I don’t have a lot of T-Shirts anymore, but my favourite is probably one from a youth club in eastern Germany with Boss “MyName” (but the wrong spelling) on the back, and the logo of my late father’s long bankrupt company as a sponsor on the front.

It’s funny, but more in a nostalgic way.

It’s not a smiley.

That’s a whole lot of words to say almost nothing.

I’d go in a different direction - requiring someone to sing your national anthem is wrong. It’s wrong when the U.S. do it, it’s wrong when Canada does, it’s wrong when China does it.

I find national pride hard to understand, but forced displays of national pride are really iffy.

I wouldn’t even say that. Even if they had a truly unique LLM that ran partially locally with a custom co-processor, Android might still have been a good choice. It’s just hard to beat an open source base that’s already compatible with most mobile hardware, and relatively easy to find Devs for.

Someone in the dorm I lived in had a Ford Ranger. Even though it’s one of Ford’s smaller pickups, it looked very oversized compared to everything else in the parking garage.

For games like this it’s almost always licenses for cars or music. They probably weigh the cost off renewal vs likely future sales.

Using Android as a base was honestly the most reasonable thing they did. No reason to reinvent the wheel. What they made with it is admittedly really shit, though.

Huh, I’ve been in that train. Sudden, random hit of Nostalgia.

Not a mod here, but I don’t see how written tits could be a problem. Hell, artsy tits should probably be fine too. Sexual tits are, I’m pretty sure, the actual line.

I think Reuters only has a Best of feed from their agency side, which isn’t really that useful as a news feed. All their feeds seem to be shut down, at least the ones I had stopped working.

I trust Reuters more than I trust Media Bias Fact Check. I of course still vary my media diet, but they’re certainly a pillar of it.

Seem to remember that they had a big scandal with a climate change denier editor that changed some articles a few years ago. Good to remember that no oragnisation is above scrutiny.

Water. Cold brew black or green tea if I’m feeling frisky.

I am very much pro space exploration, but the current plans many companies present for Mars colonies just seem like they would add very little value, while bringing tremendous danger and strife for the inhabitants, should anything ever be built.

I think we need to separate legitimate interest in space and related technology from bullshit marketing with scifi flavour.

one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it’s a gacha. I don’t want to gamble with my account being banned

Yeah, let’s keep it to one kind of gambling. I like and use opensuse tumbleweed. Rolling release, never had stability problems.

If I do have time for a night out, my friends and I tend to favour queer establishments. Now a considerable portion of them are queer themselves, but considering the behaviour I’ve seen displayed towards female presenting people in straight clubs and bars, I don’t see how I could stand for excluding anyone from a space where they might feel less unsafe.

Also, I don’t walk on eggshells around my straight friends, or any straight people, really, especially not on a night out. There are OK straight people, and there are not-OK queer people. If someone behaves badly in a bar, they should be kicked out regardless of their identity.

Seriously. I really liked Origins and had fun with 2 and Inquisition. If this is great, I’ll happily play it. If I don’t like it, I won’t - I have more backlog than time for games anyway. I don’t get what people get so angry about.

Yeah, fuck the KMT. But as you have recognised, they aren’t a dictatorship anymore.

And the status quo is that they are de facto a small independent island nation, that is de jure claiming mainland China.

It was more supposed to be a joke about the second reason being much more significant.

Edit: I think this was the first time I missed a black on white sarcasm flag. Oh well, it’s early in the morning, and there’s a first for everything.