I agree with your first sentiment, proton’s not the bad guy here.

I disagree with your second sentiment, that they are unable to services they claim to.

They never claim to make you anonymous. They claim to offer privacy focused services, helping you stay private and not selling your information for profit like big tech does. Privacy is not anonymity.

If you want to be a ghost you need to take far stricter measures than buying a proton account.

I just responded to another comment about this. I agree that keeping the money we pay to the federal government can be redistributed, but I’m not confident the government has the proper structure to do so.

Basically, they mismanage what they do today, so why should I conclude they can handle additional responsibilities tomorrow? More money doesn’t fix existing problems. Fix the problems first, get your existing budget in line, address the current responsibilities adequately, and that’s evidence you’ll do a good job with more.

That’s a fair point. The FEMA funding can be redirected. However my “characterization” is based on the tone of actual responses so that doesn’t make it inaccurate. But I’ll go with that wording because I think its a good description as well.

My point is, the California budget is in shambles constantly. This fact is emphasized by negatives in the state as well. I do not believe that the state government can adequately create a functioning independent government, even if they get to keep their federal payments. More money doesn’t fix inherent problems. They haven’t proven that they can’t manage what they are doing today, let alone give them more responsibility.

I think its not a very mature outlook to discuss independence when you don’t have your crap together.

You seem to believe that the CA government has good management over everything. I’m OK with that but I disagree. And I think that’s the root of the separation in our thinking and interpretation of things.

I actually think it would be a good serious consideration of breaking from the union, but I’m not sold on it. And I don’t think the state is ready to have that discussion.

Exactly. I’m watching to see what northern TX is getting now wondering how bad it gets.

I was referring to the 2020 fires. And It was both. I say “crying” because literally one week the vocal statement was “we don’t need the federal government” and the next week it was “you need to give us federal aid now”.

Yes, that is what FEMA is for, and California should (and did) get it. But the F is FEMA is Federal. You can’t have it both ways.

Again, I’m not for or against the concept. I’m just saying its very clear California is not able to separate.

The last time this was seriously touted weather hit a few weeks later and the state cried for federal help. Whether its a good idea or a bad idea isn’t the point. The point is the state can’t support itself so independence will fail regardless.

They’ve got nothing so they have to reboot and remaster a 30 year old IP. OK fine. They want to make it ongoing…meh, but I get it. They say Annual…proving why they haven’t been a player in the industry for decades.

I didn’t play any BF6 this weekend because Arc Raiders sucked me in. My first extraction shooter too, but nice to see that it isn’t crazy sweaty (at least in the first map). I’ve run into people left and right who just mind their own business, or I like to jump in and help others if I come across them.

In all my many years of gaming and superfluous amount of controllers, I’ve rarely had problems with a Sony internal battery. When I have, I simply opened up the controller and replaced it (mind you I needed to source the battery). But its never been an issue and a fairly easy process.

The controllers I’ve always had any kind of issue with ensuring I had charged and/or replacement batteries has been Xbox controllers.

To your point, the easy-hard concept is so vague. What does that mean? Less enemies? The same amount but they have less hit points? I take less damage? Longer time before enemies react? It can be literally anything.

Let us control the settings like you said, and then have some presets for easy configurations and starting points.

I think a special shout out needs to be made to the sniper elite series, which let you reduce the difficulty of the enemies but keep the difficulty of the sniping mechanics.

Reminds me of Don’t F*ck With Cats. Good watch if you haven’t seen it.

Lol yeah I remember that happening on occasion with me too. I’m not saying the AI is perfect, but it’s playable. I just treated Sheva like a distraction to enemies and somebody who can heal me when needed. But yes, it’s still 2009 era AI, so playing with a person is a far better choice.

I never played Revelations 2 so can’t comment on your question about the story. I will say that you should try to play RE5 if you can. Yeah, being Chris kind of sucks and I always chose Sheva if I had the chance to. But the game is really fun. Yeah, it’s more action than horror but it’s a super fun game and one of my favorites. Definitely better with a friend but the AI is good enough to help out and heal you when needed.

Just as an observation, the design on those phone screens look like spiders. Colorful spiders. Like if spiders became power rangers.
Now your day is complete. Carry on.

Skype is dead. Introducing: CoPilot Calls

Seriously though, Skype is a good example of how MS butchers products. I mean, I never loved Skype but it worked and was the defacto video calling platform of the masses. If they had their shit together, even a little bit, then Zoom would never have taken the market. I don’t really like zoom either, but its better than Skype.

Technically, there was at least 1 free seat since the woman wasn’t using it anymore.

But that begs the question, assuming the entire plane was full then the lady was sitting next to at least one other person. They moved her from that seat to be in next to the couple in question. So it seems to me there is no situation where it’s not extremely messed up.

Exactly. And that’s why people are misunderstanding the sentiment. Its not that AI doesn’t have value, its that it doesn’t have revenue. They want more return on investment before investing more.

I can criticize Microsoft all day, but that logic in itself isn’t bad business. Of course the counter argument is they have the money to float the difference until they turn a profit. But I’m not in the habit of saying how other people should spend their money.

Absolutely. And particularly it was is “batches” especially as you get to Shadow.

Collecting stuff as you go along playing is fine (I mean, I’d argue not because it’s lazy game making but its normal). But going along and hitting a village that has 50 side quests in it just interrupts flow.

Plus, they made nested fetch quests so I felt trapped in a loop. OK I’ll just do this one quest…“hey, now that I see that you are good at fetching arbitrary items, I want you to go get this for me too”

They are very much in sync. Even though each game and story is independent, characters have history and the games are part of that.

Enjoy! It’s a great series

That’s fair. I just figured when they introduced the characters and world building and I didn’t find most of it interesting, then the following would be similar.