As someone who watched a lot of horrible histories, I am a sucker for their jokes and style. Very exciting!

Believe it or not, Valve do actually make games too, and these games do contain lootboxes. From the article:

…attorney general’s office called out Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2 specifically

They have been burnt for this in some other countries in the past and so they have developed alternatives which are location specific. Not sure if New York would’ve been too specific a place for this to be enabled or if they just didn’t care enough here.

Valve do have a history of popularising shading monetisation techniques e.g. battle passes. They are better than a lot of the competition, but far from being the saint that a lot of gamers believe them to be.

Even if there is a investigation, it’ll probably go in a similar direction as the Russia Report a few years ago: stalled, played around like a political football, then forgotten about, or anything meaningful being “out of scope”.

I’ve got a similar model. Build quality is pretty good. Although I have had issues with the speakers and one of the charging ports (there is redundancy here tho as it comes with 2 USBC). Chassis is all aluminium. Not sure exactly the touchpad material - probably plastic, with no haptics.

Overall the design is modelled on Macbooks with great screens and similar shape, but with handy extras like some actual ports.

They are just white-labeled from other companies so you might be able to find them cheaper, but overall they are sold at a fair price compared to mainstream brands.

I wonder what will happen to the thousands that are currently arrested, or in limbo awaiting a verdict.

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I have not read the contents of the article (paywall), but I believe this would’ve been back when he was a member and heavy donor of the Tory party.

I don’t think the bobsled would be quite as entertaining to watch if this is the case.

You would’ve thought that he would have enough enough money and influence from being Chancellor not to have to sell himself out. I guess he just wants to chase the power.

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Very characterful game, and quite fun too. I do worry about the replayability of it being a daily though.

This happens in Cardiff quite often, also in the direction of the stadium. It seems to be caused by grow lights on the pitch which encourages the grass to grow faster.

If it is Spurs this could also be the case: https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2018/october/world-first-design-for-pitch-grow-lights-at-new-stadium/

If there are long branching paths, I often use screenshots and then compare.

What I do is mark in the top right with the colours (mainly just green, red and orange but you do have more colours by holding down). Then I will screenshot each combination of branch and normally there will be something the same or to rule out.

Another tip is you can get more colours by holding down the bottom right corner, so each suspect can have two different colours.

So the loophole will be to add tiny internal combustion engines to electric cars to get half price. I wonder whether I could start a specialist conversion business…

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But how will the automotive industry cope? They need these subsidies to fuel their profits!

What I don’t understand is what the Pis are doing at the moment to get hot as they say that they don’t have any clients to do any work yet? So presumably they must be doing aimless processing to get hot at the moment.

You would’ve thought that it could be made more efficient by centralising these into hubs and piping the waste heat in the community as an array of Raspberry Pis doesn’t sound great.

What would happen if they run out of things to process or, the inverse, have too much demand for processing and no demand for heat in the summer?

It looks like they also installed a solar and battery array too so some of the electricity will be coming from there. I can imagine it will be getting more expensive getting into winter with the short days though.

This is mannycalavera. They’re deadly serious.

You are probably partly correct and it is being exasperated by the media. But you also don’t often see public spats between the two major leaders of the party. The only other instance I could think of is Farage and Lowe, but I can’t really say they are a serious party.

Only just watched the highlights, but it looked like Italy had a solid discipline advantage over Aus. Great to see when they are normally the ones playing fast but giving away the penalties. Fun squad to watch.