I thought I was lucky to be in California…fuck me.
You should go read the actual requirements because it's probably the sanest version of this that exists.
Your OS just has to have a way for you to say "I am this age" (bracketed into several groups) at account creation and software is supposed to respect that. Not a fucking face scan or ID or any of that other bullshit that some other idiotic "verification" attempts require.
I just played it recently for the first time. Took me about 50 hours from start to rocket launch (the win condition) in the default, recommended free-play campaign + a few more hours before that to go through the tutorial stages.
Haven't tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.
At some point a few years ago, I went to https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top and just downloaded everything from the list that day that looked interesting and threw them all on an old kindle. They haven't all been winners for me, but a decent number were readable enough.
Is this a Bayeskisser meme? 😛️
Yeah, that's what I mean by AI-nese. Formality in Japanese is great point.
Classes won't necessarily help you there as much as you'd like though. Even after 3+ years of them as a kid, I was told on a foreign exchange trip (where my host brother spoke much better English than my Japanese) that his family found it weird how formal I was, and I had to explain that my teachers literally had not taught me how to speak informally yet!
Don't get me started on how frustrating Japanese language curriculum is... I took 7 years of classes (starting in elementary school) and not a single teacher even mentioned the word 君 -- which is in damned near every pop song! (grumble grumble...) I had to learn that word from TVTropes rather than any of my textbooks because after 7 years of study, I still couldn't understand the variations of "you" that are actually used in a typical episode of anime. 🤦️
Can you imagine going through seven years of English classes and no one brings up the word "ma'am" even in passing? Or going through three years of classes without introducing contractions like "can't"?! (rant rant rant... 🙄️)
For the lecturing portion of what a teacher does? Probably; YouTube's replaced/supplemented mediocre professors and tutors for a decade already on a number of subjects (e.g. math).
I hadn't considered using an LLM to practice my Japanese, but if it can spit out entire articles of mostly coherent language, it could probably serve as a practice conversational partner with reduced feelings of embarrassment for some people too. Doubt it'd be worse than the "split up into pairs (of non-native speakers trying to talk to each other despite insufficient vocabulary)" exercises that we had to do back when I was in school... Picking up an AI-nese accent would be a risk though, like learning too much of your Japanese from anime or your English from Hollywood movie trailers. (I didn't really understand that until I heard a guy on YT several years ago using the "In a world... where blah, blah, blah..." movie trailer cadence repeatedly as part of his plain old regular commentary. That was... enlightening.)
For the "babysitting" part of what teachers do? Probably not any time soon.
IM-based: AIM+MSN+etc... -> IRC -> Google Talk -> SMS -> (nothing for many years) -> Slack (for work)
Web-Based: forums (esp. GMC) -> Digg -> reddit (mainly) + HN (sometimes) -> kbin -> lemmy
Haven't run into this personally, but most of my gaming on Linux these days is on the Steam Deck without anything particularly interesting going on storage-wise.
It'd probably help with debugging if you add the distro you are using into the text of your post. Also, how are you launching the games? (Steam? Lutris? Heroic? Something else?)
For RE4 specifically, Steam has it listed as "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: The Enigma Protector", so you might be running into some shittiness from DRM on that one, perhaps?
If you're running on Fedora or related distros, check your system logs to see if SELinux is complaining about anything. Sometimes the security features are overzealous.
Best of luck!
I don't know about bears, but I wouldn't it put it past a bonobo...
Edit: Dolphins are also famously kinky and some of them would probably do it if they could.
We use VPNs at work a lot for protecting traffic as it passes over the public internet between distant sites. From a security perspective, it's better not to give devices direct access to the internet if they don't actually need it. That's stuff we're running ourselves though; not a commercial VPN service we're paying for.
I liked the UI when I first encountered it, but it being invite-only killed what interest I had in it pretty quick during the 2023 reddit exodus. Seems to still be invite only in 2026.
I haven't seen compelling enough evidence to believe in the supernatural.
That said, we do seem to be well on our way to engineering ghost-like phenomenon. People will set up LLMs and generative AI systems that imitate dead people, if they haven't already...
No ghosts IRL? No problem! We'll make ghosts!
Thanks Humanity. 🙄️