It’s a *lot* better these days. Here’s how you could use it to improve the English in your comment:

Can you point out and characterise the grammar mistakes in the following sentence, with tips on how the writer could avoid similar mistakes in future - “I must admit its been a while, but all these things where horrible last time i played with them.”

Sure — that sentence has a few grammar issues, each pointing to a common kind of slip. Here’s the breakdown:

1. “its been a while” → “it’s been a while”

Mistake: “its” is a possessive pronoun (like his, her, their), while “it’s” is the contraction of “it has”. Fix: Use “it’s” because the writer means “it has been a while”.

Tip: When in doubt, try expanding “it’s” to “it is” or “it has” and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it doesn’t, you probably want “its”.

2. “where horrible” → “were horrible”

Mistake: “where” (a location) is confused with “were” (past tense of are). Fix: Use “were” to correctly form the past tense of “to be”.

Tip: Say it aloud—“they were horrible” sounds natural, while “they where horrible” doesn’t. If it’s a verb (they were), you want “were”.

3. “i played” → “I played”

Mistake: Lowercase “i”. Fix: Always capitalize “I” when it’s a pronoun referring to oneself.

Tip: This is more about habit than logic—just train yourself to always type “I” in uppercase, even in casual writing.

Full corrected version: “I must admit it’s been a while, but all these things were horrible last time I played with them.”

I was puzzled by this too, so I took one for the team and clicked the link. Yes it does appear to mean that there were less users using the Chinese language in this survey than the one for the previous month, which implies fewer Chinese users: “Last month we saw quite a sharp drop for the Linux stats, which coincided with Simplified Chinese once again rising as the language choice on Steam. This is something that happens now and then.”

Why there is a link between Chinese users and Windows is an interesting question. Could be related to a higher number of Internet cafés there - not sure if that’s still true but it used to be - and/or greater acceptability and availability of pirated software in China compared to Europe and USA causing reduced demand for free alternatives.

I put it on the hat on the throttle

That’s where I’ve got mine too

the build quality that leaves a bit to be desired

Got you, thanks

The absolute rock bottom cheapest I’d suggest is an X52, and even then I hesitate to actually recommend it

What would be better with a more expensive control system? Just curious - I’ve got an X52 also, it seems fine, although I haven’t found a good way to map the “strafe” axes (i.e. vertically up/down, horizontally left/right).

There’s really nothing special about Jesus, if you accept that the voices he heard in his head were not really “the all-powerful creator” speaking to him.

What I mean is that Jesus did not say anything more remarkable or ground-breaking than say Socrates, Marx or … I don’t know Iain M Banks or any other story teller. Way less remarkable in fact.

There’s this persistent idea that Jesus was some wonderful caring hippy, and before Jesus everyone was just a callous exploitive bastard. But there’s nothing new about the share-and-share-alike philosophy Jesus espoused. It’s basic game theory and has been present in society since before our species even evolved. Even chimps grasp those ideas.

Jesus was just a poor Jewish common person who thought he was the messiah. Just like his compatriots of the time, he believed the Jews to be the “chosen people”, and his message was only directed at his compatriots. He had no more grasp of humanity as a whole than any other common person of his time. As the messiah, he believed - as did his followers - that he was going to usher in the end of the world.

It’s complete nonsense, and if you truely understand what a scam the modern church is, you would stop promoting him as some kind of revolutionary.

Not sure what you’re saying - do you mean that if you use target nearest hostile, but there isn’t a hostile ship in the vicinity, it would instead target the original object? Hmm doesn’t sound right! Sorry, what did you mean?

When you’re in supercruise heading to a distant targeted destination, if the player targets other objects that they are going past, it should be easy to then re-target the original destination object again.

I can’t be the only one that would like to be able to target passing spaceships, planets or other objects while I’m on a 5 minute supercruise to some interesting thing I’ve found in the discovery scanner? The fact I would have to go back into the discovery scanner and find that same object again means I can’t really do this. Or is there already a way I don’t know about?

Either there would be a new button like the “target next system in route” button for hyperspace jumps, or whatever object(s) you target remain available to re-target again by use of Next-Target / Previous-Target keybinds.

maybe, but unless you’re a believer in trickle-down economics, what do we lose as a society if they do?

the measures covered by this article aren’t about people trying to reduce their tax bill though, they’re about stopping dodgy tax avoidance schemes: “There is a mini-industry of creating tax avoidance schemes which have no prospect of success.”

If I understand the article right, these dodgy schemes are mostly designed to make their promoters money from fees, because when they are overturned in court, the taxes people have improperly avoided will have to be paid. However the people who ran the scheme will have already taken lots of money in fees.

a sign of utter desperation on the human’s part.

Yes it seems to be the same underlying issue that leads some people to throw money at only fans streamers and such like. A complete starvation of personal contact that leads people to willingly live in a fantasy world.

It was also a true AI wasn’t it? It ran locally and was never turned off, so conversations with it were private and it continued to “exist” and develop by itself.

You don’t know what Geneva_convenience did or didn’t mean. Unlike you, I didn’t make any assumptions, I just asked them to clarify. They couldn’t or didn’t want to. Why you then came jumping in like a sad loser is anyone’s guess.

If you want to talk about the subject of this post, then make a comment of your own. I’m not interested in discussing your assumptions about what some other person actually meant.

If we’re talking about religion and conspiracy theories then yes, your religious affiliation is relevant. The more religious someone is, the more likely they are to believe in conspiracy theories, such as the ones I mentioned.

This thread started with geneva_convenience claiming the rape gangs were a hoax. That’s crazy talk. They were not a hoax, heinous crimes were ignored and brushed under the carpet for years, children were seriously let down by the system, police and authorities missed many opportunities to help children in desperate need. There is no hoax there, and to call it a hoax is on a par with holocaust denial.

Your whataboutism to try to minimise the rapists’ crimes is completely irrelevant and at best missing the point. No one is saying these are the only people to commit rapes, literally nobody is saying that.

Samsung is also a pretty shit company to be fair - look at the shenanigans they pull with adverts in their smart TVs for one. Sad fact is that most companies are at least 80% shit! Even the ones that are alright are prone to quickly enshitify overnight.

I’m happy to talk facts. Start with telling me your religious affiliation. We can take it from there.

what’s islamophobic about what I said? Everything I said is undeniably true isn’t it?

Do you think people shouldn’t be allowed to point out uncomfortable truths about your religion?

That’s why I asked if you were muslim. Are you? If you are, you should know that the islamic religion was started by some guy in the desert who heard voices in his head, and he thought the voices belonged to a Jewish angel.

That’s not very special - go to any mental care ward in any modern city, and you’ll find plenty of schizophrenics saying very similar things. What makes Mohammed special was not the voices in his head, but that he managed to convince other people that he really was talking to this magical flying Jew (who was conveniently enough completely invisible and could only be heard by Mohammed), and they should follow him and do whatever he said.

So my point is that anyone in the modern world who believes a story like the Mohammed story has already taken leave of their senses, and it would be no surprise if it turned out they believed all sorts of other conspiracy theories, like 911 was faked, or the moon landings were faked, or the muslim rape gangs were faked.

You’re beginning to sound like a bit of a conspiracy nut. Are you muslim? You’d have to be kind of nuts to think that a guy who heard voices in his head was genuinely talking to a real live Jewish angel rather than just suffering from untreated mental illness!

everyone screams hate slurs about Muslims

They do?

Must’ve been a hell of a shower if adding a whole nother layer of weirdness in the form of time-travellers somehow made anything seem more logical!

with multiple scenarios and multiplayer

CS2 is *only* multiplayer. Are you specifically looking for online-only PvP shooters? Or something with a single-player story?

CS2 has already been suggested, it works fine and def has very polished graphics, physics effects (e.g. the smoke grenades), and of course an active player-base which is essential for online-only.

Obviously it requires Steam - if you’re looking for something outside of Steam it’s going to restrict your options a lot.

If not, you’ve also got older versions of Counter-Strike on Steam - you can still play CS Source and I think maybe CS 1.6 is still possible?

I’ve also had no problems running Battlefield V on Linux - using Steam but at least you don’t have to also worry about logging into EA’s launcher, which is still there AFAIK but handled seamlessly in the background. I’ve not tried in a while - almost a year, there were enough players then to get a decent game going, not sure what it’s like now though.

Another one which is (or at least was) popular is BattleBit Remastered - I’ve not personally tried it but it’s on my wishlist and has a good protondb score.