And don’t forget that the Soviets invaded Poland and Finland in 1939, even if they failed to take Finland. And the 1940 invasions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.

That’s because Apple’s cables are designed for aesthetics first and everything else second.

It also took a long time for tomato ketchup sales to take off because it was very difficult to make shelf stable for transporting and selling in stores. Heinz was the first company to make one that sold well. Before that, tomato ketchup was typically made at home if you wanted something vaguely decent.

It’s just memes. How many memes do you understand without knowing their origins?

Well, they’re absurdly easy to accidentally maim yourself with and unless you’re precognitive the blaster deflection feature is virtually useless, so just packing a gun is usually a better move. Kyber mines also didn’t exist until the Empire, and they were heavily restricted with only the Emperor himself, Vader, and the Inquisitors getting any at all that weren’t being sent to the Death Star. Jedi still go on a bit of a quest to find a crystal in the new continuity. And if you and the crystal don’t get along for whatever reason the blade will be heavy and unwieldy. Most of the kyber crystals don’t care much, but the older ones have personalities, like the one in the Darksaber.

Red crystals were also usually synthetic, which was how the Sith were able to source them so consistently.

Not the other person, but I’m using a 4090 on Ubuntu 26.04 and haven’t had any issues with Remake or Rebirth.

GPS with accelerometers should be able to work out where you’re standing and where you’re facing, so you could have navigation with a floating marker over the turn you need to take instead of just having a mini-map, too.

“That’s mah purse! Ah don’t know you!”

Cowbee uses the same ‘debate’ style as Charlie Kirk.

There’s something of a tradition in Final Fantasy of having one undead boss that can be killed instantly with a phoenix down.

This isn’t a problem with anime so much as it is with localization. Most of what makes it out of Japan is shonen, stuff aimed at boys aged about 12-18. There’s also shojo (same age group, but girls), seinen (adult men), josei (adult women), and kodomomuke (under 12s of both genders). Seinen in particular has an absurdly broad range of genres. For example, Ghost in the Shell is a foundational cyberpunk work, but Spice & Wolf is a slow burn romance about medieval barter economics.

That’s from reusing the Halo Infinite needler model, though why that one had the ammo counter is beyond me.

Fallout 4 does have a bug that I first encountered in Morrowind.

I actually loved 3.

The top flag is the ‘thin blue line’ flag, which promotes the idea that police are the only thing standing between civilization and a murder-happy anarchist dystopia. You’ll generally see this flag and ideology attached to right wing authoritarians.

The lower flag is the Gadsden flag, which features a defensively positioned rattlesnake and the words, “Don’t tread on me.” It was originally a symbol of the colonial independence movement, but the Confederacy used it extensively during the civil war, causing association with the South. It eventually became associated with small government libertarian and anti-authoritarian types in later years, but never lost its association with the Confederacy. More recently, the Republican party started associating themselves with the Gadsden flag both due to their pro-deregulation stance, which they have tried to advertise as them being the party of small government, and as part of The Southern Strategy, an attempt to lure disenfranchised racist voters in the South. As the Republican party as moved further and further to the right, the Gadsden flag has sometimes been used as a neo-fascist symbol. There have been attempts to reappropriate it by anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist groups, however.

No, they read like light novel titles. Lately, light novels have been getting adapted into anime about as much as manga. Manga-first and anime-first works will have much shorter titles. This is due to there being absurd levels of competition in the light novel space for the last seven or eight (I think) years, so authors need to use titles that double as a short blurb; there are so many books coming out each month that potential readers don’t have time to read the full blurbs for even a fraction of the books, so you need a very descriptive title to hook potential readers.

Whisker position shows a happy kitty, so it looks like it’s working.

Nintendo already have NFC readers on their controllers, so they could potentially challenge this.

The usefulness of a smart fridge always seemed dubious to me, but why the hell is the refrigeration part managed by the smart part? It’s literally just a pump.