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Someone crashed my car recently. I had to buy another one (the other was impossible to repair). I ended buying a used base model Mitsibishi Lancer, for the same price a new Mitsibishi Lancer EVO used to cost 3 years ago. And I only bought t
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Cliffy B could be the game designer.
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To be honest I understand perfectly well why it exists. These days I played "Everspace 2" and it felt great, controls-wise, the physics are not that good though. And I wanted a more simulator thing. I then tired up all space simul
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5y ago
I went to check the site after your comment, and found this, and the letters weren't even small: Disclaimer The Unmask is not designed or intended to prevent, mitigate, treat, diagnose or cure any disease or health condition, including
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I once read this is actually tied to the degree of agriculture vs animal raising. Because animals are easily stolen, cultures around animals as food, tend to consider weapon ownership essential, and tend to think highly of self defense and
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I think it is hilarious people think Greenwald is aligned to the right just because he is upset with Democrat party making mistakes. He votes Democraft (despite being upset at them), is gay, and married to a (male) politician of the Brazill
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I am from Brazil and to be honest the government push for this is kinda silly. There are other problems to solve first. There was an event I participated about this, I was teaching about gamedev using opensource tools, a lot of people paid
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5y ago
Well, a bunch of cities in Brazil where I live, banned ads too! São Paulo is a very notorious one.
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If Putin was shutting off gas to flex it would been great, but he isn't, what is happening is Russia is not having enough gas even for themselves, if this was just diplomatic strategy, diplomacy would convince him to supply more gas, t
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https://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/imagine-wedding-designer disagrees with you :P Ubisoft is actually good at making crap games. For example they bought a Brazillian studio that was often contracted to do some coo
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5y ago
In Brazil this is illegal, but when I saw this happening and told the government about it, I got an e-mail from a female judge, saying that hiring only women is fine because it "corrects the distortions", despite it being again
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5y ago
I dunno how accurate this is, but back when protests against Yanukovich started, I saw people on reddit predicting his ouster and civil war, because of the history of Poland... Seemly Poland in the run up to WW2 got parts of it conquered by
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speed limits... doesn't work. I live in a city where they lowered the speed limits heavily, the result is law abiding drivers constantly almost crashing because they have eyes glued on the speedometer to keep themselves under the speed
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In EU that seemly is the case, they have a law there where all cars must have a cellphone that automatically calls emergency services when the cars crash. https://www.motor1.com/news/238058/cars-emergency-services-
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I wonder why for coffee you have it decaff but you are happy with tea, that has more caffeine than coffee.
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Back in 2008 MS had a lawsuit punishment against them active. MS in 1997 or so was doing shenanigans like crash Explorer if you attempted to download Netscape (Firefox predecessor) they got sued by the EU and lost. The lawsuit terms expired
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Almost unrelated question... Did you used the maps at the conference? Did you liked them? (I work for the company that made the maps and I am wondering how people that are not us, and not the executives that chose us, think about us)
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WW1 had a strong effect too. Even where I live, Brazil: The most popular dinner dish is called "french bread", and it is a Brazillian imitation of french baguette, invented after Brazillian soldiers came home from WW1 and tried to
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I switched to Brave 2 weeks ago, that was when Firefox deleted my pinned tabs.
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To me that is not good. Firefox just suck. I insisted on Firefox for a while because Google hegemony but in the end I switched to brave. 1. Firefox often loses settings 2. Also it is really, really bad at saving your session. After losing i
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Whoa! Never realised that was a thing, and I am thankful for you and your colleagues work. I am brazillian, and the reason we have those sidewalk copy shops is that a large amount of government bureaucracy (and we have a huge amount of thes
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Here in Brazil this year I saw a bunch of Black November. Yes, in english, in a country where people normally don't know english. Even weirder, is today a cosmetics company said that "Black Friday" (in english like that!) is
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5y ago
You send input from Pi to a PC elsewhere, then on that PC the game is running, instead of outputting to screen it instead writes to a compressed video stream and sends it back to the pi. Same thing for audio. Then the pi must uncompress the
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1. Non-smart TVs are being hard to find. 2. most devices to plug into TVs are underpowered for some applications, for example I tried to transmit games from my PC to such devices, and they all introduced too much artifacting and input lag,
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Some people even can conclude from this that being evil is better idea. A fictional example: there is a character in Wheel of Time, that realized that for the good guys to win, they must win every time the bad guy attempts something, but
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Great to see this here! Some ancient years ago, before I was an adult, I tried to help with this, even had MSN Messenger contact of Ecalot (he was leading the charge on such projects). And tried to contribute to a new map editor with integr
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First, lets separate 2 groups of people: 1. People that have a vegan diet. 2. People that actively defend veganism. I have nothing against the group 1, but the prejudice you see, is because of group 2, I can say to you using rough napkin ca
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There was no lie, the person at first was confused where charges came from, and sent me a copy of the phone bill, by reading the bill carefully I noticed they were charging for IM calls.
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I am from Brazil, and here speed limits are literally dangeorus. 1. In my city people mostly ignore speed limits, because often they are unreasonable. 2. At same time people are so used to the above, that they ignore speed limits in very u
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I am from Brazil, before WhatsApp existed, some cellphone companies were charging what was at the time 1 USD per SMS message sometimes. When WhatsApp first shown (not owned by Facebook yet), some cellphone companies literally sued them (and
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