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Skua

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  • 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

  • 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

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

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  • We have the biggest individual navy in Europe (excluding Russia, but... well we've seen how that has been faring), but we do not have a bigger navy than the EU together. If there is some naval threat that the EU cannot handle, we are in an even worse position to try to face it alone. If we're operating on might is right logic then we absolutely need the EU, because we aren't competing with heavyweights like the US and China alone

  • [ER] The true leader.

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  • Elden Ring II is Asimi successfully restoring her own questline and overthrowing you

  • An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch

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  • New account, being obnoxious with all caps and emoji spam to make a contrarian argument. This is definitely intentional ragebait

  • Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

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  • The second-biggest cryptocurrency split in two becaue some people just decided to undo transactions. The transactions were absolutely theft, but the point is that some people just decided to change what the ledger said.