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  • windows moment

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  • That's the connection to the post, but it's not a connection to the parent comment and also not Valve's decision

  • windows moment

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  • Surely that comment is just getting downvoted for being irrelevant rather than for criticising Steam? It's barely connected to the post, totally unconnected to the comment it's replying to, and blaming Valve for decisions made by the Total War devs

  • China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink

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  • The Gobi is in China (and Mongolia, it covers most of the border between them). It's actually quite possible that the documentary was about the same project as this article, though. The Taklamakan is either next to the Gobi or just the western part of the Gobi depending on who you ask

  • Anyone can recommend some good European Indie Devs / Games?

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  • The game that gives you one of the most broken overpowered toolsets I've ever seen and then brings so much absolute bullshit of its own that you're going to need it

  • Anyone can recommend some good European Indie Devs / Games?

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  • I have done literally nothing with Automation except build stuff for Beam and I still consider it to be an excellent purchase. Best standalone third party DLC ever

  • apparently women specifically, which is kinda strange?

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  • 1dalm has said the same now, so it seems you were the one to read it correctly in the first place. Such is the difficulty of communication by text!

  • apparently women specifically, which is kinda strange?

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  • I dunno about you, but as a man I really don't see why I should be upset about not being in a document about women. Not every conversation has to be about me.

  • apparently women specifically, which is kinda strange?

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  • It's a document about women, not about trans people, so trans men just weren't covered. The line about trans women is a single very short clause to make sure they're included in all the other stuff

  • “Targeted attack”: President Aliyev says Russia struck its diplomats in Kyiv three times after Azerbaijan began strengthening ties with Ukraine

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  • We're only a few months past Russia finally admitting that it did indeed shoot down that Azerbaijani airliner on 2024. It's truly such a mystery why so many of Russia's neighbours don't like it

  • Language and Love, c.1380

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  • I was curious to see if hearing the pronuciation of it would help bridge the gap at all and spent some time getting the IPA transcription of each individual word before realising that it's Chaucer, someone has already done this better than I could

    So anyway, here's the relevant passage courtesy of Kevin Johnson over on LibriVox

    For what it's worth, I think I understood less of it in audio form than in text

  • Russia gave two Nigerian recruits no training, then sent them into a “meat assault” in Ukraine – HUR

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  • There isn't really one Nigerian language, the country is insanely linguistically diverse. There are sixteen local languages with at least a million speakers, heaps more with fewer speakers, and then a Nigerian dialect of English and a creole called Naija (or Nigerian Pidgin) on top of that

    While I personally know nothing about the Nigerian media landscape, I do know that the BBC runs a Naija news service and it has an article about these two

  • [ER] Hiding secret zones in boss arenas is inspired

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  • That is really quite bizarre. I have definitely accidentally hit start a couple of times, but I can't imagine that sort of thing happens enough to explain an even split on a highly-voted message

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    Alaric is fast asleep and chasing rabbits in his dreams

    streamable.com /v30haa

  • UK 'will sign up to EU single market rules even without deal ' - Reeves

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  • Of course I think it's relevant, what I don't understand is how the EU needs the UK more tha vice versa when the EU is bringing more to the table (including in terms of naval capacity)

  • [ER] Hiding secret zones in boss arenas is inspired

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  • I left a message pointing towards it from the bonfire in Radahn's arena and it was one of the most appraised messages I've ever left

  • France AI company Mistral invests $1.4 billion in data centres in Sweden

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  • It's far too old a practice to be that

  • Israel Is Quietly Annexing the West Bank

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  • "Quietly" as in it's being done with far fewer bombs and bullets than Gaza

  • [ER] The true leader.

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  • While I don't personally use summons outside of specific NPCs that I like (just because I don't want to, I don't think it's bad to do so), on the occasions that I do summon an NPC I definitely prefer the aggro to be on me. The fun for me is in learning the enemy moveset, like a puzzle. Having someone else do damage while the aggro is on me just lowers the amount of openings I have to survive for

    I suppose since I usually do the quests for Latenna and the jellyfish, those are technically the spirit ashes I summon most. Latenna would be perfect for what I want in a summon! I do summon Igon for Bayle because he's just fun, and that's kind of a similar experience

  • UK 'will sign up to EU single market rules even without deal ' - Reeves

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  • So why bring up the navy in this context?

  • France AI company Mistral invests $1.4 billion in data centres in Sweden

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  • This is a somewhat common practice in headlines (in English, at least), but would not be used in normal writing. It's similar to how headlines almost never use the word "and", instead replacing it with a comma. If I go to Reuters' website just now I can quite quickly find headlines about "UK rocket maker Orbex", "South Korea crypto exchange", and "Argentina unions".

    That said, there are also a lot of headlines (including on Reuters) that don't do this, and I have no idea what decides when it is or isn't applied. I can just reassure you that no, this is not you misunderstanding English, it's just a weird convention for news headlines specifically

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord?

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    It's Alaric's 16th birthday today

  • Bready @lemmy.world
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    Naans from the Dishoom cookbook

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    I tried my hand at pyrography

  • Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes @lemmy.zip
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    May you all successfully i-frame through your hangovers and stomach aches

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    beans.mp4

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    I don't see any way that I could get up and do things under these circumstances

  • Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes @lemmy.zip
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    Our magnificent soulslike exquisite corpse creations

  • Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes @lemmy.zip
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    Anyone want to do some soulslike boss exquisite corpses?

    monsterland.net /login
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Felt the need to carve a pumpkin this year, and so attempted to depict my favourite video game spooky guys

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Yesterday was black cat day? Let's pretend Alaric was too busy napping to be there on time

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    Alaric is helping me learn how the synths in my DAW work

    streamable.com /oe2jfw
  • Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes @lemmy.zip
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    implications of the word "soldier"

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    I should get him a sleep mask

  • Scotland @lemmy.world
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    Some cool miniatures of the planned Eden Project site in the old Dundee gasworks

  • Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes @lemmy.zip
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    Drip inspection time. I want to see your Elden Bling. Let's have a fashion parade

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Alaric noticing that I'm paying attention to him

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    A whole bunch of racing games were cheap recently, and there are so many that it's difficult to look through them all. What do you recommend looking out for in future?