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Echoes of the Eye does at least give you a sort of second playthrough

I think Tunic is probably the closest feeling to Outer Wilds I’ve gotten so far. The moment-to-moment gameplay is quite different, but the broad scale feels close

Never mind the depths I was already on edge when I met the fucking crashfish

I suspect that this might be a tactic intended for the domestic audience. The current government is extremely unlikely to be in power a week from now, and might be doing this just to force the next government to either follow through or retract it

Depends on what’s on offer in the steam sale! Although I did pick up the Myst remaster, so I might just be having a crack at that

For only 7.99 you can get enough store points to open three Crates of Eden, each of which has a chance to give you four seconds of total invisibility or two silent takedowns!

Apologies, I was using “NATO troops” as a shorthand for the large number of countries involved rather than the specific command structure. You are right to bring that up

If I’m understanding it correctly, it’s a case of:

• NASA finds graphene on the moon
• The moon is generally thought to have very little carbon, so the theory is that the graphene was introduced by meteorite impact
• CNSA goes to check out a patch of the moon that is, relatively speaking, quite new. As such it should have received fewer meteorite impacts
• CNSA still finds graphene, so that’s a mark gainst the meteorite theory
• Due to the structure of the stuff that contains the graphene, it may be the result of volcanic processes. If this is the case, it’s possible that the moon is not as carbon-depleted as we thought.
• If that’s true, it suggests that our theory on the formation of the moon could be wrong too, since we may have made incorrect assumptions about the composition of it

So NASA found something interesting a while back and made a best guess based on the data available, and now CNSA found some more data that might change the prior conclusions. On the other hand it is still possible that NASA’s theory is correct, it’s not like anyone found a billions-of-years-old recipe for the moon. This new stuff just tips the scales against it a little.

The Korean War had over a million NATO troops and also tens of thousands of Soviet troops and, somehow, remained a proxy war. A particularly bloody one, but there was still no actual open full-scale warfare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Even China and America remained officially at peace, despite making up the majority of the forces on each side

Nah that’s clearly the same cat, one is just closer to the camera

No, but the OECD is quite a big club. The US is currently ahead of Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Turkiye. That puts it 26th out of 38 in the OECD (this uses the 2023 numbers, while the article is referencing the 2020 ones). The non-OECD countries ahead of the US are Cyprus, Malta, and Singapore.

The British monarchy does have a relatively unique position in having been atop one of the world’s biggest economies for far longer uninterrupted than any other extant royal family. You’d expect them to have amassed more than other royals solely because they’ve had access to far more opportunities to do so. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll have outpaced every other rich family in the UK, but I can see where the person above is coming from

The only way that what you’re saying makes sense is if you hold Cypriots liable for not pushing the UK off of the island completely. This is a ridiculous standard to place upon a colonised people, holding them responsible for the actions of their colonisers

So you’re blaming Cypriots for getting colonised?

Well yes, that’s reasonable. My point is just that AirBnB is definitely not essential to the tourist appeal of Barcelona

How about you actually explain your thought process here rather than just continuing to leave sarcastic implications everywhere. Why, exactly, do you think that the country Cyprus is responsible for RAF Akrotiri?

I don’t expect it will even reduce tourism that much, at least not in the long term. Barcelona is one of Europe’s most famous cultural centres. People will still want to go. They just need enough hotels to get set up to handle them

jesus fucking christ the land that RAF Akrotiri is on is not and has never been part of the political entity that Hezbollah is issuing threats to here. It is not leased from the Cypriot government. There is no arrangement allowing Britain to run a base on Cypriot land. It is just not Cypriot land. You are doing the equivalent of blaming Morocco for something Spain does in Melilla, or blaming Spain for something Britain does in Gibraltar.

RAF Akrotiri is not in the country of Cyprus, it does not explain why Cyprus the country would be a target

Right, but… still not in Cyprus. And this entire thread started off as a question about why Hezbollah would view Cyprus as a target

Because it’s a list of “bases owned or used by the United States Armed Forces”. But that doesn’t change the fact that, as I said in my other comment, those bases are not in the country of Cyprus