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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 Which means that any assumptions your plans make might be outdated or even actively countered.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.

I have no clue about your notstupidquestion but it's inspired one of my own.

Why are you taking zinc? I was under the impression that intaking zinc is a terrible idea and should be avoided at all cost.

Maybe it's specifically inhaling it that's the issue? I've always heard this in a metallurgy context: that you should be careful heating up brass/welding galvanized steel etc because the zinc will turn into a fairly toxic gas.

I'm confused, they never said it was in reaction to specifically kinder surprise eggs?

These little treats full of joy are banned in the United States because, in 1938, a law was passed prohibiting the sale of confectionary items containing "non-nutritive objects," and the Kinder Surprise's plastic capsule, which holds the toy, is considered just that.

Yeah, exactly.

Reminds me the ol "if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?"

Some parents these days seem to think the solution is that you shouldn't be able to jump off the bridge in the first place.

The horror!

Since I have no clue what argument you're talking about I definitely can't provide context.

I think maybe we're all confused lmao.

But yeah, you summed up the original context pretty well. It was a TikTok trend asking women if they'd rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man. A lot of people, primarily women, basically pointed and said "see how much women don't trust the average man." A lot of men pointed at it and said, "see how much women hate men." And it was a whole gender argument for awhile. I just sort of thought it was all around sad and depressing.

Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki's message risked sounding "a bit of a get out".

"It's much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it," she told the BBC.

That's wild to me. "Your platform isn't safe." "So don't let your kids use it." "But all their friends are on it!"

I'm confused, can you provide some context?

I know about the bear vs man thing that went viral for awhile- "Would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or a man?", but I haven't ever seen it in a Lemmy vs Reddit context.

Battlefield Hardline's campaign was actually good, though. It felt like a cop movie, which I thought was a neat change for the series.