Some late replies.
I want to mention that unless you really want Microsoft programs, or other propriety software, there exist
open source software alternatives for pretty much any program you desire (free options with source code readily available to view).
Propriety Software | Open Source Alternative
Microsoft Office Suite | LibreOffice
Adobe Photoshop | Gimp
Adobe Illustrator | Inkscape
3dsMax | Blender
Microsoft Windows | Any Linux distro (I use Fedora OS on my laptop)
And there's a bunch more. I pretty much use open source alternatives for everything. They more than often do the exact same thing as the Propriety Software and sometimes even more.
Regarding Linux distros, if you are worried about games not running on Linux Valve has released and are working on a Wine Fork called
Proton to enable the use of Windows games on Linux. That's of course without counting all the games that have also been released for Linux already. Proton launched around two months ago but I expect it to get better and more expansive as development continues.
Regarding the other stuff, I agree with healthcare, insurance, tutoring etc. There's a lot of resources especially tutoring. I found it incredibly surprising how a lot of people in my university did not know the free tutoring services the mathematics and physics department offered. In my time as an undergrad I only tutored around 4 students. The Society of Physics students (which I was a part of) advertised the tutoring a lot. Unfortunately, students either never found out or simply where scared to ask? That and other people where taking advantage removing our signs and posting ones where they charged for the service (which was against university policies).
Agreed. It's just a lot of proprietary software are considered industry standard depending on if you go into that field of work such as 3dsMax, Maya, Photoshop, and Pro Tools among others. So, they're usually expensive, but at the same time, if you look into them, some of them offer discounts or are free for a period of time like 3dsMax and Maya are free for four? years if you're a student. The thing is do people know about this and if they don't then, they should and why aren't they aware of being made aware of this? Those are the questions that should be answered for students and people in general.
As you noted, if you don't need to use a specific software, then there are free alternatives. Some of the might not be as good, but if you're only using it from time to time or not wanting to make money out of it, then paying for a license to use certain software isn't really worth it. That said, some people are very stuck in what they are familiar.
Going to advise you to NOT drink the liquid silver stuff...Trust me.
It's really fun in those parts if you do...but don't drink it.
The sleg or whatever it's called? I made it to I think halfway or close to the end of chapter 3 and there was a section with sleg in the middle and a massive horde fight. I didn't know what the pedestal thing was in the middle and I thought it was something you had to activate, but with all the enemies around, I was more preoccupied with them then figuring out what the thing in the middle was. After the fight ended, there was still a prompt to use the thing which by then I realized it was sleg, but nothing happened when I pressed the button. I figured that was because there wasn't a fight, so you couldn't drink it.
Anyway, they talked about how using it could help you certain fights, but that the thing itself is dangerous with people going mad and being addicted to it. The other thing is that I don't like feeling too powerful outside of certain situations in games. It just makes things boring. So, I was going to use it regardless.
Falco is completely done after what happened to him in 4.
*Instant Kill Mode has been engaged*
Of the footage that have been uploaded with him and where I'm still out of the loop as to why people have been able to play a build with most of the characters, it looks like they trying to go the route of Melee Falco for Ultimate Falco. That is to say, make him relatively mobile, have strong, fast, and versatile moves, but give him awful recovery to counteract his strengths. Fire Bird still looks like crap and part of feels like they actually reduced its travel distance. We'd need the datamined values to be sure, but Falco's run speed seems more like Smash 4 Mario's while his dash seems like Fox's or Little Mac's in Smash 4 meaning he has an even better dash than before where he had the third best dash in Smash 4 under Fox and Little Mac. Aerial mobility looks all right too. This is considering everyone else being faster and more mobile, but Ultimate Falco looks much more mobile than Smash 4 Falco which isn't saying much with how sluggish he was in that game and in Brawl.
Some of the stuff I've seen looks really dumb. Up Smash looks spammable. It looks like it has lower total frames, so its active frames probably aren't as high as in Smash 4, but the idea of a spammable anti-air with the possibility of leg invincibility is beyond stupid and on a character who does not appear to be below-average in ground mobility anymore. I'm getting vibes of Smash 4 Mario Up Smash here. Dair having low landing lag and possibly auto-canceling from a hop means Ultimate Falco has a deep, low hitting aerial for approaches and cross-ups in addition to Nair, Bair, and Uair. It does look strong, but it looks really useful. That is not also to mention his Blaster functions as a projectile now, so he gets to choose if he wants to in your face or away from you.
The new D-throw looks like it has a different launch angle or lower knockback than in Smash 4. It kind of resembles Marth's D-throw to me and I wouldn't be surprised if this has was a universal thing to reduce guaranteed follow-ups from throws. Doesn't stop U-throw from being a follow-up throw for Falco because why not.
Calling it now, Falco's going to be on the list of characters people want nerfed.
Anyway, for the Smash Direct yesterday, Piranha Plant is the best thing ever. It's such a stupid, but also amazingly interesting idea because it's so out there. It's easy to imagine what Celica, Dante, Dixie Kong, Heihachi, Jeanne, Nightmare, and more would be like, but Piranha Plant? It's a freaking Piranha Plant that's usually stationary in the Mario games and acts like a turret obstacle. And then they make the dumb thing playable and it has all sorts of moves from its home game and looks hilariously fun. I love its run animation and I don't think I would main this character, but I'd love to mess around with him.
For Incineroar and Ken, Incineroar looks dope. It has all the pro wrestling flair from the moves to the boastful showboating. Introducing Incineroar with Ken made me think of Zangief which was probably the intention. Ken is, well, Ken. I guess Reuben Langdon is voicing a character for Smash? I get why he's in from a gaming history standpoint and from a development perspective of we have almost everything for Ken from Ryu, so let's add Ken in, but at the same time, I would have preferred anyone else from Street Fighter, particularly Chun-Li, Guile, M. Bison, or Zangief over Ken, but whatever. Or anyone else from Capcom. Who knows, maybe one of the DLC characters will be another Street Fighter or Capcom character.
Finally, Zelda's English voice in the spirits trailer sounds familiar, but I can't think of who.
Feel like doing one on Ragna now, so this'll be fun~.
