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It's definitely an issue, but it's not an unworkable one. Villeneuve films for exemple, while a bit hit-or-miss on the characters, definitely use the format in a way where you loose something if you watch it on TV instead of in a theater.

Yep, Giga-Euro.

I don't disagree with you on the principle. But at this price tag (a significant part of the budget of a major Metropolitan area), you don't only need to know it's good : you need to know by how much it is better ; when the payoff is going to begin ;and how to you make sure you don't create issues which will persist for up to a century. Granted, large road projects aren't cheap either.

It also tie a significant amount of money each year to pay for continuous operation of these transportation, and for the moment, there is a significant number of transportation jobs which can't be filled. Roads are costly too, but can withstand these employment issue... for a time.

US cities probably should invest much more in this area, but there are limits to the ability of these project to solve transportation issues.

I'm not sure. Public transportation infrastructure is insanely expensive. Where I live (France), there was a project to add a new subway line. A single one. Estimated cost was more than 2 G€. And that's before taking into the numerous issues of another subway line modernization program...

Yeah, don't try this one in french then. The comic is extremely loquacious (it's a stylistic choice, which work very well for me), and even native French speakers often miss wordplays, or find the style difficult to understand (sentences can become quite convoluted for the sake of a pun).

To be honest, albums are fairly unequal : some of them are downright classics, some of them are quite forgettable.

If you want an idea of the stuff, I found this translation of one here, which should give you an idea of what the short strips ones look like. Even I remember this one being better in french.

I have no idea what it's worth translated, but "Le Roi des Zotres", "La Main du Serpent" and "L'archipel des Sanzunron" (in French) are some of my favorites. The hurricane of puns is a sight to behold.

I'm not much a bédé fan, but I read the "The Meta Barons" a long time ago, and found it very interesting... If a bit too violent (or sometime crude) for my tastes.

My favorite series is certainly the Achilles Talon series. Which, granted, have sometimes more text than images on the page.

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what Proton actually brought to Linux gaming.

I had been running Linux exclusively for some moths in 2013-2014, and trying to get games to work on Linux felt like this : Wine is likely able to run it if you can found the right configuration, but good luck with that. I think the only game I managed to run without issues was Civilization 4, so I rolled back on Windows some time later.

Of course, Valve contributed to Wine, and projects like dxvk and others are major achievements (if a team effort), but that's not their main contribution. Valve understood that gamers may be somewhat more tech-litterate than other people, but that making games work on Linux should be easy. And that's what Proton was made for.

Nowadays, most games I buy on Steam work out of the box. I sometimes forget to check protondb before buying a games, and I rarely had an issue. Even if in 2018 you had to tinker a bit, you rarely needed more than to choose the correct Proton version (big up to Glorious Eggroll).

I think it's symptomatic of the situation of the Linux Desktop : technically, it's where it needs to be. But there is still a gap in accessibility and easiness. Tinkering is nice, but you should not have to do it to have something that works.

No. You could reasonably argue that the LFI program is social-democrat, but their internal democracy is a joke, and JLM himself consider the Venezuelian political system to be a model while being remarkably tolerant of Russia's imperialistic moves. This guy's a crypto-tankie.

As for the RN, there are a fair number of fascists in the party (and nazis too, but that's different), but they mostly seems there because there are no legal political formation further right. The voting base don't particularly support them, and even the high management is annoyed by their presence/visibility... Even is their tolerance of it is far too much for my taste.

This government is getting dumber every day. Goddammit.

Using "Moderate leftist politicians" to depict Melenchon and its party is a very dubious take. And I won't ho into the use of "nazi" for convenience, refardless of the truth of the matter.