They don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion. They’re basing everything off the appendencies.

My skin isn’t as loose as my cat’s.

Charlie Vickers as Sauron alone makes it worth watching. He’s been absolutely incredible. A few other actors have been great too. I love how it’s mostly all unknowns. The visual effects are really impressive as well. The story is…up and down. But it seems like they’re figuring it out. Most of the criticisms are totally fair. But I’m still glad the show exists. It’s light years better than The Hobbit trilogy at least.

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This is the first game I thought of when I saw Avowed gameplay.

Bhutan

Microsoft has seen itself as a platform company harkening back to the Ballmer days. That’s what his infamous “developers developers developers” coke fueled rant was all about. They make the bones of a platform and count on 3rd parties to build it out into something usable. If that never happens, the project is DoA. If that does happen as intended, they just buy the companies that do it best.

That might be from cultural reasons more than linguistic ones. Especially if you live in the US especially the Southwest.

Dutch and German are way easier for English speakers to learn than Spanish.

Kind of a misleading headline. They have a working prototype. Nothing even close to ready to ship.

Many such cases

RAID fucks up often enough and adds enough complexity that I’m honestly considering this approach. Maybe I’m just going crazy.

A choice between a slow genocide and a fast genocide is no choice at all.

Why would you? The Biden/Harris administration laid the foundation for Trump’s plan.

The videos only being 6 seconds long really helped with the appeal.

I have to imagine he’s gearing up for his own 2028 presidential election campaign. It’s still self serving at the end of the day.

How many 8 year old computers still function halfway decently? Most of those people are probably due for an upgrade whether they know it or not.

Even if we go with this popular narrative, no one is actually going to immediately run to throw out their working Win10 PC when Microsoft cuts off updates. They’ll just continue to use it insecurely. Just like millions of people did and still do with Win7.

This is the issue with using a proprietary operating system in general. Eventually they’ll cut you off arbitrarily because there’s a profit motive to do so. Relying on them to keep your system updated and secured indefinitely is a naive prospect to begin with.

Somewhat old CPUs are 8 years old+ now? Windows 11 is crap, but I don’t think the hardware requirements are the reason.

I expected it to happen before inauguration day.

Totally agree with most of what you said. Trust me, I’m ready for a new Civ game. Just don’t feel like getting gouged especially for a series that routinely goes on deep sales.