Spending every lunch hour on the library computer with three friends in 1994 playing this is probably why I didn’t have a girlfriend.

Can I be nit-picky here for a second?

If you’re genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you’re not “bring a mammoth back from extinction”, you’re creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it’s not a mammoth at all.

It’s like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you’ve brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven’t, you’ve just designed a human who looks different.

After setting up emulators for both the PS2 and PS1, I’m amazed at how little I actually turn on my xbox one S anymore.

Games from that generation just hit differently for me. Especially my favourites like Final Fantasy X and XII. It took me a while to get why I felt that way, but it’s the combat systems in modern games have become to frenetic and button-mashy. How am I supposed to strategize what my team mates are doing at the speed that the combat now wants to take place at.

And that’s not just with the Final Fantasy series. God of War both went down that “let’s make combat as fast and frenetic as possible” route after the PS2 generation.

I’m also going to give an honourable mention on PS2 to the last Stalwart alternative to the EA NHL series; that being NHL 2K10. I really enjoyed the things that it did differently to EA Sports, like the ability to set two of your team-mates to hassle an opposing player. I wish 2K had kept it up. But it seems they gave up the NHL and EA gave up the NBA. Fair trade I guess.

I don’t know about that, to be honest.

I don’t have any hard data to back me up, but anecdotally I find that most FOSS software I use is headquartered in Europe. Quite often Germany. There are many maintainers from all over the world, but I feel like (again…in my experience) Europe has always been bigger into starting such projects.

It was Benito Mussolini’s headquarters in Rome during WW2

So…America…you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?

Get your shit together. Christ.

My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they’ll be time to be “historians” in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.

I agree with you.

However…there’s an argument to be made that the post itself is a form of criticism and falls under the free speech rules where it regards political figures. In many ways, it’s not any different than the drawings of Musk holding Trump’s puppet strings, or Putin and Trump riding a horse together. One is drawn and the other is animated, but they’re the same basic concept.

I understand however that that sets a disturbing precedent for what can and cannot be acceptable. But I don’t know where to draw that line. I just know that it has to be drawn somewhere.

I think…and this is my opinion…political figures are fair game for this, while there should be protections in place for private citizens, since political figures by their very ambition put themselves in the public sphere whereas private individuals do not.

I’m currently replaying all of them via emulator the last few weeks, and I have to say I respectfully disagree.

IX’s combat system just feels simplified compared to the depth that VIII had.

Could you absolutely cheese the draw system…of course. But if you avoided the temptation, the almost limitless mechanics of stat pairing was fun to play around with when taking on different enemies.

Not that I actually give a shit what JD Vance thinks. But I do kind of wonder what JD Vance thinks waking up every morning knowing that he’s literally the vice president in name only and has no other function that hasn’t been completely taken over by Musk.

No it wasn’t. It’s typical bully tactics when they’re pushed back. “I was just kidding bro, settle down”.

I don’t expect it. I just hope for it because it would be the most big-dick-energy move Zelensky can pull on Trusk.

I desperately desperately desperately want to read a headline that says “Ukraine signs rare mineral agreement with the European Union. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU and the EU gets large resources of rare minerals to supercharge their own homegrown tech industry and divest it from the United States of Trump”

It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.

Everything from wife-killers, toenail-eaters, to geniuses

Stop spying on me please.

If you think your Apple phone isn’t listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I’d like to sell you in Montana.

The moment they make clear that CA farmers cannot access the Colorado river waters like they used to

But…but…I’ve been told that there’s a big faucet up here in Canada that we can turn on for y’all to make it all better.

/s. (god I can’t believe I live in a world where I need an /s tag for this)

Flive has flive letters.

Antifa needs to be what they always say Antifa is.

At what point to left-leaning states governors start building up their own militias?

I’m asking this as a Canadian, I honestly don’t know what the process is vis a vis state militia vs federal military.

Up until recently I felt like at a certain point, there were lines that the military would not cross regarding Trump orders. But now I’m kind of terrified that they really haven’t pushed back at all, meaning if it comes down to it, it’s all going to up to the individual states.