I don’t know. It’s just the series has had no conviction post-Bungie so I bet on them throwing darts at a wall until they finally have an antagonist, while off screening the previous games antagonist, thats an immediate hit with gamers. Each games antagonist aren’t fundamentally bad, they just do a bad job developing them. 8 hour campaigns where they tease for a sequel and end up with a non-compelling narrative. 3 games in a row of that

Wonder how far Halo 7 is. Is it going to be 5+ years from this remake. So 10+ years from Infinite. I wouldn’t be surprised if they followed their times tradition of 4, 5, and Infinite where they hard swerve to a new major antagonist

I wish more games adopted kotors combat. To me its the perfect casual streamlining of a turn based CRPG. It feels faster to me than traditional real time with pause games. Talk about kotor remakes and how the combat has to change.

To me the only need in modernization of the combat is adding more cool animations to cycle through and more abilities that possibly chain together animations that react a bit with each other. That’s the mainstream hook, cool animations you wouldn’t get with real time combat. Uncharted 4 sold huge numbers and that’s not very heavy on gameplay mechanics. It’s a spectacle. Kotor style combat can be a spectacle without being a QTE and cutscene battles festival

These days I feel like an outlier saying I love kotor combat. It’s like Disgaea games to me. The joy is watching the animations and building your character to see big damage happen and/or make your character a defensive/health monster. Like on rare occasion I’ll play an ARPG like Victor Vran solely just to mow down monsters at ease. That’s the joy by the end of kotor 2. In the academy just force jump mowing down enemies

Nice. This is the knock against flatpaks. Anytime you need applications to work together and figuring out how to do so

I’ll hold off on a new phone to watch for this. Android could be great without Google’s nonsense. An OS that has high end hardware support and continues to work on convergence with desktop Linux both by the communities development and Google’s

The US portion of the Vietnam war killed ~3 million Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people. US bombings in Cambodia during the war lead to the fall of the neutral Cambodian government and the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Immediately before the US portion of the Vietnam war, the French killed hundreds of thousands more. Immediately before that was fighting against Japan and France during WW2. Immediately before that, fighting France for freedom. The Vietnam war was incredibly long and killed millions and set Cambodia towards a genocidal regime.

For Venezuela to be worse, millions would have to killed. Hundreds of thousands killed in neighboring countries. Chemical warfare employed that would lead to birth defects for decades to come. A neighboring country be bombed to civil war where a genocidal dictator rises power and commits a genocide. Venezuela then be successfully sanctioned to an extreme level of poverty for nearly 20+ years

The sanctioning power is already falling apart and non-US centric trade routes are a lot more mature than the 50-90s. The US military runs with extremely expensive equipment compared to the 60s/70s. Slow to build. War in Venezuela means it can’t sustain a war in Europe, the west Pacific, or the Middle East. Russia-Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan, Ethiopia-Tigray civil war, Sudan civil war. Got to add up numerous wars to compare to just the US portion of the Vietnam war

Also the US lost like 60,000 people in Vietnami believe France lost a similar amount as the US in the post-WW2 portion of the war

Going back to the Korean war, that too was far more brutal than people bother to learn

The Internet and the large Latin American population in the US may also lead to far more unrest in the US compared to Vietnam war American unrest. Venezuelan immigrants are substantial in the US compared to Viet people in the US during the Vietnam war

The brutality of Vietnam and Korea is like taking the European portion of WW2 and putting them in single countries. Carpet bombing, fire bombing, massacre after massacre. There’s been nothing comparable since. The wars in Africa have had way less difference in killing equipment between the factions compared to Vietnam and Korea and strategy has shifted from destroying everything to being more economical with military equipment. Recall that the US had major factions pushing to use nukes in both Korea and Vietnam. I doubt that’ll be the case for Venezuela

European and by extension American, Australian, South African, etc colonialism were far more genocidal than people get taught. By the 50s it was a lot less genocidal and look how that went. The previous centuries, elimination and replacement of local populations weren’t unpopular ideas, just impractical and not understood how to yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mee_ka_tee

A lot of ingredients especially if you make your own curry paste. Real easy to have too much or too little of anything. So many ingredients that you pretty much have to make a lot but it goes bad fast so you can’t really store.

Plus some stuff taste a bit sour if boiled for too long and other stuff the flavor pretty much disappears if you boil too long so you have time it with when it’ll be served. And it’s just like any other bone stock dish where you can go hours to boil the bones. Then there’s if you’re doing just pork bones or you’re doing pork bones and fish bones. It’s a lot of timing that’s really not worth the effort unless the restaurant is in a community with a lot of Lao people that know the cuisine and buy it rather than buy stir fried noodles dishes. It’s a lot of steps. Sauteing parts, simmering parts, remove stuff in the pot to process process a bit to back in later or serve as a topping. There’s fermented beans to put in you’re high efforting this on the ingredients list

I’ve seen it go off the menu at multiple restaurants in the city I’m in and when asked why, the answer is always because the community the restaurant is in doesn’t buy it and it doesn’t hold well while it stays on the menu in communities with large Lao, Thai, Cambodian, Burmese, Malaysian. Indonesian, Viet people. The people in these communities are all like, “oh shit I never seen this on menus and I don’t want to make that - too much work. Got to get that”

Signal is really simple and has a sizable userbase now. I’ve worked with people in non-tech companies and they’ll have signal installed because theres someone in management that cares for security to a degree and does official nonofficial team communication with signal

Element/Matrix I think has a chance. The newest Element X app looks a lot better on the phone and on desktop. It’s progressing to good user experience

It’d be a forever war. It won’t be as terrible as Vietnam since they’re a lot further from arms suppliers than Vietnam but Venezuela still has a significant military. They have a varied terrain including jungles and mountain ranges. US has historically antagonized every country in Latin America including now neighboring Colombia and Brazil - Brazil itself having a significant arms industry. You may not have a steady stream of Russian fighter jets to Venezuela, but I’m certain missiles, guns, artillery would all manage to make it to Venezuelan resistance. I wouldn’t be surprised if people all the way out from Nicaragua would make their way into Venezuela to fight the US

I’d drop the relish for raw onions. Just as much chili and cheese

I remember how much games media was hyped on the activision acquisition. It’s probably because Kotick and Blizzard execs are a bunch of bastards but that doesn’t make MS execs great. Just less shitty. Also had the feeling like games media at the time saw it as strengthening western games studio employment stability. Things have not gone as hoped for in the last few years

Sample just has to be random enough to not oversample some very specific subset of people. People are unique in total across all their opinions but on individual questions like this, there’s not that many choices of opinion to be had

I love it. I didn’t play the previous game but played a good bit of the first trails of cold steel. I like the characters more. The story is super comfy. I appreciate these super endearing jrpg games a lot more than 20 years ago. It performs well. The graphics looks good. I like it more than Tales of Arise and like it at about the same level as Tales of Vesperia and Berseria. I like Persona 5 more but I think I enjoy this more than Persona 3 Reload. It’s a really polished comfy JRPG. It’s like playing Dragon Quest 11 or Atlelier games with how comfy the game feels to me

Been playing trails in the sky remake. Going to be playing the new Digimon story

F-Droid is different. It distributes apps that have been validated to work for the user’s interests, rather than for the interests of the app’s distributors. The way F-Droid works is simple: when a developer creates an app and hosts the source code publicly somewhere, the F-Droid team reviews it, inspecting it to ensure that it is completely open source and contains no undocumented anti-features such as advertisements or trackers. Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.

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If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all.

It’s preparation for 26.04 and it’s a lot of work to maintain support for the older hardware that’s not very popular. Optimizing developer resources towards what should be the first RISC-V hardware to try and get mainstream adoption

Because Ubuntu is only supporting RISC-V chips that meat RVA23 standards. There’s no consumer hardware out there yet released. RVA23 compliant hardware is supposed to be the big jump to be a solid alternative to ARM and x86 consumer hardware so that’s what they want to support that going forward rather than the older more dev/experimental hardware that they’ll still support on 24.04

I just reposted it from reddit. Another article that I wouldn’t be surprised if it was funded by some military force somewhere

https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/iran-mig29-su35-hq9-airforce-modernisation-2025/

Feel like the only way to get credible credible sources is to learn a lot of languages

This one’s Newsweek. Don’t know how credible they are

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-delivers-mig-29-jets-iran-air-force-10479982

I have an old laptop running it since a year ago. It’s getting there. If you use it long enough, you will still regularly stumble on little things that are nicer to use on gnome or kde but it’s getting there. I plan on switching my primary desktop to it for the 26.04 release