Yup. When the game ends, you will see a list of player IDs you’ve met during your journey

Not the same studio, but same director and music composer

I don’t know if this helps you, but in computer science there’s a dataset called CelebA containing huge amounts of celebrity face photos, original and cropped with some basic attributes annotations, that is used to train various deep learning models.

The “fuck you I got mine” mindset. Sigh

Isn’t that just called “being polite”?

I think I’ve always been drawn to good human vocals.

I remember using crappy earbuds and shedding a tear to Earth Song by Michael Jackson when I was a teenager. It’s not my favourite song now, and I don’t think I’ve ever cried to song after that, but music with good vocals can still definitely give me goose bumps. Anytime I listen to Jacob Collier’s Moon River, or any video of his that has him conducting the entire concert audience to sing harmonically always give me the chills.

You’re right, I misread the question and thought it was the 1700s. That changes it quite a bit 😂.

There are 4 tier levels for plane maintenance, and iirc, the plane manufacturer may involve in higher tier ones or repairs that have more serious issues. Otherwise, airlines usually do their own repairs. In this case, it’s a subsidiary of United called United Technical that does their repairs and maintenance.

I don’t understand why the media isn’t focusing more on United airlines maintenance issues, and still hammering on Boeing. I mean, Boeing deserves all the criticism, but a lot of the Boeing plane issues in the news recently are all old ones flown by United.

The medieval period to me would be like in Game of Thrones or DnD settings, where automation tech was still hydraulic based at best, and medical knowledge was still very very limited.

1700s had steam engines and electricity, and apparently lithography was invented in the 1790s, so that’s a big difference.

Sure lol. I harness the power of the sun and lightning to make special stones that other people can command it to make it work for them.
Basically creating a golem haha.

I’d love a medieval version of this question lol.

You spoke my mind. I just finished my first screening and sharing my initial thoughts. Disclaimer: I have not read the book.

I really liked the slow pacing of part one, it gave me time to really appreciate the cinematography, it’s characters, and the music. This part was paced much quicker, so with me looking forward to “step into Arrakis” again, I left the cinema felling a bit disappointed. I felt that this could have been split into two 2 hour or 2.5 hour movies to flesh out some story bits and the characters. So many new faces, so many potential stories, so little time. It felt like Paul just went to the south for 10 minutes to get his drink, and then we’re back north again. I wonder if the book is also paced like that.
Soundtrack was another that got let down by the fast story pace imo. Not to say that it’s bad now that I’m listening to the album on Spotify, but the slow burn combination of visuals and sound in part one left such a great impact on me, part two just felt like it passed a bit too quick.

That being said, the bits where they want you to appreciate the cinematography, they let you know and execute it really well. I really appreciate the black and white tone of Giedi Prime, how they portray the cruelty of the Harkonnens, the sandworm scene, the scale. I would still highly recommend a watch, and I plan to watch it a second time (and maybe third). Maybe I’ll have different thoughts and learn to like it more after that.

I’m fully aware of other options like the ROG Ally, I’m just talking specifically about the Steam Deck :)

If you run SteamOS I don’t think you can, can you? But other than that, yeah I get the point.

I don’t know if Steam counts as an “open” ecosystem though. You still kinda need to be online to play Steam games, and you can only launch said game with Steam. DRM free option would be GOG games, which doesn’t require online and the GOG launcher to play games afaik.

From my understanding, you don’t “own” a game you bought on Steam, you just own the license to play it. The game file without modifications is protected by DRM, and only works when it’s launched from Steam with a valid license. Notice when using the same account on two different PCs, Steam would force quit the game when you try to launch the same game from the other PC.

In a closed system like Steam, sure, it would be relatively easy to regulate the buying and selling of game licenses since you’re doing it all under Steam’s system. When Steam detects a license transfer or however they want to implement it, they can easily disable access for the seller and enable it for the buyer.

But if the game file is DRM free, then it’s the same as downloading pirated movies, there would be no guarantee that the seller has no access to the game after selling it. No way to regulate it either. Hence, endless copies.

Physical media doesn’t have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.

Took a quick look, the instance is mainly about Malaysia, and the Xinwen community is focused on news written in Chinese that are related to Malaysia only.

I shall try it out then!