It is quite different. I don’t speak either, but when watching Servant of the People, I could pick up a lot of words in Russian, as they were similar to Slovenian. When they started speaking Ukrainian, I couldn’t understand anything. Even the show makes a plot point of this, when they invite the wrong Korea because the words for north and south are different.

The burn to slow it down into a low orbit went too long, which made the resulting orbit too low (so low that it intersected the surface).

No word yet on why the burn was too long.

Reading the card, explains the card.

Enter textless Cryptic Command.

Neverball seems far less known than the other ones, but it’s really good and has tons of levels.

Just more proof that it was never about mRNA.

Zero. There was actually a big story about this.

Slovenian here, first of all huge thanks to Ukraine, it’s crazy what they have going on in their own country, and they still sent help to us for the floods.

Second thing, there was a big misinformation campaign claiming that Russia offered help and Slovenia declined it, either because our ruling party politicians are russophobes or because of EU/NATO pressure. But this was simply not true, investigators checked, and the rebuttal was published on most major news sites, so most people at least know the truth.

People, not things. America didn’t have man-rated rockets between 2012 and 2020.

Except the time when Rogozin was in charge, at least.

It is debated whether it was necessary, but the position that it was wrong is self-contradictory.

It assumes that the atomic bombs were not a huge factor in the decision to surrender, as they would surrender anyway due to conventional warfare (US bombing and USSR attacking and removing the best negotiating venue for a conditional surrender). Which might be true. But, at the same time it assumes that the nuclear bombs were somehow worse than the conventional bombing that has been going on. So the atomic bombs had to be both ineffectual and hugely damaging at the same time.

I don’t know much about the topic in depth, but I can tell you the greatest problem with using a blockchain for such record keeping: there is no way to ensure that the service that was recorded in the blockchain actually matches the service that was performed. And this is the same problem that every single record keeping system has, so it’s not unique, but simply because of this all the greater reliability of the blockchain is meaningless.

The thing about corruption is that it’s very inefficient. Spending a trillion dollars on weapons translates to only a couple of billions in the pockets of profiteers, the rest is used to actually make the weapons, move them in place, and to pay the people using them.

So with a useless war, you waste far more than you would if you just have the money to the profiteers.

True, but if America decides to provide support to Russia, the rest of NATO will stand down.

> She’s vocal against the Catholic Church’s history of child abuse.

Which is very good, but why did she then join another religion with pretty much the same history? Do people really think it’s only the Catholic church?

Edit: I learned that she also joined a Catholic church (but not the Catholic church) for a while. Yes, definitely crazy.

There’s no immediate “big car = bad person” logic that’s valid.

It’s very easy to tell the difference between a big car that’s big for a reason (7 seats for large families, van for a business) and a car that’s big just because (i.e. a large SUV).

I worked and paid for my property too, what makes you think it’s ok to pollute it with your oversized car?

Eh.

This “everything else” are stuff that previously didn’t even exist. There used to be only professional tools and a few games, now you have an app (or multiple apps) for everything.

And I’ll take a garbage program over one that doesn’t exist.

Sadly, it was destined to fail. In Diaspora and in Google+.

The thing is, while people definitely do have different circles, they don’t like to think about these circles in an explicit way.

Facebook has had something like this for a while now, you can set visibility settings on every post, but again almost nobody uses it.

Is that not the opposite? Sure I get less buggy version, but you also have how many years to play compared to me. And you are getting the same game I am when I buy it. You eventually get that content, which one could say is added value to the 25 bucks vs the 35 I spend. You got 10 bucks of content from free essentially.

No, you’re forgetting the fact that when I bought it, I didn’t know what I’ll be getting in the future. I lucked out with Factorio, but it could happen that the devs just stopped working on it, I didn’t know at the time.

It’s not the publisher rewarding me. The reward comes from me waiting and getting a cheaper game then those who bought it earlier. As you state

Who do you think sets the price, if not the publisher?

the publishers lose, not me.

And yet, it’s not the publishers complaining about it online.

Does anyone remember Google+? When they tried to make everyone with a YouTube account also have a Google+ account.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t go well

To me the issue is the inflation price increase that most recently happened. Typically when a digital good releases in a finished state, it tends to stay at a max price. 30 USD is what Factorio decided on. Then it’s up to 35. Sure its had updates since the full release but why should I have to pay more then the full release price because I waited?

Because when you buy it now for $35 right now, you get more for your money than what I got years ago for $25. Even ignoring the additional content and polishing, you’re also getting the benefit of all the testing and bug reporting by early adopters, as well as the bug fixing by the developers.

Typically sales are the reward for those who wait.

This is just the wrong mindset. Why would the developer, publisher, valve, or anyone else want to reward you for not buying their product?

(yes, I know software pricing is a clusterfuck. But the common theme is that the seller wants to extract as much value from every customer as possible, so ideally they would set the price individually for each customer based on the highest amount that customer is willing to pay. Sales after a while are a mechanism for this.)