Probably different models for different sets. The set I work with are purely wifi. They have a light on them to blink is the only extra thing they do

IR on them does sound stupid though, in a store environment that can be blocked rather easily

No they are wifi controlled

A bit of the selling point for the chromebooks is that it can run a lot of stuff from the playstore. Why called it a cousin.

While posible, don't forget about the pixel series, Google dipped into hardware. So at least for a good bit they are going to stay the course. Chromebooks are a cousin of android and is something I bet they have support contracts via education for years to come.

Though it's Google so it's posible

They were working on it for patches and such. Plus they are probably starting the "next big thing" and having your dev team leave kinda hurts that xp

It kinda understands context.

An image generator makes an image of static similar to like a TV does with bad signal. The Ai looks atthe static and sees shapes in it. The prompt influences what it's trying to "see". It starts filling in the static to a full image, it does this in steps, more steps generally means a better quality image.

Also to say a LLM is a Large Language Model and is different from an image generator, though the proccess for them is very similar.

Confused on how letting someone else use your water can be illegal.

Moving to block somebody’s path That I would agree with on being an escalation.

I have seen a lot of times by just there being a few people around giving the we know and we can see you can make someone ditch all the stuff and (some times) cuss out everyone as they leave.

I will admit that I would not advise the technique when it looks like someone is going to be very bold and just walk out with items "clearly" stealing (the cable on it still) and the OP story kinda shows why

Then again anytime I am around a shoplifter doing something like that being very aware of how they are moving or doing is important. Ill do my job but fuck getting hurt for the stuff, nothing in any store is worth it.

Ish on the deter by being there. I can't speak for all companies but the major one I work for would have you act as just a visible deterance by just standing there. The grabbing the cable and stuff would be what would be "to far"

Still slippery even legal. It can stay in the system for a bit so someone working "high" is a factor

It would solve so many problems though just have it legal and controled

It probably links to it being illigal at the federal level still so ada would have to be sly about it.

Got to think about those poor business if they have to pay a nickel more for labor they would be broke

Joking aside, minuim wage is a hot issue. One side fully believes that minuim wage is in fact a bad thing and shouldn't exist. So for them putting a bill out that auto raises it would be counter productive to their interests business being able to hire with supply demand

More then Likely the overall average is hitting that. not really going to argue that. I have been at and looked at metrics for individual stores that have been 4.2,4.5, and one that was a 6% (their was a bit of restructuring that happened after that). I will state that those percentages were lost item numbers that could be accounted with other things other then theft.

The store thats in a "nicer" area and the one that has is in a really bad 1 can even out so the number is low. but the bad store can have really high numbers, numbers that can be worse as it goes through. Also keep in mind that the overall theft % has stayed "constant" by the link you gave, and thats with the annoying glass cases and other such being used to try to lower shrink. better measures are needed as time passes. A case an area cost 6k to order for the area I was in, and the store chose to put it there. or the ones that are paying for off duty officers to help. If they didnt work the stores wouldnt use them (and yes that does happen, a security set for a store got canceled because the numbers didnt change after 5 months)

I would rate it as a concern. Probably not "HUGE" concern but it is impacting thing.

I work loss prevention, so I have a slight bias. But I also see how often and to the volume that it is. There are individuals I have helped with that are linked to 6 digit worth of stuff (and then of course money theft but that's a different ball game).

Yes if a company has 30,000,000 in sales, theft seems less a problem until it gets multipld out hundreds of times a 1,500,000 of saleable items being stolen can and is something that happens with the current security stuff. And while that is 1/20 the of the sales that 30 mill is before paying for the product, utilities and salary.

Profit is still there but it is getting harder to hold that profit and new ways to loose/new scams pop up all the time

The problem Is real but this solution seems very bs

Add in an extra twist. Hopefully if the sickos are at least happy with AI stuff they won't need "real"

Sadly, a lot of it does evolve from wanting to "watch" to wanting to do

I'm guessing a local store thing. That is one line that I have never heard Walmart claim and I have worked for a lot of different stores

To add on what others of said.

Part of its being able to stick it anywhere and a lot of things are built with the human body/arms in mind (not boxes obviously).

Do something stupid simple like getting grocery carts, it can have a hand that would be good enough or build a special gripper/mover that can have problems if some things change

The issue is more generation is leaned on the less powerful it becomes. To create those stores that you were reading in books it was fed lots of other fantasy and game information, as more of its used the less 'new' stuff it can make.

Yes, very useful tool. Not something that can be just thrown in. Has to be part of the system almost from start so that the appropriate ations and and text can be linked (unless it's reading through save state and or is how the save state is read but that also had to be thought of early)

However, also not exactly what I ment. For instance years ago on doing a replay of Zelda oot left for about a week midday through the water temple. I could not figure out where I was in the puzzle for some time and ended up reseting as much as I could to just re walk through as much as I could. Somethings can't be pre script written out due to unknown changes or capture what the user thought process is

I am not a huge fan of the "shrine" approach where everything is bite size but that seems to be the idea to make it easer for on the go. If you only have 15ish min of play what's more enjoyable? Catching up what you did and trying to figure out what's everything like since you last did things or knowing that this thing here is or needs to be done in front of me and I can continue.

"streamlining" is definitely happening. A lot is to just keep that serotonin going with happy rewards.

1 person I was talking to mentioned it might also be a change because of target. Zelda botw/totk was ment to be played in short burst while on train or a quick shrine or so before bed. Thus the bigger puzzles and things that requires a longer play (to avoid the wtf what is happening when I played yesterday question) are being phased down

Sounds like unity doesn't want any new devs to go over to them and for the ones who did to start moving away to other engines.

Ask for x per purchase would at least get less backlash but I guess they couldn't track that as easily

The framework helps the GM be able to do so, its another tool.

I mainly say that in such a way that if a character is thought to be a pusher the player would know that to push I have to be this close and cant push something thats x times bigger (or some other thing). A GM can (and should) adjust and change things if it would make it more fun for the table but the framework helps understand the world better. for some parts the GM is not directing but explaining what happened.

I push the rock off the edge of the cliff, bar something else, it should fall. The GM at that point is giving the results of that action, what is the result? the GM could simply say that it fell and hurt someone it landed on nearly killing them. the issue comes when the same situation comes up and the GM does something different because they think it should do differently (a different GM more then likely ) this breaks flow if things are different. (assuming all things are the same in both situations for simplicity of course). The Frame work put that a rock fall would deal X amount for how far it fell and the players would have the knowledge (while it would be slightly meta, it would be a "world" known if the rock would deal less damage then the pointy sword XP )

That's what I meant by balance across areas, expectations are known on what some cause and effects are. Frameworks are great ways to help guide things through HOWEVER, a giving framework/gamesystem is not perfect nor a fit all for all game types and tables. A Group also shouldn't need to "go into the weeds" constantly (or at all during a session), something made on the fly or close enough is good to keep things moving.

I mean, pen&paper RPGs aren’t a players vs GM game, but instead the GM plays together with the players to create an interesting experience where everyone has fun.

Full Agree, but the next part is that the Framework helps the GM do the balancing

Depends on the game the group likes. More narrative driven game it can conflict and have issues

However, there is something nice about knowing a balanced way to do x or y across the board and at different tables.

A good gm should be able to make a note of something or make a quick call especially in pf2e case were generic difficulty dc per level is given

1 of the 2 would need to open to get updates. Steam would do it in the background the smoothest I think

Cats the biggest issue is it sleeping on the child's head and suffocating. Otherwise most cats are more likely to run if the kid did something exception being a scare scratch result

Thing referenced being the Monty hall problem. Old game show would have a prize and 2 goats behind doors. You pick one then, 1 of the goats were revealed. You get the option to swap your choice

Whats funny is sometimes its used as a test drive. Baulders gate as a new one I know had a decent amount of pirating, and then many forms are talking about how they loved it and then bought a copy.

The instance can control it and another instance can create a "competition" of the same instance. Diffrent mods for each and not being locked to 1 type.

Though hopefully we get something similar to supper communities that are multiple of the same under 1 listing

The issue beyond them trying to change chromium to not have it but they are trying to make it so part of websites have the "security" built in as well

It's a different dev then others.

Its a side story were you can romance the companions your with, n the main story little to no impact

At least on pc over over the option and it will show what your roll will be.

Can't see the DC till to late but that's a normal rpttrpg thing

NFC or something to that effect can be forced"on" with their special charging connection... Or something like that

Would be horrible for data rates but it could be done

Yes, much more staff is hired for online shopping

However funny enough some store increased the hours they had for the front end, I worked for a Walmart that did a conversation and they added like 400 hours to the schedule for monitoring and running the registers. Biggest thing is now they can have 20 registers open and pay for 4 cashiers, before they would have just only had the 3 cashiers and 3 registers. So I would not say the self checkout took jobs, it changed how the job is done

Ist shopping on the sales floor free labor. Back when you would hand your shopping list to a worker and the would give you all your stuff. (funny enough online pickup has kinda brought that back). Things change over time

For fire I don't recall, but the metal impulse focus (get when you expand metal or if you solo it) does electric damage in anyone who touched or does mele dmg

Yea. I got Google music way back, it got moved to YouTube music and wrapped with premium. Can't complain about the result

I never did the 1e version but overflow just states that at finishing your element is no longer gathered, if you had any stance impulses they would end (part of the gather description), and that you can only do 1 overflow per turn

you can start with either 1 or 2 elements, and at 5th and every 4 past that (9/13/17) you can strengthen your current elements or add a new 1. at level 17 would give access to them all

Ill put down the progression table, dont feel like thats being unfair to Paizo to show

Sadly not really; 100 instances of the word archetype but most of them are the side bar on the book, gave a little for the 2 that are in there though

Of course you have the Kineticist and its about what you expect, gain channel elements (1 element access) and the elemental blast - though no free blast with a channel, no other bonuses and blast does not auto level. lvl4 gets your class feature of kinesis, lvl8/14/18 a repeatable to up the dmg die of the blast, gain element lvl10, and lvl 12 become expert in the class dc (max for archtype) and your standard set of lvl1 feat getter and 1/2 level feat getter

elementalist is updated and expanded from Secrets of magic, adds in elemental philosophy that gives you more spells for those that match a typing of one of the elements

• Elemental Cycle: Earth, fire, metal, water, wood
• Inner Sea Elementalism: Air, earth, fire, water

expands feats that give you a reaction or single action to do something extra when you cast a spell with X trait like burning spell

using Hshurha as the example

Edicts revel in formlessness and freedom, humiliate terrestrial creatures, kill foes via falling or hazards from high winds

Anathema deny a flying creature the ability to fly, walk on earth if you could easily travel otherwise Divine Font harm

Divine Sanctification can choose unholy

So still evil.. ish since they can only harm and you can be made unholy ie evil, though that is kinda tame for the edicts and anathema, I do see Creatures but nothing is popping out as deities/god

Each plan has a good bit of description of what you can find, problems that are found like "dead air" areas in the air plane that you cant fly or breath in, as well as some cities like Air's "ARMUN KELISK". each plane doesnt have a meet as much as a bleed over, floating rocks in the air plane from earth and such. there is a cycle of how the elements consume and balance each other

in general LOTS of lore drop.