Getting it second hand or pirating it will give no money up the chain.

The gameplay itself is rather shallow, the puzzles rather meh, the story is ok - but if you want to be lost in a magical version of Edinburgh and Scottish castles, it will do that impressively.

The environment in the game is mind blowing.

Just insanely carefully and lovingly built, it’s clearly a work of passion for many artists who grew up with the books who I think must be very far away from jkr and her hate-spouting just by all kinds of small details and choices in the game.

Requires a gutsy pc.

But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.

The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.

I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.

I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.

“Government should be run like a business” sounds like a totalitarian religion.

So basically the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted with separation of powers and checks and balances, right?

I thought these people were cosplaying traditionalists.

That’s funny. But the glass is not in a superposition, the answer to the question is. It’s a glass that contains water and is just sitting there observable by all probably sick of being subject to stupid questions that have no meaningful answer.

Yes. If the next action is to add it’s half full, if to remove it’s half empty. If nothing then it depends on the previous actions.

Exactly - or the next action. The question “is the glass half full or empty” is a false dichotomy, the answer is: it is impossible to know without further info.

Seems unlikely given that ascetic hermits around the world are known for living to a ripe old age.

I’m also the signal guy amongst my friends and family. There are dozens of us!

I can’t imagine any system of influence running an exposed ssh without some further protection from connection abuse like fail2ban.

Black Panther.

It had so much hype in the media, i was so excited to watch it. It turned out to be rather boring and forgettable.

How will the far right help with any of that? They’re not known for running public utilities.

One would think that if that’s your problem you’d vote further left - renationalise public utilities etc.

I’ll believe AI can replace engineers when I see NVIDIA firing them. But like the graphic says, the manager’s job seems a lot easier to replace instead.

More than that, most peanut butter has a lot of hydrogenated vegetable fats which are likely much worse than a bit of sugar.

If the package doesn’t have a tablespoon of peanut oil or so pooling at the top when you first open it, that you then need to mix it in, it’s hydrogenated.

I liked Rogue One too. It had some weight. That Darth Vader close up fight scene at the end was the first time I recognised him as a terrifying force and not a cartoonish bad guy.

Brilliantly described. Just one more thing : be kind to yourself.

You are always listening to your own negative self talk and, if you find yourself in a big hole it can become overwhelming as you oscillate between absolutely abusing yourself, trying not to think about it, and giving up.

You wouldn’t put up with anyone else treating someone you love that way, don’t allow yourself to self-harm that way either.

Considering that they let you install and run Win 11 in trial mode indefinitely with no loss of functionality but a tiny semi transparent warning in a corner I don’t see this happening. They’d rather have the install base.

Triple funny that this can be a “then let them eat cake” joke where they’re giving worse that useless advice from an irrelevant perspective.

I liked the game, great atmosphere and wide variety of location settings, I think it can provide a solid base to build on without being overly prescriptive or having a super fanatical user base - for a good film production team that can be a great framework to jump off of.

Yes, some people will literally waste 100x more resources, in mental energy and time, than the price of admission to complain.

But my point was that this type of criticism can be ignored - if you get 1000 sales and 2 people turn out to be dickheads you shove them in the (mental) bin.

Fuuck