I'm not Irish, but there's quite a few things that are not similar in those parallels. That is, if you're talking about the Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921.

1st) Irish didn't have the support they needed. Ukrainians have both EU and US trying to make sure Russia comes out of it with as much resistance and casualties as possible. At the same time, giving up part of the country is a lose-lose for Ukrainians since they'd have lost part of the country and also be in a century long debt to NATO and EU for the support they have taken already. I don't think anyone expects that those 80+ billion the NATO has spent already is going to be a gift. They will absolutely milk Ukraine for that after the war is over.

2nd) There were about 1200ish casualties total. Nowhere near the extend of the Ukrainian-Russian war.

3rd) It was a war of independence. IRA wanted to liberate Ireland from the British, Didn't try to stop them from occupying Ireland. They won, even if they lost 1/4th of the country in the negotiations. If Ukraine negotiates a part of it becoming Russian, they lose in the eyes of almost everyone and renders all the dead and the destruction and the sacrifices useless, since that's what Putin wanted at the start. Of course things changed down the line, but they could have agreed the first week to give up Donbas and avoid it all.

I could go on with the differences here.

Next step in the saga, Sony buys off EA as a counter attack.

That's a leap if I ever saw one. I could ask the same question and substitute AI with god or aliens and I'd be ridiculed by the tech community and with good reason.

And you don't need to take it much further to fall into the holographic universe principle or the simulation hypothesis and for those there are big discussions to be had in science communities.

To be clear, nothing stops you or me, or anyone for that matter from assuming so, but down that road the only answer I can think of is that nothing matters and might as well lay down and die.

I went with Antennapod and it seems good so far. It couldn't find one of the podcasts I liked by name, but when I searched for category it showed up. The rest were all found. Thank you all.

I'd hazard a guess that most people down vote you not because you don't want to use steam or that you want to pirate, but rather because it's most likely something wrong with your setup and you can't be arsed to figure out what the problem is. Which might end up being a lot more serious than simply being unable to launch steam.

IMO, figure it out, get your system to work properly and then go pirate if that's what you prefer.

How are those emulation devices? I really want to buy that rg35xx but I think it'd really bother me trying to play say ps1 in such a small screen. And of course ds stuff wouldn't be that good considering the one small screen.

It's been a decade. And I made general assets like couches, tables, cloth simulations etc. I have no idea which missions used them since. But I can vouch for Springheel's, Bikerdude's, Grayman's and Obsttorte's missions. At least the ones before 2012. Haven't played it since, I should do it soon. But from the ones I know for a fact, Grayman and Dragofer used them often in his missions. And the latter made a pass on my old stuff a couple of years ago to fix/update them. And did an awesome job at it.

It was a great team to work with, especially Springheel, he had a lot of patience with me having to learn the tools they used and spamming him with questions. :)

Can't see the video right now, but considering the old thief games are some of my favorite games ever, I don't think I'd disagree much. Still haven't found a better stealth game, 23 years later. Deus ex can come real close in terms of quality stealth if you play ghost, but while encouraged, it's not the point of the game.

Meanwhile, 162 days and counting for dead space.

Doesn't make me want to buy it, without trying it out first, but saying hours to days for denuvo is..a joke really. Sure there were a couple of games that were cracked in a couple of days, but that's a handful of them in the last 6 years or so. Most take a long, long time.

It's not. Most of the time it's fine, but there have been cases in the past that they added their own DRM in the games.

Mine would be Anarchy Online. Still around, though FC has ran it to the ground and not too obscure, considering it used to be quite big before 2005ish, but almost nobody talks about it in EU and the few times they do is to comment on the dreadful launch.

But I doubt there's a game I've sunk more hours into, playing constantly from release up to 2011 and then on and off until last year. Eventually I figured out it's just nostalgia and it's not worth it anymore, the time, let alone the sub.

I remember when I was considered a contrarian for refusing to have a facebook account back in 2008 or twiter later on or instagram. How times have changed.