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Definitely not. It’s a total coincidence that the F-35 VTOL system is very similar to the innovative Soviet one used on the Yak-141 …

I get it: the US strategy of dominating in the air means their normal ground troops should never be facing an enemy air offensive at all, which makes Stinger-type missiles largely useless to them.

Contact printing means you have to press the negative against the paper

A meme pointing out that u/spez was a mod of r/jailbait in 2008 was the top post on r/all a few hours ago

Even if Crytek took a year off developing new games after the release of Far Cry, that still puts the start of Crysis development before the announcement of Core (early 2005 IIRC).

Being single-threaded is why the original Crysis is hard on computers now(!!). When Crysis was being developed people still thought 5-10Ghz was coming Any Day Now.

The British were also strongly in favor of accepting a German surrender then immediately attacking the Soviets

The Washington Naval Treaty was a middle finger to Japan and a massive blow to the credibility of the democratic pro-Western government.

Maybe Nikon have changed, last year Nikon Japan did a great job servicing a D810 that I bought used (no receipt or warranty card) for a price that I considered good value for the quality of work.

ERROR! Please drink a verification can

you can extract that exact key from a real Wii using a pair of tweezers

> If they're Nintendo's keys, why would they DMCA a Steam page but not a GitHub repository that's distributing the keys?

I don't know

Would it be possible to just put an entire Switch in the Switch 2? (see: PS3)

Obviously it’s the English pronounciation that is difficult for them. See also how Japanese try to avoid saying “reflex” in relation to cameras: An SLR is an 一眼レフ Single Lens Ref and Nikon’s camera with a reFlex mirror is the Nikon “F”. Mirrorless seems to have fared better, but I have seen shops selling them as 一眼カメラ, Single Lens Cameras.

> His immediate concern is that the internet will be flooded with false photos, videos and text, and the average person will “not be able to know what is true anymore

Since real life is faithfully following the plot of MGS2 so far, the next step is to make an AI who runs the government and filters the entire internet and decides what is true or not.

Afaik old films had everything at the beginning then trailers at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Xt1T_LfdY

Credits used to be at the start of the movie. George Lucas got into hot water for refusing to include any at the beginning of “Star Wars”.

CS 1.6 required Steam and was released together with Steam 1.0. You could say that it was a soft launch to get Steam ready for HL2 one year later.

The original owner must have liked using filters in Photoshop. I can’t think of another reason someone would pair a CPU like that with modest(for 2002) 512MB RAM and 40GB HDD

> that didn't offer discovery features and there was no quality control

Pirate sites generally had better quality than iTunes (which was 128kbps for way too long), and were often ripped from a better sounding source or master because the people uploading albums were dedicated fans of the material. One great example is the soniclovenoize uncensored stereo version of "We're Only In It For The Money".

Drunk

It’s infuriating because MS could literally press a button and make Bedrock available for Mac, since the Education edition (literally Bedrock) is already on Mac.

To MS’ credit, they were fast (~10 minutes) processing my refund for the Mac edition, and they saved me $30 because the iPhone Bedrock is $10 and works perfectly at full frames with minimal input lag when mirrored to my Macbook Air M1.

I use my Switch pro controller which “just works” when paired to my phone while my nephew plays on his Switch. I have an iPhone SE 2nd gen.

/edit we have to play on a realm because P2P cross-platform multiplayer is hilariously broken on Switch and MS timeline for fixing it seems to be “hmmm never”

The way for AI to make it realistic is to build a human from the bones to the muscles to blood to skin.

CS struck a great balance between skill floor and skill ceiling, which is one of the reasons I think it was the first blockbuster multiplayer FPS: even if your opponent is a way better player and knows the map, it's still possible to get lucky and win. The same isn't true of games with a higher skill floor like Quake duels*

*RA3, a Quake mod which came out around the same time as CS, lowered the skill floor by giving players a full loadout of weapons and maximum health on spawn. It was good!

Who decided that "fy_" stands for "fight yard"? Some random in the ingame chat or on AIM told me it stood for "fuck you", and considering the general demographics of people playing and modding CS circa 2002...

AdGuard is free and has never let me down. Sometimes preroll YouTube ads will get through on my phone, but it’s not a big deal.

Lexus entering Japan started the slow decline of Toyota-badged luxury sedans. The Alphard is still an upper-middle class status symbol, but the people who saw Toyota as a luxury brand bought their last Crown ten years ago and are fast approaching 80. I suspect that is also the reason for the unification of Toyota badges and the Hail Mary design of the new Crown.

In summer: you need a shower to wash the sweat off

In winter: you need a bath to get as warm as possible before going to bed. Until recently (~1980s-90s) houses were expected to be ephemeral, whether they were knocked over by an earthquake or the new owner, so people skipped "luxuries" like insulation.

The grim tone of Grave of the Fireflies and the equally bright and cheerful tone of Totoro made more sense to me when I found out that they were a double feature at the cinema.

I used to work with an English chap who made a habit of reminding me that Moonraker had US Space Marines a good few years before Aliens … Semper Fi!

It’s common for urban Japanese to have a big old family home waiting for them in the countryside when they retire.