There are passports that has the line “This passport is valid for all countries except Israel”.
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Lots of moments in Honkai Impact 3.
There’s literally a YT channel that collects tears from streamers playing the game.
There’s a lot of context needed to understand why anyone would cry playing through HI3 though. I’ll give a high level summary here, but I highly encourage people to play it, even if it’s a gacha game. You can really ignore the gacha and just play the game for the main story. Do be warned that the story isn’t something suitable for kids — it can be quite a bit too heavy for them.
The theme of self-sacrifice is covered quite extensively, with the main character being the centrepiece of the theme. There’s also deep self-loathe, with an eventual self-acceptance, also from the MC. Mix that all in with some sense of duty.
There’s also a tragedy, but from the tragedy, a narrow path to hope was born. The people in the tragedy mostly hoped only for a simple life, or to live their lives atoning for their sins, but circumstances forced them to become warriors against a great, unstoppable force of destruction. As if to make things harder to swallow, their digital clones that survived into the future have to experience yet another tragedy that would eventually destroy all of them, and the player will see this through. Yet, in the second tragedy, these clones further sowed the seeds of hope for the future.
Chinese company or not, HoYo has pumped out a lot of very human stories that I think deserves attention and praise. Genshin Impact has also started to go down a similar path.
Looks like a GO bus. TTC would have a red accent on their labels.
Forced party setups are almost always a nice thing, and they did it in a somewhat less punishing way; by using the character in your roster if your character is at max level (that seems to be the condition I think, instead of some complex rule to calculate strength). Great for immersion, and can sometimes increase the difficulty of a fight due to a lack of synchronization, but that's just part of the immersion IMO.
I've quite enjoyed the story myself. It's a simple story, but also ties up some loose stories and gives them an ending, especially if you've paid attention to character stories and NPC interactions, loose ends that have basically been around since the launch of the game.
Some people will probably find the whole poem thing meh and maybe confusing. It's actually a nod to a few traditional Chinese cultures all related to poems, which mean it’s a chance for those who don’t know to have a peek at the culture, or it’s pure nostalgia for those who grew up experiencing it.
I knew I remember something shady happening with .NET some years ago with dotnet watch, but welp that was pretty recent. Here’s a blog post that collected a lot of happenings and strung em together in a single view. Fear-mongering? Perhaps, but that .NET incident left a really bad taste in my mouth that reminded me that MS hasn’t really changed.
Aaand just to top of the cake with some cherry, here’s a blog post from someone who’s been paying a keen eye to what MS has been doing.
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/
I thought the .NET controversy with dotnet watch was many years ago and turns out it was pretty recent.
In any case, and I think I wrote this in my other comment, just because a project is FLOSS, doesn’t mean it’s all fine and dandy. FLOSS is just the means to an end, and while the community attaches a noble motivation behind it, FLOSS is just a method. The article mentioned that FLOSS is being used as a Venus fly trap, and I honestly couldn’t agree more.
I’m probably replying to a troll, but I will do so anyways for the sake of those who need to read this.
If we aren’t in any way bothered to see such narrow-minded reactions to a wrong being righted, then humankind is definitely headed for a few horrible decades ahead, filled with unnecessary strife and conflict out of pure indifference to each other’s backgrounds and current understanding of the world. And I’d even imagine it’d be worse than what we’re already seeing this decade. I suggest you go back and rethink what really matters as humans, instead of focusing on just some narrow definition of what a win is.
Wow, wtf is wrong with this comment section? People don’t realize how laws made in the past just stay around until someone steps up to change it? Or y’all don’t have the capacity to look at the world through a different mindset, even if you disagree with the mindset? As much as we all hope that people around the world are accepting, it doesn’t just happen, and you can’t just hope people who don’t understand your PoV will just realize something’s wrong waking up one day.
Either those, or y’all have either grown too cynical or are trying to be cynical just for the sake of it.
Can’t y’all just celebrate the fact that this is happening in Japan, an infamous nation that usually tries fervently to preserve their tradition and status quo?
Just to play the Devil’s Advocate here.
FLOSS is provably insufficient as a token of certainty for longevity and fairness. Licenses can change — we’ve seen this with MongoDB, and even Terraform. Sure, you can fork them, but who’s to say if the ecosystem will follow suit? Most of the time, the ecosystem doesn’t move to the new FLOSS fork.
And I don’t think C# is a good example. C# runs on .NET, which is Microsoft’s own framework. TS compiles to JS (technically ECMAScript) and runs on V8, both of which aren’t “owned” by Microsoft. There’s ample room for Microsoft to take advantage of the popularity of TS to wedge their influence into the ECMAScript standard and the V8 engine, e.g. by extending TS with features not available or performant in JS, pull themselves ahead of the rest, and become the de facto standard. It’s a common playbook by large tech companies — Amazon takes FOSS projects, modify them, and put them up as services on AWS and eventually gain significant market share and influence; Google is doing something similar with the Web API Standards.
I think you’re missing the point. It’s exactly cause Microsoft created it that people get worried about it. The EEE is an actual phrase found to be used internally in Microsoft, albeit being some time ago. Though there’s no knowing whether it’s still circulating now, it’s hard to trust them to be good stewards forever.
Figurines are sometimes announced before they get coloured, so most likely no.
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(Rant) Seriously, how this useless attack dog brought the Conservatives to its status today is still beyond me. He provides little to no policy plan even today, basically nuke and no pave. Okay, maybe there’s some paving, but it all just seems like paving the way for the rich and for industries we should be moving away from. Our current policies don’t work well for us anymore; we know that. But why does it seem like we’re looking in the direction of the party that seems to offer nothing, possibly worse? I’m scared of our future, and I’m already very afraid of where we are right now.