Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

Moist.

There, I said it.

 

[overgeeked]

You missed the point so spectacularly that it can only be intentional.

 

[Thomas Shey]

RPG players are often like baby ducks, first RPG system they play, is what they want to play all their life. It becomes their mama duck imprinted into their deep memory. They want all other RPGs translated to their mama-duck system.

Odd. I don't even want most of what my first two big systems gave me any more.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

RPG players are often like baby ducks, first RPG system they play, is what they want to play all their life. It becomes their mama duck imprinted into their deep memory. They want all other RPGs translated to their mama-duck system.

Many human beings develop that sort of attachment to all sorts of things. 'I know what I know, I like what I like.' An aspect of human nature, for better or worse.

 

[The Soloist]

Many human beings develop that sort of attachment to all sorts of things. 'I know what I know, I like what I like.' An aspect of human nature, for better or worse.

Genesis is the best band ever, you'll never change my mind! They even have a song about it (sort of):

 

[The Soloist]

Replying to my own post above: Top Gear Richard Hammond hates Genesis:

 

[pukunui]

A few weeks back I went through the renewal process as well. Had my picture taken for it at a local drug store and was worried that the picture wouldn't be accepted, because it seemed like the cashier who took it had never used the camera before. Fortunately, te setup seemed to have been good enough that it was accepted. Strangely, our new passports have a plastic photo card insert that's about half a mm thick, instead of paper. Feels strange having a solid card it there.

The new passports first came out in 2021. That card is where the electronic data and the NFC chip are stored.

 

[Ryujin]

The new passports first came out in 2021. That card is where the electronic data and the NFC chip are stored.

The things that you miss by having a 10 year passport

 

[pukunui]

Yep.

EDIT: I had to renew mine in 2022.* Now that I think about it, though, the NFC chip isn't in the plastic card. It's embedded in the cover (either the front or the back). I remember because I had a devil of a time using my passport to verify my LinkedIn account. You have to get your phone practically touching the NFC chip to get it to work, and I had a hard time figuring out just where in my passport cover the darn chip was.

The plastic card definitely has its own chip, though. That's where the electronic portion of your passport, including your biometric data, is stored. The NFC chip is probably connected to it and is how the passport communicates the stored data to a passport reader, etc. Someone more versed in this sort of technology can probably explain it better than that.


*I need to have a valid US passport in order to maintain my NZ residency permit.

 

[dragoner]

Mine is getting old too, I am going to have to look at renewing it.