Is there a good overview of the progression somewhere? I vaguely remember buying it a while ago, but couldn’t really get into it.

Don’t forget the recently discovered Salmiak!

why do you think they have you sign up with a phone number in the first place?

Again, spam & abuse prevention. We’ve been over this.

I’m sorry that not everyone thinks Signal is a god app worthy of worship. its a message app, and its not the only one. it does stuff some people don’t like. including me.

I’m not saying that Signal is a god app worthy of worship, I’m saying it’s detrimental for them to include SMS functionality, since that’s fundamentally insecure. That’s literally why they removed it. Is that so hard to understand?

Spam isn’t a binary issue, where it either exists or doesn’t. It could very well be the case that, without requiring a phone number, there’d be far more spam (since it’d be far easier to automatically create new accounts).

Again, do you have a better suggestion for spam & abuse prevention?

And still, aside from that - it doesn’t really make sense to expect Signal to offer SMS integration just because it requires a phone number for spam prevention, when offering this integration would be detrimental towards the mission of Signal (offering secure messages).

Do you have a better approach to prevent spam in mind? Without a barrier of entry it becomes a serious issue.

What? You use a secure messenger to send secure messages. It doesn’t make sense for a secure messenger to offer sending insecure messages (SMS).

Edit: oh, you’re probably referring to why it requires a phone number. This seems to be due to abuse/spam prevention, as otherwise creating new accounts to spam people with is basically free.

It’s arguably a very bad idea for a secure messenger to also provide an SMS interface, since those are basically cleartext

Fourteen is a terrible nickname for water

Not sure what you mean - “Mario and Princess Beach” is obviously peak cinema

Challenge accepted!

It’s the same picture.

But if both sides are your enemies, they’re both your friends. But if they’re your friends, they aren’t the enemies of your enemies anymore, which would make them your enemies once again. But then they are your friends again. But then

Bonus points!

If he pulls the lever so the trolley starts to multi-track drift, he can kill all 10 people at once

Gotta play Baldurs Gate 3 to find out

Though naming it by the following year instead of the release year is clearly a marketing move.

If you haven’t already seen it, the show from a couple of years ago reflects on the issues the movie (and partially comics) had, and acts as a great sequel. Can’t recommend it enough!

Who wouldn’t love receiving 17 new sets of knives?!

… I’ll have to apologize to a lot of cows

Really depends on the weight of the baby. A trebuchet can yeet a 300kg baby 90m, no Victorian yeet machine will come close.