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  • What are some questions that newbies should ask when deciding on which distro to use as the basis for their system?

    Do I want to get rid of windows without too much hassle?

    • Yes? → Linux Mint
    • No? → Linux Mint

    Once you’re used to Linux Mint cinnamon, you can start hopping to other DEs like KDE, Gnome 3, Cosmic or XFCE.
    And then once you’re used to that, you can hop to other distros.







  • Both are true and both Palestine and Ukraine needed to decrease their size.
    Around half for Palestine compared to their 1945 borders
    and around half for Ukraine to Russia,
    further land can be claimed by Hungary, Slovakia and Poland.

    The difference is is that for Russia

    1. Russians are already living in Ukraine because their parents/grandparents never left.
    2. They wanted to vote to separate from Ukraine in Donbass but were shot at the voting booth, even killed.
    3. Russia was open to discuss where the new borders would stand, but Ukraine demanded Crimea back where 90+% of the people voted to leave Ukraine.

    Israel on the other hand

    1. It’s all Euro-import.
    2. No one gets to vote and they kill everyone not Israeli and bulldoze/bomb their homes. They kill every man, woman and child. Israel genocides like Nazi Germany, except worse, because they kill everyone of every country it has so far invaded.
    3. Israel demands the entire Middle East. Multiple Arab nations that have no Israeli history whatsoever.

  • No other source means you’re just pushing propaganda that fits your narrative.

    And do you have any other sources except for yourself or the western propaganda source you got it from, to back that up?

    Also, the UK is a western source just like the US, so that’s the same source.
    Thus you still haven’t provided a second source for the Epstein files.
    Also, has the UK confirmed that Epstein killed himself and/or is dead?
    Otherwise, how do we even know Epstein hasn’t simply been released from prison?


  • What network of pedophiles are you referring to?

    The network of at least these people:

    Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Jean-Luc Brunel, Donald Trump,
    Leslie Wexner, Peter Attia, Elon Musk, Ehud Barak, Leon Black,
    Peter Mandelson, Ken Starr, Ahmed bin Sulayem, Larry Summers,
    Peter Thiel, Nathan Wolfe, Thorbjørn Jagland, Mona Juul, Terje Rød-Larsen,
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

    What’s your main point?

    Making up arbitrary rules and then implementing them selectively
    just means that you’re spreading propaganda.

    You’re not going to get any other source.
    If there’s only one source, there’s only one source.



  • Russia used the same tactic as Israel to invade.

    No they didn’t.
    Israel used an attack on Israel from occupied territory as an excuse to do a full-scale genocide.

    Russia went to Kiev to demand Zelensky to lay down arms in the Donbass,
    end the civil war and allow Donbass separation from a military couped Ukraine.
    If not, there Russia would continue with its special military operation
    and demand all historic Russian Oblasts granted to Ukraine by Russia,
    back to Russia.

    it is always the same excuse for invaders create a fake eminent threat

    No, one was about dealing with a terrorist threat
    by attempting to genocide multiple civilizations,
    the other acts accordingly after one side,
    a Ukranian puppet leader
    that takes direct orders from the US, where he breaks all treaties
    and a US who literally tells Russia
    “we’re gonna do whatever we want,
    place weapons wherever we want,
    kill whomever we want,
    break every treaty we want,
    and you’re not going to do anything about it,
    deal with it”.

    “A civilization is going to die tonight”
    after a country defends its own country
    is what the US is all about.




  • Sorry that we’re not all American. That area was built before cars were a thing otherwise you bet there would be a huge road there. That’s why it’s walkable.

    No

    Also cities like that were designed specifically to stop revolutions after 1848. Another reason people like pedestrian zones in places like Europe is because you can make a ton of money off of real estate if you know the area is going to be designated a pedestrian zone before hand, and because it forces consumers to spend longer walking through commercial zones.

    No

    In Europe walkability and anti car design usually only happens in fancy urban areas.

    No

    The minute you live in a more rural area you’re completely fucked if you don’t have a car and public transport usually sucks ass outside of major cities. Or at least that’s the case where I live.

    No

    The reason for walkability being better in Europe is the direct result of the 1973 oil crisis
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8




  • Beat you to it! 😛

    Yeah, releasing this year.
    I have no idea if they can strike gold twice.
    We’ve seen the sequels and those did not do as well (never played them) and they have to do a lot right in order to achieve that goal.

    • Create something akin to a five-star music album and matching sound effects
    • Make all the jokes land, unless they’re told by an Umgah
    • Tell a story about diverse cultures clashing with each other all with rich histories,
      without going too serious (tedious) or too silly (unrealistic) but do teeter on both sides,
      especially on the silly side.
    • Go for a clear recognizable emotion when creating each new culture or draw inspiration of the animal kingdom.
      Go into deeper explorations for what a culture with such emotions could lead to story-wise for the existing ones.
      And even evolve the emotions of existing races. The Pkunks already did upon introduction.
      Have the Supox become depressed for example due to lack of sunlight with the Utwigs becoming their therapists.
    • And have yet again a story unfold of each of these cultures and the likely result of what will happen without your meddling, with a clear set of or just one dominant alien race that decides the overarching story.
    • Add crises like those present in Star Control II to break from the exploration phase, mostly as consequences of your actions and what the alien races would naturally concoct on their own.
    • Also this time around have cultures become aware of your meddling and act on it.
    • Create a sense of wonder and danger during exploration. Here I would suggest manual atmosphere entry into an element of the game, you can lose your ship from the heat and also ‘find out what’s under the clouds’ to create expectations.
    • Create a sense of mystery during the game for both plot twists and sequel expectations
    • Fix the very fun but unbalanced battles to reach level of SSBM, Roguebook and other addictive games. It already was great, and having a super-powerful flagship that no one else has early in the game is necessary to excuse the adventure aspect, but it should have been challenged more than just once at the very end of the game. It needed encounters with story elements where the bad alien races decide that you’re a real threat and so they have been preparing specialized fleets to hunt you down, in order to have a fighting chance against your awesome flagship.
    • And not to forget that one needs to balance the economy, so it won’t take too long or too short to upgrade your flagship.

    And those are just the things that I can think of on top of my head.


  • Star Control II (1992)

    I will forever call Star Control II “The best game of the 20th century”
    It can be beaten but it will always remain my litmus test.

    It’s sublime story combined with the musical immersion,
    sci-fi, adventure, humor and elements of mystery made it
    feel you were the star of a sci-fi movie that was
    on par with if not better than 20th century star wars and star trek.

    Several games have come close over the years,
    but those games are mostly great due to the sublime gameplay.

    “We Love Katamari” came very close with as combined with
    the gameplay just had very very memorable music on par with Star Control II,
    and overall fun atmosphere.

    Now to be fair, I hadn’t played “Katamari Damacy” so the experience
    might have been dulled for the second installment if I had,
    yet the sheer fun I had with what the game was setting me up
    for what I could roll up next was an adventure in itself.
    But I do believe that “We Love Katamari” is the superior installment
    of the series even if I hadn’t played any of the others just by having
    listened to a few songs of the two others.
    They were okay, but “We Love Katamari”
    is a five-star album on top of a fantastic game.

    “Super Smash Bros. Melee” managed to beat everything in gameplay that came before.
    The first time I played it was at a big LAN party as small side entertainment.
    I skipped the LAN and played this for 48 hours straight.

    I have to admit though that I practically stopped playing computer games
    when World of Warcraft came out.
    There’s some other games that I truly enjoyed later, but I have to say
    that most of them are in the SSBM category of perfect gameplay,
    not as much an ‘adventure immersion’ that the former two had.