I can give examples, Cyberpunk 2077 being a great example, great studio with great past work, releasing something before they had time to make the product great. Remember all the Superman Trailers have just one goal, trying to convince you to get your butt in the seat come opening day. For the mega fan and the excited please do go the opening day. But us casual fans should not mindlessly go the first chance we get. Wait and see the reviews, spoiler free of course, after opening weekend to make sure you are informed before letting go of your hard earned money

Yeah let’s hold until the dust has started to settle. I am excited but not naive to false claims of exceptionalism to boost the bottom line of a studio

I always wondered how it feels, I generally abstain from drugs, but cocaine always seemed like fun. But seeing how easily I got hooked to vaping and then struggled but did quit my habit I do not want to try something I think will be more addicting

I loved the subversion, I felt Gosling and Crowe had excellent chemistry. Sad the movie did not get the financial success then, felt if it released now it would have been a major hit. Great buddy cop drama period piece

The only thing that can stop a 3 year old with a gun is a good person with a gun

Can we agree we already engineered the climate to be 2°C hotter. Albeit stopping emissions has been a noble goal, unfortunately clearly that strategy is not working. We should still continue to try and achieve it, but why not admit it wasn’t enough and we start geoengineering the atmosphere with Stratospheric Aerosol Injection. Yes it has its problems, yes it is not a long term solution, yes there are many unknowns. But saying we should just try harder with our current strategy, that we should double down even harder is madness defined. This is an easy achievable solution that will be beneficial in the short run. Unfortunately there is just too much benefit for companies and individuals to pollute now and make it the next generation’s issue. Like I said we have already geoengineered the atmosphere to be hotter, let’s replicate volcanos that inject particles into the atmosphere that lowers the temperature in the surrounding area.

Not everyone is going to agree and that is fine, but here is my two cents regarding future solutions.

Look I know I am kicking a hornet’s nest here. First of all I am a Linux supporter, I have used the green Ubuntu since 2012, and I have been gaming on it since 2022.

But I am really curious about how the new ally 2 with the Xbox tweaked version of win 11 is going to turn out. Not that I would use it, if I get a handheld it will probably run Bazzite. But since Bazzite is basically a purpose built Linux OS for handhelds, I think the best comparison would be the Xbox team’s purpose built Windows 11 for handhelds.

I still believe Microsoft will take the loss even with the tweaked version, but just like how we will cry if they put for example Hannah Montana Linux and Microsoft beats it somehow in certain examples with their new Xbox win 11 mobile.

Ok I realised now the mess I stepped in, ok no what I tried to mean, and I apologise for my ignorance, sexuality, I believe, is a spectrum and what I tried to mean it is for each individual to decide where they feel or know they fall on that spectrum. It is an evolving point and it is not set in stone.

But yeah you’re right, a person’s sexuality is not a choice like veganism.

I think veganism is unfortunately a person’s decision, like sexuality or religion.

The benefits for themselves can be listed, but unfortunately they have to choose vegan lifestyle for themselves.

Hopefully veganism becomes even cheaper and becomes more appetising for the broader society than alternatives so that it isn’t just moral or ethical reasoning driving people to change.

Zimbabweans speak fluent english, most Zimbabweans I have worked with are really, like really well educated and I feel so dumb having this Afrikaans accent around their British English

Bigus Dickus

Agree with the name thing, especially if it is still popular names. Some old names are cool to use especially if they are not really used anymore, if it has a play on words like Nero burning ROM or Ajax that attacks grease. What name can we use as a play on words for male birth control…

Well I love Mint, but nothing is stopping you from experimenting with other distros, now and then I try a couple new distros to see if there is anything that fits me better, but I personally keep coming back to mint. Nothing wrong with sticking with something that works, mint is really intuitive in my opinion, why it just works for me

I cannot speak for this area of science, but in my field China’s research papers, for example rock mass failure response to complex stress states, are like a god send, really quality work. This is my opinion in my field but if I had to extrapolate… Remember the Soviets with all their propaganda had amazing scientists

What do you mean? What distro are you using? And what card are you using?

Superhero films are past their golden era. Of course there will always be fans, but the mainstream will move to the next thing. Unfortunately actual cinemas are dying so it looks like superhero films were the last big movie genre, or maybe I am totally wrong and way too nihilistic.

I am a vegan, well for now maybe it changes maybe it doesn’t since I believe everything should be looked at as rationally as one is able to, but I still see hunting wild animals in certain situations being ethical. Where I am from, South Africa, hunting has basically supported environments that are kept as natural as possible, so the wild life has to be sustainable , and it supports all the other animals that also live on the farm that cannot be hunted. There are bad, really bad situations where this was not the case, cage lion hunting being an awful example. But yeah the animal really does live its life in its natural environment, and when hunted usually killed in a quick manner, usually not always, similar as if it was hunted by lions or crocodiles.

It is a difficult point, since I do not ever want to hunt, but I see the benefits of hunting. I know there might be obvious shortcomings in my view, but OP, with this one you have my semi vote of approval. But with all things we should make rational ethical decisions where it does not lead to suffering or exploitation of the beings involved. Maybe Australia can support a bigger number of kangaroos than what the government says, remember they are not always to be trusted. But maybe the natural predators of kangaroos have been eradicated and now human culling needs to put pressure to keep sustainable populations. I cannot give you the answers but hopefully a conversation can begin. I tried to be open as you asked OP

It’s a brilliant move. Black will lose no matter what