So, can you play this single player?

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Seems like a game you can sink your teeth into.

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I don't play Minecraft, so this is all seeming very weird to me. "Can't craft saddles" on its own just seems like a bad oversight, and like surely there's a mod for this, right? But then it's supposed to be OK because you . . . hunt for them? So like, you stealth up to a wild saddle and put an arrow through it before it can get away? Um, sure. Can you breed them? Catch some wild saddles and domesticate them, end up with a herd of saddles in your corral?

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So . . . all that could really happen here is that some phisher could send your phone an old text message and maybe if you responded you could have a problem. Well, joke's on them--I don't have a phone so they can't send me any text messages!

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Trailer has a pretty visceral feel. The scenery feels real and the fire definitely seems menacing.

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Self-checkout machines? So you can do a run as a villain?

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She now only reviews reports and a few papers to keep busy.

Oh, well then, LibreOffice should be fine for that.

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The specific campaign is, sure, not that likely to move the dial anywhere much. But that's OK--it will probably shift SOME people and it doesn't do any harm, and who knows? Maybe it will take off. As the great-in-hockey-but-crap-as-a-Canadian, Wayne Gretzky, once said, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take". So I'd rather see this kind of thing being done than not being done. And every time, the barriers to switching are lower.

On LibreOffice vs MS Office, specifically Writer vs. Word . . . switching is generally OK but it does depend on use case. I use LibreOffice at home, use both at work. You can do most things in Writer that you can do in Word, like a big most, and I actually like the user interface better overall. Never liked the damn ribbon. But, especially if you don't sweat the fonts, stuff can end up looking a bit different if you open the same file in the two programs. Something can end up a line or two longer or shorter, which if it was designed to fit exactly on a page can be annoying. And I have to admit, I recently was doing a thing where I wanted pictures in the text, and in LibreOffice getting the text to go around the pictures the way I wanted was a massive pain, whereas in Word it was merely annoying.

For a lot of stuff it really doesn't matter if you switch to LibreOffice, and someone who remembers Word with drop-down menus may well actually like it better overall. But if you have to be compatible with other people in an office, I would suggest doing whatever fiddling you need at setup to make sure you have the fonts everyone else is using; that should minimize little differences in how files display and print. And find out if they have to use any weird advanced features from MS Office, because those might not have a match at all.

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2mAfm. By which I mean, "Too many acronyms for me".

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This isn't even software patents. It isn't even bloody business method patents. It's just flat out ridiculous.

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