I just finished Crysis and Crysis: Warhead. Crysis took the c1launcher mod to start, Warhead just needed the env vars.

Hope I’ll have the energy to dive back into Death Stranding soon. If not, I’ll have another shot at MGS1. Last time I got to the sniper duel (on my phone with RetroArch and an old Xbox controller) and then when I got my Deck, the save refused to load. Been long enough that I wouldn’t mind starting over.

I never played the original MGS series, first I got into it was MGS: Peace Walker on PSP, absolutely loved it, got hundreds of hours in it, then did a bit of MGS V but never finished that either.

Oooh XWVM is awesome! I’ve seen it and am thoroughly impressed but haven’t dared to try it on Linux yet, let alone on the Deck.

Could you write a blog or a post here of how to get it to work on plain SteamOS?

“This conversation was off the record, so I won’t reveal exactly what he said, but basically…”

So A says that B sort of says that it is C’s fault.

I’m sorry but this seems like it’s closer to gossip than relevant news

Yes, it’s called CBAM and it’s the most beautiful tax I’ve ever seen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Carbon_Border_Adjustment_Mechanism

A permanent exception may actually be OK: China is much further along in the energy transition and the CCP are not doing that out of the kindness of their genocidal hearts: economic forces make electrification inevitable, as we can already see with EVs.

Also, the European market is big enough to have global impact, even if our rules aren’t matched by other world powers eventually.

That was my first response too, but on second thought, this may be a good balance between keeping European industry strong and green incentives:

• EVERY COMPANY pays carbon tax over what they sell in Europe: the EU made sure that carbon tax is paid over imports too so it is not worth it to companies who want to sell in EU to move production out of Europe
• By not taxing exports, European heavy industry gets to compete fairly outside Europe too: American companies don’t pay European carbon tax on what they sell in the US. If we would tax European heavy industry exports, they would be at a severe disadvantage.

European heavy industry isn’t doing great overall. This is partly their own fault: lobbying has focused on keeping grey tech alive instead of enabling a green transition, but also largely because of high wages and regulation in Europe.

We need to push European heavy industry through the energy transition, not into bankruptcy. I’d rather do the energy transition a little slower than be completely dependent on American and Chinese companies for steel, aluminium, etc.

And I’ve been arrested at many climate protests, so don’t tell me I don’t care enough about the climate!

OG Crysis!

It’s a pretty great Deck game, and I’d never seen it run as consistently as it does on Deck at 40fps limit.

It’s not something to be proud of, that’s obvious.

But Rutte was not made secretary-general because of his personal pride. I wasn’t happy to have him as prime minister, at all, for all those years, but he is very good at one thing: getting everyone in the room to agree and making everyone in the room feel heard.

This is how you get Trump to be enthusiastic about your project. He is using Trump’s ego to get him om board with NATO. This is top-tier manipulation, and it’s working!

Rutte is the perfect man for this job, and this is exactly why. No pride, no ego, just doing whatever it takes to keep the unity in NATO and to ensure we are strong enough to deter Russia.

No but OPs frame of it might be

And now each and every country is supposed to spend more on tanks and guns and drones only

Nope, 3.5%.

The other 1.5% is infrastructure and stuff that has both peacetime and wartime benefits, such as roads and rail that can be used for military transport in case of war, cybersecurity, I’d even argue that energy independence can be shared under this.

What is this community’s policy on Russian propaganda?

Thank you, that’s a very useful perspective. I’ll keep it in mind.

It’s easy to shit on neoliberalism.

Far harder to face the truth: we are already at war with Russia, while our security guarantor is pulling out.

I’m not sure what choices Macron made exactly, and he may well have protected established interests over the vulnerable.

But I do know that we, Free Europe, will have to make some hard choices and accept unpopular policy to be able to protect ourselves and our allies.

There’s a fundamental difference in the way the UK and Russia deal with European values such as democracy, freedom of expression, press freedom, etc.

Worse, they’ve cut off all services to the International Criminal Court. Due to Trump’s sanctions. All gov and judicial services in NL continue to rely on Microsoft’s cloud tech… Literally the dog in the house on fire meme…

While this headline is absolutely despicable, let’s not forget there’s plenty of lawyers who’ve given up many comforts to fight for good instead. They will be tearing this up.

Judging lawyers just for being lawyers does not help our case. Judge lawyers for being evil, cheer on those who choose to make the world a better place.

Thanks for the clarification! I should try stuff more, and read less landing pages

Thanks for raising awareness of FOSS Discord alternatives. Revolt certainly is the best looking of all of them.

Last time I looked into this, Revolt’s voice and video chat was “unsupported” for self-hosting while they were working on a complete rewrite. Is this still the case?

The other big FOSS Discord alternative is Synapse-Matrix with the Element X client, but no clue how far along voice and video is over there either.

Then there’s Mattermost, which is more work-oriented and has voice and screen share, but no video calls.

I should host some of this stuff to try it out.

It is. Very atmospheric, and I’m sure there’s a whole lot more depth to things like combat and crafting if you’re interested.

For me it’s just an easy and accessible story RPG. The text-based dialogue and turn-based mechanics make it ideal for on the road gaming IMO. You can look up from your screen or suspend and drop the Deck into your bag at any point.

The writing is great and the game feels much, much, much more fluid than the actual old games it is based on. A lot of love and care has been put into this. It’s very affordable and the most battery-friendly game I’ve played. So when you start up your Deck on the train and only have 15% left, this gives you much more enjoyment per battery charge than anything else.

Full disclosure: I happen to know the artist who did the character art.

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