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I love watching cats get that first taste of actual petting with an actual human hand. Watching them go from "Not sure if want?" to "I need more!" is always heartwarming.

Quick thoughts:

• The Phantom Spirit 120 SE comes with a tube of TF7 thermal paste in it. It's not absolute top-end of paste, but I think for a 7600x you're probably going to be okay and don't need to buy separate paste.
• B650 PG lightning is a perfectly good board. 168 EUR isn't even that bad a price - I've seen it cheaper, but also for more. May depend on how long you want to wait.
• The RAM is good. It has a 6000-CL30 XMP profile that works perfectly fine for AM5 processors.
• Power supply is rated as "speculative position" on the PSU tier list. If you're not familiar with the list, you may want to poke around on it and see if you can find a more established model for roughly the same price.

TDP has two main leads, one white and one black.

I'm not walled off from Star Wars' controversies, merely pointing out that "every time" isn't accurate.

In case anyone is confused, the camel calf's body is facing the camera head-on; we're looking at its forelegs. Its neck is curved upwards sharply and slightly to the viewer's left, but the fur colors make it blend in (you can see the back of its neck slightly).

"Every time" is certainly an exaggeration. Just off the top of my head in a minute:

• The Dragon Prince - nobody gave a damn.
• Star Wars [pick any of several releases] - we've had various people of color, both human and alien, as protagonists. I don't remember much of a fuss over that in particular.
• Various MCU things - Brave New World just came out, again featuring Mackie as Wilson - taking the place of the stereotypically WASP Steve Rogers, no less.
• Hazbin Hotel: Vaggie is heavily coded as latina.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Witch From Mercury - okay, not a non-white lead, but the first Gundam series with a female lead, and a lesbian romance front and center. Once again, no attack.

If I looked around further, I'm sure I could find more. All of these have variously been critiqued for writing, characterization, or pacing, but failed to draw attacks based on the ethnicity (or orientation) of their protagonists.

Is this kind of attack a thing that happens? Absolutely. Is it "every time"? No. I'd suggest it's more often when a series goes out of its way to bludgeon the audience with a message related to it, or tries to sell a newcomer as a superior replacement for a legacy character, that people can get riled up.

Oh absolutely. OP only asked about UI, so I focused on that. But Generals had a lot of WC3 flavor in it.

Command and Conquer had traditionally used a "right-pillar" control interface, with your map at the top. utility controls like "sell building" or "power down", followed by a build selection screen below. There you had 4 panels you could select between - "main base" buildings, defensive buildings, infantry, and vehicles - and you could scroll up and down a given panel. So long as you had the right production building, you could select things to build from anywhere on the map. If a unit had a "special ability", it would be triggered by double-clicking on the unit.

Come 2003's Command and Conquer: Generals, the UI had been totally redone to resemble the layout of Blizzard's wildly popular Warcraft 3: The control panel now sat at the bottom of the screen, with the map on the left. Building a particular kind of unit required you to select the building or unit that produced it. Selecting an individual unit gave you a list of magic spells special abilities it could take, such as using an alternative weapon or purchasing a particular upgrade.

I'm pretty sure you're right with respect to AMD. I vaguely remember Vega was when they started getting recognition as a viable competitor, but Nvidia was still coasting on goodwill from the absolutely fantastic 10 and 20-series cards. So AMD renamed to seem "better" as well.

Nvidia's numbering was super weird, though. They had been climbing the "hundreds series" right up until the 10-series, then for some inexplicable reason decided to go to 16s? Those didn't get such a great reception, so they went straight to the "thousands series", probably to enact a "customer reset" for the new RTX line. But I half expect them to jump to a 100XX card in a couple years.

The question is, how did the mining town feel about the party cratering their lifeline in and out?

Spirit Guardians has long been one of those spells that can be absolutely brutal in the hands of the right character. It's gotten a bit more recognition since 5.5e turned it into an outright broken lawnmower, but it's always been up there as a better spell.

So, uh... explain to me why we can't just use invite codes without having the servers closed off? Like yeah, sure, that does make the invite technically redundant, but psychologically it's still there while retaining openness.

I was about to post about how that's not exactly a "leak", we've known this for a while... Then I realized, this is the RX 9070, not the RTX 5070. Go-go reading comprehension?

In reality, this just makes me more sorry that my setup won't work with an AMD GPU.

I admit unfamiliarity with SBY2199 beyond seeing some clips and understanding the basic concept.

That said, from what I do know, it's more of a... dramatic-flare show, whereas Gundam (especially the Universal Century) tends to be a bit grittier, grim, and grounded about war? You might enjoy Mobile Suit Gundam 00, which (from my perspective) is I think a little more "Yamato-like".

Nice, subscribed!

Yeah, I do apologize - I'm somewhat simplifying my explanation because when you start going into the full detail, it just brings up more questions.

So yes, like the other comment says, the particles are constantly bouncing into other things.

• If they're bounded in by something - walls of a container, or even just more gas surrounding the specific sample you're looking at - they'll bump into that, and transfer some of their energy to that.
• If they don't have something to bump off of and the particles are free-floating, they'll take off in any given direction. If they only have something to bump off of in a limited number of directions, they'll take off in the other direction. (For instance, in a rocket engine, we make a lot of molecules really, really hot and then surround them with barriers in every direction except the one we want them to zoom out in.)
• In some cases, the molecules have electromagnetic bonds with each other, which take more energy to break than the energy contained in their "bouncing around". So they'll stay stuck, just bouncing off each other, even in a vacuum, (Or at least, until they radiate away their heat via electromagnetic energy... another whole story.)

Yes, and no. Heat and kinetic energy are fundamentally all just energy. What we call heat is, technically, the kinetic energy of molecules vibrating around.

When exhaust gas passes through a turbocharger, it is both slowed and reduced in pressure, resulting in it coming out slightly cooler than when it entered. This device is using a different method of getting energy out of the exhaust gas, but it's fundamentally still the kinetic energy of those very energetic exhaust gas molecules bouncing against one side of the thermoelectric generator and giving up their energy into it. I would still expect the exhaust gas to come out of it slightly cooler and slower.

I'm always a little sorrowful people unfamiliar with cats will look at this, see narrow side-eye, and think "Oh, that cat is being cold and distant."

No. That is a cat content with the world. That is a cat who is totally comfortable and at peace with her perch. Congratulations, and - if those are your legs under the blanket - my condolences at your eternal entrapment beneath the immovable kitty.

It isn't very long, but I just wrapped up Mobile Suit Gundam: Requiem For Vengeance.

It's kind of obvious that it was a rather low-budget show, which is a pity because the story concept is something I've wanted for ages, but now won't be repeated because it was done and didn't fare well.

Bookwise, I'm chewing my way through The Dresden Files.

Echoing this. Even as someone who does read sci-fi, I think leaving it open ended is better. Hobbies is a good angle; it could also be "What show, book, or film did you enjoy recently?" then follow it up with "Why?" and work from there.

What this shows:

• They live a balanced-enough life that they have time to do relaxing stuff, aren't money-focused tryhards like OP is trying to weed out.
• Allows them to demonstrate explaining a topic unfamiliar to the interviewer.
• Shows how they respond to unexpected questions outside the normal, practiced interview set.
• Follow up questions can still weed out people who are viewing it "just because", they heard it was popular, or whatever.

Wait, so like, do we just play the game forever? Or are we actually going into the game world?

Can we break the boundaries of the game mechanics since we're now "inside" it? Or are we still limited to what the game lets us do?