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The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.

Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...

What does your cash flow process look like?

I’m talking about types of accounts, automatic transfers, etc. Feel free to mention specifics, but I’m more interested in higher level information like does your paycheck go to savings or checking, do you use automatic transfers, do you use a traditional bank account or something different, etc....

Best place to get forced subtitles?

We watch a lot of movies with alien languages, Marvel, Star Wars, Dune, that type of sci-fi stuff. We are struggling to find the type of subtitles that are just for when aliens talk. I looked around, and it appears they’re called Forced Subtitles, but when we search for subtitles, all we get is the entire movie in English....

I genuinely hate decision theory.

Bit of a rant but I genuinely hate decision theory. At first it seemed like a useful tool to make the best long term decisions for economics and such then LessWrong, EA, GPI, FHI, MIRI and co needed to take what was essentially a tool and turn it into the biggest philosophical disaster since Rand. I’m thinking about moral...

how do you theme graphical apps in a wm?

Pretty much all graphical apps that dont have thier own theming option (like firefox) are always just the white background default theme. No matter wether it’s qt or gtk. Wich files would i need to edit to change that? Searching on the internet only told me that i should change an environment variable bit doing so changed...

In SNW S01E09, what happened to the initial Gorn on the Peregrine?

In “All Those Who Wander”, we see the Enterprise away team visit the crashed Peregrine, find frozen and/or mutilated bodies of the crew outside and inside, two survivors inside, and a log from the captain explaining that they’d picked up three castaways, one of whom (an Orion) killed himself with a plasma grenade to...

Questions about Lemmy

My profile currently says I have 4 posts (this will be number five) and three comments. That’s what is says right under my username on my profile page. But below that, there’s an option to view “Overview”, “Posts”, “Comments” and “Saved”. “Overview” shows two of my posts and one comment. “Posts” shows...

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