In our backyard lay a series of deck drains that perennially harbored standing water. Despite my best efforts, tracing the end of these drains proved to be an elusive task, seemingly due to the fact that it was compacted and buried beneath layers of earth.

I even ventured to employ a drain snake to address the issue, but the screws securing the drain covers were victims of rust, rendering them immovable.

My favorite movies in no particular order:

1. Matrix
2. Automata
3. Lion King
4. the Pursuit of Happyness
5. The Social Network
6. Jobs
7. Scent of Woman
8. John Wick
9. Wild
10. Hangover
11. Apollo 10 1/2
12. tick, tick, BOOM!
13. taare zameen par
14. The Founder
15. My Octopus Teacher
16. Hachi

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Getting this error while following this tutorial in Godot v4.0.1.

In my case, I had added Node2D. The fix was to right click on the problem node under scene and click Make Scene Root. And then delete Node2D.

Here is what diff looked like:

diff --git a/2d-game-tutorial/Mob.tscn b/2d-game-tutorial/Mob.tscn
index 9eb1630..e720d7f 100644
--- a/2d-game-tutorial/Mob.tscn
+++ b/2d-game-tutorial/Mob.tscn
@@ -48,20 +48,18 @@ animations = {
 radius = 36.0
 height = 100.0

-node name="Mob" type="Node2D"]
-script = ExtResource("1_73gb4")
-
-node name="RigidBody2D" type="RigidBody2D" parent="."]
+node name="RigidBody2D" type="RigidBody2D"]
 collision_mask = 0
 gravity_scale = 2.66454e-15
+script = ExtResource("1_73gb4")

-node name="AnimatedSprite2D" type="AnimatedSprite2D" parent="RigidBody2D"]
+node name="AnimatedSprite2D" type="AnimatedSprite2D" parent="."]
 scale = Vector2(0.75, 0.75)
 sprite_frames = SubResource("SpriteFrames_c1yjy")
 animation = &"walk"

-node name="CollisionShape2D" type="CollisionShape2D" parent="RigidBody2D"]
+node name="CollisionShape2D" type="CollisionShape2D" parent="."]
 rotation = 1.5708
 shape = SubResource("CapsuleShape2D_h1pjc")

-node name="VisibleOnScreenNotifier2D" type="VisibleOnScreenNotifier2D" parent="RigidBody2D"]
+node name="VisibleOnScreenNotifier2D" type="VisibleOnScreenNotifier2D" parent="."]

The gut microbiome may be both helpful and harmful, and not only is it affected by diet, it has also been shown to affect mental health including personality, mood, anxiety and depression. In this clinical study we assessed dietary nutrient composition, mood, happiness, and the gut microbiome in ord … — Read on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36993403/

This was in 2011. More than 12 years ago. Still one of my favorite memory.

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