I can’t remember what podcast I was listening to, maybe a Dan Carlin series, but it was talking about how in this post industrialization + propaganda era the breaking point for nations is far FAR more extreme than it was in the before times.

I really hope there is more gamesmanship going on behind the scenes at his office than ‘this doesn’t add up’. But I’m a little skeptical because just game this thing out:

The west claims to 100% support Ukraine yet so far have only done enough to be sure they can stay in the fight. Not enough to outright win. What do outside observers do with that info? If I was China I would absolutely see this as hesitation on the part of the west and recognize that until the west actually does go all in, this will be a source of instability that I can build on to increase my influence in the world. So of course I’m going to play both sides as much as I can get away with, at least until there’s a indication that the west’s stance on this is changing.

Not to mention, Russia has been waging asymetric warfare tactics against NATO powers for years. If anything, it’s that they haven’t woken up to the nature of the conflict.

Apparently every major car brand has to go through its fascist phase

You’re both wrong, it’s a car. I’m pretty crazy about one though.

And he’ll probably also be fine with a thermonuclear wasteland as long as he’s presiding over his part of it

That’s what I was thinking - so I got the free cryro without the hard work?

That’s the one thing I finally learned with the DLC that I should have learned long before this - leaving and coming back later instead of fighting and dying to a tough boss 30 times in a row

Huh, is this maybe the newer Tomb Raider?

I’d do this too but every screenshot I posted would just be Elden Ring.

The upvotes have it!

Thirded

EDIT: I don’t know the Lemmy rules actually - maybe seconding a motion is enough to set it into action

Are the eBay buttons as buttony as these tho

Yeah I stopped about 15 seconds in because it seemed to be showing multiple boss characters.

No wonder either, there are strangely few games meant just for the new system, and it’s been out for several years.

Nice thanks, always good to have options

Amazing sounds like a great place to start! And sounds like I have plenty to learn to get it working.

Thanks for the suggestion, hadn’t heard of it.

So I guess it’s a VPN software - would that solve all three needs in one? I can see how it works for remote files but not as well how it would help with the other two.

Amazing, thanks - I’ll look into them.

Is there room here to ask about software? I’ve been interested lately about getting into hosting my own server for multiple things. It’d be nice to be able to access it remotely for files for work, as a media server locally and remotely, and to access my Stable Diffusion instance remotely. I suppose those all require different solutions right? I’d love to know more!

They are like 1-2 little steps away from a very good HTPC Steam Deck.

Like if they could just take a little time to make Firefox work 100% in game mode (right now it’s not quite there, like you can’t go full screen with videos) and make controllers just a little more comfortable for browsing and it’d already be there for me.