that one is REALLY hard to get!

When my legion of robot testers play the game, they get that outcome 0.28% of the time!

I was also talking about stories! The three-year ordeal to find an agent was rough... but back in the day, I would be agonizing about stories on an editor's desk, too. But I am delighted that you have embraced the bliss of indeterminacy! I will try to follow your example. :-)

(Noticed while re-listening: I say ~"the big 2023 protests in Israel were why Netanyahu needed a war." To clarify, I'm not a "Bibi did 10/7" truther; his unpopularity just became a good reason for him to drag it out & refuse to ever present a plan for the day after. Apologies for sloppy phrasing!)

hmm, say more. Am I guilty of this?

It's one thing to object to some specific implementation detail of some specific algorithm; it's another to take stock of the cumulative effect of automating so many of our interactions via opaque rules decided by robber barons. I think the latter is also valid?

...1 slice of Swiss cheese, 1 slice of salami, 1 lollipop, 1 piece of cherry pie, 1 sausage, 1 cupcake, & 1 slice of watermelon. He was so pleased he almost laughed (he was even hungrier than he had been that morning) & immediately began to eat. But he soon drew his head back again in disappointment

It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of something to eat. By the door there was a dish containing 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, 5 oranges, 1 piece of chocolate cake, 1 ice-cream cone, 1 pickle...

love me some Elm :-)

thank you! were the playthroughs very different?

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