Strange loops

Wow that’s so interesting. I’m excited to try it, thanks for showing me some cool new ideas.

Spearmint!?

How did a guy like that ever end up married to a lady named Moon Child?

I’m not quite sure about this one. I think that the current design on the reverse is an issue. But the front doesn’t seem to break any laws.

I’m assuming they print these under subsection Y of 31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins. Which pertains to these 250th anniversary coins.

The part I see mentioned in this thread frequently applies to a separate subsection (n) for a run of $1 presidential coins that has since ended.

If you just read subsection Y in a vacuum, they are good to go. This part at the bottom though says that the reverse can’t be a ‘portrait’.

So this isn’t really slam dunk illegal, but I don’t think that the draft of the coins reverse will make it to print. I would fully expect the front to come out just like that though based on my interpretation.

(aa)Standards and General Provisions for Circulating Collectible Coins Under Subsections (x), (y), and (z).—

(1)Prohibition on certain representations.—

No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of any coin under subsections (x), (y), and (z).

Oh, this one’s easy the way I understand things work now.

He is both former AND current, so fire up the mint.

This is great timing, I just wrapped up chapter 6 on my playthrough. I think the artistic choice of the orange notes in the super game boy version are definitely worth a look but I’m excited to finish up in full color.

Shout out to the wild opening animation on this one too. Hilarious.

Very cool, thanks! Emotion apparently came out over 10 years ago now so I gotta update my rhetoric anyway. 😂

Give it a shot! I’m only making bold claims for engagement. The album is really good though. It’s less dancey than the one you linked, different vibe but you might like it.

I’m pretty sure Brat has too much club energy but I’m very excited to check out that Imaginal Disk.

I’m just a sucker for synth pop saccharine crush romance.

Emotion is the best pop album in the last 10 years and it’s not even close.

So close, should be “Hey, Bob!”. Actually, “Hey, Alice!” Might be funnier.

Maybe we finally have an excuse to get one of those fun looking oil cans from the cartoons and dump it in there?

Great stuff right there! Anybody else struggle with the cap on these? On mine the little cap is so hard to pull off and then if I’m not really careful I pull too hard and the whole red part pops off.

Try switching to Parry Grip, some of it is OK and the catalogue is big enough they don’t really get stuck.

And just to show solidarity the other day my kid just kept 'teenage mutant ninja turtles’ing for what felt like a half hour without a single ‘heroes in a half shell’ to round it off.

Can you imagine if you had all the time back you spent watching attack animations in RPGs over the years? There is definitely an immersion argument to be made, and this is why I just want the option to be available. I tend to be very mechanics focused and I play mostly puzzle games so I’m just here to ‘figure it out’. For visuals and storytelling I’m reaching for different media first, that’s personal preference not a knock on VG.

I just want to illustrate that I kind of still have ‘down time’ where I’m just staring at a screen that isn’t changing, but the difference is that I’m playing the game in my head and thinking through things not being trapped for 2 seconds to watch somebody swing a sword. Especially if I’ve seen it a million times already and fully finished appreciating how cool it looks.

Your argument is really strong when it comes to action games though, but I guess we could also think about how it creates a build up and release of tension if applied mindfully. But that’s usually not the case, it’s just ‘the formula says we need a cut scene here’.

Maybe the convergence of ideas here is to stand up brighter lines between playing and watching?

I think this a pretty accurate take. One place I’ll add that retro games shine is fast forward, but that’s not the games themselves as much as the platform. To me, that’s their killer feature. When it comes to animations, I’m definitely not a patient gamer. And modern design seems to get this wrong constantly.

We use silicon bags and magnets. You let the top of the bag drape over the side of the bucket(tub? basin?) and hold it in place with a few magnets. From what I can tell the results are the same for the steaks and meat we cook and none of the sketchiness from eating slow heated plastic.

Yes this is tremendously helpful! The syntax highlighting alone is going to make this much easier. I totally overlooked this, but it’s clearly a winner. Even just having the vocabulary for a few of these things feels like an incoming boost.

We are big on Microsoft too, so power BI and power apps is the destination. I’m coming around to these tools, if nothing else it gives some visibility so they can’t loom in the shadows like these Access leviathans.

Really appreciate the time, and on the weekend no less. Have a great one.

You up to talk shop? I’m staring down the barrel of a similar task I’ve been putting off until I have a puzzle mood type of day. But also worried about doing it well because there’s definitely more. How do you usually start to approach migrating legacy systems?

Access SQL is just slightly different syntax to what I know, I can usually translate but it’s slow because it’s all one big block. I started by using PowerShell to dump all the objects and query text into Excel so I could find all the connections. Some broken down at some point so half the data is on the server. This thing serves as kind of like an ETL tool and they have two access DBs for front and back end seems like, using data from server, file system, local access tables. There’s a bit of looks like VBA in there too propping up the forms.

What thread do you pull first to unravel the Gordian knot? Access is a bit out of my wheel house. Bravo to the cowboy business users who were able to get the job done, but it’s hard for me to parse and of course they are retired so no SME to speak of.

Lend me your wisdom, please.