The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XXXII

[warpus]

My google-fu has failed me today. I was on a couple sites that describe various iPhone icons, and that one was not on any of them. I tried to describe the icon to google, and nothing came up either. I assumed it was a new icon that got rolled out with the new OS

 

[Gori the Grey]

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/...control-center-blue-gray-crossed-out-0180141/

The only reason I bothered on your behalf was that I thought your drawing was the actual picture of the icon in question, and I thought "Oh, interesting, the new iphone goes with a hand-drawn theme for its icons. Gotta look into that."

 

[Perfection]

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

@Kyriakos, so he can write a story about it.

 

[Broken_Erika]

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

HE-MAN! HE-MAN! HE-MAN!

 

[Snerk]

@Kyriakos, so he can write a story about it.

Kyriakos is in trouble these days. Turns out most of his latest book was just copied from some obscure Austro-Hungarian novelist.

 

[shadowplay]

If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Kyriakos is in trouble these days. Turns out most of his latest book was just copied from some obscure Austro-Hungarian novelist.

Is that for real?

 

[Arakhor]

One of Kyriakos' great influences is Franz Kafka.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Is that for real?

Yep. It's basically word for word.












In Greek.

(it's a translation)

 

[Commodore]

Why do game companies keep using Denuvo DRM software (supposedly the best anti-piracy software out there) when it is now getting cracked literally hours after a game is released?

 

[Arakhor]

What do game companies do anything, especially if it's reactionary and unnecessary?

 

[Commodore]

What do game companies do anything, especially if it's reactionary and unnecessary?

They are still businesses that care about making money, and right now they are wasting money on a product that isn't doing what it is advertised to do. If I were a shareholder or investor in one of these video game companies, I'd be pretty upset over that.

 

[Arakhor]

That would require shareholders to actually understand what is going on and not react solely based on what generates them more profit (or occasionally less negative publicity).

 

[Traitorfish]

Is there a reason that American news outlets often use "lawmaker" instead of "legislator"? It feels like they're talking down to their audience, but they also use "legislative" rather than "law-making", so is it just a stylistic choice?

 

[Perfection]

 

[Cutlass]

Is there a reason that American news outlets often use "lawmaker" instead of "legislator"? It feels like they're talking down to their audience, but they also use "legislative" rather than "law-making", so is it just a stylistic choice?

Fairly certain it's just common usage at this point. Our media are very much creatures of habit.

 

[Commodore]

If a deaf person goes to court, is it really a hearing?

 

[Arakhor]

Are you seriously asking that as a question or have you forgotten where the Incredibly Lame Jokes thread is?

 

[Commodore]

Anyone from Sweden or Denmark want to explain the Twitter rivalry between your two countries?