TIE fighter reference perhaps?

How are Nazis and aristocrats considered progressive? Not sure I understand the political compass part…

The handholding is too much, I agree, but I had honestly forgotten it since I turn off that and the minimap at the start of each game. It doesn’t seem to skip any dialogue, I’ve at least not seen any dialogue online that wasn’t in my game, but I guess I wouldn’t know.

Overall the games are indeed not that challenging if you know a little about what you’re doing, but I appreciate that you can set your own challenge, and be rewarded in-game for e.g. silent assassin or suit only runs.

Interesting - how are the old games better? To me, the World of Assassination trilogy is peak hitman, a condensation of all they’ve learned from the past many games, and an all-round improvement on Blood Money.

The newest games are genuinely the best in the genre. The live service parts are very interesting ways to build on the fanmade blood money contracts, and experiment with the genre, but ultimately not worth the always online requirements.

That being said, the games are hardly predatory. Genuinely the best Hitman has ever been.

Sure, nothing wrong with the abstract concept, but this meme is explicitly directed at the “mommy” version.

Which does have some much wilder implications than nurse/maid stuff, you must admit. Such as the implication of someone wanting to fuck their mom.

But… Why does it have to be a mom-thing? Can’t the woman you’re presumably having sex with inhabit a non-mom pampering role?

Plenty of physics sub-fields are still led by experiments, such as condensed matter physics. I don’t know if your statement applies to anything other than particle physics?

Or: We’re using math to summarise what the experiments have said so far. And then using that to extrapolate what might happen in the next experiment.

I would argue that physics is based more on experiments than math.

Pretty common in bars in Denmark at least.

Those are some sweet stories :)

I guess it gets somewhat blurred when you don’t need to kill stuff to eat, but you do it anyway because you like the taste better. That’s arguably some version of killing for fun?

Solid matter physics would be a more straightforward name - it’s just the physics of matter that isn’t liquid or gas, which usually means crystals.

It’s actually expected that matrix inversion will see a polynomial increase in speed, but with all the overhead of quantum computing, we only really get excited about exponential speedups such as in RSA decryption.

I found the Iberian Struggle to be pretty flavorful and challenging, quite enjoyed it!

NYT wrote in December that Israel has been actively propping up Hamas, not sure if that’s what he’s referring to.

Does being a Jewish Palestinian somehow make you Israeli? What then if you’re a non-Jewish Israeli? 🤔

Not really, but they’re essentially the same as the German “elf” and “zwölf”, so we probably got them from the same place as them ;)

When we say “half two” we also mean 13:30. It’s a pain when in Britain.

And yeah, I guess in pronouncing you’d say 92 as “to’å’l’fems” rather than “to-og-halv-fems”.