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To be honest it seems like they’re so paranoid about The Woke™ that it would be almost useless. It would just be a recommendation for every single game that has a plot and wasn’t made by dickheads

The Paradox siren song is an alluring one

Been having a lot of fun with the Exo Rally demo. You go rally raiding in a big six-wheeled sci-fi rover with RCS thrusters, but it’s absolutely still leaning towards the sim end of things so you’d better be conscious of the terrain and take good care of your vehicle. The rally raid format (meaning there’s not a defined course, just a series of checkpoints you have to reach by whatever route you choose) gives it a layer of strategy too, as you get a limited window of time to survey the stage with a drone before you drive. The demo only has one area and one type of rover at the moment, but the area is pretty big and there are three challenges with different routes each day so there’s actually heaps to do given that it’s a demo

On a much less serious note, RV There Yet with friends has been really entertaining. Drive your somewhat ramshackle RV across some progressively sillier and sillier terrain, nailing bits back together whenever you launch it off a big drop or a bear decides you have lost vehicle privileges

Man those games are great. I recently-ish tried out one of the decompiled versions of the original after the source code leaked. It’s still a lot of fun

What you describe is a huge part of vehicle racing in general. Getting into a flow state is fast. If you can stress an opponent out enough by threatening to overtake or even just keeping up, you can very often push them to start taking bigger risks and to drop out of that flow state

Funnily enough, if you do really well in a specific mode of some of the Wipeout games, you do indeed get a rating of “zen”

Good on them

Fun fact about Grenada: for a few years, it was a socialist monarchy. A Leninist group overthrew the government in 1979 and remained in power for four years, but in that time it never left the Commonwealth or stopped recognising Queen Elizabeth II as head of state

Using eth and thorn to show the voiced-unvoiced distinction is basically only a thing in Icelandic and the IPA (and even then it’s not a consistent feature of Icelandic), and when they were used in English they seem to have been basically interchangeable

That said if someone wants to bring them back to English it seems to me like using them to distinguish the sounds is the most sensible approach, it’s the one that makes spelling less ambiguous even if it doesn’t have a historical foundation in English

To explain more specifically for those that are, like me, curious but unfamiliar:

• Top left of each of those keys is the Danish layout
• Top right is Norwegian
• Bottom right is Swedish
• The Å is the same in all three so it can just be by itself

JDAM is supposed to have a circular error probable of 5m and it’s an upgrade kit from 25 years ago. I can definitely believe that a much newer purpose-built weapon can do better than that. The idea of hitting the same spot with multiple bombs might not actually be that unlikely

• Works just fine with anywhere from 1-4 players
• You can have a mix of friends and random players if you want a full team but don’t have a group of four to play with
• The game is strictly cooperative so there’s no incentive to screw each other over, fostering a generally good multiplayer culture
• There’s lots of stuff to unlock but none of it is necessary for a fun and functional build
• Teamwork is encouraged and effective
• Missions are randomly generated but you’ve got years of additions to the random pools for lots of variety
• Absolutely no pay to win stuff
• There’s cosmetic DLC, but there are still absolutely loads of great cosmetic options in the base game

Edit: also, rock and stone

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The article body repeatedly says 1,300

Also Trump’s voterbase will believe anything he says over anything Xi says

To be honest I’d expect that’s just someone’s interpretation of the huge amount of maintenance any jetfighter (not just the F-35, any modern one) needs. It’s like five person-hours of maintenance per hour of flight. They’re just incredibly complicated machines that can’t really afford for stuff to fail. If Israel is flying them a whole bunch, they’ll need to maintain them proportionately

Besides that the OP has replied themselves now, the URL is “european-union-to-boost-pa-funding-with-1-8-billion-over-three-years”, so it would almost certainly have been that headline

The funding is for the Palestinian Authority. OP decided to get creative with the headline because of their opinions on the PA

The first two principles for virtual currencies that they have listed are “Price indication should be clear and transparent” and “Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided”, so if EVE is honest and up front about it then it should be fine

While they probably shouldn’t actually put it on the article themselves, they can submit it to Wikimedia Commons or even just post it somewhere public under a creative commons licence

This must never be changed

I don’t know about a military context or if this would be acceptable to fly in this context, but flags like this are usually seen here being flown by supporters of football teams that play in black and white strips, like Newcastle United.

Artist Jonathan Parsons also made one like it back in 1993 that was about the disappearance of black and white TV and film. This photo is definitely not about that, of course, but I found it interesting