Basically every Terminator movie after T2. They have some great “what if” premises that could add so much depth to the world, but then struggle to see the vision through is a satisfying way.

T3: Let’s actually show Judement Day

T4: Let’s show the turning point in the war against the machines (edit: and why people follow John Connor as leader of the resistance)

T5: Exists

T6: What if all this time travel actually branched the timeline? What would it look like if one of Skynet’s terminators succeeded?

I never watched the show, but I loved the movie. Almost every character feels competent and clever, so they do at least something that surprised me. There are a few points that hinge on details that feel a bit contrived, but I appreciated that the climax wasn’t just a physical fight between good guy and bad guy. The main characters have emotional problems that are believable and get resolved. Plus, it’s just a little campy.

I think the “inside baseball” that you mentioned gave the world more depth. It felt “lived in”.

I’ll give you that the movie does try to cram a lot into the time, though. It feels a little rushed.

You’re the expert!

I can do absolutely anything. I’m an expert!

😆 I’ll be watching you…

And to further expand on that, if you do pass in a sting string, it handles it correctly.

> parseInt('0.0000005')

0

I was going to say it handles steering and braking, but… Where are the brakes? This must be one of those bikes where you back pedal to brake, so I guess front end just steers.

Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the “verbatim”-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.

Example:

He said, “It’s fine”.

“It’s fine”, he said.

I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?

Example:

The spec sheet read “88 m.p.h.” on the back.

Edit: It’s been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.

Or whenever I please, as in feisty and seize!

I’m no expert, so I can’t tell for sure, but my guess is that they’re storing two different chemicals. The left one looks like it’s a non-flammable, extremely hazardous material that shouldn’t be exposed to water (maybe an alkali metal, like lithium or sodium). The right one is a hazardous material that is a fire hazard above 93°C (200°F), but otherwise stable (maybe some kind of diesel?)

So… If I had to take a wild guess, diesel and lithium batteries?

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Thank you for your service.

Each of these I write makes me quite nervous. I’m never sure people will like what I write, or more importantly how I write it

I always look forward to seeing your posts, and (based on the comments) I’m not alone. Keep up the amazing work!

The only minor thing I will say is that these info dumps take a long time to parse, and I’m usually looking for shorter content. I often scroll through your posts fairly quickly looking for things that tickle my fancy, but I always go back a second time to see if I missed anything. Also, commenting on a specific section almost requires quoting it to give context. In a perfect world, each section could be separated out into its own post.

But hey, I recognize that would be even more work for you, so it’s not fair to expect it. Just offering an unsolicited opinion. 😜

I really appreciate all of the effort you put into these posts, and I can’t wait to read the next one!

I never played the game, so I’m not sure what SnapMap is (Fandom says it’s a map editor), but there is a note in the “Details” that says SnapMap cosmetics are unlocked by default. Is that something else?

2 Joy 2 Cons

The writeup mentions GoG, but I don’t see any mention of the fact that Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, and Sim City 4 are all currently on sale. You can get all three for less than $10 out the door.

It sounds like when a person stammers or mumbles because they’re uncertain.

Parent (sternly): What were you doing when the vase fell over?

Child (shlarmling): I was… umm… I was over at the _hermidgd…

Probably better than “emacs googling” your code.

…probably.

Damn people… They ruined humanity!

Whoah, even Ben Stein knows this was a bad idea!

While we’re at it, I have some other suggestions…

For example, in year 1 that useless letter “c” would be dropped to be replased either by “k” or “s,” and likewise “x” would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which “c” would be retained would be the “ch” formation, which will be dealt with later. year 2 might reform “w” spelling, so that “which” and “one” would take the same konsonant, wile year 3 might well abolish “y” replasing it with “i” and iear 4 might fiks the “g/j” anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez “c,” “y” and “x”–bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez–tu riplais “ch,” “sh,” and “th” rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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