it has a lot of different names, not sure if that will help or hinder

Yup not an ideal situation to spur on planning and preparation. They can't scale up quickly enough in the relevant ways in the manner you're suggesting (before Monday) can they? I see this more as a situation where they admit a large influx will break the site, plan for a general "all hands on deck" day to assess the issues (if any) as they arise, interpret, prioritize work. If hosts have issues with server migrations, deployments, etc. etc. it's already the weekend and none of it is an option for Monday.

Yeah I mean I love Paradox and I love the Star Trek universe. Those two things have the potential to be amazing together and I think whoever was in charge of this trailer understood that. A quick cutscene saying "We're doing a Star Trek thing guys" as an announcement and then off to work on the game.

Eh? For the trailer?? This 45 second announcement trailer with no game content has all the budget it deserves imo. Such a forgetful scene in general yeah? A generic cutscene of the Borg dropping their catch phrase on a nameless Starfleet captain is almost cringeworthy levels of basic and would only be more so if they hired good actors. I think it's fine though, all they're doing here is saying "this project exists, look it's the Borg! stay tuned" instead of something with any aims to impress us.

Yup I remember thinking to myself at the time that I must be tasting incorrectly or somehow my tongue is different from everyone else lol.

Yeah I'd still need Windows every day for work

Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I'm starting soon I'll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

I guess a combination of things. Bad early science that was easy to present in a little diagram. Then when it's disproved, nothing similar to replace it with but the unglamorous fact that it all just sort of tastes the same.

I'm sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I'm annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I'm all set up and have learned it, it'll probably be better than Windows but I'm just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

I dunno.. I've always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn't enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.

I always think about when I was taught about taste and the human tongue back in grade school, they had these diagrams about zones on the tongue corresponding to sweet, sour, bitter, etc. like a "taste map". I'm not sure how many generations were taught about it but turns out it just isn't true at all. So, not like it's important but you got a lot of misinformed folks out there in regards to taste lol

I'm holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They've tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it's been a minute.

Yeah totally agreed. Especially if it's made by Apple lmfao

Do we get a heads up like "You're about to suddenly wake up a thousand years ago in England good luck!" BOOSH because otherwise it kinda matters exactly where you get dropped. For me it really wouldn't matter much, I'd be dead pretty quick either way but someone with some skills might have a go at it.

I'm terrible too lol I only play on PVE servers. Big update 42 is coming down the pipe soon(ish), might be a good time for you all to pick it back up.

I mean it's a different topic, aside from how a business (for profit or not) takes software (foss or not) and makes money from it. Wikipedia software is used a lot I'm just saying it's not relevant to what I was talking about. Like if companies didn't use this free software for internal documenting they would use something else, no biggie. In the same way that if the worlds largest online encyclopedia no longer had Wikipedia software, they would use something else, no biggie. The word wiki is like the word kleenex and that's great for the founder of wikipedia, maybe? But it's still just tissue paper.

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don't play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

Any good alternatives? Everything I found has no content or pretends to have content so I can click the screen 1000 times for them. I took rarbg for granted for so long, I never realized it was in a class of its own.

I guess so. I would really love to see the paid competitor that successfully displaces Wikipedia. It would have to be extremely impressive wouldn't it? Like paradigm shift level impressive. Any startup that currently claims to do it "better" will also need to make it available for free, or instantly fail because of no users ever bothering to sign up.

I guess I just don't get how being open sourced code is really relevant to Wikipedia? The code is not special is it? They don't need donations to pay for elite programmers, it's servers and IT people. The code being open source means that someone else can copy their own Wikipedia if they felt like competing and thought for some reason that they could. The fact that Wikipedia Foundation is non-profit basically precludes this but I think you answered my question basically anyway, they don't rely on only donations.