I don't know if I'd want to live in the UFP. Post-dominion war (and during it) it gets a bit dystopian. And of the time periods depicted, there's only a pretty narrow window where they're not at war with at least one major power. Specifically after the khitomer accords are signed and prior to the encounter with the Borg. So, really only a 70 year period. And even then, there's a cold war with the Romulans.
That galaxy is largely hostile and while a lot of UFP citizens are able to live in blissful ignorance, I'm not sure I'd enjoy that.
What's wrong with the sentiment expressed in the headline? AI training is not and should not be considered fair use. Also, copyright laws are broken in the west, more so in the east.
We need a global reform of copyright. Where copyrights can (and must) be shared among all creators credited on a work. The copyright must be held by actual people, not corporations (or any other collective entity), and the copyright ends after 30 years or when the all rights holders die, whichever happens first. That copyright should start at the date of initial publication. The copyright should be nontransferable but it should be able to be licensed to any other entity only with a majority consent of all rights holders. At the expiration of the copyright the work in question should immediately enter the public domain.
And fair use should be treated similarly to how it is in the west, where it's decided on a case-by-case basis, but context and profit motive matter.
Indeed, I've been exclusively running Fedora KDE on both my desktop and my laptop for a little over a year. It took all of maybe an hour to get it installed on both, get steam and all of the applications I wanted installed, and be ready to start downloading games on both computers.
I also have yet to find a game, aside from games with kernel level anticheat and a small handful of VR titles that isn't perfectly playable. Some have needed a little bit of tweaking to run optimally, but if you're a PC gamer that's par for the course.
I think it depends more on your instructor rather than the region you're in. When I was in HS I took two years of Spanish and our teacher was from Spain, so her instruction was in line with that.
Probably Norway, Finland, or Sweden. At the risk of potentially offending all Scandinavians, in terms of the things I personally care about, all three countries can be considered as essentially the same. They all check pretty much all of my boxes. They all have ideal (meaning Arctic or subarctic) weather, they're in a particularly beautiful part of the world, politically and socially they generally align well with my values, hiking and other outdoor activities are readily available, and while it's not the primary language, English is broadly spoken to a high degree of fluency in all three countries. Meaning I wouldn't have to struggle to communicate while trying to learn the local language.
In terms of a degree, I don't currently have one, but I generally enjoy the field I currently work in, so I'd probably go for either a general computer science degree or something more focused on system administration. Possibly with a minor involving some electrical engineering courses.
I was more thinking of the N64 and GameCube games (Stadium 1&2, Colloseum, and XD Gale of Darkness) when referencing older games with poor graphics specifically. All four of those games were graphically inferior to other titles on the same consoles.
However, every single release has been plagued by bugs that can result in completely corrupted save data, softlocks, and a wide variety of other unexpected behaviors. Major examples being MissingNo and the other glitch pokemon, bad eggs, a wide variety of exploitable, but potentially save corrupting bugs like the infinite item glitches in gens 1-3, and a whole host of bugs that break how moves are supposed to work in battle.
Hell, shinies were originally a graphical bug in gen 2.
To cover all possible HEDT use cases? I'd probably go with a 4U server chassis with dual Epyc 9575F's, 1TB of RAM, 6x 8TB u.2 NVME drives, 6x 20TB SAS HDDs, 3x dual port 100Gb Fiber NICs, and 3x dual port USB 4 cards. Then for GPUs go with 1x 7950xtx, 1x RTX 5090, and 1x Radeon Pro V710.
Then I'd divide the CPU cores and RAM between three VMs running on Proxmox, with the number of cores and amount of RAM each VM gets being based on the specific workload. I'd use PCI pass through for the NVME Storage, NICs, USB cards, and GPUs which would be split evenly between the VMs. The SAS storage would get one dynamically sized VHD for each VM.
Then I'd have the 7950xtx VM run Fedora. I'd use it for gaming and everyday use.
The V710 VM would run RHEL. I'd use it for development and AI workloads.
The 5090 VM would run Windows 11. I'd use it for video editing, CAD, rendering, and other graphically intense pro workloads.
The PC itself would be water cooled, with the radiator on the door of the rack and a rackmount AC unit blowing chilled air through it. The exhaust from the AC and the PC case fans would be ducted outside.
For access to the VMs, I'd use a rack mount USB4/DP KVM switch and USB4 fiber cables to three docks on my desk connected to appropriate monitors, keyboards, and mice for their respective tasks.
For access to the PC itself, I'd use a rack mount terminal and an additional low end GPU, probably an Intel ARC card of some sort.
All of that would cost somewhere in the realm of $100,000 USD. Not to mention the fact that I'd have to buy and probably remodel a house to accommodate it.
I don't disagree that the graphics could and probably should have been better. I do disagree with the idea that it's anything more than a minor annoyance with no meaningful impact on the game.
However, regardless of what I think about it, my point was that at this point in the franchise, Gamefreak, the Pokemon Company, and Nintendo have demonstrated repeatedly since the very first game that optimization, stability, graphical fidelity, and any semblance of good development practices are not something they're willing to commit to. Expecting that to change at this point is unreasonable and continuing to complain about it is demonstrably unproductive and just introduces pointless negativity into the pokemon community.
Because graphics are the most important part of a game?
If the games are fun to play who cares if the graphics are bad? Scarlet and Violet were the best pokemon games since P:LA and that was the best since Gen 5.
Based on the limited information we've gotten about ZA there's no reason as of yet to doubt that it won't be comparable to P:LA and S&V in terms of enjoyability.
Complaining about the graphics of pokemon games or the bugginess of pokemon games is like complaining about CoD being an FPS or Assassin's Creed having traversable terrain or Souls-likes being hard. At this point it's a staple of the franchise with 40 games between the mainline games and major spinoffs establishing a trend of the games being thoroughly buggy messes and/or having shit graphics. There is absolutely no reason to expect any of that to change and constantly hearing complaints about it with every new game is getting fucking old.
That makes more sense. So, personal conflict rather than national conflict?
In my present state of moderate intoxication, I'd say something similar to my above point, but with the opposite statement regarding fairness. If you are unable to resolve your differences via civil discussion, then settle it with a duel with strict rules as follows.
The rules of which should be:
the field should be cleared of bystanders, excepting an impartial referee
The only weapons permitted should be flintlock, smooth bore pistols
Shooting should occur at high noon (or whatever time would give both parties equal visual impairment due to the sun)
Parties should stand twenty paces apart
Parties should fire one round each and then move an additional ten paces apart
In love, no absolutely not. That sounds like a justification for rape, spousal abuse, stalking, harassment, cheating, and other kinds of shitty behavior where it is neither expected nor wanted.
In war, yes. I think that war is one of the most horrific things one nation can perpetrate on another and should be exactly that.. If your goal, as a nation, is anything less than the genocide of your target nation's people, the salting of their land, and the complete eradication of their culture, then your issues can and should be solved diplomatically.
A cursory google search also turned up a few other clubs with that definition in the site preview blurb (some even from outside Australia) but the sites have expired or invalid https certs, so I'd rather not link to them.
Though it does seem the majority use a broader definition.
seats of political power here are hundreds of thousands of miles away from most people
Not to nit pick, but definitely picking nits, there is no place on this planet that is "hundreds of thousands of miles" away for anywhere else on the planet. The circumference of the earth is approximately 25,000 miles and I don't think any of our seats of political power are on the moon.
No, definitely not modern, possibly a classic, though that term has some additional qualifications, so I'm not sure.
But 1930 is chosen and is generally recognized as the cutoff for vintage cars by most collectors clubs and organizations, because that year marked a major industry wide shift, for consumers, manufacturers, and regulation, and while there have been relatively minor shifts in the industry, not much has really changed since.
Similarly, 1994 (made a typo above) marked a similar transition, the PS1 was released that year, marking a shift to 3D graphics, the ESRB was established in the US, and consumer adoption reached a point where you could finally say video gaming was here to stay. And just like with the automotive industry in 1930, things in gaming shifted from a period of rapid experimentation, innovation, and regulation to a period of slow, gradual improvement along the lines established by the fifth generation of consoles in 1994.
In my opinion, retro games/consoles are a lot like vintage cars. It doesn't matter how much time has passed because it's not about their age, it's about the era they came from.
In the case of vintage cars, it's any car manufactured prior to 1930. In the case of retro game consoles I'd say it's anything prior to 1994.
Edit: typo. 1995 should have been 1994. The launch year of the PS1 and the founding year of the ESRB.
I don't know if I'd want to live in the UFP. Post-dominion war (and during it) it gets a bit dystopian. And of the time periods depicted, there's only a pretty narrow window where they're not at war with at least one major power. Specifically after the khitomer accords are signed and prior to the encounter with the Borg. So, really only a 70 year period. And even then, there's a cold war with the Romulans.
That galaxy is largely hostile and while a lot of UFP citizens are able to live in blissful ignorance, I'm not sure I'd enjoy that.