I would say, put a reasonable effort into finding the owner. If the owner cannot be found, it’s finders keepers.

Key thing about trying to find owners of lost things: You cannot just say ‘is this your $200’. You need to do something more like, ‘I’m trying to find the owner of some lost money’ and if they claim it is theirs, ask them how much it was. This way you filter out grifters.

I would also say going to the police over $200 is well beyond reasonable effort. It just isn’t enough money to justify using their time.

HL1 is a bit clunky but still great.

Try out Black Mesa. It’s a proper remake of HL1, not just a reskin. They did a damn good job, including a very large build out of the Xen levels, making it into a proper portion of the game, rather than what existed in HL1 which felt a bit rushed.

Half life 2 is so damn good. One of my most replayed games.

And full points to Black Mesa for actually improving the game, not just reskinning it. 10/10

Ah, I could see that. It does have quite a bit of such things.

Doom 2016 (Dropped this, sadly. Gunplay and parkour was AWESOME, but the whole devil worship thing really turned me off).

Off topic, but this game is the exact opposite of devil worship. The primary gameplay is to travel to Hell and kill demons.

Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a futuristic FPS that feels very similar to GTA. I personally like the integration between uploading viruses to enemies while you shoot at them. And the stories are often quite good.

You can get it on sale for half price. And the Phantom Liberty DLC is worth getting bundled with it.

Or car infotainment software…which for some reason is on the same communications network as all of a car’s safety-critical systems…

Absolutely anything to avoid the metric system! If we, as Americans, has to measure in quotation marks, we damn sure will!

The article compares it to a well done page of text for Charles Dickens from a previous game. They want it more like that: “Fun facts! Good gags! Frikkin’ frequent paragraph breaks!”

It goes on to say: “I’d settle for the game bothering to clue me into who its major historical cameos actually are. Shadows is a huge game with a massive cast, and yet bizarrely you won’t find pages about any of the characters in your codex, fictional or otherwise. Who is Hattori Hanzō, and why doesn’t the game care to explain why I should be so impressed when he shows up?”

You are the only one who has mentioned any of this. Please don’t fight ghosts.

You bastard!

Maybe. All the users dying not only lowered the number of users in a very direct fashion, but likely convinced a bunch of others to seek their high elsewhere.

Given they are such a small country, they can certainly produce some things locally. Obvious choices are small arms, artillery, and MRAPs. Anything beyond that they could probably pick one thing to specialize in, such as anti-air missile production or destroyer production, then export these to other countries. They currently export F-35 components, among other things.

However, expanding past that would be too inefficient for their size. Everything else they will need to buy from a partner. This will almost certainly include production from other European countries as well as the US.

I’m not very excited about this. Starcraft 2 was quite a bit worse than Starcraft: Brood War. And Microsoft is not known for putting out quality lately.

Peter Zeihan did a short video on this recently. The tl;dw was:

• Fentanyl is pretty new and both the producers and consumers didn’t know how to dose it properly. Producers are now producing lower concentration output, and consumers have learned how to better meter their intake.

• Anti-OD drugs are available for private ownership now, so a friend or family member can more easily save someone who is ODing.

• And to a lesser extent: A bunch of people died, they can’t die again.

My first thought was: why have I never heard of this? The answer seems to be: 2" x 3" photo paper costs $0.41/ea.

Mail-order professional photo prints are quite a bit cheaper than that. So, the main thing this contends with is other instant photo creation methods. Which are pretty niche ever since digital cameras became good.

2% of GDP has been the NATO suggested ask for awhile now. And with Russia invading European countries, they need to be doing more than the minimum ask.

Edit: I just realized you meant the 1.6% of GDP is also just the increase. That is a damn respectable increase.

Ugh, why the hell aren’t those air-gapped?

Same thing in cars. Why is the infotainment system that is connected to the internet not air-gapped from the critical car functions?

These things aren’t hard to do. I guess we just need people to die before we take such basic safety measures.

I was able to pull out what used to be there:

Making sure they run well with Wine is probably what many game devs are dong who specifically want to support Linux. Right now the vast majority of games run out of the box on Wine, so there probably isn’t much a dev has to do if they want to make sure it runs great.