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Yeah, that's the one I was on before updating, I think. It was 88, at least. So far version 112.0.2 isn't doing anything to really annoy me (no more than changing to 88 did anyway), outside of that double spacing bookmark thing. I mean, there's slight stylistic differences like always but nothing major. The rest of my previous settings remained during the update process. I did get rid of some "Firefox View" taskbar button/tab option. Anyway, if anyone cares/might care later, the bookmark spacing I went into appdata/roaming/mozilla and under the newest profile folder, created a folder called "chrome" then create a userChrome.css file with this in it: You can make the 1px number whatever you want. Restart firefox. It was also suggested that to make that work - make Firefox check for the css file - one had to do the below, which I did, but maybe it would work without, didn't try/don't know.

Wouldn't it be a weird world if Moscow ended up with German peacekeeper forces patrolling the streets in a collapsed Russian Federation?

For added excitement, why doesn't Nato offer Taiwan membership of the club? 😁 I know it's slightly tangential, but one of the Youtube channels I watch regularly (they usually did history/historic battles like War of the Roses, WWI, The Punic Wars etc.) has been making a series of videos where the Ukraine war gets covered in the same style as the historical documentaries. If curious, check out Kings and Generals on Youtube.

I thought this must be wrong, but then I looked at the list of Burton movies since Mars Attack! and it is fairly limited. In his defense though, a lot of the movies he has made since the 90's are geared towards kids. Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, Alice in Wonderland, and Miss Peregrine are all very good family fare. I have no idea what Big Eyes is, and I have no interest is Dumbo, so I guess it really has been slim pickings for the last decade. Strange. Michael Keaton will make it worth a watch, though, so I'm not worried about Beetlejuice 2 being bad.

That day is every Monday.

I am happy that Kim Woo-Bin (Uncontrollably Fond, Heirs, Master, Twenty) has seemingly beaten his nasopharynx (throat/nasal areas) cancer after a few years and is back to filming. I already watched Alienoid (movie) - he was good, the film had a decent premise but was "eh." Now it's this series. Sadly the trailer, for me, doesn't build any hype. It looks like a cross between The Postman, Death Stranding, and k-drama dystopian conglomerate espionage. The overdone dramatic/grim music in the trailer isn't helping. Maybe it'll be decent. I'm just glad he's still around to keep taking new projects.

Ukraine will attack only in Season 4.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65550427 A really informative interview about the Ukrainian planned offensive from Zelensky

Lamplighters League looks great, more polished than the last new thing I saw for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, granted that was many months ago. I'm still more interested in CK:F, simply on the strength of it being from the same devs that made the excellent Star Traders: Frontiers. @melkathiThat's what I get for skimming that article.

This one is pretty interesting watch, which tries to shed more light into the competition between various military factions.

"Call me Zarathustra, the way you hit those bong-bongs" That's a deep cut. I'm giving Bethesda points for that one.

I enjoyed the first one for its combo of sorta-serious and cheese. Mostly the cheese. Looks like they've embraced the cheese now. So, yes, please.

As the previous console generation ports of Hogwarts Legacy launch today, it has been revealed that the game has grossed a billion dollars in sales. I think it's safe to say we'll see a sequel in the future. Edit: Speaking of, Steam is downloading an update to Hogwarts Legacy.

I make my own beer which -let's be honest- tastes like crap. A couple days ago I was drinking some of my own homemade beer while watching Cowboy Bebop and they suddenly land on Callisto: What are you looking for? All you will find here are men and rancid booze. 😁 Yup, I drink 'rancid booze'.

I don't know that the player is qualified to make that kind of a judgement, particularly if they have been traipsing round with someone like Durance, who also proudly participated in the purges.

I never said Cold Morn should have done this or that, just presented the plausible motivations of Harmke and the rest that participated. They were scorned, resentful people looking for payback, you could even say justice, in a misguided primal way. I started to write something on the killing in this kind of games in my previous post, but decided not to post it, so here it is. Yes we kill, and we kill a lot to finish quests and achieve the PC's goals, but during other quests we kill people because they try to hinder us, to stop them from doing we find deplorable, because they are an obstacle, or simply for personal gain. But in this quest we are asked to murder a man to satisfy the need for vengeance of an almost complete stranger. Now vengeance is a powerful motivator, and helping a friend achieve it is fine by me, but with the Devil of Caroc the request for assistance is almost the first thing she asks. They should have paced things better, like with Aloth first you witness a few of his outburst, get on friendly terms with him, then receive the quest, killing because a stranger asks you to for no return is not something people do. And, if you are murderhoboing your way through the game, doesn't mean everyone else does to.

Never underestimate the strength of peer pressure. Mob mentality is a powerful thing, and it's clear from the flashback that he was worried they'd turn on him if he looked weak. What was he supposed to do: A) attack an angry mob by himself with no weapons trying to defend a town of craven traitors and be instantly killed. OR B) throw a damn torch at a house and at least look like he's taking part

The real problem is that there is no real way to choose a “3rd option.”

That will make Harmke a different character. He isn't a psychotic murderous pyromaniac, he is a person who was angry because his country was invaded, his fellow men were killed, and he wanted retribution. Then there is a town that let the invaders go unopposed, knowing that they have and will kill more of their countrymen. So Harmke isn't thinking rationally, he is guided by emotion and joins a mob of other angry people, thinking why we should care for them when they seem to care non for us. This brings us to Devil of Caroc's poorly motivated quest(for the PC, she has plenty of motivation), we meet her, visit Stalwart and right away she ask us to find and kill a man. A man who we later find out isn't quite at ease with what he has done, and nothing in the game paints him as responsible for any other death, than his participation in the massacre at Cold Morn. Why should the PC do it, does this sound like a reasonable favor to do for someone you just met?

He isn't a psycho killer who just loves burning down houses. If you want to punish a dangerous serial killer, punish Devil Of Caroc.

"Lamplighters League looks great" not woke enough

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/beetlejuice-2-official-2024-release-date-announced/?

To quote Aragorn: Well, we may also yet see a day when me pushing the envelope on our developing platform comes crashing down on my head, but it is not this day. I just changed the entire way our login system for web users works while the system was live, and also introduced changes to the underlying cryptography and generate a whole new set of salts on the fly when someone logs in. Smooth sailing. Changing login systems and having to contact users about it is for amateurs.

I went to the garage and changed to my summer tyres. On the way back to drop off my father, we suddenly heard a weird scraping sound, turned out one of the bands that keeps the petroltank in place had rusted through and was dragging on the ground. Not too bad, not a hard job to fix, not to expensive. Continued the last 500 metres until we were at my fathers place. Jacked the car up and suddenly heard a clanging noise, both looked at each other with a WTF expression, bent down and looked underneath the car. The left rear spring was lying on the ground instead of sitting in it's place. ****. Rusted through and broken in both ends.

Thanks Brucie. Pretty much this: They try to retaliate when they see women not wearing hijab in every way they can. If they can't arrest you, they will find another way to make their presence(IRGC and religious nutjobs) felt.

TL;DR: Suspected root cause is (long term) degradation by unsafe voltages, potentially assisted by manufacturing variances and minor defects, otherwise known as silicon lottery. The lab tech identifies a whole host of other potential causes, but the issue appearing more frequently on ASUS mainboards with their excessive SoC voltage really just points to, well, failure due to unsafe voltages.

Seems like Bethesda’s sharp writing is still alive and well in Starfield https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/starfields-pillow-talk-will-make-me-swear-a-vow-of-space-celibacy