The shit the US has been pulling around the world starting decades before 9/11 might have been the reason someone wanted to punch back at the bully.

But I do not agree regarding Crimea.

I hate Nazis and their hate.

I don’t have an issue with Jews.

I don’t have an issue with the existence of Israel.

I DO have an issue with Zionists who take what is not theirs, who kill to further their goals, and who manipulate for furthering their Agenda.

That guy seems to share my views.

Aspiration is one of the main ways to die in a hospital, regardless of quality. After aspiration, lung inflammation often follows quickly if you are already weakened. Also, if you’re weakened, you will probably have not much strength to cough hard enough to clear your airways.

I upgraded my PC just in time last year before pricing went bonkers. Stayed on my AM4 board, upgraded to 64GB DDR4, swapped my ageing 2600x to an 5950x with 32 cores, snatched a 5070 to expand my smallish VRam, upgraded storage to a total of 43TB.

I’m still in the market for 4 8-16TB HDDs, since I have a very nice NAS standing in a corner. But I will probably opt for used drives with the current prices.

Next PC upgrade is the first time in a long while I have to actually replace the whole PC, but I’ll ride out this Madness first.

It’s similar with me. I have pirated games starting with my Amiga 500 in the early 90s, and still pirate today. But I am also one of the best costumers the game industry has (except in the categories MTX and cash-grab DLC, and I am very careful with early access titles). I own around 2500 games legit (not counting Systems other than PC), and nearly all of those games started as a pirated copy. Without pirating I would never be able to decide which games are worth my money and time.

If a game isn’t well rated, I won’t pirate it, and if it can’t hold my attention, I delete it. If it’s my cup of tea, I wait until the price point is where I perceive it as fair for the offering. That can be full price on day one too if is good! BG3, Nier Automata, Witchfire, Prey 2016 and a very long list of other games all got what they asked for.

If I see that a game is flawed, but the devs are actively working on making their game as good as it deserves to be (it helps if they have a good track record), I also tend to pay close to full price. If fixes come slowly or erratically, or they abandoned a game in an unfinished state before, I only buy after it is fixed, heavily discounted, or not at all.

Sure. Because we haven’t learned a thing in the last two decades regarding enshittification, rent-seeking and anti-costumer behavior of Tech Corpos, we will all line up to combine those traits with something that sits in our brains.

Should we get to the point where severe brain injuries can be healed without any remaining neurological deficits in a few days, we can revisit this discussion. Before that, everyone lining up for that is already braindead and has no risk of losing mental capacity.

No man’s sky is an ocean wide and a puddle deep. It’s a lot better than before, but the core gameplay couldn’t impress me then, and it still can’t now.

Cyberpunk is … An experience. I played it day one, was bummed about the state of things and dropped it for years. I came back with 2.0, and it is like a different game. It’s stable, looks great, has so much atmosphere that you can nearly taste it and plays smoothly.

And if you liked modding Skyrim, this thing is a great buy. If it’s on sale, give it a try, you won’t be disappointed, I promise.

I liked it, but tbh, as long as you have to work with shutter glasses or similar stuff it will never reach wide adoption.

It actually requires a pivot, because if you want to account for making a game playable at end-of-life, you normally have to plan that from the start, to make sure the game is structured in a way that allows for easy switching. If all you plan is actually to turn off the servers, well, that’s the current situation.

Making sure the game ends gracefully means either releasing dedicated server binaries, implementing P2P (or Splitscreen) multiplayer or disabling multiplayer, and repurposing/rebalancing previously online content to work in the new setting. That’s not easy to do if you never wasted a thought on those things in development, especially with a skeleton crew of developers which have been working on other stuff for years at this point.

Don’t get me wrong, I can’t wait to see this legislation come into effect, but even I have to acknowledge that a game that has been worked on for years and goes live in January 2027 is probably not designed for this.

You are right that a big amount gets released back when a tree dies, but it also feeds microorganisms which live in the soil and which enrich the soil itself, increasing the carbon content of the soil. Also, especially in wetlands and coastal areas plant material can sink underwater and get preserved on the sea floor, leading to sequestration, and explaining the higher sequestration rate compared to terrestrial forests.

The “Death” smell is normally associated with an inefficient digestion, which causes amino acids to break down - relevant ist especially cysteine, which contains Sulfur and therefore smells intensive. Can also happen if you overload on proteins without any pancreas issues.

The “sweeter” smell can have multiple reasons, but having an disturbed gut microbiome is the most likely cause. Gut infections in general can cause both.

Some people are also very bad at digesting specific foods. I cannot eat oats, at least if I want to have social contacts the next 2 days.

some final solution that is

Nah, AI Corpos are not too big to fail. A lot of Money has been dumped into this hole, but it’s irrelevant for keeping the economy itself running. Oracle will not survive its stupid deal with OpenAI tho when the venture capital dries up and Altman can’t pay for Stargate Abilene.

Dead Cells, with 1300hrs total (I have hit a wall at 3BC I haven’t been able to pass, but it’s still fun), and Grim Dawn with 1600hrs (but including non-official content like the user-run seasons). Current runner-ups are Sulfur and Witchfire with around 250hrs both.

Since you are a self proclaimed professional, what percentage of nude requests were answered positively, and is it as close to zero as I expect?

Yup, this one: https://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=245

Our version of f-prot was severely outdated, and remediation method of choice was a full reinstall while booting from a clean 3.5 inch floppy.

The first thing I downloaded at home was Star Wars Imperial march using a 56k modem. But before that a colleague of my father made a fair bit of money using his relatively fast internet connection to download games and apps from newsgroups, effectively running a subscription service offering 1 CD each with programs and games per month. I still have the Mp3, but the CDs are long gone.

Edit: I just recalled that on one of the CDs the game Battlecruiser 3000AD had a virus - it complained that the executable had been modified, and looking at the exe with an hex editor I found the Signature “At the grave of Grandma…” In the file. A quick search with a manually defined search pattern using f-prot revealed that nearly every executable on my PC was infected. At least my efforts were able to protect a lot of people from the same fate when I reported back to that guy.

Yeah it happens with the I/O widgets for my Btrfs mount point for my HDDs, which takes a few seconds after the shell loads to become available. Haven’t found a way to delay loading of widgets yet.

When I type p I get “plasmashell --replace --no-respawn” because I have to reload plasmashell twice after reboot to get all my widgets in working state lol

Hail Hydra or something