It’s not as dumb as you make it out. The issue isn’t that GPS is really, really good at what it does; it’s that it’s also incredibly vulnerable to disruption and spoofing. And due to the particulars of how GPS works, we can’t entirely fix that. We can do some things to ameliorate it, but a lot of those aren’t suitable for smaller things that use GPS today.

The other thing is that GPS largely replaced a tremendous number of other navigation aides and techniques, including other radio-navigation systems like LORAN-C.

Bows are actually incredibly hard to use. When you see a “draw weight” of the bow, this is the force you need to exert to pull it back to its full draw. 40-50lbs is considered normal, I believe, while the English Longbow - famous for its use in the Hundred Years’ War - had a draw weigh of at least 80 pounds, with some scholars suggesting even 50% greater numbers than that. Imagine lifting a weight that heavy each time you wanted to loose an arrow!

Bows, then, require extended training to use properly. Not just strength training, although professional archers were jacked, but in how to properly employ the weapon. The dominance of early firearms had much to do with not just their absolute performance - at times, they were actually outperformed by bows in absolute terms - but by that their effective use could be broken down into simple actions which could be easily drilled into new recruits.

If we’re talking about modern guns, this effect is much exaggerated. Guns can take some getting use to, sure, and modern bows have added features for ease of use. But guns are, honestly, shockingly easy to use for what they can accomplish.

On the G502, the first button directly beneath the scroll wheel should lock and unlock its free-spinning mode.

Be fair and equitable. There are times when strictness benefits a community, and there are times where laissez fair, laid-back moderation benefits a community. But nothing hollows out a community like moderators being unreliable or unfair.

If you’ve got a “don’t be a dick” rule and someone is making a point you agree with but being a dick about it, you still have to step in. If you’re having a bad evening, don’t let yourself be extra hard on people because you’re angry or rushed. Etc.

Not Republican myself, but work with a lot of them. I’m seeing a few different camps right now. I can’t really speak for exactly how many fall into each, but can only give estimates based on my subjective experiences:

• The “Leopard-Facers”: The ones who’ve suddenly woken up to the fact they elected a moron and a bully. These tend to be foreign policy hawks, and may have only voted for Trump reluctantly. Probably the smallest group.

• The pure Trumpists: A mix of people who thought the US should be isolationist anyhow, just don’t like Zelensky in particular, or just are too invested in the vision of messiah-Trump. Obviously they’re thrilled. Very vocal, but I think also somewhat fewer. Maybe I just hope they’re fewer.

• The cognitive dissonancers: Probably the greatest number. There’s a lot of different views under this umbrella. Some of them were buying into the idea “he’s just blustering for a better deal”; some thought the message was on-point but the display was inappropriate; some actually support Ukraine but can’t bring themselves express any actual opposition to this shitshow. Broadly speaking, they’re all squirming - struggling to reconcile the appeal they feel for his persona or other actions he’s taken, with their opposition to his foreign policy and this in particular. Yet not able to accept reality like the Leopard-Facers.

This. I think people are way, way underestimating the integration costs for all of this. It’s not as simple as “buy the pieces, plug them into each other, instant sensor system!”

Especially for riding around in a rough environment, a Pixel is sensors, communication, storage, power, all wrapped up in a reasonably robust case and featuring premade software to run the whole mess when you purchase it.

Sounds like a perfectly good reason to check out whether your local library has it. And/or take up a career in sailing.

With every month that passes, I feel ever more infuriated that so many of the programs I use are essentially hard-locked to Nvidia, with frankly miserable performance on other GPUs. Not the cards’ fault, the software devs’ fault for - when they even bother at all - doing a piss-poor job of integration with other GPUs.

That’s fair, yeah. I am currently running a different PVV kit on an AM5 processor, with the same XMP configuration (6000MHz, 30-40-40-76 timing), but I will concede that it’s not a pre-qualified compatible certainty.

I love watching cats get that first taste of actual petting with an actual human hand. Watching them go from “Not sure if want?” to “I need more!” is always heartwarming.

Quick thoughts:

• The Phantom Spirit 120 SE comes with a tube of TF7 thermal paste in it. It’s not absolute top-end of paste, but I think for a 7600x you’re probably going to be okay and don’t need to buy separate paste.
• B650 PG lightning is a perfectly good board. 168 EUR isn’t even that bad a price - I’ve seen it cheaper, but also for more. May depend on how long you want to wait.
• The RAM is good. It has a 6000-CL30 XMP profile that works perfectly fine for AM5 processors.
• Power supply is rated as “speculative position” on the PSU tier list. If you’re not familiar with the list, you may want to poke around on it and see if you can find a more established model for roughly the same price.

TDP has two main leads, one white and one black.

I’m not walled off from Star Wars’ controversies, merely pointing out that “every time” isn’t accurate.

In case anyone is confused, the camel calf’s body is facing the camera head-on; we’re looking at its forelegs. Its neck is curved upwards sharply and slightly to the viewer’s left, but the fur colors make it blend in (you can see the back of its neck slightly).

“Every time” is certainly an exaggeration. Just off the top of my head in a minute:

• The Dragon Prince - nobody gave a damn.
• Star Wars [pick any of several releases] - we’ve had various people of color, both human and alien, as protagonists. I don’t remember much of a fuss over that in particular.
• Various MCU things - Brave New World just came out, again featuring Mackie as Wilson - taking the place of the stereotypically WASP Steve Rogers, no less.
• Hazbin Hotel: Vaggie is heavily coded as latina.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch From Mercury - okay, not a non-white lead, but the first Gundam series with a female lead, and a lesbian romance front and center. Once again, no attack.

If I looked around further, I’m sure I could find more. All of these have variously been critiqued for writing, characterization, or pacing, but failed to draw attacks based on the ethnicity (or orientation) of their protagonists.

Is this kind of attack a thing that happens? Absolutely. Is it “every time”? No. I’d suggest it’s more often when a series goes out of its way to bludgeon the audience with a message related to it, or tries to sell a newcomer as a superior replacement for a legacy character, that people can get riled up.

Oh absolutely. OP only asked about UI, so I focused on that. But Generals had a lot of WC3 flavor in it.

Command and Conquer had traditionally used a “right-pillar” control interface, with your map at the top. utility controls like “sell building” or “power down”, followed by a build selection screen below. There you had 4 panels you could select between - “main base” buildings, defensive buildings, infantry, and vehicles - and you could scroll up and down a given panel. So long as you had the right production building, you could select things to build from anywhere on the map. If a unit had a “special ability”, it would be triggered by double-clicking on the unit.

Come 2003’s Command and Conquer: Generals, the UI had been totally redone to resemble the layout of Blizzard’s wildly popular Warcraft 3: The control panel now sat at the bottom of the screen, with the map on the left. Building a particular kind of unit required you to select the building or unit that produced it. Selecting an individual unit gave you a list of magic spells special abilities it could take, such as using an alternative weapon or purchasing a particular upgrade.

The question is, how did the mining town feel about the party cratering their lifeline in and out?

Spirit Guardians has long been one of those spells that can be absolutely brutal in the hands of the right character. It’s gotten a bit more recognition since 5.5e turned it into an outright broken lawnmower, but it’s always been up there as a better spell.

So, uh… explain to me why we can’t just use invite codes without having the servers closed off? Like yeah, sure, that does make the invite technically redundant, but psychologically it’s still there while retaining openness.

I admit unfamiliarity with SBY2199 beyond seeing some clips and understanding the basic concept.

That said, from what I do know, it’s more of a… dramatic-flare show, whereas Gundam (especially the Universal Century) tends to be a bit grittier, grim, and grounded about war? You might enjoy Mobile Suit Gundam 00, which (from my perspective) is I think a little more “Yamato-like”.