What does the creation of a multi-national state owned search engine have to do with Google? I presume nations have the resources to do that all on their own.

What would you suggest the Google search engine be allowed to do to profit as a business?

I get the feeling a lot of people would complain about Google search doing that too.

Can you elaborate on the business model of a search engine that has no ads?

The older generation demographic continues to shrink, while it seems the great majority of Gen Z and A are perfectly happy to use whatever ecosystem is built into their device. I’m not saying that people shouldn’t want better software, merely being realistic about the choices of populations.

Chrome was backed by Google, a multifaceted staple of the Internet ecosystem and rolled out with a ton of marketing behind it.

I remain skeptical that Firefox could plausibly overtake Chrome. The mere word of mouth of tech enthusiasts simply isn’t enough to make a population majority proactively switch.

Dreaming is one thing, but I remain skeptical. Tech people always seem to vastly overestimate how much the average population will react to tech news. Most people don’t care. They should but they don’t. In addition to that, use of Chrome by businesses is heavily entrenched. The IT guys probably hate it on a personal level, but it takes a lot to make business bigwigs change direction away from a “trustworthy” big company like Google.

I want to like his videos, but I’ve bounced off because his speech pattern has the energy of a middle schooler receipting his book report in front of the class. I can’t listen to that for extended periods.

Nice.

I’ve done a lot of deep dives and this one specifically felt weird. Basically no enemies in the first stage. Made it through the second stage about mid way on ammo but we didn’t even call in a resupply pod. I guess maybe the devs wanted us to have lots of pods because of the low O2 on stage 3, but it was still just crazy easy.

My team wasn’t speedrunning the mission or acting in any way overly coordinated. This was a blind run of random team members playing in an average way.

The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers’ strike is when there was a lot of issues), but ‘33’- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.

The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.

I just finished the regular deep dive and it was suspiciously easy. To the point where I think something was wrong in how enemy spawns were triggered. Other players on my team were commenting the same in chat.

There were points in all three stages where I’d expect swarms to trigger and they just didn’t. We ended the final mission with like 300 nitra and I’d only killed about 170 bugs as a gunner. Strange dive.

As a gunner main, using a combat zipline does indeed make the crawlers trivial. All other combats I at least have to worry about glyphids with ranged attacks knocking me off.

It might be freaky to have crawlers, or maybe a specific variant which can crawl right onto the zipline after me.

The drillevator missions are basically improved salvage missions. The same setup of having to stay within a certain point and defend it, but done so much better.

OH NO.

That’s what I thought you meant, I was just trying to confirm, as I sometimes feel a step behind in tech conversions.

It is annoying not to have a button on the UI, but once you learn the hotkey this becomes a non-issue unless I’m missing something? I suppose this is an issue, but for a piece of free software like this it sort of feels like making a mountain out of a molehill.

I haven’t been back in front of my PC since the season started, but a slowdown wouldn’t surprise me. I know when season 3 first dropped, there were a lot of issues with certain season events really chugging. Hopefully, like with that season, some optimization will drop soon.

Ah you’re right. I guess this is 320-M18 model. I was looking at 320-M17s and thinking this looked to small to be that.

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Day of the negative 30 degree drop angle soon.

Looks like the [320-M18] model, which comes with a [15] round flush magazine. But mechanically it can take a longer magazine and we can’t see the bottom of it in the picture.