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Do people really complain when a 5 year old AAA game is sold for $5? Or even a game console's price dropping in half after 3-4 years? No, they don't. Why are you complaining about items being marked down after having been in the shop for 3+ years? You'd have to spend many months of perfect energy utilization just to get all the blocks, so nubs need all the help that they can get

"Birthday: the anniversary of the day on which a person was born, typically treated as an occasion for celebration and the giving of gifts."
You were thinking "date of birth (DOB)" which specifically refers to the exact date/year of birth.

Typique homme de francais... Un petit insecte qui ne sait rien.

I'm sure it's between your buttocks, and it happens to be 720.

Can we make this an EE in-joke? Tell everyone to keep themselves safe!

Indeed, you want the second option. Timestamps with millisecond accuracy should suffice for anything game related.

When a button is pressed, simply compare the current time in milliseconds to the time the last bullet was fired for the player. If the difference is greater than your timeout, then fire away.

This is the approach that should be taken for just about anything timing related where you don't need an event fired at regular intervals.

You do need to be somewhat careful though, as a 32 bit integer can only represent an interval of about 49.7 days in milliseconds. If your bot runs for longer than that, you might get some issues if you don't account for overflow. Or... You can use a 64 bit integer, which can represent an interval of up to 584,550,048 years in milliseconds...

Please... Send help.

All I've eaten today are these Snack Artist Pretzel O's from Safeway.

I find kek to be a lot more satisfying to say and type than lol. It is also a signal to others which indicates that I'm a dank memer.

There are a few ways to approach this. First, I want to point out that the ball appearing to teleport is the only thing which makes this "impossible" (beyond the whole minute in the future thing).

If the ball absolutely must teleport, then there are some crazy 11th dimension shenanigans going on and I don't have enough letters behind my name to even begin to explain such behavior.

If the ball doesn't have to teleport, then the ball could appear to be rolling inside the bubble a minute before it's thrown in. That way, the timeline is relatively preserved, however this would clearly indicate that we have no free will, as everything is predetermined.

However, we should take this one step further. Physical objects aren't the only things which are governed by the flow of time. Radiation is affected equally, so it would stand to reason that when you throw the ball into the bubble, it appears to those in the bubble a minute before it's thrown in from the outside. However, light must bounce off of the ball, which appears outside the bubble a minute before the ball appears inside the bubble. That means an outside observer would see the light from the ball inside the bubble immediately when it gets thrown in (not before or after) at the location you would expect it to be with a normal trajectory. The ball's trajectory would look totally normal to observers on either side of the bubble's wall.

Essentially, every transition one way through the bubble is canceled out by a transition the other way. Physical object goes in, light radiation comes out. Time wouldn't actually appear to be disjointed, either from the inside or the outside, since any changes in the world state have an inverse change in the observation mechanism used to view the change, effectively resulting in nothing appearing to be out of the ordinary. In fact, we could be surrounded by these time bubbles right now!

When I was creating my second MapleStory character around 2007, I had already decided that names with numbers in them were lame. I wanted a name like "Aslan" from Narnia, and "Aslai" wasn't taken. For the next 5 or so years, I was Aslai.

Then around 2011, I wanted to change my Runescape name to Aslai, but the censors refused to let me use the name, so I mutated it for a while, and I thought Kaslai was a nice mutation of the name. Ever since then, that's what I've been.

I'll probably be Kaslai for the rest of my life, to be honest. I am... THE KAS MAN.

I think you mean "Everyone except for I care."

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