PonyOfWar

Almost everyone uses their routers in Germany. I'm happy with them, never even used a different brand. Not as happy with their repeaters though, the ones I've had tended to overheat.

I agree. Pokemon once was my favorite video game series, but it has been technically and to some extent creatively stagnant for quite some years now. And whenever people point that out online, there is always a vocal horde of fans coming to Gamefreak's defense, saying things like "Pokemon never looked good". Which wouldn't be a good argument, but it's not even true. Pokemon games were never technically advanced, but they had a simple, clean look in the 2D/2.5D era. S/V has some really appallingly low-res textures in places that wouldn't have looked out of place on the N64. It just looks muddy and inconsistent to a point where it's distracting from the game itself. At the same time it runs at sub-30 FPS quite often.

Probably the only good looking Pokemon games we got this generation were the "Let's Go" ones. Those had simple but consistently good-looking graphics just like the older titles.

Our standards for "impressive repairability" have really gone down in recent years, haven't they?

Dashcams are legally controversial in Germany. Generally the common opinion is that they're only allowed if they quickly delete all recorded data and only save it if there was an actual accident.

The problem with a bodycam is that while it's allowed to film in public, it's not allowed to film specific people without their permission. So it would be fine to film a busy street without focusing on any people in particular, but going into a store with your bodycam where it would film your interaction with the cashier would be illegal.

No, as that would be illegal in many situations in my country. I also don't want cameras pointed at me constantly, so I don't do that to other people either.

They're clearly rectangular! ~/s~

Oh, come on. There are still cities with millions of people, where hundreds of thousands could easily get together to protest. Cities double the population size of the entire country of Georgia. There were much larger protests e.g. in DC under the first Trump administration but this time it's too much of a bother?

We will hopefully do that, but it's also up to the American citizens to finally put up a proper resistance. One of the most worrying things to me is how indifferent the majority of Americans seem to be to their country turning fascist and betraying its allies. There were some protests sure, but they're ridiculously tiny compared to protests in even much smaller countries like Georgia. It's time to wake the fuck up before power has fully been consolidated and there's no way back. Europe may be able to stand alone against Russia, but against Russia and the US will be tough.

They're kana characters which represent syllables. So ら is "ra" when romanized, ロ is "ro" and so on.

Actually took me quite a while to figure out it's supposed to say "Soul of coffee", but it's probably easier to read the less you know about Japanese characters.

I guess everyone's head is different. The Quest headsets never worked for me, comfort-wise.

It's a bit sad that most of the wins we can celebrate recently are basically "narrowly avoiding a far-right triumph" but hey, I'll take it. Happy for Austria. Hope the new government can show competent leadership.

Somewhere in the countryside with lots of nature around but not too far away from civilization. Ideally in a small country mostly unaffected by geopolitics and with a temperate climate.