The new ones are extremely different in level design. They are just cities where you drive around.

What I like is when a racing game is built in a way that the scenery around is placed so that it conveys a specific atmosphere, even if the resulting composition doesn’t really make much sense. You cannot do that if you also want to give a sandbox atmosphere of “drive freely wherever you will”. As the races force you to drive along specific ways all the same, I feel that the player loses more than gains in that kind of “freedom”. A “roam freely in the city” kind of game has more realism, but less fun.

And write the r in org.

Shattered PD is so good that there’s unfortunately no sense making another one. Thanks, @00_Evan@lemmy.world , BTW!

WYSIAWYG

Yeah, that’s true. Although, not by much. I remember that in 1990’s there was still plenty of distrust towards them, as they were seen as nazis. Nobody wanted Germany to become strong. The 1990’s began 45 years after WWII had ended, and while the trust had been almost recovered, it was still not intact. I’m not sure if it’s even now: Germany is the biggest reason we didn’t support Ukraine militarily as much as needed back in spring 2022. They wanted cheap gas and were ready to accept horrors in the name of political realism. It’s hard at least for me to not see a connection between that cynicism and what the same cynicism led to in 1920’s and 1930’s.

Yeah, that’s absolutely correct, I agree!

But, it won’t return our trust towards USA. That will take decades, no matter what. Dethroning Trump is a good beginning. Or beginning of a beginning. But actual permanent changes would need to take place, amd I don’t really see them 8n the horizon.

Oh, thanks for the heads-up! I edited the comment now. And know to be careful with this in the future!

There are legislative bodies that exist precisely for changing such laws. Make an exceptional law that is valid for only this one time use and then hire new judges, some of which are allowed to be among the ones fired.

So, basically one NATO member is saying that it will not honour its commitments if Spain ever gets attacked?

And maybe this means that all official documents will have to be delivered to the Spanish by some other NATO member state?

A suspension that suspenses nothing. Hooray.

That would decrease my trust. It would look like they are doing nothing to learn from their FAFO.

…and that time is about two generations. People reproduce at around age 25, so two generations are about 50 years.

I hope other countries will heed the warning.

Simple: refrain from doing any stupid shit for half a century. Any stupid shit will kick the timer backwards 70% of the elapsed time.

(There really is no other way)

Anuto tower defence?

Choosing between USD and EUR is a fraud scheme, though. They have an exceptionally bad exchange rate for the non-EUR currencies. It’s basically always cheaper (unless your own bank is an absolute madhouse!) to choose payment in local currency and let your bank do the conversion.

What mod actions are you referring to?

7,5 is read in Finnish as “seitsemän pilkku viisi”. 7.5 would be read as “seitsemän piste viisi”.

The rule is that if it’s in decimal system, you use comma; if in any other system, you use dot. And you read what you write.

…and whales are closely related, even if one step further separated – they only have three stomaches instead of four, for example. But ungulates all the same!

Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family.

That will take time.
The Russia is now politically about where Ukraine was around year 1970. And it took Ukraine until 2008 to start seriously becoming democratic, and even then it seemed to keep regressing again and again. Only the aggression by the Russia in 2014 stabilized Ukraine’s path towards democracy. This took Ukraine altogether about 40 years and the Russia won’t be able to be faster than that. The couple decades of extremely immense propaganda have taken their toll. If the propaganda somehow ends this year or the next, then the children born now will still be imbued by it because of their parents’ thinking, and the children of the children being born now are going to be reasonably okay, already. But still not really ready for EU. But the grandchildren of children being born in 2026 might really be able to feel European. So, when those are adults, then maybe. If the Russia ends the propaganda now.

But the Russian propaganda is something that has existed for several centuries and from conversations I’ve had with Russians in Russian language, I don’t really get a feeling that they will be letting go of that anytime soon. A Russia without Pushkin… What would that even be? Such a huge part of their literature is so toxic that whatever they try to achieve, their old literature will pull them back into what they have been for centuries.

We can always live in hope, but I really don’t think the Russia can become anything humanely thinking anytime in the next two centuries at least.

Conservatism means wanting to keep the society as it is. It is the antonym of being progressive. And that’s it.

A party that wants things to to just remain stable as they are is a conservative party. A party that wants to make dramatic changes is a progressive, or maybe also regressive, party. But absolutely not conservative.

Yes, in USA some people have started using the word “conservative” in a different meaning. That doesn’t alter what the word really means. Those who want to conserve what exists.

(And in USA the Democratic party has taken the conservative role, whereas the Republican party has taken an anti-conservative role, driving radical changes to things. Changes to a direction I see as very damaging for everyone, but changes all the same. Wanting such huge changes makes you an anti-conservative.)

A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.

That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.