Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?

This is a funny mental image.

“Breaking news: Man gets normal sized plate at buffet. More at 11.”

Front of a newspaper in giant bold font:

“MAN TAKES NORMAL ROUTE HOME FROM WORK”

Where do you live? That matters, unless you’re just asking from an ethics perspective. I’m not asking you to dox yourself, country/state is plenty.

Assuming you’re Canadian(based off your instance being lemmy.ca) technically speaking you should report in to the police, and they’ll hold it for 6 months. After that if someone hasn’t claimed it you’re free to claim it yourself. At least in Vancouver. Maybe the laws are different in other parts of Canada. Your local police probably have a non-emergency number for pretty much exactly this purpose if you wanna double check.

Realistically, it’s not even $200. Probably keep it for a week or two and then tell the kid the cops couldn’t find the original owner.

Frankly I’m shocked a CPU that old could run the game anyways.

It’s weed. Who cares? Do a campaign about prescription opiates or meth or something useful.

Outlook bad.

It might turn out to be a good game even, but I highly doubt it lives up to the first game in any way.

Honestly, I don’t think it would be all that difficult. From my understanding, under the hood the Xbox Series X/S are basically just a normal x86 PC. They even say the OS is ‘Windows 10 Core’, and some stuff is already fully cross-platform.

I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.

No mods needed anymore! That’s just a slider now in ‘world modifiers’. It’s quite nice.

Most of my playtime is before alloys even existed lol. If I played the game more often I’m sure I’d be able to figure it out, but it’s just bad luck on my part. I tend to get interested like a month before they’ve released some massive groundbreaking update.

Ehhh, they can be rough experiences on launch so if that’s what you mean by ‘right from the start’ I disagree a bit. I very much wish I let Stellaris cook a year or so before I grabbed it.

Otherwise I definitely agree. The free updates they release with the DLC are usually excellent, and sometimes I still intentionally disable the DLCs because they add mechanics I’m not interested in interacting with. I own Man the Guns for HoI4, for example, and I almost never actually enable it.

You can generally get the base game for a bit of nothing(Stellaris’ historical low is $4), and then grab the DLCs you think will interest you down the line when they’re also on sale.

I am somewhat tired of them completely upending how Stellaris plays, though. I feel like every time I get comfortable with the game they overhaul some major system, and I’m learning how to play a new game again.

Because surprise is important, and if the enemy has precise intelligence on what’s going to happen they can act to make it not happen. Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.

To quote Sun Tzu, “All warfare is based on deception.” The lengths militaries have historically gone to in order to keep operational security or obfuscate the details of an attack is utterly absurd.

A real world example: In WW2, ahead of the allied invasion of Sicily the British launched Operation Mincemeat. They took the body of a homeless person that had recently died, gave him an entirely fictitious service record/life, and some fake letters heavily implying that the allied invasion of Sicily was a feint and the true invasion was going to be in Greece and Sardinia. Then they took the corpse onto a submarine and let it go where the tide would take it to Spain. The Spanish shared the letters with the Germans, and the Germans then reinforced… all the wrong places. Which made the Allied Invasion of Sicily easier than it potentially could have been.

… I don’t know, is that why they tried to remove him? Are all the other skaters in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games notable in some way that he isn’t?

I’m not trying to argue some point, I just know basically nothing about this and I’m curious.

Why would they not include him? Is he controversial for some reason?

I needed to hear that, actually. Thanks lol.

I intended to look pretty hard at swapping to Linux this year since they’re stopping security updates for Win10. I guess now I know exactly what flavor of Linux to grab.

Is Valhalla anything like Odyssey where it’s just outrageously long? I put like 50hrs into Odyssey, realized I’d barely scratched the game and stopped playing lol

Which, I liked Odyssey quite a bit. There’s just too much game there for me.

I think he’s talking about actual mythologies, not fictional pantheons. I’m not sure tho.

Always been like that in my experience.

I remember being frustrated asf as a teenager by people not understanding words or knowing how to spell things. My brother in christ, you have a phone and an internet connection in your pocket with access to basically the entirety of human knowledge. Fucking Google it.

I’ll list a few other pantheons on his behalf if it makes you feel better:

Voodoo, Yoruba, Celtic, Japanese, Polynesian, Aztec.

I used to be into HP fanfiction and my god I got so tired of hearing about HPMOR. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t feel nearly that strongly. I got a handful of chapters in and put it down, but that’s reasonably normal for me. But my god you could not escape that fic. It’s fans were rabid and it’s detractors were even worse than that. If it could vaguely fit a req, they’d bring it up. And then get three replies about how it doesn’t fit the req and it’s the worst thing since My Immortal within fifteen minutes.

By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn’t hosted in the US. I’m pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it’s going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn’t be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.

Further, pretty sure the entire contents of the internet have been sucked down into that NSA Utah Datacenter since it opened in May 2014.

There is a truly prodigious amount of weird porn on a government server somewhere if true.