CatLikeLemming

In a literal translation it would be, but considering it's not a big bang, but the big bang, it'd be "Urknall" which I'm not sure how best to literally translate to English, but it's something along the lines of "bang of origin" or "original bang".

That doesn't make the tweet any less wrong though, this is just semantics.

There is, yes, but it's pointless. I think some people are missing the point of Alyx being a VR game, the game would suck pretty bad in pancake mode. It's the intricate interactions with the world you simply can't get with a mouse and keyboard that make it special compared to other Half Life games. They didn't just make a regular Half Life game and said "well we're just gonna force this to be in VR now", they made a VR game and set it in the Half Life universe.

Somewhat hot take... I'd argue Boneworks (not Bonelab) was "better", at least if you're used to VR and if you judge by freedom and replay value. Don't get me wrong, playing through Half Life Alyx was fun and engaging, but to me it had little to no replay value, since for all it did great in visuals, audio, accessibility, and especially story, it failed dramatically in physics. Since I played Alyx right after Boneworks, I kept trying to pick stuff up which I ended up not being able to for larger objects, and the first time I tried to knock a Combine over the head with a pipe I was so sorely disappointed. Alyx has absolutely everything Boneworks is missing, yet that physics core is what kept me coming back to the latter. It really clicked for me when I noticed how many things in Boneworks one can solve in alternate ways by "abusing" physics. Climbing is a learned skill and combat can be as much shooting as it can be using knives, fists, shoving someone off a ledge, or grabbing an enemy and throwing it at others. It's what truly made me realize how much potential VR had, being able to interact with a full physics simulation, where even your own body is a physics object, with your physical hands is amazing.

Proton is based on Wine, when people say Wine in a gaming context, there's a decent chance they just mean Proton. Also there's absolutely no need for gaming distros in this situation, gaming works out of the box on any (semi-normal) distro, the most you'll have to do is flick a switch in Steam.

Edit: Or in this case with the Sims install Lutris I guess, since it's an EA game, but that also isn't much more difficult

I'd encourage use of StreetComplete, you can walk around your local area and get lots of points to survey with data on street widths or businesses' opening times. Imagine if all the people who were busy with Pokemon Go used that, OpenStreetMap would be nigh perfect in terms of data.

If you read the actual article, there are two things that stand out:

The changes apply to employees at non-union locations.

and

Other benefits for non-union workers include an additional week of vacation after 30 years of employment and vacation for new employees during their first year.

So from my understanding you may very well be correct, instead of trying to block unions through negative reinforcement, they try to block them by rewarding you for not joining one.

She's what one would generally refer to as a tankie and even refers to herself as extremist, so I do believe that is the appropriate term.

Apparently to some that's the goal. I had a chat with a leftist a while back while the US election was in full swing and she was absolutely against the concept of voting for a lesser evil, since the worse things get, the more people will turn to leftist extremism, which is a win in her book. Suffice it to say, that talk made me anything but sympathetic of her view...

That's a simple enough message to even get it from Warhammer 40k - Gender? Skin colour? Disabilities? Doesn't matter, pick up a Lasrifle and start shooting xenos

In my experience not just sometimes, but rather commonly. It often feels like the native Linux version, if it is even available, gets far fewer bug fixes - not like I can blame them, considering the far lower amount of Linux players, but sometimes I wonder why they even bother with it in the first place if they don't want to bother with focusing on it, with how good Proton is.

The question is, what are you doing to make a difference there? Are you going out and protesting, are you actively seeking out local politicians?

You're obviously passionate about the innocent people being hurt and killed, so I bet you are, but you could keep doing that while voting for the "lesser evil". You could have cast your vote for Harris and then on the same day gotten right back to protesting against her policy on the war.

You have two parties that are bad, but one is obviously worse. Why not try to avoid the worst option, so your personal efforts are more effective?

It's like trying to run a marathon and by abstaining to vote you get both your legs cut off instead of only one, because you fundamentally disagree with people getting their legs cut off. That's a totally sensible stance, but getting to keep a leg still makes it easier to keep running and there is no secret third option where you get to keep both.

Hey, there are far worse options than Rin for doing so ;3