. The myth here is that sound travels across water and upwards more than any other direction. Apologies if it was not worded well

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    This console generation seems skippable

    I've never skipped a console gen starting from Super NES, PS1 through 4 plus the Switch Oled 5 years after launch of the OG Switch

    It seems like exclusives are rarer now with Sony and Xbox pushing games to PC and Nintendo spending resources on remasters. COVID made it incredibly difficult to own a PS5 and they have some disappointing exclusives as well

    What do you think? Any reason to own a PS5 or PS5 pro?

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    Blue Eye Samurai is the most woke premise told in the least woke manner

    This is what Disney could somehow never do. The story is about women literally fighting the patriarchy and killing white men.

    But the way it's told it's just about people trying to adapt to their circumstances in a difficult environment.

    • Training montage. Mizu has one, Rey doesn't. And she wins because she flows like water, knows all the styles while the Samurai are stuck in one rigid style.

    • No I in Team, Akemi and Mizu both gradually accept help from people of all levels, they aren't superheroes. They both love, even though they may get disappointed or lost.

    • Strategies, despite being strong women, Akemi and Mizu both develop different methods of getting what they want, through the front door with a lot of physical pain or from the inside with a lot of emotional pain.

    The men are written well as well. Ringo is disabled and shunned, but has optimistic view of the world. The swordmaster is blind but highly respected. Taigen slowly grows as a character and shows that he has honour.

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    Is computer science lightning or rock magic?

    Or both? You're basically running electricity through silicon to control satellites, rockets and the cash register in a subway.

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    Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel

    They had GRRM write Elden Ring. They can get Amy Henning to write SR before she retires

    It has Souls in the name already.

    Lords of the Fallen did the dual world thing

    A weakened hero taking on bosses who are literally gods?

    Worst case we get the Lies of P studio to do it

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    If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like?

    I haven't seen any trailers and things have changed in a decade and Ubisoft haven't made a universally acclaimed game in a long time.

    There's simply no expectations that this game will be good unlike the overhyped Day Before, Starfield, NMS and Cyberpunk 1

    What if...

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    Is PC Dead Space and Jedi Survivor abandoned by EA?

    The stutter issues in Dead Space and bugs in JS. They are basically unplayable on PC right?

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