I just feel like playing a character that's fully immersed in the long history of intrigue between 2 rival houses is really annoying when you as the player don't even know the names of the lords ruling them at present.
And I'm not talking about playing a time traveler or a self-insert. I'm thinking of a wizard fresh out of the academy who's been buried in books for all their life and is now facing the real world. Or a cleric from a strict sect whose black-and-white morals clash with the realities of the murder-hobo life. Admittedly, not the most innovative concepts, but as a new player, you have limited options of what you can portray believingly.
KISSmyOS
joined 1 year ago
I thought I had found one, but then she fucked her ex 15 minutes after she had told me how much she liked me on the phone, and afterwards wanted to cry on my shoulder about how messed up the situation is.
Only if you compare computers that come preinstalled with Windows, operated by users that are already familiar with Windows.
A non-technical user is completely out of their element trying to install Windows, and a computer that comes preinstalled with Linux is easier to use than a Windows PC (no driver installation necessary, no hunting for software on the internet among spam links and ads, preinstalled software for most every-day tasks).
Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, US, EU and China are already involved as well.
The short answer is: Yes, they can still monetize what you posted, and there's nothing you can do about it.
(And no, the GDPR doesn't apply, they can just strip away the associated username and IP address)
Please mark as NSFW if you're gonna post pics from your Onlyfans.
It's not gay if you keep the SOCKS on.
Shadowrun does this right.
The hacker sees a virtual representation of what the group faces, can interact with it in real time, and is in actual mortal danger along with everyone else, even while sitting at home.
There's a huge chunk of rock floating in the sky above us, and we look at it and just go "hm".
When joining an experienced group in a setting I don't know yet, I like to play a newbie character.
I don't play dumb of course, but playing an outsider reduces the discrepancy between player knowledge and character knowledge. I can stay in character while doing stuff that makes the other players shake their heads and groan. And as I learn the setting, so does my character learn how the world works.
The Democrats still don't get it.
"We're not Trump" isn't enough, no matter how bad Trump is.
There are no people on the fence between voting Biden or voting Trump anymore. The distance between the camps is too great, every voter is already entrenched in one of the 2 camps.
Dems need to target the people on the fence between voting Dem and not voting at all. The people who are frustrated by the lack of progress, the lack of a real choice that will change the status quo, and the slow decline of their standard of living while the rich get richer. If they ran with a more radical leftist candidate and program, they might even convince a few Trump voters who just want things to change, no matter what direction, cause the current status quo sucks.
They won't lose any core voters or centrists by moving to the left, cause those people know that the alternative is right-wing fascism. But there's a huge voting pool of people who won't stand in line for hours to vote for a candidate who has done nothing and will continue to do nothing for them, while their standard of life slowly deteriorates.
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This shitpost will conclusively show how the Erfurt Latrine Disaster lead to the George W. Bush Shoeing Incident.
May you drown in a Wikipedia hole like a noble drowning in shit.
The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany, held an assembly in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. The combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor to collapse, and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below, where about 60 drowned in liquid excrement.
Heinrich VI. who presided over the assembly of nobles in Erfurt had his belief in god's favor shaken to its core by all the lords he invited literally drowning in shit inside a church. He later became Holy Roman Emperor after his predecessor Frederik Barbarossa had drowned in shallow water while on crusade, shortly before reaching Jerusalem - another proof that god wasn't on the Holy Roman Empire's side.
His lack of faith, on which his own power as god-appointed Emperor was founded, was noticed by everyone around him. So the lords and the church denied his attempt to instate a hereditary monarchy and removed themselves from his court, putting them in a position where they could deny or demand payment for following his commands.
Driven by a deep longing to prove he was still in god's grace, and to regain absolute power, he believed that his role on earth was to reunite the Eastern and Western church and become the prophecized "Emperor of Peace" who would bring about the end times. To this end, he started campaigning and preparing for another Crusade that would not only reconquer Jerusalem, but also the Byzantine Empire.
His death from Malaria while besieging Messina as staging ground for his crusade put an end to those plans for now, but not to the ideas behind the crusade he had popularized.
When the Fourth Crusade was launched just 5 years later, the most experienced crusading knights would have been veterans of his misguided campaign, and when it became clear that they couldn't pay for the passage to the Holy Land, they would have been the ones to propose to conquer the Byzantine Empire instead as another valid target, just as their former Emperor had proposed. As we all know, the following Sack of Constantinople destroyed the will of the church and the Christian states to unite and put any real effort into another crusade from that point on.
The next German Emperor Frederik II. didn't even participate in the Fifth crusade and delayed participation in the Sixth for so long he got excommunicated. The following crusades were called by individual kings, not the pope in the name of all Christendom, and the time of a unified Christendom threatening to conquer the Holy Land were over.
The Muslim rule over the middle east was secure for the coming centuries, the Byzantine Empire never recovered, and the Ottoman Empire rose into the power vacuum and eventually conquered it.
Which leads us to Baghdad. The center of Islamic culture during its heyday and for centuries after, a shining beacon of civilization more developed than the attacking Crusader states. You have to understand what such a history does to the self-image of the inhabitants. And at the crossroads between Europe, Africa and Asia, it was easy to see the region as the center of the world. Due to the aforementioned rise of the Ottoman Empire and its incorporation of today's Iraq, the land became part of one of the greatest Empires in history.
Until after a period of declining importance and influence, the British conquered the Ottoman Empire as well as Baghdad and drew their own borders in the sand, the US-lead League of Nations sanctioned the new borders imposed on the people, and called the cobbled-together country "Iraq", an entity with no regard for its history or former glory, and under western rule for the first time in a millennium.
It's a logical conclusion that Iraq would eventually unite with their neighbors and throw off the British rule, but also that without historic precedent (due to being part of a Muslim empire for so long), they wouldn't have the experience to establish a stable democracy. One coup d'etat followed another, which always pushes the most ruthless leaders to power. And that was the Baath Party. They promised freedom and a new, pan-Arabic union that would end western rule, which the pan-Islamic unions of the past had failed at.
But also within the party, the most ruthless used the chaos to rise to power, and Saddam Hussein solidified his position by first killing those Baathists that didn't support him, then thousands of his own citizens, and then starting a war, which threatened US influence in the region enough to eventually topple him - in a war that created so much anger and suffering that one man, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, saw no other way to vent his anger than to throw his shoes at the leader of the western world.
to be published in the Annals, awaiting þeer review.
Whenever I search for questions I have about Android system apps, ADB, flashing, etc. I noticed all the search results are really scammy-looking websites with instructions that sound like they were translated from Chinese by an AI.
It doesn't make a difference if I use Google, Duckduckgo or Bing.
Also, there seems to be hardly any official documentation for Android available. Even finding out what the preinstalled system apps even do, what exactly is needed for push messages to work, or what the different permissions do is impossible for me.
I know of xdaforums.com but when I look there I usually end up in a thread with 30+ pages full of users asking questions that get no helpful answer.
How come there is so little good information on Android? Or am I looking in the wrong places?
Comic by MrLovenstein
Source: https://twitter.com/FntasticHQ/status/1734265789237338453
Today, we announce the closure of Fntastic studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before has failed financially, and we lack the funds to continue. All income received is being used to pay off debts to our partners.
We invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the development of The Day Before, which was our first huge game. We really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game, but unfortunately, we don't have the funding to continue the work.
It's important to note that we didn't take any money from the public during the development of The Day Before; there were no pre-orders or crowdfunding campaigns. We worked tirelessly for five years, pouring our blood, sweat, and tears into the game.
At the moment, the future of The Day Before and Propnight is unknown, but the servers will remain operational.
We apologize if we didn't meet your expectations. We did everything within our power, but unfortunately, we miscalculated our capabilities. Creating games is an incredibly challenging endeavor.
We're grateful to everyone who supported us during these difficult years. It's been a fantastic journey over the past eight years:
2015: Opening of the studio
2017: Release of The Wild Eight
2018: Release of Dead Dozen
2018: Release of Radiant One 2021: Release of Propnight
2023: Release of The Day Before
I used to think I found the perfect, stable, boring system with Debian + KDE Plasma.
I installed it.
I left literally everything on default.
I booted it.
Everything worked out of the box.
I was looking forward to a perfect, stable, boring computing experience.
My cat walked across the keyboard and crashed the OS.
It rebooted to a blinking cursor and nothing else.
So if you’re hiring a software quality assurance engineer, her salary expectation is 80k kitty treats, a corner office overlooking a park with squirrels, and an assistant who will pet her at work and doesn't mind getting their earlobes nibbled.
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I fail to see how (again, I'm talking about people new to computers, not people already used to Windows).
You have office, a browser, a mail program, music player, etc. preinstalled, automatic updates, and an app store (usually named "software") with a search function and a friendly "install" button to look for more software.
Printers are installed automatically when you're in the same network or connect them via USB.
If you plug in your phone or an USB stick, it shows up in the file manager.