It's a free to play game (with online purchases available, ect) where there are a large variety of mechs you can play and modify as well as different skill trees that you can customize. There are various modes of play, but quickplay is 12 vs 12 (sorted by skill level, mech weight).
It's been online for over 10 years. Definitely worth checking out if you are a fan of Mechwarrior games (I have no affiliation with them whatsoever).
>When elites don’t care about a topic, experts are in charge. They set the norms, make the decisions, and everyone defers to their judgment. But the moment elites start paying attention—once they form a consensus—they take over.
>You saw this during the Covid pandemic. Early on, many physicians and health experts were skeptical about lockdowns, travel bans, and masks. Then global elites started talking—governments, media, institutional heads—and settled on a different line. Almost overnight, the official expert view flipped to match the elite view. The messaging changed, and everyone followed.
>Pandemic experts had access to decades, even centuries, of historical precedent and protocol. But as soon as elites aligned on what they wanted, the experts fell in line. It was instant. The kind of abrupt reversal that feels like something out of 1984. One day it’s “We never said that.” The next, it’s “We’ve always said that.”
Something everyone should always keep in mind when told to, "trust the experts".
Pretty sure the "experts" only became "skeptical" of face masks when the government told them there was a shortage and they had to parrot the US Surgeon General's claim that "masks don't work and if you hoard masks then medical professionals won't have access to the stuff that doesn't work"
Also, this entire article is full of sweeping generalisations, making it more like elite talk rather than expert talk.
>Pretty sure the "experts" only became "skeptical" of face masks when the government told them there was a shortage and they had to parrot the US Surgeon General's claim that "masks don't work and if you hoard masks then medical professionals won't have access to the stuff that doesn't work".
This boils down to, "the experts had a rationale behind their lies". It certainly isn't an argument for trust.
I remember one of the later Wizardry games (I believe it was Return of Werdna) came with a pamphlet full of codes that was printed on very dark brown paper that made it very difficult to make legible photocopies.
It's funny how what people consider "a lot of effort" varies through the years. As a kid I was cracking open my apple-clone 5.25" drive and trying to manually adjust the drive speed with a screwdriver, with absolutely no documentation, internet or other support to help out - just to get a game work!
You're right. Even though I was thinking along the line hardware and software compatibility, repairs certainly fit the bill. It's not like today, where a flaky drive is simply replaced. A floppy drive of that era costed as much as an entire computer today. And let's not forget the MS-DOS era, when people were pretty much expected to tweak their system's memory configuration to play games (and different games required different profiles).
Out of curiosity, does kid-you remember whether the drive came poorly tuned from the factory or if it drifted after the fact. (Or perhaps it was the disk at fault, having been written on a poorly tuned drive.)
Card counting is still possible (albeit a bit harder) in the present day - the mathematics are the same. Most casinos use more decks and don't deal as deeply into the shoe, but it is still entirely possible to gain a statistical edge over the house, which is why casinos will still ban you from playing blackjack if you are playing with an advantage(counting, varying your best sizes greatly based on the count, sitting out and watching until the deck gets deeper, ect). They will never ban you from games like Roulette, where you there truly is no way to gain an advantage over the house regardless of what strategy you use.
It's amazing more people don't understand this. In a free society people have the right to say things that are stupid, wrong, toxic and just plain false. If you live in a society where the government assumes the power to control what you are allowed to say you no longer live in a free society, period. This holds true whether you're talking about the EU's assault on free speech or the Trump administration's assault on free speech when it comes to criticizing Israel. It's amazing so many are willing (and eager!) to surrender their freedoms to what they perceive as benevolent overlords with their best interest at heart. What they fail to understand is that once you have lost the ability to speak freely, you inevitably lose all of the other freedoms that go along with it. Your benevolent overlords now possess the power to arbitrarily classify anything they don't like (especially that which threatens their power) as "misinformation" or "dangerous speech" or whatever other euphemism they invent to silence you. Just because you may today happen to agree with the people who decide what you are allowed to say doesn't mean you will agree with them tomorrow. And tomorrow you won't be able to object, because your ability to speak freely will be gone.
I think you are confusing the right to say things with a right to not be subjected to consequences for what you say.
I think in US as in EU if you say something that is breaking a law you have to pay the consequence. The difference may be in EU having more laws and US less that are concerned with consequences.
Because it's highly unlikely given the evidence we have? Is there any reason to believe that material culture in Doggerland could have been fundamentally different to that of other hunter gatherer societies in Europe at the time?
There is a 4000-5000 year gap between Doggerland sinking and Stonehenge i.e. similar to that of Stonehenge being built and our days so it's hardly relevant.
>Is there any reason to believe that material culture in Doggerland could have been fundamentally different to that of other hunter gatherer societies in Europe at the time?
>There is a 4000-5000 year gap between Doggerland sinking and Stonehenge i.e. similar to that of Stonehenge being built and our days so it's hardly relevant
Göbeklitepe was built 5000 years before Stonehenge so I think it is very relevant. It is absurd to suggest that we know for certain what is there without even looking.
It's not if we base it on evidence that we have. It's silly to assume otherwise until any evidence at all is discovered. Why would Doggerland be fundamentally different to the surrounding areas which are at a higher altitude?
> Göbeklitepe
If there were major stone structures at the bottom of the sea we would have very likely found them already.
Also.. I'm not even trying to imply that there weren't any complex societies in Doggerland (of course it's extremely likely that there weren't) but they would have likely primarily used wood to construct structures due to obvious reasons and any remains would have been very unlikely to survive.
I think one useful use-case would be having an LLM compare today's release with what has been released in the past so one could focus on what was actually newly released (or redacted).
It's been online for over 10 years. Definitely worth checking out if you are a fan of Mechwarrior games (I have no affiliation with them whatsoever).
https://mwomercs.com/
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