Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, Israel has universal conscription--everyone serves (well, except the ultra-orthodox).

Universal conscription is another of the reasons in which the state uses its brainwashing and propaganda. In any case, universal conscription could also be circumvented by being a conscientious objector (not sure if this is the actual term in English). There are ways to avoid serving.

Actually, I would even argue countries that still have it, that are many, should not be considered democracies.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe United States, on the other hand, gave up on conscription after the prospective conscriptees got really upset and caused political problems back in the Vietnam era, and are now finding they don't have enough volunteers to really fill the numbers they want. So it seems most there are, indeed, deciding not to join the army at all.

Which is something the US is already trying to "fix"

Quoting: tuubiWell, we've not seen this exact situation before WWII either. And none of this equals "closer than ever to world war", no matter how dire it all seems.

That's a fair point.

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Quoting: WMan22Where we should really be putting blame is on just a few individuals within humanity in upper echelons inside a military industrial complex who gain capital whenever there's a war thus are financially incentivized to continually send us into them

This is true to some extent, but people usually forget those in the army could still refuse to go to wars... or even better, decide to not join the army at all.

Of course, we could talk that the state artificially makes the army appealing (cheap education, patriotism bullshit, media scaremongering, etc) but that's a different topic.

Quoting: tuubiI'm just not sure we're actually any closer now than we were 20 years ago, or 40 years ago, or 60 years ago.

I wish you're right, but that's not what most international geopolitical experts think, though. The current state of populist politics, the rise of religious extremism and right wing support, both in the north and the global south, people's polarization, the global economical turmoil, scarcity of resources, climate change, and the possibility of the US to lose their hegemony as the strongest country/economy after a couple of hundreds of years at the top, put us in a situation that we've not seen since World War II.

Quoting: GuestThe Ukraine/Russia - Israel/HAMAS conflicts are the most severe conflicts since WW2

This is a very white euro-centric idea. Only in Europe, I think the Balkan war after Tito's death in Yugoslavia was bigger than current Ukraine-Russia conflict. In the Middle East, what the Bush/Blair/Aznar governments did in Iraq are currently bigger than the current Israeli invasion. Emphasis in current, the Israeli colonization is actually 75 years old (/s Thanks, UK)

But let's not be euro-centric and remember other VERY important conflicts in the last 100 years, whether internal or international; Pinochet in Chile, Pol Pot in Cambodia, the US in Vietnam, Indo-Pakistani War in the late 40s, The Congo/Sudan/African Republic conflict in the 80s...

We could argue that conflicts started in the 40s, with some still ongoing like Israel were still probably effects from the World War II, but if we do that, perhaps rather than talking of WWII we should just talk of "World War" much like some historians think WWI and WWII are actually the same conflict.

Quoting: tuubiTo the nations involved, certainly. I'm not sure if everyone else would agree. Some very bloody wars and other atrocities happened in the last ~80 years, and there must be at least a dozen active war zones even now around the world. (I'd find a list but I really need to get to bed. Shouldn't be hard to locate one though.)

Correct. I read the other day that there are, currently, 33 active war zones around the globe, but I can't find that source now. However, the Global Conflict Tracker reports 28.

Quoting: tuubiEvery conflict is important and every single victim is one too many.

I couldn't agree more :)

Quoting: TherinSLet's play a little "what if" game:

If HAMAS laid down thier weapons and said "we will fight no more", what would the likely outcome be?

If Israel laid down THIER weapons and said "we will fight no more", what would THAT likely outcome be?

One cannot just solve a complex conflict with a simple "What if" game, but if we could, why making the premise wrong? Let me fix it :P

If HAMAS AND Israel laid down their weapons and said "we will fight no more", what would THAT likely outcome be?

Sorry for breaking my own rule of not getting politically involved on the site, I'll try to not get into pointless arguments.

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Quoting: PenglingBut then there's stuff like this that's presumably been done in-house, and which apparently has issues on all platforms*, and it just isn't acceptable. And then they do basically zero marketing for anything, as well, which is a whole other problem that doesn't help any of it.

From that link, these are the bugs planned to fix:

 
- the bonus content for the Metal Gear and Snake’s Revenge has issues with the subtitles
- a CRT scanline filter and the ability to change the pixel aspect ratio will be added later
- the MSX2 versions of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 will get an option to switch between windowed and full-screen mode from the options menu
- MGS 2 has significant slowdown in certain cutscenes
- MGS 2 has a slight delay to the timing for a certain visual effect
- in MGS 2, switching between windowed and fullscreen mode from the options menu on the title screen is planned
- MGS 3 has typos in the subtitles for the original England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain (EFIGS) EU versions
- in MGS 3, timing for a scene and background music to trigger in a certain cutscene is slightly different from the original
- the ability to switch between windowed and full-screen mode is planned

If Valve can release Proton fixes to make it work, perhaps in the end, with a sale, we can enjoy the games.

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The thumbnail reminds me of NSFW games xD

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I wonder if Paradox sees the looming recession very threatening after The Lamplighters debacle and will try to focus on their original strengths and niche genres.

At the same time, I don't think the game had enough publicity, and potential Paradox costumers aren't the same. A shame, nonetheless, I liked the idea of the game and was hoping to be rather decent.

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Just a couple of weeks ago, Epic fired 870 people.

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I still think that Windows will end up being a Linux distribution, and that I will not trust Microsoft any time.

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Quoting: emphy

QuoteYou'll also get a a "Raspberry Pi-optimised" version of Mozilla Firefox, that brings with it enabled V4L2 codec support for better video performance, support for Widevine DRM for video streaming services and work on enabling cameras for video calling.

That's a pretty huge deal for the "desktop replacement" crowd.

For me, this, together with the better pi5 performance, basically means that I can stop complaining about how lenovo's keyboards are getting worse and worse and go for a tex shinobi with pi5, power bank, and portable screen when my good old t420 dies.

Now I feel that I should not have bought the Star Lite V, and instead getting a cheap portable monitor to connect to the Steam Deck to use it as a laptop when travelling...

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Quoting: redneckdrowWe're here because we have a shared love of gaming on our favorite kernel, and I'd rather never comment again as make even one person angry. I apologize if I have.

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You didn't make me angry, I just disagree with your opinion. But you're right, this might not be the place :)

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I'd like to know what happened to all those shares Riccitiello sold just before announcing the price changes in Unity. Now that he's been fired, that deal stinks even more.

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