I’m a big fan of Fate but I wouldn’t try it with a big group of players who are unfamiliar with it. It’s not a crunchy system but not really rules-light either and needs a very different approach than most traditional games; e.g. if the players aren’t used to self-compels, you’ll have your hands full remembering all the PCs’ aspects and trying to keep them in play so the players regularly get Fate Points.

BtVS was not an adaptation but created by Joss Whedon for the 1992 movie and 1997 series. Any comics or other media came later.

Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.

The plot of Ponies is ridiculous. I wanted to like the show but couldn’t get through more than two episodes.

Owning firearms in Germany isn’t really that difficult although you must invest considerably more time and money than in countries like the US. Legally carrying them in public is a whole other story. Unless you work as something like a judge or prosecutor or have some serious death threats against you, the chance of getting a license approved is extremely low.

Germany at a secondary school, grades 5–13:

• from grade 5: Latin (at least 6 years)
• from grade 7: English (at least 4 years)
• from grade 9: French or Ancient Greek (optional)
• from grade 11: Spanish or Italian or Hebrew (optional)

That was about 20 years ago and learning Latin, let alone Ancient Greek, had become the exception even then.

Huh, if asked what non-superhero comic I thought would be adapted next for TV, Sex Criminals would not have been among my first guesses. I’m mildly intrigued.

Ich hatte mich schon gewundert, was vorhin los war. Ich musste mehrere DNS-Provider durchprobieren, bis Amazon.de wieder erreichbar war. Andere Seiten waren mir nicht aufgefallen, kann aber sein, dass sonst keine de-Domain dabei war.

I’d say the problem with season 2 is that they just had too much plot. I assume they learned that they wouldn’t get a third season and tried to cram two seasons worth of plot into one. It’s still phenomenal and I recommend to watch it but it suffers from its fast pacing that leaves little room for the characters to breathe and some side plots underdeveloped.

Calling Arcane “pleasant enough” is wild. Personally, I rank it as one of the best shows of all time, not just animation. The second season suffers a bit from wanting to do too much in too little time but it’s still incredible nonetheless.

(I still have to watch Pantheon. I keep forgetting about it.)

Given that the Soviet occupation ended 35 years ago and that Russia certainly has become less popular since its invasion of Ukraine, I would have expected the use of the Russian language to decrease instead of increase. Can anyone shed some light on this development?

It looks ridiculous. Should at least have been a smart watch. But I guess you can’t demand a six-figure price without making it an analog watch — no matter if it fits the design.

Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that’s worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it’s a lot easier than many people think.

One game that might fit the bill or at least serve as a good base for a homebrew is East Texas University. It’s heavily inspired by BtVS and uses the generic Savage Worlds system, which should make it easy to adapt, possibly making use of the Horror, Fantasy, and Super Powers Companions. I haven’t played ETU yet but Savage Worlds as a system delivers pulp action with a good bit of crunch, especially for fights — somewhere in the middle between GURPS and Fate, I’d say.

If you have your (encrypted) password manager file backed up to one or more otherwise unencrypted media, then remembering your master password will be enough in a pinch. But yes, for day to day password handling you’d want to have a few more memorized, e.g. the ones you’ve mentioned. As those are passwords you enter daily, it’s usually not much of a problem, especially if you use memorization techniques.

You do realize that you don’t have to read a documentation from beginning to end, don’t you? But for that specific feature you need and don’t know how to use—RTFM!

PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.

uBlock Origin works fine with Firefox but it’s not better. Brave Shield is basically UBO rewritten in Rust and integrated directly in the browser code so it isn’t limited by the extension API and works more efficiently.

This! I never understand people who recommend Librewolf or other forks over Firefox just because some default settings are better.

I trust Vanadium but it’s not the best if you like your web ad-free.