Starfield kinda killed positive views of Bethesda. Fallout 76 shortly before that essentially eliminating most of the good will they had.

Beyond the technical failures inherent to those titles, even more so than the average Bethesda title, the writing, the story, the atmospheric story telling were all just… bad. Not a single glimmer of what made Skyrim or their previous titles great could really be found. Fallout 76 felt like the most obvious and pathetic cash grab in game release history, being practically unplayable for the first six months of its life… which for an online game is ridiculous; and Starfield legitimately felt like what a dev team that were fans of Skyrim might produce. It felt like a third-party rip off of Bethesda’s style.

Don’t get me wrong both games have their fans, and honestly the hate is overrated as both games are competent, they’re just not good. They’re just not Bethesda games.

Add onto that the fact it’s been 15 years since a significant elder scrolls title was released; because let’s face it no one remembers Blades, ESO is its own thing entirely, and I had to actually google ‘elder scrolls card game’ to remember wtf Legends was called; and you have a recipe for absolute disappointment. Most of the people that worked on Oblivion and Skyrim are gone from the company. The new batch have not made a popular game in that time besides Fallout 4, which is still viewed by half the fallout fan base as the worst fallout game despite Fallout Tactics existing.

The negative outlook is because we aren’t likely to get more of what we like. Especially given Todd Howard’s obsession with using AI. This is much more likely to be a corpse wearing the skin of a beloved franchise than anything worth playing, all for the low-low price of $80+ USD, if not $100+ USD.

Why did communism?

The actual definition of capital. By the people that invented the term. A resource that is rented to another in exchange for part or all of the value generated by that resource. The Linux Foundation, being a non-profit, does not own any capital whatsoever, otherwise they would lose their non-profit status.

Linux, in fact, does not exist under capitalism. The Linux Foundation does not own capital. It does not pay taxes. Value is neither rented nor extracted from the workers who fully retain all ownership of the labor value of the product of Linux. The same way a commune can exist despite capitalism also existing, it does not mean that commune exists under capitalism.

FOSS cannot exist under capitalism, as it is quite literally the definition of Marxist Praxis. Linux is quite literally the single most wide spread and successful example of communist production in world history. It is, by its very existence, a “social warrior” project.

Did… did you forget to click on the link? This is lemmy, it’s similar to reddit. The giant text on the top is actually a hyperlink to a whole other website with exactly the information you’re requesting. My comment is directly based on the information in the actual article.

Dude Mexicans fucking love fake Mexican food. As someone that was trapped in Texas for years, with real Mexican food available in every other strip mall, every single latino friend I had but especially the ones that were first-gen always made us get taco bell or taco cabana for lunch when it was their turn to pick a place.

That being said the reason this will fail is Chipotle’s awful prices compared to what you get, especially if they bring this cali-mex style to anywhere with similar habits of putting rice in burritos.

No, the Comedian Actor Zelensky, who has explicitly the exact same qualifications to be a world leader as Donald Trump, has not ‘prosecuted’ this war. He has been an incredible front man for this war, for the competent people that have run this war and resistance against Russia. He is an amazing actor, and has utilized those skills to well market this war to previously unsure NATO countries.

However he has no qualifications or skill to actually lead a war, and he used to admit that. Consistently firing his generals over petty disputes, at best, seems like the shortest possible path to a complete balkanization of Ukraine into its disparate regions as the people with actual power and competency in Ukraine start new rebellions (especially given democracy has been indefinitely paused so the people have had no say in any of this for years now.)

You can add any gog game to steam and run it through whatever proton compatibility layer you would like. The Heroic launcher and Lutris both also allow this.

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The guy that essentially added lasers to Japanese movies and somehow became a multi-billionaire is a fan of stealing other’s work with minimal effort and reusing it without permission?

I’m shocked. Shocked I say.

Defence scientists say the technology could threaten low Earth orbit satellite networks such as Starlink at an extremely low cost.

Low Cost? It’s 100 Gigawatts. And the inverse square law is still a thing. In fact it’s the thing, the reason most sci-fi weapons can’t exist until we get infinite exponential power sources.

This will be amazing at missile defense and anti-air, however, thoroughly eliminating any reasonably distanced threat.

Free trials are explicitly designed to be just long enough that the average user forgets they’ve signed up for it and it can auto charge after the trial ends. There’s a ridiculous amount of dark pattern psychology research on this exact topic, paid for by companies like Amazon and Netflix.

Compared to Iran, Iraq was easy. Iran is built to be a decentralized ideological government and military. Iran has more mountains than the US. Iran has more people than Iraq and Afghanistan combined before those respective wars. The IRGC allegedly only has 150,000 soldiers… because the other 10 million or so are trained and armed ‘civilians.’ That’s not counting the other ~30 million armed farmers. Iran has no real central leadership to decapitate. Iran has no popular revolutionary movement against the current government.

Iraq had a strong centralized government, US trained army, and an incredibly powerful revolutionary force built up against Saddam long before the US invaded. As soon as Saddam was forced to flee and hide, Iraq’s main resistance was over, with actual freedom fighters double backing against the US occupational forces after they realized the US wasn’t there to support revolution, just occupy indefinitely. The biggest problem the US faced was a lack of support for their ‘hearts and minds’ campaign. The actual military work was over in two weeks with basic security work from then to today.

In Iran, if the US invades, there will not be an end to the military work. There will never be a safe place on land the US can be. There will never be an interim government, not even one as weak as the Afghani government pre-taliban take over. There will always be some remnant of the previous Iranian government ready to fight, making independent military trade deals with China and Russia for supplies, and handling their own logistics.

And that’s still not going into detail on the terrain. Close Air Support will not exist during the entire land war. Every single system the US uses for CAS is incapable of handling extremely mountainous terrain with no clear targets.

That’s great and all but the current linux phone offerings are… not suitable for general public use. The iPad generation will simply not be able to use them in their current state.

Each MQ-9 Reaper costs around $14.5 million USD¹. This includes parts currently under 100% economic sanctions that are only sourced in China, so the real cost to replace is almost definitely higher at this point. Rare Earth Metals ain’t the expensive or rare part.

As a fun experiment why don’t we see what took down these drones that cost as much as a brand new elementary school and all teacher salaries for a year;

Each Shahed drone costs $15,000-$50,000 depending on the model these killed at least two.

Each S-400 9M96E Missile costs around $300,000. These are the short range missiles that would be used by Iran’s air defense for the low flying Reapers.

Misgah recoilless rifle ($150,000-$1,000,000) (This is confirmed at least 1 reaper down.

The Russian Verba system (~$200k per missile)

So basically the max cost on Iran’s side is $30 million USD, though realistically this is likely closer to $10-15 million USD.

The max cost on the US side is approximately 45 elementary schools or around $450 million USD.

Or in other words, this is why Americans are so much more poor on average than Iranians and other “third world” or “developing nation” citizens. Did you know fewer than 2/3ds of Americans own their own home? That’s fucking unheard of in Iran. There’d be actual riots and not US led ones overnight if it ever got that bad.

¹There are no official numbers except bundled (staff, weapons resupply, support cost, actual cost of vehicle) fact sheet propaganda numbers.

While starlink is a relatively cheap alternative to other satellite providers, and at one point provided a better experience, both the price value and experience has continued to degrade over time. It would be a great UN-provided project. Genuinely we should have a similar system (better engineered and designed) available to be used by anyone at cost. But SpaceX is a public company, it’s only going to continue to enshittify and will eventually become a worse value consideration than alternative satellite providers; it’s already enshittified with many customers reporting consistently double the ping and half the download speeds from their original experience.

It’s not the idea of a truly globally accessible internet that makes it worthless, it is the fact it is being done by a for-profit publicly-traded company owned by a trillionaire. Any one of those three things would mean the product is guaranteed to get worse eventually, all three mean it is guaranteed to get worse as quickly as possible.

I promise you killing a trillionaire’s objectively worthless pet project that is pretty universally hated outside Ukrainian military, the RV community, and the poorer end of the Yacht community is not going to end in any retaliation besides a strongly worded letter about temporarily causing additional space debris.

He has a civil rights lawyer with a youtube channel helping him on the criminal charges and has hired some other lawyer to help with the civil charges (hence the move for those to federal court). So he’s getting there.

“nobody takes public transit” brother now I know you’re cosplaying.