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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it almost every cease fire or deal made in the Middle East everyone adds a little fuck you to the Kurds? Just like the MoU screwed them. As far back as I think Nixon was fucking over them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The lines drawn by the agreement hardened into borders, but the actual control of the territories by Britain and France never came into actual effect due to the decolonization after WWII (and in the post-WWI era).

  So in a sense, yes, the Sykes-Picot agreement did not come into effect as intended, but the lines those men drew did, and their consequences persist to the present.

  This does not exonerate the various atrocities and actions committed by the various parties involved since then, of course. Lines on a map will be difficult to modify in the modern era no matter who drew them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it almost every cease fire or deal made in the Middle East everyone adds a little fuck you to the Kurds? Just like the MoU screwed them. As far back as I think Nixon was fucking over them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically you could go all the way back to the Sykes-Picot agreement never giving them a defined state and thus shattering them across multiple borders only relevant to long dead empires. Things really only keep getting worse because as history as marched on, the nation-states in each of the countries that the Kurds reside within have political- or resource-based incentives to not allow the Kurds to form a genuine independent state combining their existing communities (and resolving the conflict they have with their respective “home countries”).

  From a logical standpoint, it should be simple to allocate a state to right a historical wrong inflicted by an Englishman and Frenchman who didn’t consult any of the residing population, but it’s more valuable to the current nations presently involved in the middle east to keep them around to be exploited as pawns or scapegoats. Just dangle the carrot on the stick that is Kurdish autonomy/independence every few years or so.

  As an individual not analyzing the circumstances from the nations’ perspective however, this is fucking horrible diplomacy and I do not blame the Kurdish people at all for being distrustful of anyone who worked with them in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WOMEN.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness online adaptations allow people to play without having to consider the identity of their opponent (because I don’t mind who I play against).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ответьте на мой призыв⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  opatchki

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  bottle 'o 'otter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they put in this stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inca Cola for life! I was stunned when it tasted the same when I visited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they put in this stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scotland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEMIMAN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  KABEWM!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Can’t tell if slop or you’re just using the same color pallette used by slop comics…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The funny thing is I think we are in the same situation except now the free distribution of games on the internet means the supply side issues are even less relevant to the game industry. The losers might end up being consoles again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout lead Tim Cain argues games industry crisis hasn't reached the level of the 1983 crash: 'I don't think there's ever been a worse time in the games industry'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons the 1983 crash was so harsh was because brick and mortar distribution and producing expensive cartridges made self-publishing and indie development much more difficult. Hell, the Commodore 64 never had any problems throughout the crash because games were distributed on tape and floppy disk, and hobbyists could easily create new games much cheaper than console counterparts.

  I would argue we have the same echoes here. The winners will be the indie PC and mobile devs alongside digital distribution platforms like Steam (Valve) and GOG where anyone with talent and ambition can enter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like riding on a train/trolley :3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accepting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s your problem, pally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accepting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially, when browsers started to initially implement toggles to block third party cookies more than a decade ago, advertisers in response pressured website hosts to mark their cookies as “essential/required” (AKA forced cookies). You will not get the same revenue as a website host if you do not play ball with this, and some go even a step further by routing/disguising their cookies through trusted domains (google, amazon, etc…) to mask the “true source” , in an attempt to mitigate detection from basic browser filters.

  Ublock Origin and the like are pretty good at catching most of them through crowdsourced lists though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accepting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Advertisers get around that by masquerading their cookies to appear not third party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Emulation’s gonna bring them here anyway XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was a husky boy and look how I turned out⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I ended up an engineering nerd. You’d be surprised.

  Athletic + husky is the outcome of quitting team sports but keeping the diet XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be stripped out by the cracking team before release. The scene doesn’t forget to test things, you know (also many countries where cracked games are hosted/more prevalent are places where foreign copyright law doesn’t matter much).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall TV⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s got that supportive spirit, that counts :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony PS5 sales drop 46%, even before recent price increase⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use it on PC! :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  During the “Gold Rush” era (Wild West 1800s), there were plenty of people descending onto California to try and make their fortunes by staking out land to mine and pan for gold.

  However, the first millionaire wasn’t anyone who got lucky staking out a mine. It was the largest store owner in the area selling all these prospective miners their shovels to dig with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 657 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah the new california map is amazing, but some of the quest designs have me scratching my head at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deluxe poppy seed cake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuckin’ A, I’ve seen better looking ones in MREs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with it, Libby.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally the same bucket setup from 28 Days later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with it, Libby.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Insulation looks like a solid rating of “no” though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Prepaid cards have to be loaded with a specific currency and usually are part of a pre-existing payment processor (VISA/Matercard in the US).

  Valve’s steam gift cards are sold in the same currency as well, and are usually usable for accounts in the same country of origin (read the back fine print)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Californian, I feel the same way. Some of my friends live in states where prices aren’t as affordable to them, so I try to gift games from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are Steam games priced unfairly in Euros indifferent to where one resides?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam pre-empts that by tracking payment methods and using all known connection locations to try and prevent VPN hopping (If you are using a VPN to Argentina, you better have a card from an Argentine bank and hope your VPN never drops).

  Places like the Eurozone simply are screwed because of the legal circumstances. If people are using payment methods other than cryptocurrency (which is not accepted on steam), it is relatively easy to find their location and charge appropriately.

  As for the partial form of identity thing, it is hard to create a system that would not be subject to abuse. I believe that Valve’s current telemetry practices are not unreasonable given the lack of restraint for the user. The only expectation is that attempting financial shenanigans will have consequences, and shall be traced from that data. That’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a fast way to tell what episode of a series a video file is?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar boat with my own ripped media, and the answer is there’s no simple automated way (that’s why it’s easier to “acquire” from a source that already has things labelled and organized on the internet rather than do things yourself). Your best luck is to check the index of episodes on the back of the box and try to use the thumbnails to line up titles with the episodes manually.