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It has that mainstream appeal as in being a brand parents know (Harry Potter) and being pretty inoffensive (i.e. no guns and blood or sex and partying) so I imagine just about every kid with a system it runs on and in the age bracket of 6-16 got it for Christmas or their Birthday despite not being on the wishlist.

DNS is plenty secure due to its simplicity and age. From the perspective of securing your server that is. DNS has numerous flaws when it comes to security in terms of can you trust the resolved name. But that is another matter.

I'd be more worried about the gui, keep that behind a secure proxy or don't expose it to the internet at all if we're talking a server at home.

I run my own DNS and it's virtually a prerequisite if you want to host stuff under a personal domain in a smooth fashion. At least if you don't want to rely on a big player like say Cloudflare.

Mine disappeared as I got older, like around 25 or so. Now if they or similar visual effects come back it means I need to rush for my migraine pills or I'm in for some serious ass whopping... Don't know what I did to my old friends to deserve that kind of treatment.

The fuck is he on about?

He is/was a very strange case in that he only raped his daughter Elizabeth. No one claimed that he ever sexually assaulted his other kids. I wouldn't even call him a paedophile because age obviously wasn't much of a factor, he did start sexually assaulting her when she was 11 yes but he didn't stop when she aged up and she didn't have her first pregnancy until after imprisonment at 18. And since his victims were in the family I don't think he'd run much of a risk of being killed by the general public. It's really only paedophiles that go after kids at playgrounds and stuff like that, that really cause that public rage, that murderlust where society absolutely is a danger to them.

In my opinion the bad movie is really the second one. You can cut that movie almost completely. There's like 2-3 scenes of actually trilogi plot relevant stuff in there and so much crap. Even as a kid I absolutely hated ping-pong ball Yoda.

The majority sets up the Clone wars tv-series which is great and where you actually see Anakin develop as a character and towards the dark side, the stuff in AotC is just not it.

The dialogue is worse than any other Star Wars movie without any contest. Pretty much every line that gets memed on is from AotC.

It's an action movie with some cool fighting for sure, but that has never been the appeal of Star Wars to me. As such it's to this date the second worst Star Wars movie in my book.

I member when this meme would've been OT vs prequels... Now I'm not bold enough to say we'll ever see the sequels redeemed and considered at least passable/sparks joy, but I'm also old and realize they weren't really made for me. Then again the prequels kinda were and I kinda hated them as a kid (aside from 3)...

The same one Israel bombed? Or another one?

Personally "as a service" is OK if it's actually sold that way. If I pay a fee per month or in some other way per use and that gives me access to the whole game as long as I play then I'm a happy camper and it gives the developer a steady stream to use towards improvements and keeping the servers online.

When you start double dipping or even triple dipping is when I start getting peeved. You can't do a monthly fee and also lock stuff behind microtransactions, it might be somewhat OK if what you lock away is purely cosmetic and if you can still get them via say an in-game auction house a la SWTOR.

But some games have all of these:

• Pay for the game itself to let you play it
• Pay a monthly fee or have season passes to get access to certain content or very needed "convenience" features
• Have microtransactions that aren't just cosmetics but give power / convenience or unlock features/content

And then it just feel like a money milking machine.

Generally if you do one of those you're most likely OK, two can potentially work if you're really careful. But all three is a no-go.

The Division did two and felt OK to me, the microtransactions on top were only cosmetics but it felt kinda shitty when you had already bought the game and paid for a season pass/expansions.

Destiny also did two and felt OK as well but after I quit I heard they made some really unpopular changes to the cosmetic system and their microtransactions?

League of Legends did one, the last one, and still felt OK from a monetization stand point. Same with Valorant.

Diablo 3 did all three and was brutalized for it to the point of changing it, but that's the only example from the top of my head of someone triple dipping.

The answer to this question is the same as for all documentation:

1. Because it's boring to write documentation
2. What is obvious and what needs to be explained is often not apparent for the person creating it
3. When time is limited then documentation is the first thing to be reduced
4. Not enough value is put on good documentation and the associated skill

But in the spirit of FOSS documentation is something that is actually an excellent thing for a person new the project to start contributing to. You need to understand the code anyway to be able to help with bugfixes / feature creation so might as well build reputation by improving on existing documentation by adding clarification and comments and wiki entries that would've aided in making it quicker for you to grasp something.

Basically they didn't expect life expectancy to rise so fast. People live decades after they stop being able to contribute in terms of taxes and labor.

Smells like windows if End is God Tier but Home isn't. On the command line being without either would kill my speed something fierce

I'd say that line starts at -25 / -30°C not -15. Unless you literally don't have any proper winter clothes.

Force balance backup plan

I'm contemplating moving even further towards the lifestyle you have but I struggle with balancing "live for today" vs "live for tomorrow". In some ways I think we live too much for today, we rarely wait more than a month or two with buying whatever we feel we "need". We go on vacation abroad every other year at least and do activities monthly that most other families in our neighborhood do maybe yearly or quarterly. Partly because we have much higher income than our neighbors but we could of course save more and if we really buckled down we could likely by financially independent in less than 20 years.

How do you balance and how do you think regarding these matters, what's your philosophy?

No. Also use at your own risk, read their privacy policy.

Eh, the source for much of the pacing and plot arcs is taken directly from Akira Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress" and that predates the Vietnam War by quite a bit. But sure, everything made at the time was of course influenced by the Vietnam War. But the Rebels being Viet Cong is a reach of galactic proportions.

While I agree there is room for actually useful use cases in the NFT technical design the fact is unequivocally that GameStop built a market place for the dumb pictures. And that was a collosal waste of money and good will. They went Hero to Zero in my eyes with that move.

For sure, but since PC handhelds will always have quite powerful APUs it's not necessary like it is for the Switch. I mean the Z1 Extreme pushes tflops like an Xbox Series S, not by any means a perfect metric but still indicative of the level of raw performance the chip actually sports, which is why it can play most titles in 1080p with 30 fps (just like the series S).

I'd say there's a reason PC gaming handhelds popped up when they did and a large part of it is that APUs has reached a level of performance per watt where they actually work, I.e. provide decent frame rate in popular new titles (in 720p). Putting in an older part will give worse performance at the same lousy battery life and you can't really drop below 720p without getting compatibility problems.

And if anyone wants to say "but the Nintendo Switch is running on super old hardware?" then please keep in mind that there is a world of difference between consoles and PC even with "standard" hardware in them (x86 or ARM). The fact that all Switch games will run on the exact same hardware opens up for a level of optimization that just isn't realistic on PC and that extremely diverse landscape.

What could, but likely won't, happen in the future is standardization around one APU per two/three years such that all gaming PC handhelds use the same APU and then differentiate on other parts, like Legion GO vs ROG Ally. Then it becomes feasible for developers to do targeted optimization to that APU.