My experience with Genshin Impact: -Tried it (Only the starter region, Mondstadt), thought it was healthily dynamic, but ultimately very childish -Left it for about 2 years -Then my gf has shown me what goes beyond and I had to accept the game has merits

The storytelling beyond Mondstadt gets a more serious turn, presents interesting and divisive dilemmas and unexpected plot twists - so much so that I wouldn’t recommend it to children, actually. The battle mechanics also change and deepen as you unlock new characters and visit new regions.

Still, gacha mechanics heavily ruin the game for me. I’m here for the story, not the endless casino. Wish I would get my own private server up and running at some point in the future to remove these mechanics and just play to my heart’s content.

The game still is mostly single player. But, as most gacha games, Genshin Impact is online-only, mostly so that you couldn’t cheat in any resources you want without paying them a hefty price.

It was like that from the very beginning.

Steam runs them just fine with Proton Experimental as well

I see

I see the point

Absolutely. I think we should still encourage good behaviors, while at the same time remembering that we merely provide a different perspective that takes time to bake in.

We cannot expect someone who is broken or taught wrong to flip a switch and become good out of sheer desire to be so.

Taught behaviors take a long time to change, this is just how neurons operate. With enough time and positive influence (including positive example), a person can retrain themselves to do better. Besides, to do so, they should first know for themselves what is right and what is wrong, and your perspectives might differ.

You can, if you’re part of a large military alliance, allowing each member to contribute a little to get a lot of defense capability. Accumulation of weapons makes military escalation more likely. And all these “defensive” weapons can be turned to an offensive any second.

I think the intervention of other countries should exist, but mostly as humanitarian aid and peace brokerage. Not as arming one side or another.

2. Woah

Because eating meat means you support the hierarchy of people over animals or something?

And it’s cool! Someone needs to bring stuff up

It’s “удачи”=good luck!

This is regular scientific hedging.

This thing, even if it turns out to be real good, it’s years away from being a marketable product. And it’s alright! It says more about sensationalism in scientific communication.

Because 70’s were WILD for that shit.

Should I remind you that street marches were held in the name of “adult-child love”? That NAMBLA, a North-American Man-Boy Love Association (you can’t make this shit up) tried to meddle with LGBTQ+ to get included? That songs were written about teenage girls being taught “adult love”?

If anything, the article is characteristic of the time.

Appreciate the nuance, though I think that “house as equity” thing should definitely be dismantled, at least over time.

House is a place to live, period. The rest is a fucked predicament we found ourselves in thanks to big investors.

But yes, first house should be made super accessible, and any subsequent ones could be sold for a major markup.

If it’s no more than 2 months old, I’ll take it for research

Yes, normally the harmless strains of Penicillium roqueforti or something of the like.

We do use molds in food and pharmaceutical industry, not all of them are bad. Aspergillus oryzae, for example, is used to produce soy sauce, miso, and sake, and Aspergillus niger is a likely source of citric acid you have in your kitchen cabinet.

Natural pizza mold, however, contains nasty kinds of Penicillium, as well as Rhizopus stolonifer causing severe infections in respiratory system, mouth, nose, and face. Most cases can be treated in a hospital environment, but some are fatal, especially in immunocompromised individuals.

Source: am food microbiologist

A lovely builder’s snack!

Exactly. Yes, I know they claim it’s just the UI, and the sole purpose of closed-source code is to make it harder to steal innovative UI elements - but when it comes to something as sensitive as the browser, I’d like for these claims to be verifiable.

Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don’t know what it does behind the scenes

I haven’t in years anyway

Exactly why they can pull off anything like that. People who still stay with Chrome are mostly those who’ll eat it up anyway.