Man, Crank 3 is a lot worse than the first two.

Doesn't the EU already have a military defense pact built in? Under the Mutual Defense Clause (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union), all EU members are required to defend each other is directly attacked. The Common Security and Defence Policy guides military cooperation. There are transnational brigades and everything.

We need to do better in that regard but we already have a lot of what you're proposing. Chuck in an alliance with Canada and we'd have most of NATO's functionality covered.

Dev: Why was my app rejected?

Apple: Your app was rejected because it uses a payment processor that is not allowed on the App Store. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Dev: My app doesn't contain any payment functionality at all!

Apple: I'm sorry, I made a like mistake there. Please contact the App Store support team to help you with this kind of issue.

Dev: You are the App Store support team!

Apple: That is entirely correct! Please allow me to refer you to section 14 of the Apple Developer Agreement to show why your payment processor is not supported:

[Link: to the Apple Developer Agreement, section 14: Disclaimer of Liability]

Fitting name. Reading about their bullshit war sure causes my sanity meter to drop.

I'd change the second one to "reasonably progressive and actually tech-literate hypercapitalists who, in case they become part of a governing coalition, suddenly oppose everything the government does at the expense of their own credibility".

Also you forget to mention that the nazis are blatantly abusing their privilege as MPs to spy for Russia.

People complain about yellow paint but not a HUD because the HUD is not part of the game world. It's an abstract representation of state to the player but explicitly not something any character in the game sees.

It's like the score in a movie. The music is (usually) not playing where the characters are but its presence is understood as a representation of how the characters feel. It's an out-of-band message.

Yellow paint is part of the game's world; it's an in-band message. Someone put that paint on things and somehow only on things that are breakable or climbable. That strains some people's suspension of disbelief – it's more plausible that someone created a zombie virus than that someone went through town and color-coded everything by degree of interactivity.

In-band messaging in games can be done subtly but that requires a very competent designer.

It's easier with less realistic visuals and more limited means of interaction; since everything is abstracted anyway, indicating interactivity becomes easier – e.g. breakable walls have large cracks and one early on had to be broken to progress. Now the player knows how to spot and break such walls.

But when you have many dissimilar objects with many dissimilar forms of interaction in a realistic environment and you don't want to show abstract prompts for the sake of greater immersion, you need to indicate interactivity in some other way.

So you break out the yellow paint and break immersion for some players.

There's also the less self-empowered variety where the transferred person not only looks and behaves like an exaggerated Barbie doll but is supposed to become that airheaded. Like so often, the lines between these varieties are blurry.

By the way, I find it rather telling that bimbo fetish is becoming more popular at a time when all of the MAGA women are doing their best to look like mass-produced plastic dolls... Exposure does a lot to drive preferences.

Right. Safe Search doesn't matter because Google Search has been outclassed for a while now. There's no drawbacks... other than the fact that apparently OP gets told about this every single day.

Still sounds like a badly chosen name to me. Calling a category "weapon attack" when not all attacks within it are attacks with weapons makes it wide open to misinterpretation, especially when in some cases it's relevant whether a weapon is used or not. The fact that it took you two long paragraphs to explain the difference between a weapon attack and a weapon attack with a weapon illustrates this rather nicely.

Distinguishing "spell/nonspell" or "spell/weapon/unarmed" would've solved the issue without this whole "weapon but not really" song and dance routine.

Mind you, early IE was very competitive with Netscape. It was only after they had outcompeted Netscape and introduced the abomination that was ActiveX that IE became the shambling corpse of a browser that we remember.

Heck, some of IE's reputation is because of ActiveX applets that only ran in IE6 and kept being used for years and years. (Not that later versions of IE were good but IE6 specifically casted a very long shadow and held back the Web for ages.)

Melee weapon attacks not being attacks with a weapon sounds like a prime example of badly written rules.

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The solar industry didn't just lose subsidies, the government actively tried to prevent the installation of new solar panels.

The nuclear exit actually made a bit of sense; our existing NPPs were mostly old and extending their like was getting increasingly uneconomic. At the same time we had very few locations where new ones could be built. They actually had a solid economic case for the nuclear exit.

They even had a good plan for the exit itself, letting existing contacts run out and simply not renewing them. Then they decided to exit the nuclear exit, renewing all of the contracts. Then, after the Fukushima disaster, they decided to exit the exit from the nuclear exit and immediately terminated all contracts, having to pay large penalties for the early termination.

For twenty years they followed the "Black Zero" plan, which amounted to trying to incur no new debt on the federal level whatsoever, no matter what. As a result, they spent basically nothing on infrastructural upkeep and the army and then suddenly found themselves having to take on 100 billion euros in emergency debt because bridges were collapsing, trains had no usable tracks and the Bundeswehr is unable to actually fight.

The CDU/CSU are mind-bogglingly inept at handing the economy.