u/StarTroop

South Korea might have facilities for English-language training considering how long and close they've been ingrained by the US military, but if not, I would imagine that they could simply reject anyone who doesn't know the language the same way they would reject anyone with health issues or disabilities. Mandatory service is probably still dependant on being fit for service. Just my guess, though.

Okay, Stallman. Go live in your 100% FLOSS fantasy and the rest of will exercise our right to actually choose.

Your perspective not representative of the majority of people.

If you think kernel-level anti-cheat is a form of abuse, I'd call you hyperbolic.

If server-side anti-cheat were as simple as people suggest, I'm sure we'd have at least one popular and effective implementation by now.

Not everyone cares about FOSS, and it's fine if people choose to make compromises to use proprietary software, even if they mix and match FOSS with proprietary.

There may be plenty of games out there, but there is never any substitute for the specific game you want to play if its otherwise off-limits. It just doesn't work that way. If you wanted to read To Kill a Mockingbird but it was banned in your area, would you accept any substitute? Online games especially live and die by their community, so even an exact clone of Call of Duty with no kernel AC wouldn't be acceptable because it simply wouldn't be the game with the huge playercount that all your friends are already playing.

Finally, being able to stay in Linux, even with extra "security" measures, is a huge boon versus having to boot Windows. It's a significantly better experience to not have to use Windows in any measure, and I'm not sure why you would equate that to a "hardened but otherwise still free and customisable" Linux distro.

Why are you being so demeaning? It's fine if you don't care for any of those games, but plenty of people do, and cheating is a pervasive enough issue to necessitate effective countermeasures.
Whether or not this type of anti-cheat is the absolute best is beyond my understanding, and although I'm not into online games enough to be personally affected, I'm still capable of empathising with people who either can't play the games that they want, or can only play games rampant with cheaters who ruin the experience. We all know video games aren't objectively important, but it shouldn't have to be an "all or nothing" decision just to be able to participate. Being able to play a fair game Linux, with only minor compromises, is a big improvement from having to choose between Windows+kernel drivers, and literally nothing.

Like how Naked Snake has no sense of smell, maybe Solid Snake just forgot his glasses at home before the mission and only saw blurry faces the entire time.

I never even considered visiting Missouri before, but I just finished reading the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn for the first time recently, and especially after seeing these pictures I'm actually very eager to explore the areas which informed the settings of Twain's stories. Hannibal also seems like a great place to visit to immerse myself in the Twain experience.

So far I've only ever passed through New Brunswick on way way east from Ontario (and back). I've been meaning to spend some time backpacking there on my next trip east, so I'll have to keep this trail in mind. Thanks!

Even if they did use a proprietary kernel module, I still see this as a big win for Linux because it gives Linux users the option to accept those terms to play certain games, without having to boot into Windows.

The way I see it, if there's anything I want to play which requires the new EAC or something similar, then I could either just reboot on-demand into a separate kernel, or just dualboot into a separate barebones Linux distro with the appropriate kernel just for that game. Rebooting maybe be a small inconvenience, but at least I wouldn't have to be rebooting into Windows anymore.

As far as privacy goes, I doubt Epic would be installing anything "rootkit-y", it's not really their bag to snoop at potentially illegal levels because it doesn't benefit their business strategy. Ultimately everyone's gotta decide what level of risk they're willing to accept to game online, but I think most likely this new EAC (which actually seems to be a fairly reasonable implementation) will be the popular way going forward.

They should have gotten him to direct the last Indiana Jones. I normally like James Mangold, but he really didn't have the right style to follow up Speilberg. Brad Bird, however, nailed the classic Speilberg action style with Ghost Protocol.

I strongly recommend reading James Howell's essay on MGS4. It's a great analysis on the themes of MGS4, and how it distills and remixes elements from the entire series.
My summaraised answer based on the essay: Old Snake is a stand-in (proxy) for Big Boss, because MGS3 was the previous game in the series, the events of which greatly influenced the game's world (thus Solid Snake's destiny), as well as permeating the real world zeitgeist, defining (though erroneously) real people's perception of who the nebulous "Snake" is. Elements like the 1911, the eye patch, saluting in the graveyard, and the inclusion of CQC, are all ways of both appealing to returning players of MGS3, and on a narrative level burdening Old Snake with his father's legacy. It's not until the end of the game that Solid Snake sheds the misattributed allusions to Naked Snake, and is finally given the agency to be his own man (at which point he is also out of the player's control, and ostensibly allowed to to reach the conclusion of the franchise canon on his own terms).

Not to discredit his cinematographers, but Shyamalan in general is a very technically adept director in the vein of Spielberg. His blocking and production design are typically excellent, and he's always had a level of creative expressiveness deserving of a film far more highbrow than the kinds of films he chooses to make.
I'll add the caveat that I've never seen the movies which form what people consider to be his nadir (Last Airbender and After Earth), so I can't speak to whether they hold up to his usual visual standard.

I didn't dig deep into this, but the Wikipedia page says that Ketchup paid $50 million for distribution rights, and that the film has grossed over $108 million worldwide. Now, with marketing the cost was maybe closer to $100 million, but they have already recouped that from the box office alone.

I think it's probably my favourite Weezer song since LA Girlz. It has such a great sound.

That's what I've always thought of Crank 2.

I love the album cut, but this mix is a little lacklustre, could be the low quality though. I think the album cut is also a little faster, and has the little "hoh" before the second chorus, which I love. Funny thing is that you can still see Pat saying it in the video.

I came all the way to this sub just to be validated.

In High Life he explicitly abstains from it, and in Good Time I think he only masturbates a dog, not himself. Still, it does seem to be a running theme.

What do we think he uses to store all the tracks? If we make an assumption that he stores his songs as VBR mp3's, or perhaps another lossee format with similar sizes (less than a 320 CBR mp3), we can probably assume the average track length is 4-5 mbps (let's go with 4.5). Multiply that by 450,000, you get 2,025,000 megabytes, or just over two terabytes. While that's not impossible to store on a standard spec home PC, it is a bit impractical and still effectively impossible to store on a mobile device.
Does Scott have a home server, and does he self-host a streaming service to play anything on his mobile devices? I recall he mentioned having a guy to set up his audio stuff (maybe A/V stuff in general?) Though self-hosting these days can be pretty simple, it's still beyond the level of effort that non-techies are comfortable with, so he might have someone to set this up for him.

I've honestly never seen a tick in my entire life in Ontario, even when trekking through the exact places you'd expect to find them. I only put permethrin on my net as a precaution but the moment I actually start seeing ticks I'll probably put it on my pants too.

I used a tarp and a 2-person floorless OneWind bugnet last June in Northern Ontario and found it very effective against flying bugs. I also used their footprint (perfectly sized for the bugnet) to keep out the crawlies, also quite effective. Despite being cheap and effective they are obviously not ultralight, so I decided to replace them with the S2S Nano Pyramid (1 person) and a DIY-cut polycro floor with a bathtub lip (simply folded and taped the corners).

The Nano is more expensive than the OneWind, but it's not too steep, and the weight/space savings are massive. I soaked it in Doktor Doom horse spray to help keep ticks away and hopefully make up for its slightly larger pore size. Polycro is super light and cheap and also quite durable.

I'm not sure how the overall weight of the tarp+Nano+polycro combo stacks up against an ultralight tent, but I'm sure it's significantly cheaper than most tent options, and I prefer the modularity and flexiblity over a rigid tent setup. I haven't had a chance to use the combo in high bug pressure yet, but I don't think it would be any less effective than my previous OneWind setup (which, despite having a zippered door, I ended just crawling under anyway like the S2S nano, because the zippers are finnicky and end up letting in bugs as you scramble.)

If you use a bug net under a tarp though, you will need a way to hang it. You could either drape your tarp over a continuous ridgeline and hook the net up to the same rope, or what I did is run a lightweight line across the underneath of my tarp's ridgeline form the built-in loops (AquaQuest Safari 10x10). If you use a tarp with no loops on the underside (like most lighter weight tarps), I believe you can buy stick-on loops which you can place wherever you want.)

P.S. The S2S Nano is known to not be tight enough to prevent noseeums from entering. While I personally haven't had issues with noseeums, you could always double the Nano with a noseeum-proof headnet as you sleep, and your body insulation layers should already keep the rest of you defended anyway.

I ordered Doktor Doom horse spray from Amazon. Hard to judge its effectiveness because I only sprayed in on my bug net, and only used it last weekend when there were barely any bugs anyway, but it's 0.5% permethrin, made in Canada, and easily available.

That explains why I'm still single.

Why didn't they play anything else?

It does. The version lacking the gut hook is the compact model, but there are also two nearly identical looking models with gut hooks with the only difference being blade storage.

No point on cutting your hair if you can't afford to buy the photos anyway. (To be clear, the actual price of the photo wasn't prohibitive, it's just that the value wasn't worth the cost, certainly not every year).