It’s a space ship I guess. I have a fondness for sci-fi that uses naval conventions because that’s probably how things will end up going, because tradition takes priority over utility.

They’re both imperial though. The Brits are fucking weird. They act like they use metric, but they swap between them like crazy. The US and British have different versions of several measurements with the same name though. If you look into the history of the measurements, some of them get insane with dozens of different potential values.

You are confused. The comment you replied to was talking about mods removing comments that apply the same outlook of these soldiers to Bibi. Bibi is being protected by the mods. The person you’re talking to wants the protecting removed.

This logic is pretty dumb honestly. The elected officials who send soldiers to kill for them are far more culpable than the soldier who is drafted. Civilians with no power? Sure, maybe they shouldn’t be called on for being targeted. The people literally giving the orders though? In my opinion they’re, in effect, part of the military complex. They aren’t literally service members, but they are part of the chain that gives soldiers their orders.

I used to think like you, but I looked into most of the claims and found it to not be an issue. I now have a wireless Logitech mouse (not an advertisement, as the scroll wheel has some issues).

The latency is not noticeable (supposedly lower than wired IIRC). I have never experienced dropout on my mouse.

The battery lasts for about two weeks usually, and I’m a heavy user. The mouse is a few years old.

Plugging it in is trivial, and it just becomes a wired mouse if I need to use it while charging.

Yes, it’ll eventually effectively be unusable, but this is true for every device. The battery is not going to be the thing that causes me to replace this.

Also, the weight is very low. I’m pretty sure this is the lightest mouse I’ve ever owned.

Privacy? Sure, I guess. I’m carrying around a cell phone though. If I need to go dark then I’ve got to replace a ton of stuff.

Security? Again, sure, but I’ve got bigger issues than my mouse.

As for the benefits, it is actually pretty nice. I have a mouse bungee from when I was wired only. It now holds the wire for my mouse, so it’s easy to grab when I need it. It still has a lot more resistance than wireless, to the point I almost only ever watch media when I want to charge, because I don’t feel like gaming while wired. Again, I was a wired-only advocate for a while. This resistance wasn’t a concern until I got rid of it. You don’t even notice it until it’s gone.

Ah, it’s TERF logic. This is the first time I’ve heard this term, but that makes sense for them to be using. Just another excuse to exclude trans people.

It was frustrating to start. I agree. It requires such a different skill set than the Souls games but it feels like you should be good at it already, but you won’t be.

One key to the game is in a quote a character says fairly early on: “Hesitation is defeat.” The way to play is to put constant pressure on the enemy. In the Souls games you’re encouraged to back off and take time to recover when you need to. In Sekiro, you need to keep the pressure up to break their posture. If you back off then they recover and progress is reset. It’s tough, but it’s one of the best combat games once it clicks. It’s why almost every game since has added a posture bar, but they don’t go all the way to the logical end that Sekiro did. Even ER took the posture mechanic, but watered it down.

Modern day Russia is queerphobic though, and is not leftist. The defence of modern Russia is the biggest part of the issue. They’re a right-wing authoritarian oligarchy who gets support by appealing to a past that was on the left, but has little to do with them today. It does not represent the workers.

They definitely turned up the dial on combat challenges for bosses, but I agree, it’s more accessible. There are so many ways to trivialize the combats, and you can even skip a lot of the bosses. It’s so much easier than ever before to come back later with a significant power increase and easily defeat any boss.

Probably the thing that helps accessibility the most though is making it clear there are other paths, and you can come back to a boss later. That was always the intention of the Souls games, but people often slam their head against a wall until it breaks, and they think the games are (too) hard. The tools were always there to make the game easier, but a lot of people didn’t take advantage of them in the older games. ER makes the alternatives so much more obvious.

I highly recommend spending some time with Sekiro. It is arguably their best game. It learns most of the lessons from the Souls series, innovates on that, but also doesn’t lose anything, in my opinion.

Elden Ring is good, but I honestly think it’s a worse experience than the older games. Yeah, the combat has been perfected, but that’s a relatively minor part of the gameplay, all things considered. DS1 has the perfect world to explore, with corridors that are crafted to perfection. It’s open enough to feel like you’re choosing where to explore while being closed enough to have good encounters. Elden Ring is so open that it loses a lot of control, which essentially means the only encounters that matter are in the dungeons. Those are a small fraction of the game, so it feels like a lot of time and effort spent to make something that’s experientially worse than the simpler older style. It’s still a master class in open world design, but I feel the game would be stronger if they focused on the classic design.

Legality ≠ morality. 38 states believe you shouldn’t be prosecuted for the act. That is not a statement in what you should or should not do. I agree mostly with not making it illegal because, like I said, there are exceptions that make it something you should do. The law does not handle things like that well.

This isn’t to say someone shouldn’t punch you in the face if you’re filming them doing something they believed to be private. Are you legally allowed to? Sure. Should society allow it, in all cases all the time? Fuck no, and there should be consequences for it.

They weren’t talking about legality. They were talking about ethics. Recording people without consent is one thing, but doing it secretly is another. For police, I’d argue there’s implied consent as they’re public servants who are theoretically working for us. (I know, they’re working for the owner class, but they’re paid by taxpayers.) Anyone else though? I’d say that’s fairly ethically corrupt. Obviously there are exceptions, but generally it should be seen as a bad thing to do.

Not everything needs to be explained every time it’s said. Language would be ridiculous if we had to define every word every time it’s used. Its pretty easy to search “Star Trek Disco” for example and learn what it means if you don’t understand it.

I mostly agree, but I don’t think it should be 100%. How did any of us get here? Almost certainly it was someone talking on the legacy platforms. We shouldn’t spend time trying to convince people to join, but some people should spend some time spreading the word that the alternatives exist, and why they’re better. Honestly, I don’t think we want the users that need convincing. We do want the users who see the advantage and leave on their own, but they need to know about it first.

Not all people speak English. What’s your point?

It does. More options aren’t bad.

Oh, I think you’re right. I read using a big net to stop them meaning surrounding the thing you’re defending with a net. I guess they meant firing one. The reason for that is pretty simple: drag. A big net would have a ton of drag, so it wouldn’t fly far. You could have a missile that ejects a net to catch a target, but nets also weigh a lot and you could instead have a bunch of pellets, fragmentation, or something. There are uses for nets, like the drone video in the OP, but they have some serious limitations too.

It’d be such an easy PR win to do this, but of course they aren’t. I guess for things they don’t have the rights to they probably couldn’t easily, but they could for older things. They could also create a database of it and release it when they become public domain too, which wouldn’t be that hard.

Many of the high traffic roads are covered with nets. It’d just require an absurd amount of netting to actually block off a city or something, and it’d be effectively impossible to electrify it.

I’m pretty sure, with all the pyramids there are, there’d be some evidence or residue if this were the case. It’d also be an absolute shitload of paint. There would probably be archeological evidence for massive paint making in the region. They did paint stones, but I don’t think they painted the outside of the pyramids.