CmdrGraves is one of them, yes. Haven’t seen war soldier, but I guess that’s probably another one then.

These are the likely ones I’ve identified

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And it inspired so many artists, many of them still active. A lot of them dropped the “brony” from their name by now, but there’s so many musicians who started in MLP and branched out.

Yep. I don’t really actively consider myself a brony anymore, but brony music still has a large place in my playlist. So many genuinely good songs.

Maybe I’m falling into an unfamiliarity trap, but I never really understood why My Little Pony was seen as worthy of such adulation.

It was a toy-based cartoon that had actual care put into its storytelling and characters. It also had many pop culture references and jokes. Might not seem so remarkable now, but in 2010 almost all comparable cartoons were soulless crap, especially when it came to “girly” properties like MLP. It was one of the first shows in what many people now consider a golden age of cartoons (followed by shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Gravity Falls etc)

A retrospective that is now retro itself! Pretty sure I watched this when it was still hosted on Gametrailers’ website.

They can be. IMO it being fast food or not depends more on the restaurant and their methods of preparation rather than the specific dish. You can have ramen that’s fast food and you can also have a burger that isn’t.

I’ve moved far away (500m+)

A whole 500 meters?! That could almost be another street :p

Exploitation of earth’s resources and ecosystems with a complete disregard for the future.

until Microsoft announced a tighter grip around Xbox recently

It was Asha Sharma, CEO of XBox, who announced that, calling it her decision.

Insane. Xbox’ new leadership seems completely clueless when it comes to gaming. They’re destroying their most valuable assets.

It’s on the FAQ about the Switch 2 battery revisions, under “What does that mean for Nintendo Switch consoles in Europe?”. From what I’ve read, it’s about the production date. After February 2027, all newly made devices need to have replaceable batteries, but remaining stock can still be sold.

50GB is the capacity of a dual-layer blu-ray disk. Studios will use the highest quality compression for video and audio that fits on there.

Also, offtopic, but I have to ask: Why do you keep deleting your questions minutes after asking them? Replied on your other one on Romaji only to find it deleted, same with the one on alphabets.

Check out the Bas-Lag novels by China Miéville. Lots of strange and interesting creatures and cultures in those books. Each of them is standalone but they take place in the same world.

This. It’s an exercise where I can also explore my local area and enjoy nature.

Romaji won’t get you far, as you’ll essentially be illiterate. When you’ve learned Kana and some Kanji, sentences also become way easier to decipher as you’ll see the difference between particles, nouns, conjugations at a glance, whereas it’ll look like a complicated mess in Romaji. Learning Kanji is also super useful, as you’ll be able to have a very good guess at a word’s meaning and pronunciation without having learned that particular word before. I’d say spending a year or so on just learning Kanji really made the biggest difference for my ability to understand Japanese. As a bonus, it’s also a great starting point for learning Chinese. So I agree, if you want to go anywhere beyond learning stuff like “Arigatou Gozaimasu”, you should stop relying on Romaji as soon as possible.

I think laws could be used to put some stronger responsibilities on the parents. Unfortunately, some of them don’t care whether their children are on social media or what they do on there at all. So when something happens to a child who was too young to join social media, parents would bear some responsibility for that. Guidance is great, but not everyone will take that offer. I’m not in favor of abolishing the minimum drinking age (which is 14 here btw) either.

Notably none of the questions they asked were about age verification though. I support a minimum age for social media too, but I don’t support age verification measures.

Yeah, I don’t disagree. As of now this is just one person with an issue out of an unknown number of Steam Machine owners. It shouldn’t be blown out of proportion.

If I was that person though, I’d probably ask Valve for a replacement unit, even if it works for now.

Calling it resolved immediately after it booted up again seems a bit premature though. I’ve had a few major PC hardware issues where I managed to get it running again for a short while only for it to fail again soon after. This issue happening in the first place does likely indicate some hardware fault with that person’s Steam Machine.

It means that we’re 4 days into July. Probably some more heatwaves ahead.

Pursuant to Section 7(b) of the License you must retain the original Product logo when distributing the program. Pursuant to Section 7(e) we decline to grant you any rights under trademark law for use of our trademarks.

Am I understanding this correctly that you can’t remove the logo, but you also aren’t allowed to use it as it’s their trademark? So creating a legal fork is essentially impossible?