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- Comment on No we can talk here 1 week ago:
Carpe Jugulum has vampires who ‘reform’ and integrate into society (but I won’t spoil anything else)
- Comment on Did you know? 2 weeks ago:
Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 2 weeks ago:
You’re technically right: it means ‘everything up to’, so not a full guarantee but the next best thing. In usage it means ‘a guarantee in all but name’.
- Comment on Eric Barone, the guy who can't stop updating Stardew Valley, says the words "I might eventually make a Stardew Valley 2" 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s saying if he cared about money he would be more likely to make a sequel. Him caring about money would all but guarantee a sequel.
- Comment on AMERICAN POPE LETS GO 2 weeks ago:
I beg you to reconsider
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 4 weeks ago:
We have OxfordPV, though I believe they manufacture the panels in Germany. I’m sure there are reasons for this but cheap manpower won’t be one.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
The problem we’re addressing is that the prefixes are made redundant by the syntax of to and from. ‘immigrating to europe’ ‘emmigrating from europe’. Dropping the prefix in this context doesn’t change the meaning: ‘migrating to europe’ ‘migrating from europe’.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
From wiktionary: Verb migrate (third-person singular simple present migrates, present participle migrating, simple past and past participle migrated)
(intransitive) To change habitations across a border; to move from one country or political region to another. To escape persecution, they migrated to a neutral country.
This is already common usage and I don’t see the need for any prefixes to the word. The Etymonline definition is giving the definition of the root, not the current english word.
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
How about just ‘migrate’ and ‘migrating’?
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 1 month ago:
Among a subset of gamers who care about owning the things that they buy, yes
- Comment on peak fitness 1 month ago:
They weren’t around yet during the first one
- Comment on What someone's doing to X right now 2 months ago:
This is my goto: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KNVo3VqjL0Q&pp=ygUNZGV1cyBl…
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
It has a close competitor named Qwerty
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
It’s a cheap supermarket in the UK
- Comment on Anon picks up some food for his family 4 months ago:
Large companies often register common misspellings of their domain, www being a subdomain makes it even easier
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 4 months ago:
And likely never will be because of its unsafe design
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 4 months ago:
The fact both sides of the civil war can be argued for is a great thing: it means that you can choose different justifications for your character to join either side instead of there just being a ‘good’ option. You’re forced to pick the ‘best option available’ depending on what your character would think; this is an RPG after all.
- Comment on Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda 4 months ago:
Removing the Thalmor would make Skyrim a much less nuanced game, it’s better off for not having easy moral choices.
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 4 months ago:
By september of last year, we are now 3+ months on
- Comment on I choose innovation and patching it all together. 5 months ago:
‘is a man not entitled to the seat of his own? “No!” Says the man from the internet, “it belongs in the tip”. I rejected that answer; instead, I chose something different. Something impossible. I chose… Rapture.’
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 5 months ago:
Alan Wake 2, Cyberpunk 2077, the Resident Evil games. Even Frostpunk sold well enough to expect a sequel to do better.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 5 months ago:
Because Baldur’s Gate 3 didn’t disprove that?
- Comment on I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store 5 months ago:
Me with my physical CDs of games you can’t get digitally…
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 5 months ago:
Weird question but at least there’s an N/A option at the bottom
- Comment on flouride 5 months ago:
Most places that do add it to the water supply match the levels of places where flouride occurs naturally
- Comment on For when it gets real 5 months ago:
Cross your arms
- Comment on Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games 6 months ago:
Still weird that they stopped selling them on steam and gog…
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 6 months ago:
If you’re thinking of the portable battery marketed as ‘solid state’ then that was a scam - a teardown revealed it was just lithium cells
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 6 months ago:
Sometimes the sun doesn’t shine, sometimes the wind doesn’t blow. Renewables are great and cheap, but they aren’t a complete solution without grid level storage that doesn’t really exist yet.
- Comment on “Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025 6 months ago:
Commander Shran returns to Andoria to reenact the events that led to the forming of the Federation