Just a shame about some of the other voice acting from that game…

‘Rhetoric, and you believe it!’
‘JC Denton, in da fresh’
‘I spill my drink!’
‘JC - a bomb!’

Please don’t conflate singing a national anthem with forcing children to swear allegiance to the state.

Please don’t conflate playing a national anthem with forcing children to swear loyalty to the state

The USA and China are outliers when it comes to requiring public displays of loyalty to the state, this isn’t normal behaviour and shouldn’t be encouraged.

Todd isn’t directly responsible for the writing of the fallout games, although he is responsible for the fact that they have no writers

Evil has no birthplace, it has always existed in all people. Evil was there long before ‘The West’ or ‘Middle East’ were things. Religions don’t cause evil or intolerance, but some religions can be easily used to justify stoning gay people to death, or killing women for daring to be independant. If the bible didn’t command that gay people be murdered, or if Islam didn’t command that apostates be slain, it would be much harder to justify these evil acts. This isn’t a problem of religion, it’s a problem of cultures that take their religion too seriously.

This pressure is coming from the payment providers without whom no storefront can operate. We need alternatives to Visa and Mastercard.

This isn’t a secret plot by systemd, this is gnome making dependency choices and a distro that explicitly doesn’t support the new dependency being left in the cold. That’s just how dependencies work.

most picture hooks would be tacked in with a hammer

Won’t help the software compatibility

You could also buy CDs and rip them

June the 13th was quite nice

Prions - Actually nightmarish.

Russia had large reserves of money at the start of the war which allowed them to ride out the initial sanctions. They also massively pivoted their econony to produce military equipment because of the amount of equipment they were losing. Neither of those are sustainable for long and the only cards they have left are (greatly discounted) oil sales to China and India, and conscription (which would be incredibly unpopular) which is why they have been using North Korean soldiers.

All of this is like a hole in Russia’s fuel tank, which would be ok if they could finish the war quickly, but their advance has been so slow that the frontlines are mere kilometers from where they were two years ago and if this doesn’t change they will run out of steam and be unable to continue.

They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.

Asking an llm isn’t research, he might as well have been consulting a magic 8 ball.

Half Life came out in 1998 (27 years ago) and this post is from 2003 (22 years ago). Half Life is retro gaming.

Both were supported by Russia to weaken the UK

All I see is *******?

The sandboxing is part of the point, having a permissions model that puts the user in control of what programs are allowed to do is critical.