“The police questioned me, then bought me a cappuccino…”

No but they’re the useful idiots the folks with money and no desire for the spotlight chose to use.

There are a number of animals considered unclean and most of it goes back to which animals had diseases before modern agriculture and veterinary practises. I.e pigs used to be riddled with tape worm. Dogs were often carriers of other parasites and if wild likely rabid. There’s some common sense behind it historically but most modern practitioners don’t think about those things.

Muslim drivers and some other cultures also want nothing to do with dogs.

I think butler is a better fit for the spurs, based on their need for defense and veteran heads to develop their guys. Don’t think he’d go to SA willingly though.

Fox would be better off somewhere like the clippers but fat chance of them trading in conference. Maybe the Hawks?

I don’t think you’ll regret it. The story is incredibly rich and outcomes depend a lot on your choices and playstyles. It never feels like you’re grinding for levels to me. There’s the occasional bug, but no more than other games I’ve played. I think it’s probably the first genre defining game we’ve seen in about a 15 years.

It’s a while ago but you missed one of their earlier genocides, that is still ongoing, in Tibet.

It’s a good game now. I waited over 2 years to buy it and think it’s the best single player shooter I’ve played since Bioshock/HL2. Have completed it 5 times now using different builds and am thinking about getting the expansion if it goes on sale at xmas.

I’m in the Anglo sphere and we call the US the US, it’s citizens ‘US Citizens’ or ‘Yanks’, regardless of state. America is used to refer to the continents.

What you’re describing is a local Americanism and is not globally always true.

Ditto. Windows is now impossible to decrapify. Have dipped my toe in Linux gaming about a half dozen times starting in 2004 but it never felt ready til now. Proton, nvidia drivers and distros like Nobara making it not just possible but a better experience.

IRC, bulletin boards that had links to each other…. The old net was decentralised by default.

Nice to see someone else was around when the lore was written :D

In NZ instead of AOL it was xtra and Paradise.

Yup.

It’s a sarcastic take on common advice. It’s implied by the inanity of the suggestion. Most people got it, wasn’t something you saw. You’ll get it next time :).

Wholeheartedly agree. Not too many more though I hope. Once a platform reaches a certain point all the general public arrives and everything goes to shit. You have to keep your corner of the internet nerdyish to avoid this. Been true since the early 2000s for forums and then social media.

Power amp music player

Will have to give that a go. Edit: doesn’t work so well as tweezers on a lightning port but relatively effective on USB-C.

This. Get super fine tweezers and clean the port. Almost always full of pocket lint.

A voting system would make it more likely a programme like that will be abused by bullies to further alienate their victims and place them in the ‘bully’ school.

North Atlantic accent I think it’s called. Have a read of the wiki. Kinda interesting.