How does the home zone work?

For me location service eats my battery up - can’t last a full day with it on.

You have great taste

Never said they were lol

At home I want wifi on, and away I want it off. This saves battery so it’s not constantly looking for wifi networks.

I could achieve similar with location service turned on all the time, but that drains battery even more.

Since cellular data is always connected to some cell tower nearby, and Tasker is able to identify the cell tower names, I used the ones near my home as flags to indicate “I’m close to home, therefore turn on WiFi because I’ll be home soon”. And turn it off when I leave my neighborhood.

It’s easy, just stop paying rent and eating.

I used it to identify the cell towers near my home and turn wifi off when I was out of their range and back on when I was in range. It seemed to help save battery by not constantly looking for wifi networks and I didn’t have to remember to turn it off and on manually.

PLAY GWENT. The minigame became somewhat notorious because it’s really good - you can spend dozens of hours travelling the world and just playing cards.

Pan-fried broccoli and almonds with a little bit of oil.

Petros Tabouris - Ancient Greek Musical Instruments

I’m Canadian. I went to a concert in Michigan (Third Eye Blind) and half the crowd had some article of clothing with the American flag on it. Not really that weird, but it’s more than I’m used to seeing Canadians sporting Canadian flag clothing.

There’s a turn-based RPG sale/event happening on Steam right now. I can’t vouch for any of those games, but new ones do exist.

As for why they seem to have declined in popularity I can only guess - smartphones happened, removing the need for a home computer from many would-be RTS gamers.

It’s free to play, there’s a huge market for skins, and some gambling addiction to go with it. The perfect storm.

To really copy a song takes a lot of patience and work, perhaps more than composing something original. Unless you were blatantly ripping something off, it’s unlikely that you are going to “copy” it, so don’t worry about it too much. Your favourite composer was influenced by some other music that they emulate aspects of without copying. Genres exist and songs within them sound similar, without copying each other.

To answer your question, my solution is to listen actively and take notes. It’s one thing to hear something and like it, but another to be able to describe why you like it. Listen, close your eyes, open them to write an observation, repeat. Now you have a handful of ideas that you can re-interpret in your own way.

Also put the inspiration song in your DAW and use it as a reference as you compose. It will help you notice things like arrangement, instrumentation, and give you a target to work towards.

If they remaster it there’s a chance they’ll release it on PC and then I won’t have to buy an entire PlayStation just for one game.

Thanks for going through with it and posting the update!

My mistake. It seems like every time I check if a beloved game from that era is on PC it’s always “no”.

Time Splitters, Dark Cloud, ICO, Twisted Metal Black, Shinobi, FFX…

So many games I would gladly pay them for (again) on PC.

She caught me with the flounder

Wasn’t me

Saw us making chowder

Wasn’t me

Bears, even though I think they’re really cool. It’s gotten worse over time. I’ve seen a lot of videos of idiots interacting with them, getting too close, leaving food out at campsites, etc.

Plus my ever-declining faith in humanity, it means the likelihood of a bear I would encounter being made more dangerous because of other people is high.

I used to want to go to the Adirondack mountains, but after reading reviews about one of the main camp areas being overrun with black bears (due to eating human food) that’s no longer on my bucket list.

Even on a fairly recent camping trip with a friend with equal knowledge about bear safety, they left a plate out with some meat grease overnight. We heard all sorts of sounds and the plate was far from the eating area in the morning. Like can you not leave a welcome present out for the apex predator, please?

I know almost nothing about it, but I find ancient Mesopotamia fascinating.

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