All four games are available for cheap on GOG, though, and with GOG once you own them you own them forever. I suppose online play is appealing, but judging by the SF 30th Anniversary Collection, the lobbies aren’t likely to be very active.

Oh, and let’s not forget:

A lot of those, I wouldn’t consider PC mascots as their games are on console too. They’d be more like multiplatform mascots. Doom was on the SNES for example. But there are some games that just aren’t the same unless you’re playing on PC.

The word “al” means “the” in Arabic - for example, “al jazeera” means “the island”. And a lower case L looks like a capital i, so “AI” is visually indistinguishable from “Al”. So the joke is that people who try to shoehorn Artificial Intelligence into everything look like they’re speaking in Arabic.

I might have tried it once when I was a kid but it’s not as effective as a fingernail so once was enough.

For purely nostalgic reasons I have difficulty agreeing but honestly yeah. Some of the best puzzles I’ve ever had the pleasure of solving.

First party titles are basically the only reason to buy ANY Nintendo console. However there are alternatives. For example if you don’t have a Nintendo console but want to (legally) play a 3D Zelda game, just play one of the Batman Arkham games as it’s basically the same core gameplay loop. For a 2D Zelda game play Tunic.

We all choose makey-uppy things to believe in, through which we interpret the purpose of our own existence. There’s no objective reason to be kind to strangers beyond what we can get out of it - there are plenty of billionaires in the world to prove that selfishness and greed is a valid life strategy - but we CHOOSE to BELIEVE in made-up concepts like fairness and love, because it makes most of us happier to live that way. I see no reason to look down my nose at people who choose a few more made-up concepts to believe in than I do. I’m only bothered by the people who are pig-headed about it, incapable of accepting that people believe in different things than they do… and that category includes people who say “faith is idiocy”.

Doubling the already over the top european military budget isn’t going to fix any of the things in your first list.

Can I ask you to expand on that thought?

Judging by the video, the Russians seem to have placed barriers around the supports as buffers against this exact sort of thing. The explosion’s centre seems to be at one of these barriers rather than at the support itself. It’ll take another drone to go through that hole and hit the support, I think. Of course, I’m no expert - I’m just trying to interpret what I’m seeing.

Can I ask your security assessment of:

• The Transatlantic cables?

• The recent network outages in Spain?

• Transnistria?

• Gagauzia?

• The EU-Belarus border?

• The North African migrant crisis?

• The ongoing cyberattacks that have been hitting Europe for years?

• The price of wheat?

Then I would ask your assessment of how much the EU should plan on relying on the USA for its security over the long term.

• Threats to annex Greenland?

• Threats to annex Canada?

• Threats to seize control of the Panama Canal?

• Kill switches in the F-35?

• Sentiments expressed during the Signalgate Incident about the US doing all the work in securing the Red Sea?

• Attempts to influence European elections?

• Growing American control of the Western Internet?

Not to mention if they were able to pull off a mission like this, allegedly using cell towers to fly their drones, what’s stopping them from doing similar limited missions to tank factories, recruit depots, and other places that are further away from the front? Literally all of these targets now become viable because they will be much less heavily guarded than the nuclear triad bombers.

I assume the cell tower thing was exploiting an oversight or other vulnerability that can only be exploited once before Russia plugs the hole. Maybe they can do it again but it would be relying on enemy incompetence, which is in plentiful supply these days but still not a good idea to rely upon.

Tell me more!

What’s wrong is that some people have decided that they’re at war with the rest of us.

The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out

And oxygen kills everyone who dies of old age.

There’s a war everywhere in the world and will be untill we die probably

This is defeatist thinking. Mankind had, in all its thousands of years, never gone to the Moon, but then came 1969 and we did it. Everything’s impossible until you actually do it. The past is useful data to extrapolate from, yes, but that doesn’t mean that everything that went before is an immutable fact of existence for all time.

We don’t lack the ability to end war, we only lack a plan.

I don’t want Hamas to conquer Israel but I would like the Palestinian people to stop getting genocided and/or ethnically cleansed. In other words, I would like for Israel and Palestine to reach a peace deal that allows BOTH of them to live in peace, along borders as close to the 1949 Green Line borders as possible (obviously a lot has changed since 1949 and some changes are unlikely to be ever willingly undone, but it should be possible to get close - certainly closer than they are now).

I also think that this is almost certainly going to be impossible as long as Netanyahu and Hamas are in charge. Palestinians need to get rid of Hamas and Israelis need to get rid of Netanyahu.

Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.

Oi. None of that.