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#11

Gaming HQ / Re: Valve/Steam do a handheld ...

Last post by Threviel - Today at 11:54:51 AM

How well does Paradox games play on it?

#12

Gaming HQ / Re: Valve/Steam do a handheld ...

Last post by Caliga - Today at 10:53:52 AM

The battery will last pretty long if you stream, remote play, or play lowfi games natively, especially for the OLED model. For high end games, I usually run through GFN and get 6-8 hrs. The downside though is that you can't easily access game-specific community control schemes, and of course you need to be able to access really strong wifi in the location you're playing.

I had no battery issues playing Stardew Valley on the plane, in the Uber, etc.

But yeah, at one point I wanted to test battery life with my battery pack and booted up American Truck Simulator plugged into the battery pack.  It drained like 50 percent of the battery in 15 minutes.

#13

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josquius - Today at 10:52:31 AM

Another of those BBC Archive clips. From 1960, a 16 year old got arrested in East Germany on holiday
https://x.com/bbcarchive/status/1788463919113339230?s=46&t=o9GOIj6BKKcLcHiyQTlAoA

How very Famous Five.

#14

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by The Brain - Today at 10:43:12 AM

OMG Ireland was the worst crap I've ever seen in Eurovision.

#15

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by The Brain - Today at 10:41:48 AM

A common problem for The Brain, I'm sure.

So far it has happened every time.

#16

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:32:53 AM

To be fair, the Soviet constitution guaranteed you freedom of speech, but it didn't guarantee you freedom from consequences of speech.

Well other people's freedom of speech might be to say nasty things about you because you said something they didn't like. Are we talking about consequences beyond that?

I guess I didn't think anybody's freedom of speech meant nobody else had freedom of speech to express opinions about something you said.

#17

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Valmy - Today at 10:31:28 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciV2nU04oo

Duke students walk out on commencement speaker Jerry Seinfeld.

Well that could have gone worse all things considered.

Are we drawing the success line at "the Jew didn't get lynched" now?

Well it was just a few people. A small number of hotheads.

#18

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 09:06:31 AM

I want a follow up on her, and her long career in MI6

Tennis club Sloane Ranger. 

#19

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 09:02:23 AM

Like the part of Adenauer cooties turning the British fascist. 

#20

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by The Minsky Moment - Today at 08:54:47 AM

From the original Hamas Covenant

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious.

the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Much of the antisemitic language of the Covenant was not included in a much later Declaration of Principles; however, to my knowledge the original Covenant has never been revoked or repudiated.  That requires judgment as to whether the later declaration represents a sincere change in belief, or was merely political rhetoric intended to secure more mainstream Arab financial support.  I never believed there was much doubt on that point, but if any doubt existed, October 7 firmly resolved it.