By consuming very large amounts of informative media

If you wash a car it uses less fuel. Dirt makes cars less aerodynamic.

The big problem crop for water in California is almonds.

The big problem crop for water in Australia is cotton.

The big problem crop for water anywhere is not beef

If you live in a low humidity area you can cool with an evaporative cooler cheaper than with air con. Evaporative coolers consume quite a bit of water

How much of a prude must you be to think you need to censor the word tits?

If you want to accelerate a person to "fly high into the air" speed over a distance of a see saw's arc is going to kill the person. There is no sweet spot

Better not kill the groove, DJ

Perhaps it's that I am not an early adopter. I wait until I have good reason to update. It sucks that they make their customers unwitting beta testers, but they seem to have stuff sorted after the phone has been on the market for several months

My pixel 1 was and is fine. Pixel 3 was an excellent phone. The only bad phone I recall from Google was the Nexus 5x which was made by LG

I take it you missed the recent fourth integrated flight test, in which the ship soft landed on the ocean near Australia as planned and the booster soft landed on the ocean near the launch site as planned

Their failure in that flight was expected. They hoped thermal tiles sealing the hinge for the aerodynamic surfaces would seal those against plasma during reentry. They didn't. Had they, it would have been much cheaper than sealing those more thoroughly. The ship landed regardless of that failure

Disliking Musk is fair, but SpaceX is doing good stuff

Actual real world right now giant rockets include

• One that is being built under waterfall methodology. It has been being built for several years. That's the Blue Origin New Glen heavy lift reusable rocket

• One that is being developed under an agile methodology, it flew as a subscale lander to test their engine and flight control, it has flown four full test flights, improving on each. That's SpaceX's Starship

We are yet to see either launch a payload to orbit

There are so many advances in game systems since the Palladium system I use, so I have stolen shamelessly to make combat last less than 1 game session rather than the two or three under standard rules

The universe is good, the rules are ancient

I do have a shelf of books though for Rifts, TMNT, after the bomb

Yeah Baldur's gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

I think release then fix became common as soon as internet distribution became practical

Back when everything was on physical media the releases were more polished

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don't play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

They're fun when you're winning, the votes tell who's winning

People here describe them as tankies, which I take as meaning a person who thinks the Soviets did communism right

I prefer old commies. They wanted a local revolution and only liked the USSR in that they were the best source of money for funding such revolutions

Official stuff, sure, but not system generated email from giant companies like Microsoft

I'm amazed at how much better the official launcher is on Linux than on windows.

Windows:

• complains if your logged in account doesn't match your game account
• Requires you to log out of one account to log into another in a not very clear or user friendly way

Linux

• No logged in account to complain about
• Lists all your accounts and lets you swap by clicking on the one you want in the accounts list