I mean, ICE itself was founded in 2003, the concept of some immigration enforcement existing isn’t crazy. And by changes I meant that it should get the regulatory oversight it should’ve received back then, a lot of these absurd immunities have existed for 20+ years and just never been so flagrantly abused, and the grand majority of its leadership (and a ton of its membership) should face legal consequences for what they’ve done, the laws they’ve flaunted, and the powers they’ve abused.

Really though, you’re probably right, it may be better to abolish the institution and try again from scratch. I don’t think much of anyone wants to see an ICE logo or officer ever again, and it might be easier to rip up the whole tree rather than try to prune it.

Yeah, I’m gonna need to see at minimum a new president, and some major changes to ICE before I even consider it. It’s still very much the Wild West down there, as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t think you’ll have much issue with Pokopia. It does have some mild real-time elements, but those are rare, if you optimize you can basically do an entire region in approximately a day or two (a region being about a quarter of the game). And if you’re engaged by building/decorating, the Minecraft-style building can keep you occupied basically forever, there’s no real limit on what you can do in a day, unlike AC.

If you want to milk the game for all it’s worth, and try to say, complete the Pokédex, real-time elements will stretch the experience a fair bit, but the core experience isn’t very limited in that way. It’s a much better balance, IMO.

You piqued my curiosity enough to go find this waste of a question:

I have some short-answer questions. The woman who runs the Bombchu Bowling game. What happened to her after seven years. And is she single?

Aonuma: That’s something we’re not going to touch, and I’ll leave it to your imagination.

Direct question… does this have any value for a Steam game, given Steam already does this? Might be very worthwhile for Heroic launcher or something, but if I play mostly on Steam on Linux do I have any reason to care about this?

Wow, that’s fast. Crazy. And on the stable branch, no less.

Pardon my ignorance here, does this eventually extend to Silverblue and thereby Bazzite? Or are those further removed?

Amethyst is amazing, so happy with it so far, have used it for both Nexus mods and some BepinEx Thunderstore mods, works great for each. So nice to have a native option.

Oh, that’s fantastic to hear. I’ve been quite annoyed as well, and don’t really want a local video player, even with good options. I mostly just want to poke around YouTube, poke around for something stupid like a guy base jumping with a 360 camera, say “that’s neat”, and go back to gaming on it. Having to find some YT downloader to sit in the middle of that kinda ruins the appeal, even if it would work.

Thanks for the tip! I’d seen them on the steam page and wondered if they were important/worth playing first.

Yeah, I also got to play through Black Mesa as my first ever HL1 experience last year! Very cool, although uh… not especially balanced for controller, VR evens the scales a bit, which is why I waited for the Steam Frame rather than playing them back to back.

I’m finding the experience pretty interesting. The game is great, ofc, but I’m finding VR affects it in a few ways. Firstly, way scarier, I have a visceral “hell no” reaction to head crabs here that I didn’t in Black Mesa. I’m also finding some of the puzzles much harder for whatever reason, I think because of the sense of scale and immersion. Need to put more thought into exactly why that is though. Gunplay is dramatically better than it was on a controller, ofc. I still need practice, but I can pretty reasonably go for headshots now and aim fast enough for head crabs.

All in all, solid experience, eager to finish it. I’ve got a lot of story questions and such too, which is rad. I must be one of the only people playing HL2 spoiler free around. Also eager to play Alyx too, ofc, and see how that differs in that it’s designed bespoke for VR.

Oh, excellent! I didn’t realize that wasn’t already supported, but that’ll be an excellent feature for when I get to it (Currently working through HL2 VR, my first ever playthrough of HL2).

Huh, talk about a feature that’s so close to great. With a little “automatically translated from language by Reddit” that sounds awesome.

Good tip! I’ll definitely be checking this out, as someone who also uses Qwen3.8 27B. The capability leap over the model I used before is definitely worthwhile, but wow does it overthink really easily.

Alternate recommendation (if you’re not already in Mod Organizer), I tried Amethyst Mod Manager recently, and it was fantastic. Full support for everything I used to do in MO2, even Jabberwocky lists. Bonus: it also has support for Thunderstore/BepinEx modded games, it’s a pretty darn impressive Linux-native all in one modding solution.

Not a lack of knowledge mate, your friend was giving you the benefit of a doubt that you didn’t find “Rosa Park’s OnlyFans” so funny that you messaged him about it. As you’ve said, she’s a civil rights icon, so it’s pretty reductive to make a porn joke about her, especially when that… doesn’t really riff off anything specific about her. If it was at least a joke about “Harriet Tubman getting railed” (which would still be in poor taste) or something, you could call it dark humour, but the joke you shared is essentially “hehe girl nekkid” targeted at Rosa Parks. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if the person who had that username was a racist and being dismissive of Rosa Parks intentionally. Probably not, I know how multiplayer lobbies can be, but it’s not a good look regardless.

He clearly knew who she was, he told you when he asked for clarification, and the timestamps suggest he didn’t have to look it up either. To be overly blunt, you don’t look the brightest that you’re so confident he’s an idiot for giving you the benefit of a doubt, when if you’d given him the benefit of a doubt, you wouldn’t be publicly embarrassing yourself trying to shame your friend. I’d assume that’s the cause of nearly every downvote you’ve received on this post.

Yeah, at this point I think it’s somewhat of a useless distraction. They do the validation work to prevent any problems from it, but an immense amount of drama seems to arise every time the topic comes up, and I’m sure Anthropic (and many insufferable AI bros) have been crowing to high heaven that Linus Torvalds uses it.

They’ve clearly chosen to allow it at the highest level for anyone competent enough to validate the work and stand by it. Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT won’t be answering reviewer questions about the implementation, that’s up to the human standing by the work, so they only need to know about the human, from a practical perspective.

Intriguing… I’ll say, clearly most people don’t use the platform that way. But to those who do engage with Steam that much, folks like CS2 case addicts, I can certainly see it. Stuff like cosmetically building out a profile, making sure you have an impressive inventory, the freebies they always give out during sales and events… yeah. It’s reminiscent of endgame MMO behaviour, when you’ve beaten all the content and just run around looking for rare stuff to show off to your guild.

Haha, as someone who has done sound, there are much more subtle ways to make you sound like you suck. This dude was sending a message.

Paywalled. Somebody please tell me this is two separate things combined into an incendiary headline, and not the reason they’re delaying a game, to retool it to use more AI behind the scenes.