They do, but they also might not.

The part of your skin that actually causes your fingerprint is relatively deep into your skin. So it’d need to be a pretty serious injury to permanently change your fingerprint at all.

I’ve never seen ‘drag race’ used in this context, and I was wondering how you were about to compare drag racing (like with cars) with wrestling.

Nah, at least this once it’s definitely not a US defaultism thing.

As an American, this is the first time I’ve thought about pro wrestling in a very very long time.

Why not? What definition of ‘athlete’ are you even using? Did you just decide this?

You don’t need to be wired in order to self host things? It’s better, ofc, but far from required. You can just do it via wifi.

My experience with self hosting begins and ends with video game servers and jellyfin, though, so maybe I’m wrong here.

yes. It’s a thing. https://mcsus.com/products/68-water-balls-tube-of-10 No clue if they’re good or not, but they exist.

There’s also paintballs with clear paint, or reballs which are basically just rubber balls meant to be fired out of a paintball gun.

I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

GAMMA has faction questlines. I’m not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don’t panic you can turn it off lol.

A (rumored) $40 live service battle-royale… outlook bad for this game.

‘Retro’ in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with ‘Vintage’, as far as I can tell.

The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

Retro Gaming: Reddit’s home of vintage gaming

… yeah, I’m aware AI isn’t a person. I’m not sure why that’s a question? Maybe I phrased things badly, but I’m not- nor have I ever- been really mad about AI usage. It’s mostly just disappointment.

It’s just a technology. I largely dislike the way it’s being used, partly because I feel like it has a lot of potential.

Why? AI doing one good thing doesn’t erase the dozens of bad ways it’s utilized.

I’m interested to see AI used on a larger scale in really specific ways, but the industry seems more interested in using it to take giant shortcuts and replace staff. That is going to piss people off, and it’s going to really piss people off when it also delivers a shit product.

I’m fine with DLSS, because I want to see AI enhance games. I want it to make them better. So far, all I can see is that it’s making them worse with one single upside that I can just… toggle off on my end if I don’t like it.

Who’s the guy on the left? I’m sure he’s awful just via context clues, just not sure why.

I assumed. I know it’s similar where I live, but for all I know Montana has some strangely restrictive finders keepers law where if you drop your wallet and someone else finds it you can only legally reclaim it via a duel to the death.

Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?

This is a funny mental image.

“Breaking news: Man gets normal sized plate at buffet. More at 11.”

Front of a newspaper in giant bold font:

“MAN TAKES NORMAL ROUTE HOME FROM WORK”

Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.

Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada. Your local police probably have a non-emergency number for pretty much exactly this purpose if you wanna double check.

Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.

I am asking for any general recommendations, without any specific preference.

Then google “reddit alternatives.” If you’re not looking for a discussion with a personalized response you can easily answer your own question via your search engine of choice.

Most of my playtime is before alloys even existed lol. If I played the game more often I’m sure I’d be able to figure it out, but it’s just bad luck on my part. I tend to get interested like a month before they’ve released some massive groundbreaking update.

Ehhh, they can be rough experiences on launch so if that’s what you mean by ‘right from the start’ I disagree a bit. I very much wish I let Stellaris cook a year or so before I grabbed it.

Otherwise I definitely agree. The free updates they release with the DLC are usually excellent, and sometimes I still intentionally disable the DLCs because they add mechanics I’m not interested in interacting with. I own Man the Guns for HoI4, for example, and I almost never actually enable it.

You can generally get the base game for a bit of nothing(Stellaris’ historical low is $4), and then grab the DLCs you think will interest you down the line when they’re also on sale.

I am somewhat tired of them completely upending how Stellaris plays, though. I feel like every time I get comfortable with the game they overhaul some major system, and I’m learning how to play a new game again.

Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.

To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.

A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.