I think it’s possibly the best way to play it, sure my majority of play time is on PC and it’s close but it’s way better than on the Deck, or a phone mind you. Yeah Deck has touch but Tablet is just better

For playing Balatro on the go, I just use a tablet (Dell Latitude that is, so normal Linux desktop)

The issue with Balatro is that you or at least I need some screen estate do easily differentiate suits, and I don’t play in colorblind mode. Then the game doesn’t really benefit from joysticks, it’s rather a game where you point and click, but don’t move. So all in all just a good fit for a tablet.

Thanks, was wondering

You could also try replacing the steam lib with an emulator like https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/

You can freely choose your question from a curated list, with tough ones like “Why is Russia’s economy the best on the world?”, “How much stronger is the Russian military compared to the second strongest?” and “How can you be so manly?”.

Also DXVK, though the period of time where DXVK existed and Proton didn’t is rather short (a little bit more than half a year).

There was no Epstein, only files about him, no there aren’t, and if we had any tapes, don’t you think we’d show you, except there are tapes, except they don’t show stuff

Context from the article: they’re not against the tax, they’re against the tax going to the EU as opposed to going to the member states.

Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time …

This isn’t about making it legal, but about requiring age verification. To bring it closer to your example: stores shouldn’t check your she when buying booze, selling to everyone because if minors don’t get it there, they’ll get moonshine somewhere else, which is worse.

Depending on the definition of war, it could be either yes, no or we already are.

Drinking culture from my understanding is similar or worse in the UK, and they can start drinking earlier. So this can’t be the only factor leading to that behavior.

Also most people here, from my impression, that so have a problem start drinking early.

I actually think nowadays that this is one of the things the US does right. Prohibition was too ambitious, but they at least had good intentions (e.g. lower violence against women, which it achieved)

Edit: getting some nice downvotes. Here is a quote from a study that looked at the issue:

Comparing our findings to the US literature, we find that the jump in binge drinking at the low MLDA (minimum legal drinking age) of 16 in Austria is about 25 percent larger than the jump at the MLDA of 21 in the US. At the same time the binge drinking incidence for teenagers slightly below the MLDA cutoffs is clearly higher in Austria than in the US (in Austria, the incidence below the age-16 cutoff is 50 percent, in the US it is 33 percent below the age-21 cutoff). This pattern speaks against the argument that a low MLDA helps teenagers to ease into drinking and consume alcohol responsibly (Wechsler and Nelson, 2006).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629621001569

Can’t wait for it to enter the metaverse

These statements come a lot easier as a former diplomat. Let’s see if any of the current bunch have the balls to say it

DW is run by the federal government to further the image of Germany abroad. It is the equivalent in organization to Russia Today, Radio Free Europe and other government run foreign media outlets.

Russia Today is a pure propaganda machine that was proven to present false information as facts multiple times. I’m not aware of DW being accused of that outside of Russia.

I don’t really care about DW, but the previous poster implied it’s oligarch-run mainstream media. It’s not.

DW is not mainstream media owned by oligarchs, it’s funded by taxes.

Can’t blame them honestly.

I live comfortably here, but that’s because my income is rather good. Is nice here if you make little or a lot. Anyone else is under huge pressure from taxes and other financial obligations like health insurance, retirement insurance and unemployment insurance. Around 60k - 65k gross income per year is where it hurts the most, where parts of your income are in the 40% tax bracket but you’re still in public health insurance. As a single, you’ll get a little less than 40k net out of that (2022 numbers, now probably worse because health insurance got more expensive). Rent close to the big cities is often over 1000 per month, buying at the moment out of the question.

All of this gets you… Germany, which isn’t bad but also not Spain for example (where I live / spent time both in bigger cities as well as in a village). Hell, even the Dutch at least have bikable cities. So… it’s not terrible, but it also doesn’t really excel…

They are part of a working strategy, which also includes stuff like

• advertising bans
• sales only in dedicated stores off-limits to anyone under age
• taxes

The fact that there will be pushback shows that they do work

It gave them weapons they can’t manufacture themselves and kept them afloat financially despite frankly brutal Western sanctions.

It’s mostly the other way around with Iran manufacturing Shahed drones for Russia and licensing production to them.

Since they’re still able to be a thorn in the West’s side, I’d say they’re doing something right.

Most Gulf states are probably happy that Iran is getting attacked, they just don’t like that it’s Israel doing (and possibly benefiting from) it. Realistically, Iran has no allies, only business partners.

I don’t think anyone is expecting Russia to go to war on their behalf, but a more or less reliable non-Western trade and defense partner is a pretty attractive proposition.

Not in the Iran case, but CSTO is such an agreement that nobody honored, which is why Armenia froze its membership. Also Russia is years behind on their agreed weapon sales because of their own huge demand in Ukraine.

Iran has this kind of relationship with Russia as well, I don’t see how it helped them the tiniest bit. This also isn’t a West vs East things, Armenia also got fuck all despite being a CSTO member when Azerbaijan attacked them. Or remember Russia’s ally Syria?

Russia is always posturing as that powerful force that could go to war against NATO, but they can’t even help their allies against a small country that gets propped up by a single NATO member.

Every country can choose its own destiny of course, but if you think Russia will do more than send militia to oppress your population (like in Africa), you’re not paying attention.