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New comment by Crpt774 in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

Crpt774 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:36:07 +0000

This one in particular is going to be difficult to get good results. Depending on your era you may have been eaten by a grue at some point.

New comment by Crpt774 in "The HTML Element"

Crpt774 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:25:53 +0000

A permission request every browser session also wouldn't be in line with the needs of the average end user, and would train them to hit accept on any prompt that arises, as if they didn't do that enough anyway.

New comment by Crpt774 in "'Megascale' structures that humans could one day build"

Crpt774 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 06:29:44 +0000

All of that and not one mention of O'Neil cylinders? A bit less mega, perhaps, but more feasible than even a Dyson Swarm because of it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder

New comment by Crpt774 in "EA reportedly under criminal investigation in Belgium due to FIFA's loot boxes"

Crpt774 — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:19:25 +0000

Pretty sure Valve haven't actually removed lootboxes, they just show which common reward you will get if you are in Belgium, Rares are still random.

When you consider that the above is enough that Valve haven't been touched yet, it just feels like EA are digging their heels for the sake of it.

On the other hand, these are the same people who gave us BF2 and have been releasing a near identical game every year since the 90's so they may have just gotten lazy and not even noticed the law. Far too used to no effort money making that lot.