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Oh yeah, you need one of those cards that takes an SD card. I think you do need the nopic download to keep the filesize manageable.

I did that once and then installed it onto my Nintendo DS.

Eh, those usually ain’t too bad. Runtime Blazor errors usually are a bit more annoying, sometimes requiring you to open up the intermediate compiled cs files.

Texas could split in five smaller states iirc.

It’s unlikely most manufacturers will make that investment, since they’ll have to deal with a significant upfront cost, increased running costs and likely counter-tarriffs, all for an ordeal that may well be completely undone in 2 to 4 years. In the meantime US inflation will grow again.

Protectionism is not the main tool that helped countries industrialize, the creation of global trade and particularly deficit spending are to be credited for that. Protectionism is, particularly in the modern age, next to useless.

In Brave New World, very few if realistically none actually seek to resist the government. Why? Because they’re perfectly happy. It’s not that they don’t know what to protest, they have nothing to protest. Sure, the protagonist is unhappy, but if you find a system that makes 99% of people happy is having a handful of dissenters so bad? Which obviously in our reality is not the case.

IIRC even Huxley hadn’t really decided if the world in BNW was a dystopia or maybe really more of a utopia after all. Sure, there’s the whole genetically-engineering-people- into-castes (which does sound horrible), but even those people aren’t described as unhappy either.

I’d definitely prefer Huxley over Orwell.

I suggested we play Sniper Elite 4 to my girlfriend recently. She’s not usually one for shooter games (she’s more of a Stardew Valley/Animal Crossing/Cozy Grove/Coral Island type of gamer), and I wasn’t sure she’d like it. She thought she wouldn’t, but she’s happy to try out a suggestion of mine every once in a while even if she thinks we won’t play it much.

We loaded into San Cellini island and she initially struggled with the controls and how to aim and shoot. The gravity and wind effects weren’t super easy to grasp either (she’s on the Steam Deck as well, making it slightly harder to aim too). She accidentally shot a couple times as I was giving her a quick tutorial, which attracted a Nazi soldier to investigate and try and shoot her (which scared her a bit as she got hit). Off to a rocky start, and I could tell she wasn’t enjoying it at all.

We got to the first tower, where the game gives you a pretty good view of the area and lets you fairly securely shoot a bunch of Nazi soldiers. Time to shoot! Here we learned she gets a bit jumpscared if the game suddenly shows you a slow-motion killcam, especially if I was the one triggering it. Again, not a great start for her.

She struggled, but did hit a couple of them. Then on the 3rd or 4th kill, the game showed her the magic words after the kill: “TESTICLE SHOT”. This caught her completely off guard, immediately exclaiming “WAIT DOES THAT MEAN I SHOT HIS BALLS OFF?!”. I have never witnessed her doing a complete 180 degrees turn on her opinion of a game. Suddenly the game became extremely enjoyable for her. The first time she had a killcam where she could see the Nazi balls pop one after the other was like giving her crack cocaine or something. Total bloodlust.

We’ve played through the entire campaign in a span of two weeks, then the DLC, the overwatch missions (twice to play both roles) and now the survival maps. Every evening after dinner she asks if we can “shoot more Nazi balls”. Her spirit animal is Hugo Stiglitz at this point.

God I love that woman.

I honestly don’t mind the pre-movie ads too much. Usually there’s not that many, it quickly moves on to other movie trailers (which I don’t mind knowing about) and then you just get the full movie without any ads whatsoever. You can always just arrive 10 minutes later and skip most of the ads anyway.

Netflix ads can kiss my ass though. Jellyfin to the rescue!

Webrips mate.

Eh, it provides a very, very approximate location that still covers half of the western seaboard. Could be interesting for tracking CEO movements for something, otherwise most people will likely stay within their bubble of several hundreds of miles.

I should mention this is still quite a clever use of Cloudflare’s CDN though. Not sure if it’s very practical, but cool nonetheless.

If you’re on mobile, make sure to put the website in Desktop mode in your browser. That makes the picture show up properly.

Well, I’m proud to say I managed to find them all :). I did indeed get the other two a day later, only figured out Name me the Skin just now.

I must say the answer is not as good as I had hoped, I felt like I tried a couple different answers that I thought fit better. Still, it does fit.

I have one more comment on the answer, which I feel like isn’t really a hint, but I think it’s a small shortcoming with the app and knowing that might help you not miss the right answer accidentally. I think it’s technically true for all riddle answers, but it just so happens it doesn’t matter for any of them. I’ll put it in a spoiler if you really want to know nothing:

Pffssht, isn’t America basically the planet?

Yes, but random data might be easier to detect in the first place, and could then be filtered.

My very first date was a Tinder date, over five years ago. We just adopted our second cat.

Mileage may vary but to me it seemed just like any other regular date, with the benefit you could take about what you talked about over Tinder.

Dune 2 I think.

That voluntary commitment is to be made mandatory when the new law takes effect. Don’t quite remember when exactly but it’s in the future.

The EU would like it, given that very few people here use SMS/RCS still.

That first option doesn’t make this idea particularly tempting.

Now I really want to figure out that skin one 😋.

Out of the six you listed, the Without you I am incomplete-set is probably the easiest one.

I think I like the common currency one best, it’s very clever in my opinion (but not necessarily the hardest one).