Sorry, I didn’t realize you were exclusively arguing in bad faith/trolling. I’ll stop responding.

You’re the one that decided an entire culture of thinking, feeling people are born objectively evil and can be killed en masse. And that’s fucked up.

I think that’s where the issue falls apart. You want them to be thinking feeling people who can change. They don’t have to be. If an evil deity creates Goblins, and makes them evil for whatever reason, they can inherently lack the ability to freely think and evolve.

And there’s nothing “fucked up” about it.

Look at some villains who are just objectively evil. People point-out the Adventure Time Lich all the time, and that thing is just evil. There’s no point trying to argue with it. No point trying to convince it to right its wrongs. It doesn’t care, because it’s just evil.

Why should a group defined by plundering travelers be more acceptable than a group defined by being short with green skin?

Because in a fantasy world, where we can know for 100% certainty that gods created life, it’s not impossible for those gods to have made a certain creature type objectively evil.

In some settings, Orcs are the way they are because their god is the last one to pick a place for them to live, gets pissy, and decides that “Fuck you guys! If that’s how you want to play it, my orcs are going to plunder the shit out of your guys’ lands!”

In other settings, there has to be some kind of cosmic balance to things, and some gods are just evil because there has to be a natural counterpart to good, and so the creatures they create are just inherently evil.

I think the issue is with this kind of debate is that that it’s referred to as “race”. We don’t really have a one-for-one on this IRL (because Goblins don’t exist) and we don’t refer to animals as “different races”.

Depends on the features.

Git has some counterintuitive commands for some commands you may want to do when you want to quickly do something. Being able to click a button and have the IDE remember the syntax for you is nice.

Some IDEs have extra non-native Git features like have inlined “git blame” outputs as you edit (easily see a commit message per-line, see who changed what, etc.), better diff/merge tooling (JetBrain’s merge tool comes to mind), being able to revert parts of the file instead of the whole file, etc.

the git integration in vscode which I discarded after few attempts to use

I’m going to be honest, I don’t really like VS Code’s Git integration either. I find it clunky and opinionated with shitty opinions.

Oh yeah, for sure. I like it too.

I always find it funny when people react to Myazaki saying the game is supposed to be around 30 hours by going “UUUUHHHH??? My playthrough was like a billion hours???”

Like, yeah, if you do everything it’ll take a while, but it’s clearly not made with that in mind. It’s really easy to just not do the whole thing and still have a decent length playthrough.

Same. I think the human act is just dealing with a Banshee and some harpies while the humans are just complete assholes towards you.

Meanwhile, the non-human act has you going on this cool magical adventure with your friends and a dragon lmao.

Witcher 2 has two mutually exclusive middle acts. That’s cool.

Well, one of them is.

The “Humans” middle act is so fucking boring!

My first playthrough (100%) was 120~ hours. Subsequent playthroughs (not 100%) were 30~ hours.

Once you realize that 95% of side dungeons are literally just the same filler content with useless summons and weapons, and that you really only need to do, like, 6 to get useful loot for your build, the game gets a lot shorter lol

Honestly, summoning is the accessibility to get through hard areas in FromSoft games (not saying it’s good accessibility, mind you). Summons that won’t die in one hit basically trivialize most single-enemy boss fight since their AI spazzes out because it’s not meant to fight 2 opponents at once.

You don’t have to save your files to Adobe cloud, if that’s what you mean. It does check for a valid license occasionally, but I’ve used Photoshop when my internet was out without any problems in the past.

Yeah, Timmy’s had a hate-boner for anything related to Valve and Linux for years. He’s been lying through his teeth non-stop whenever either topic comes up.

Meh, potato poboom-

Uhm, yes? Kill codes are dumb. Use a dead man’s switch instead. If you don’t enter the code it self destructs. Now that’s privacy!

Only if you have the appropriate level of privacy settings enabled (and extensions installed) in your browser. Your IP address actually has very little to do with ID-ing you, since most trackers will use hundreds of different fingerprinting methods to create “shadow accounts” of you using things like your system information, screen resolution, installed locales, etc.

This doesn’t mean a VPN doesn’t help, though. Just pointing-out that you probably won’t be asked if you’re a bot if you go on Google while logged-in to a Google account, regardless of whether your VPN is on or not.

Disclaimer: This is speculation, because I haven’t read the actual law (and I’m not Italian, so it’s not like I really have a reason to).

I would assume that they will handle it like this:

To be able to sell your VPN service in Italy, you’ll have to get accredited. Since you’re now taking Italian customers’ money, your company’s dealings in Italy fall under Italian law. They might be able to extradite you, depending on what country you operate from, but realistically most businesses don’t want to get involved in that kind of stuff, because even if you don’t get extradited, no one wants to be put in a situation where they need to actively avoid a country.

This leaves free VPN services, right? Well, since ISP and “legal” VPNs need to conform to the new law, the Italian government could blacklist those VPNs’ websites (which all ISPs and legal VPNs are required by law to block within 30 minutes of them being added to the block list). So now, you’re in an awkward position as an Italian if you want to get a VPN that doesn’t follow those laws.

I’m not sure at what extent this law goes, or how they handle people who are paying to circumvent it (because you might have bought a VPN before this), but they might simply require that banks refuse to process payments from VPN providers that refuse to get accredited.

Obviously, they can’t really block this thing without going the Great Firewall route (and even that has ways of being bypassed), but that’s not really their goal here. Their goal is to establish a stranglehold on what the everyday citizen does. It’s to put a framework in place that allows them to quickly and efficiently block content they deem you shouldn’t be able to see. It’s a disgusting display of a government overreaching and censoring what their citizens’ have access to on the web.

I’ve had an RPI3 running for 7+ years (currently running Home Assistant on it). Still uses the original SD card that shipped with it, too. These things are durable and reliable as hell, as far as I’m concerned.

A document detailing technical requirements of Italy’s Piracy Shield anti-piracy system confirms that ISPs are not alone in being required to block pirate IPTV services. All VPN and open DNS services must also comply with blocking orders, including through accreditation to the Piracy Shield platform.

According to the article, it requires them to get accreditation to operate in in Italy, unless I’m reading that wrong.

Most corporate VPN companies I’ve dealt with would love to slip in additional cost to counteract this cost on their end.

Reading the article: A ruling body filled with randos puts a site on a block list and every VPN operating in Italy must block the site within 30 minutes. There is no review or judicial oversight to sites added to the block list. This seems to include all forms of VPNs, including corporate ones. They could start charging a premium to Italian users which would start affecting businesses, I guess.

Yeah, in general, you’ll be fine with Firefox and any of the default filters uBlock provides (even the ones that are disabled by default). The issue usually comes from outdated third-party filter lists that try to block youTube’s tracking. Since the changes, you should pretty much only rely on the official lists for anything YouTube-related.

Or maybe OP’s got another extension that tries to block ads. I know I’ve had to disable Enhancer for YouTube’s ad blocking (because YouTube detects it immediately).

I find it makes my life easier, personally, because I can set up and tear down environments I’m playing with easily.

Same here. I self-host a bunch of dev tools for my personal toy projects, and I decided to migrate from Drone CI to Woodpecker CI this week. Didn’t have to worry about uninstalling anything, learning what commands I need to start/stop/restart Woodpecker properly, etc. I just commented-out my Drone CI/Runner services from my docker-compose file, added the Woodpecker stuff, pointed it to my Gitea variables and ran docker compose up -d.

If my server ever crashes, I can just copy it over and start from scratch.