Plenty of Christian groups pull that shit too - just look at the food company Sanitarium and how they avoid paying their fair share of taxes simply because they spend money on "advancing religion"
You'd be shocked at the work modders are willing to put in for free when working on a game that they love - and Half Life is a series that a lot of people absolutely adore!
From what I've seen the RTX Remix tool has some AI for texture upscaling and assigning materials but a lot of stuff (like making higher resolution models) still has to be done by hand.
I used Reddit Sync for about a decade before switching to Infinity for Reddit, tried giving Sync another go after the Lemmy version released and it just felt wrong whereas the Lemmy fork of Infinity is a joy to use (and is FOSS)!
Covid put my healthy 26 yo friend in hospital when he caught it last year, and I have friends who took several years of suffering before they recovered from long covid. It's definitely not as harmless as you're implying.
Yeah turns out supporting the Russian invasion and annexation of Ukrainian territory since 2014 isn't exactly a popular opinion in Ukraine at present.
The fact that the Ukrainian "communist" / "anti"-fascist organisation in question actually supports right-wing authoritarian (borderline fascist) imperialism is pretty bloody dumb.
Mate I'm generally not a big fan of Christianity but there's a time and a place. Minority groups being violently oppressed by the fundamentalist religious majority (who are literally calling for an end to secularism) fucking sucks.
I'm not a big fan of organised religion in general but you won't see me celebrating whenever the Americans drone strike a Muslim wedding or European neo-nazis burn down a synagogue, even if I fundamentally disagree with some of the beliefs of the victims of those hate crimes.
Part of it is the fact that the more right-wing instances end up full of nasty hateful shit which results in everybody else defederating from them - just look at Exploding Heads where two of the posts on their front page are "I absolutely hate fat people" and "I support Trump because if he wins there will be mass suicides"; not exactly the kind of content most users want to engage with!
Nah g fuck authoritarians. Every time authoritarians take power the first thing they do is murder all the non-authoritarian leftists that fell for the "left unity" meme. And I reckon that making excuses for the genocide of minorities and oppression of LGBT+ folk is a bit of a shit cunt move.
I've spent a solid 30-40 hours playing it since December last year so I'd say it's pretty fun and playable! IIRC it has prototypes up to the interplanetary phase though only the single-cell and multicellular stages were really playable when I last gave them a go.
Additionally, declining populations carry some other serious issues for countries. The problem with the planet isn't the number of people, it's the wasteful lifestyles so many of us live.
Yeah my dad got a macpac for a couple hundy well before I was born and is still using it daily some 30 years later - sometimes quality shit is more expensive!
Eh nuclear doesn't make sense everywhere - my country doesn't have any nuclear reactors but most of our power generation is free from fossil fuels as we primarily use hydro, geothermal, and a bit of wind!
Lol I hardly think that companies like EA or Microsoft are "honest businesses" or "small artist[s]", fuckers have made billions of dollars through their anticompetitive monopolistic bullshit.
Plenty of Christian groups pull that shit too - just look at the food company Sanitarium and how they avoid paying their fair share of taxes simply because they spend money on "advancing religion"