If people are looking for a good podcast solution, I use Pocket Casts which is *really* good. It syncs your position between the web interface and the mobile app for you.
They have their summer in the middle of the year, meaning there'd be a huge multi-month gap in the middle if they went by calendar year. At least, I've always assumed that's the reason.
Summer is the break in-between school years. There's probably more legitimate reasons why it's that way, but I'm certain the fact that most people would rather have most of the summer off rather than the winter is a big factor. (We do get a winter break, but it's only a couple weeks.)
Huh. In Aus our breaks are a bit more evenly spread out over the year with less adherence to other external factors. Interesting.
I really don't know why Dan is having so much trouble understanding Hackmud. The bit they were up to in the tutorial was extremely simple.
I would, however, strongly advise against most people actually buying it. I've put maybe 15 hours into it now and it is not a very good game unless you actually want to just spend time writing javascript. It's laggy as all hell, and until you hit tier 2 you're basically just grinding money so you can actually, well, do things.
As was mentioned, the automated harvesting of NPC cash by more experienced players is a real bummer. It makes it very difficult for a new player to really get anything done early on. And while this singleplayer portion exists as the game's tutorial, none of it actually explains anything about how the main game works. You just kind of have to hope that someone in the default welcome chatroom will honestly tell you what to do first once you get out of the vLAN, because the game sure as hell doesn't.
There is one particular command you need to run to get started (scripts.fullsec) and the game never actually tells you about it.
Beautiful sounding and looking game brought down by not actually being interesting to play, and having a tutorial that doesn't address the actual game.
EDIT: Also why the hell is the US so far behind in credit card tech? I've had a chip for aaaages.
EDIT2: Wait what!? You guys have to sign things to use a card? I've literally never had to sign something ever.
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