Kobolds with a keyboard.
That’s correct, it is, but that has nothing to do with the post I was replying to, which claimed
Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess.
Either way, I’d say that the the lede they did use - ‘Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday[…]’ - is just fine.
What would you have had them call it?
Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 14 children, 5 women, and (presumably) 8 men, Palestinian health officials say"?
As it happens, children, women, and men are all ‘people’, and using the collective term makes for a more concise title. It’s not like they’re sugarcoating what actually happened.
The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City
It’s literally the first sentence of the second paragraph.
As a US citizen, I consider the current administration an enemy, too.
I look forward to watching people finally reach their breaking point and start firebombing government buildings. Preferably while Trump is in them.
Best thing to come out of the Trump presidency thusfar. Glad our Canadian neighbors are resisting the conservative takeover, even though we aren’t.
It’s got to be one of:
Whatever the situation, it’s increasingly dangerous to have him as president, and the damage he’s dealing is going to outlast his presidency.
Yeah, that’s completely reasonable. Or mandate reductions on a fixed schedule, e.g. 50% of today’s numbers in 3 years, 0% in 6.
How much do you think extreme climate change is going to lower living standards globally?
If personal transport and home heating and whatnot were transitioned fully to green energy, and fossil fuels were used exclusively for large-scale shipping, it would be a huge net gain.
I don’t think anyone’s suggesting we just immediately pull the plug on fossil fuels entirely, that’s not at all realistic, but heavily taxing them and using the revenue from those taxes to go towards cleanup and green energy would be a step in the right direction. The reliance on fossil fuels might drop considerably if the price of gas increased heavily. To your point, it’s an industry because people buy it, and people buy it because it’s the most cost effective solution in many cases. If it was no longer cost effective, people would gravitate towards green alternatives where possible.
What’s your proposal - let them just keep drilling, keep pumping, and keep polluting? It’s “legal” for them to do it, so there should be no guardrails, no accountability? They’ve been pushing back heavily on even legislation to make them pay a considerable amount towards cleanup efforts. The article states:
“Despite global climate commitments, a small group of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers are significantly increasing production and emissions. The research highlights the disproportionate impact these companies have on the climate crisis and supports efforts to enforce corporate responsibility.”
What would you have us do?
I’d even make the argument that these companies are directly contributing to the deaths of billions through climate change, the extinction of entire species… It’s not hyperbole. As such, if they refuse to stop what they’re doing, rather than let a relatively small number of people effectively decide the fate of everyone, isn’t it our (‘our’ as in ‘everyone else’s’) moral obligation to stop them, through whatever means necessary?
If they were threatening to launch nuclear missiles or something, we’d agree that without a doubt they should be stopped and no methods were too extreme, so why is it any different just because the method they’re using is slower?
It’s right on the Steam page. Just click ‘Show More’.
The Vita (like the PSP before it) was really a stellar handheld for its time. Innovative control options, which a few games used to great effect; great graphics; solid battery life; great looking display; solid and compact construction… I wish it had gotten more support. I loved that thing.
The only things I’ve found that just straight up don’t work on the deck are things with draconian anti-cheat (which don’t work on Linux in general, not just the deck), and very old titles that have weirdly restrictive resolutions or control schemes or whathaveyou. Some games require some tweaking (mostly around controls, occasionally changing the Proton version, which is very easy to do within Steam), but generally that’s been minor. The things that don’t work well are typically things you wouldn’t expect to work anyway.
It’s worth noting that it makes it very easy to remap controls, even for games that don’t natively support controllers or don’t let you remap the controls at all normally. You can also invoke an onscreen keyboard as needed (for e.g. typing names). The controller mapping is very strong; it’s not limited only to single buttons; you can create custom contextual radial menus, for instance, so even games that need many more unique controls than the Deck has buttons work fine with some tweaking. You can also view / download / rate other users’ control mappings for any game that has them, so you don’t even need to do the work yourself.
It’s a fantastic piece of hardware for gaming. Looks great, feels great. It’s a bit large (won’t fit in a pocket, obviously), but that shouldn’t be a problem for anyone who would reasonably want a handheld gaming PC. It’s not a phone or a Gameboy.
I was without a desktop PC for a week or so due to a hardware failure, and was able to do everything I needed to do on the Steam Deck (with a USB mouse/keyboard, plugged into a monitor via a dock). So it’s a great piece of hardware even for that.
It’s 10% of users using Steam Input, not all steam users.
Valve mentioned that daily controller use has jumped to 15% from around 5% since 2018, and that around 42% of these sessions use Steam Input.
I doubt even Microsoft are stupid enough to think they could release a PC-based gaming handheld without Steam support and not fail spectacularly.
Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.