Bandana is probably my fave of the year so far. Lots of great albums this year:

- JPEGMAFIA "All My Heroes Are Cornballs"

- IDK "Is He Real?"

- Earthgang "Mirrorland"

- Lewis Capaldi "Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent"

- slowthai "Nothing Great About Britain"

- Dave "PSYCHODRAMA"

- Benny the Butcher "The Plugs I Met"

- Cate le Bon "Reward"

- Denzel Curry "ZUU"

- Flume "Hi This Is Flume"

- Gesaffelstein "Hyperion"

- Kota the Friend "FOTO"

and there are several upcoming releases I'm quite hyped for.

Agree to all of this. These artists, besides maybe Flume, are exactly the size / popularity of what I was talking about in my post.

I would be bankrupt if I bought all the albums I stream now.

Firefox's "Containers On The Go" addon lets you spin up disposable tab containers (see "Multi-Account Containers") with a single click. This works wonders for sites with limited free reads; it's increasingly the only way Medium is browsable for me.

".io" sounds the same whether pronounced or spelled out. We usually pronounce TLD's - com, org, net, ly etc.

Same for Americans, but it’s ‘ee-oh’ for a lot of other languages. I like to say “dot yo” whenever I get the chance, and flash my best west side hand sign.

The legendary Sodabottleopenerwala - possibly apocryphal.

Traditionally it was owning a boat.

aircraft ownership and marriage are also pretty well known money sinkholes.

Calling marriage a money sinkhole is a bit harsh don't you think?

they must be sad

So does Mumbai (the Sanjay Gandhi National Park) and it still supports a density of 73,000 people/sq km.

What? Wikipedia has Mumbai at just 21k/sqkm, and even that seems to be megacity (urban) density, not its metro density, which is only 4,700/sqkm. I assume the national park is in the latter and not the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai_Metropolitan_Region

The state-operated Indian Institutes of Technology are generally considered the best colleges in India. Top private colleges are just below that (BITS being top dog among these) and the state National Institutes of Technology are also quite good. After these, quality starts degrading quickly among both state and private colleges.

I went through a mediocre private college - I can safely say that besides two or three of my profs, most were absolutely useless and couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. The syllabus is also pretty crap - when it wasn't random electronics courses to pad the syllabus, it was the same course slightly tweaked and presented by a different prof. There was no mandatory course where a large-scale programming project was to be made. Version control, shell usage, practical database usage, and many other basic things were not taught at all.

The quality of the National Institutes of Technology varies quite a bit (even if you leave out the newer ones).

Nintendo is the publisher, yes. They also publish games from other developers (e.g. Bayonetta 2, Xenoblade Chronicles).

Their other tentpole franchises are mostly developed in-house (Zelda, Splatoon, Mario Kart), via subsidiaries (Retro Studios) 2nd-party developers (GameFreak - Pokemon, Intelligent Systems - Fire Emblem), or 3rd parties (Bandai Namco & Sora - Super Smash Bros).

Modern CRPG's are pretty great, I enjoyed all of the following:

- Divinity OS 1/2

- Underrail

- Age of Decadence

- Bastard Bonds

- Serpent in the Staglands

- Tyranny

- Torment: Tides of Numenera

However, I did not care for Pillars of Eternity at all.

I feel like Tyranny is greatly under rated. There are rough edges for sure, but the story line and atmosphere sucked me in in a way that I haven't experienced in a long time. Really fun combat system too.

Yeah, I was looking for this comment before I created another. Surprised by how little Tyranny has been mentioned.

Having played BG, Neverwinter, and after a long hiatus Pillars (but none of the above) can you elaborate a little? I liked the health/encounter system in Pillars. Spamming rests was no longer an option but having per encounter powers and health kept the game fun and balenced.