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The Broken Empire trilogy. Also Red War trilogy, which is spin-off (though uses these themes a bit less)
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It's not only barring teeth, dogs also do a "submissive smile" in some cases, to show they are not a threat. Not seen much but when we got our second dog she was very insecure and "smiled" a lot. Definitely not for showing happines but I think I read our smiles have similar origins.
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Deep down, I understand that movies like Matrix are old... but John Wick?!
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Very happy with Linux Mint
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I use a Steam Link, but that's no longer available as hardware, only an app. I don't have any experience with it but I read somewhere you can set up RaspberyPi to work in the same way.
Though I have to say - while it works wirelessly, for games it is better to have wired connection.
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Man, I was already feeling ancient. You using "1900s" didn't help much :D
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Man rotary phones were the best! Such a joy to dial.
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They were quite big, but used super thin paper and small font. There were books thicker still, but still the phrase "thick as a phone book" was used.
There were also Yellow Pages (same format as phone books, but entirely yellow) which listed businesess and stuff.
Pre-internet these were the household essentials.
There was also a number you could call to ask for phone numbers or other stuff. Basically a call in google.
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Haha, yeah, I saw that post before finding this question.
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No idea how it's called but the one that goes like "maya hi,maya ho, maya ha, maya ha ha"
I hate that song with a burning passion of thousand suns.
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If anybody does it would be the perfect answer on multiple levels.
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Too soon, man...
But seriously, it is tragically short, but worth it. And at least they managed to tie up things with the movie.
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Seconding Stargate, ideal for what OP is looking for.
Also Firefly for something with similar energy.
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Maybe I just don't remember how exactly Ace looks in game anymore and the fanart has tome unique take the Nerf company took? I just see Ace of Spades more or less how I remember so that might be why I'm confused
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Definitely the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
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How can they claim the design is theirs when they based the drawing on design by Bungie?
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Axe is cooler than hammer as well.
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Over here we have people akin to that in the ministry of environment and theu get to chanhe laws and stuff to suit them.
No care for preventing the encounters, they like it as it gives them reason to kill them. Couple of months back there was a male bear who got into town, so they went to hunt it down and in the end they said the bear was shot down but it was a female... as long as there is a dead bear, they don't care
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Some people just have a hard on for hunting them. They would set up some kind of bait to get them close enough and bam - hunting trophy is theirs.
I prefer podcasts with at least two people, infotmational but also with some fun banter in between. Couldn't find anything like that - not many active ones in general that I could find. Podcasts that don't meet above criteria also welcome. Though would be best if it is active podcats that still gets new episodes
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I didn't follow the game super closely but it looked nice. Shame we will never get to try it at least.
So I finally bit the bullet, installed a second SSD and put Linux on it to test the waters. Tested out GW2 as a non steam game via Wine and while it runs, it runs very poorly with constant frame drops. Did anyone else try? How was your experience? I have Nvidia GPU which I gather might be the most likely culprit but was interested in what your experience might've been.
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More details in a MOP article [here](https://massivelyop.com/2024/06/28/raph-kosters-new-mmorpg-is-called-stars-reach-and-yes-its-basically-star-wars-galaxies-2/)
I thought I'd try GW2 after years of not playing (last I played was PoE era, bounced off fully before Icebrood saga) and finally managed to get into it! I used to live and breath this game and while I was not what you'd call "hardcore" player, I knew about everything going on. Now I'm totally in the black which is weird. I try not to get it to me, I just play through the Icebrood saga story now and try my best not to open inventory and achievement tabs etc to not get discouraged. GW2 was always a bit convoluted, but with so much added in the meantime, it's much. How do you deal with this? What would be your recommendations for me to "ease into it"? What should I engage after getting my groove back in the story? How to dip my toes slowly into buildcrafting? What new systems should I check out? Bonus question: would you expect the xpacs to go on sale anytime soon? Next one should be around the corner by now, no?
I know many people were waiying for this so thought I'd share. I don't play Albion much, fresh start might be interesting but not keen on regrinding stuff... How about you?
I'd br interested in what you'd consider a good book (or other sources) on various pagan beliefs and traditions that you would recommend. I'm personally interested in European pagan traditions - be it Norse, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic (bonus points for Slavic!) - but would love to leave the topic open to others as well, just to make it interesting for people with different intrests.
So I mostly transitioned to Piped and ever since I was wondering how it works. I read up on it and while I get what it says, I still don't feel like I really understand...
So I considering switching to Piped, but I'm wondering if the views (or other metrics) are counted on Youtube itself. I don't like the idea I'm kinda "robbing" the content creators I enjoy... I think I know the answer but would like to know for sure.
There was this legendary comment on reddit to a thread asking people what would their plan be if they were immortal and got milion dollars, but there was a superintelligent immortal snail also with milion dollars who would want to kill them. I was trying to find it but as far as I can tell OP removed it. Does anyone here have it and could post it here by any chance?
I'm starting my degoogling journey (mostly looking into the various options at hand) and I was wondering what hood alternatives to Goohle Photos is there? I'm specifically wondering about a service that would double both as a cloud storage and a gallery with a timeline and such. But currently it's only cloud storage backup (or Instagtam-likes, which is bot something I want) as far as I can tell?
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Anybody else unreasonably excited for this one? Looks like a really fun MMO-lite with potential and plans to lean more heavily into MMO elements. Pretty much looks like fantasy Warframe with cream on top. Monetization looks fair as it is published by the same guys that did Warframe and I think they have a good reputation for how they do their monetization. No wipe after EA ends so this is pretty much early launch, though it will eventually be F2P after official launch. Actual showcase starts at around 00:30 mark.
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Didn't watch it all yet, but looks like Fantasy Sims MMO. Thoughts? Anybody excited? Doesn't seem like my cup of tea, butlooks interesting enough for me to at least try it.
So with open source software more on my mind lately I was wondering - while I get the benefits of transparency and such, how safe is it? If the source code is available to all, isn't it easier to breach for people (like the recent cookies hack)? If I'd have an open source password manager, would it be easier for people to get my passwords somehow than if I use something not open source? Do I just not understand how software works in general? And what are other benefits that may be not so obvious to someone not so knowledgable about this? Edit: thank you all for really insightful answers! Among other things I also learned just how much I don't know :)