Technically you don’t need it, but it makes it a little easier for the developers and the users.

For that matter, if you poke around in some games’ files, you can find the actual game.exe and launch it directly from there, bypassing the launcher. You just bypass the authentication and compatibility checking as well.

This is /c/nostupidquestions, not /c/jokessobadthey’rewarcrimes.

Imperial Guard. Generally speaking, I like stories of mundane people facing down superhuman/supernatural threats through the power of technology and skill. So the idea of good ol’ fashioned regular humans facing down cybernetic supersoldiers, undying robots, literal demons, and the rest of 40k’s menagerie of horrors via overwhelming artillery, tanks, and fortifications is one I enjoy.

Sadly, after a brief time in the limelight, it feels like they’ve gone back to being “those guys who die so we can see how cool the Astartes are”. But there was a time where, both lore- and crunch-wise, IG were the undisuputed masters of large-scale armored warfare.

After them, it’s a tossup of Orks, Necrons, and Mechanicus (do they count as a distinct ‘faction’ now?).

Engineer here, so I’m aware of the fundamentals of “how not to kill yourself with electricity”. Anything tying into the grid I’m definitely calling a professional for.

But no, I’m not in a financial or property situation to install a grid-connected system, so I was imagining a “balcony solar” kit that’d just charge a small battery bank I could run some lights, a fan, or some similar low-load devices off of. I don’t know if such a thing exists (or if it’s a smart idea), but I’d like to look into it and find out.

“In the middle of my backswing?!”

Not my favorite, but it’s certainly a good one.

Mostly because I am not in a place, financially or home-wise, to install a full grid-connected system. I’m just looking for something that I can use to charge enough battery to run a lamp, fan, charge devices, or other such similar light loads on a daily basis. It won’t bring my power bill to zero, but it will chip away at it.

Is there a good place to ask about independent (non-grid-connected) solar for an otherwise grid-connected structure? I’d love to set something like this up, but can’t find any systems which don’t require wiring into the gird.

May I point out this entire question is fundamentally broken.

I have absolute authority over the entire world? I order everyone to vote ‘Approve’ on me. “But wait!” you say, “You can’t just order them to do that! They’ll never listen to you!”

And that could be absolutely true. But if it is, then my authority is no longer absolute - in which case, no course I take will work, because anyone can elect to not follow it. I can’t compel any group of people - nations, religions, corporations, the local elderly golfer’s association - to do anything. And the second they realize that, they’ll break off to pursue their own agendas.

At most, I can select one broad coalition who I think will work with me, and try to leverage a smaller group. But now we’re just back to good ol’ factionalism, and that’s not a long-term winning solution.

Oh yeah, I totally understood why you chose to cut it off there. I’m just okay with a few more years of subsequent content.

This, though I’d even be willing to stretch it a few years later.

You get everything from people analyzing the gritty details of the technology of the setting, to the classic wild adventure romps, to wacky mystic stuff. It brought us incredible stuff like the original Battlefront II’s portrayal of clones, Jango and Boba Fett being further fleshed out, Shatterpoint being basically Space Vietnam, and more.

Yes!

The whole game’s aesthetic was fantastic. Nailed that kind of grungy, late-90s cyberpunk aesthetic in a voxel RTS game in a way that I don’t feel any has since. Something about the style made you feel like fighting in a world being strangled by Tiberium.

Yep. (Mira Furlan was a real punch in the gut, particularly.)

Ah man, Renegade. Definitely had one of the more interesting multiplayer match concepts. The closest thing I’ve maybe seen was Planetside, and, uh… well, Planetside 2 has plenty of its own issues.

But still. Good memories of shacking everyone into a flame tank, or running around like madmen trying to figure out where the hell that nuke beacon was planted. Have you seen the Tiberian Sun Renegade efforts?

The volume spontaneously resets itself to the default level ~50%. I think it means the headphone jack has issues, and it’s thinking a device is being connected/disconnected.

As long as we’re on cancelled sci-fi shows, Babylon 5 spinoffs. The entire setting is more or less dead and it hurts.

(Yes, I know about The Road Home. It’s not the same.)

Man, they won’t even remaster Tib Sun and RA2. You know fans would go absolutely bonkers for those, even moreso than original C&C/RA.

I’m particularly bitter about the unreleased FPS shooter. Seeing the Scrin as actually in-person terrifying monsters, plus a more empathetic Brotherhood of Nod, could have made for some great stories.

I am in a relatively stable area with police who are reasonably well-behaved and under rational oversight. So… all the usual reasons?

I’ve called because I sighted a possibly rabid animal. The police didn’t arrive in a hail of gunfire which struck a bunch of innocent bystanders. I’ve had them turn up to take notes on a car accident. They were polite and not aggressive.

Like, I fully recognize I’m lucky to live in an area where the police aren’t abusive. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to call them because they are assholes somewhere else.

I mean, at least for me, the question is “Who?”

In more ways than one. It’s quite evident to me now that a candidate needs to be charismatic, not just have some good ideas, to motivate voters to take their side. But “leftism” and “leftist” are still pretty vague labels. Just personally, some of the left-wing figures in the US today would earn my vote and some would not. More broadly, and I think there’d be a big difference between voters-at-large’s willingness to accept Bernie-esque proposals and some of the more out-there stuff I’ve seen.

While the kits may use standardized plumbing connector, they are not all guaranteed to use the same standard sizes.

Tossup between “You didn’t join the military?” and “Why the hell do you want to sleep so much! You’re an adult! You could be up at midnight!”