That’s a strong magic right there.

Same in Russian, and I believe this is the original source of confusion :)

In some languages, hard seeds and bones are described by related words

Well…it does have some good points. To provide an example without much spoilers, I’ll take one from the early game: while some RDA humans join the Na’vi resistance, and Na’vi are happy to have some help, they keep the original Avatar’s line of Pandorans’ mistrust towards the humans. You are being reminded that humans (the “Sky People”) might sometimes be allies, but they fight a proxy war, and you are here to protect your very homeland. This does get developed further down the story, and it’s a little gem, being a rare shift against humans in the game industry. It provides a nice shift of perspective, while being true to the original story.

Or, the fact that Na’vi clans all have their own vision of war, and some are hesitant to join in again after past defeats. This adds more political complexity to the lore, as opposed to “good guys - bad guys” mentality.

Also, on the crossection of story and game mechanics, there is a disharmony debuff granted when you get too genocidal towards local wildlife. It lowers your senses, makes you a pariah among na’vi, leads to your ikran abandoning you, and more. I think it’s nice, though they made a fairly poor job communicating what counts as a source of one.

On the negative side, it often feels like game design came before the story itself. A lot of it feels like they first planned where the player should go, and only then - the actual “why” behind it. This leads to some awkward turns in the story that feel like a patched afterthought.

Headline is very out of touch. We know for over a century that it works.

Now, however, we are actually doing something about it, essentially fertilizing the ocean.

Played Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora recently, and it struck me almost immediately:

This is, without a hint of doubt, a Ubisoft game. The setting may change, the characters are swapped, but it is always the same gameplay. Like if they figured something that works with Assassin’s Creed and decided to never change it, ever.

Whatever Ubisoft action RPG you start, you always play Assassin’s Creed with extra decorations. Again. And again. And again. Zero creative vision, just new textures on top of the same mechanics.

It is in the nightly builds almost since the release. The first build is 01336: https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases/tag/nightly-01336-ce9df1fe81e897c117d85ac9c4446a1a453b938f

Maybe a release version could change something? Anyway, author clearly states no desire to support anything but legitimate copies of the game

That would be $999.999

Are LMDE and stock Mint close enough in versions and features that you can always efficiently support stock Mint users?

Also, is the base Mint software updated regularly, or does it depend on the Debian 2-year cycle?

…including Canada and Mexico

The problem with old cars is that, eventually, they will die, and all we’ll have is the surveillance boxes, no alternative.

This is part of why it’s so vital to keep the fight for surveillance-free vehicles, even if, for a brief moment, you are still able to avoid part of this monstrosity.

Ursula von der Leyen, head of the European commission

European commission, in turn, enabled laws allowing police to backdoor messaging apps in Europe. Read about Chat Control legislation if you want to know more.

I was personally amazed that it handles my ancient printer from the get-go. None of the other distros had the driver available, it had to be downloaded and installed separately. Here on Bazzite - complete plug & play.

Favorite: still searching

First: Manjaro (actually went quite smooth…until it didn’t. Still grateful to have it, might not switch if it didn’t exist)

Current: Bazzite (immutable distros finally matured enough for me, works perfectly fine for non-gaming tasks as well as gaming)

Distro you liked the least: Ubuntu (was the reason I didn’t get to Linux earlier and got only worse from there)

Distro you want to use in the future: Debian (needs to stop being so easily broken, it’s a stability distro ffs)

Distro you used for the longest time: Fedora (generally a good experience, but doesn’t play fantastically well with nvidia)

Distro everyone likes but I don’t: Linux Mint. (Cinnamon is severely limited and looks dated to me, and it broke like a week into me using it. Not my choice, but apparently others have better experience)

Honorable mention: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (awesome stability and native rollbacks, but didn’t fix a much highlighted update breaking nvidia drivers in two months, prompting me to reinstall; didn’t ever face breaking issues with other hardware)

Too much corporate control and enshittification. For example, when you use apt-get to get native packages, it can instead download a snap package (which works differently, is controlled by them and might not be preferred for many other reasons), even though you clearly meant not to.

Canonical (Ubuntu’s developer) is trying to push people deeper into the ecosystem they build and control.

Then, they roll out a paid Ubuntu version, Ubuntu Pro, separating paying and non-paying customers and turning Ubuntu into a subscription-based SaaS.

Not to mention the clear financial aspect

20s XY man here, 2-3 times a day is perfect, but sometimes down to 1

Gf (20s XX woman) can do anything from once a month to twice a day depending on the horniness

It’s not removed, it’s a hypervisor workaround. And until now, these largely had issues running on Linux

Not really, though.

Prefering anime characters comes with understanding of who they depict. Yes, it can later detach somewhat, but the initial point of attraction goes as “nice woman, wish those would exist” - at least, that’s the way I can comprehend it.

Or is it more like furry fans who fall for something that doesn’t exist in the first place?

I don’t think framing it generationally is useful. Your average mum and dad have little to nothing to do with it.

Very much could be, and I consider this to be an alternative explanation. Time will tell, I guess :)