CrackedLinuxISO

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Sounds like the perfect reason to have different words. Who would want to type that out every time? I'm sure someone could spend several paragraphs describing the difference between fur and hair, or stucco vs plaster.

If you don't care about the difference between two words, then those words probably weren't invented for you. Someone else who works with that nuance on a daily basis probably really likes that they can sum things up briefly.

Probably more war:

  1. Depending on the country who developed it, the risk of nuclear war could go up.

If I don't have to worry about nuclear retaliation, maybe I'm very confident in engaging in war. After all, my nukes will still work, and everyone else's won't.

  1. If the technology is shared equally to all countries at the same time, the risk of conventional war could go up.

Imagine the nuclear armed countries who are enemies of another nation with a bigger military. North Korea vs USA, Pakistan vs India. In these cases, nuclear weapons are a deterrence against the stronger opponent. Without this, the country with a stronger conventional force may be more likely to they think they'll win a war unscathed.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People have wanted to fuck robots for a long time!

But also costume design of Maria, the robot from Metropolis, has had a huge impact on the aesthetic of female presenting robots.

Gortash: "My parents were poor"

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • Dunmer inhabitants of Vvardenfel generally dislike foreigners, so there's a base level of racism whenever the player interacts with them (even as a Dunmer yourself, you're too cosmopolitan for them)
  • Slavery (plantations and mines) is the driving economic force on Vvardenfel. There is extra racism when the player is a Khajit or Argonian
  • Everyone lives under a stagnant theocracy
  • One faction, the Telvanni, are powerful wizards who ignore the government and believe that might makes right

All of these mean that there's a certain subset of players who are into this ancap racist stuff IRL and get excited by "roleplaying" Dunmer racism on Reddit threads and the like.

But for any normal person, these are just aspects of a setting that make for interesting conflict and stories. It's such a great game, and OpenMW is the best way to play it.

Whether or not you're wasting your time in college is only something you can answer. However, there definitely are jobs out there for junior software devs right now. If economic outlooks improve, I'd expect demand for juniors to rise also.

Anecdote: I saw stats shared on social media by a CS professor at my former college. Enrollment for their classes is way down this year, when "back in my day" they were packed. Make of it what you will, but it's possible young people might no longer be seeing software development as an easy career to get into. That could make it a more attractive prospect for someone who's in it for more than just money.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Bought an eBike last weekend because I'd rather be soaked by rain than sitting in traffic to/from work. It feels damn good to finally be the person in an otherwise empty bike lane, passing countless cars that are going nowhere.

Surely Boromir would have killed the chicken and run off? Frodo only escaped him because the ring was right there on his person.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not a Polish film, but Hard to be a God (2013) is that.

It's a 3hr B&W Russian film about futuristic scientists who are living on a medieval planet to study it. Everything is disgusting, claustrophobic, and filthy (the main character is a germophobe). As he watches a fascist theocracy take control of the kingdom, the protaginist wrestles with whether or not to get involved.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

M1 Abrams: Requires an advanced economy plus an army of General Dynamics contractors for maintenance

Trebuchet: Can be completely repaired by one hammer-wielding villager

Plus, I assume that tanks count as a cavalry archer unit, which means any old monk can start converting them. Meanwhile trebuchets can't be converted until your enemy researches redemption at the monastery.

[–] CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Breakfast: Coffee and toast

Lunch: Toasted sandwich or reheated dinner leftovers

Dinner: Something home-cooked

As someone who usually prefers a hot meal over a cold one, that's my standard fare. It's not a crazy effort.

The nice thing about morrowind is that because it's mostly text-based, it's so much easier for modded dialogue to blend in with original content (if it's written well).

Hmm, maybe I should try my hand at modding: With the right speech craft/personality stats, you can trick Crassus Curio into kissing a guar.

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