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Hm, I may need to rewatch it myself. That also doesn’t match what the link above suggests about interpreting the ending: “Algren finds redemption through his newfound purpose and ultimately sacrifices his life for the cause he once opposed.”

Edit: I just checked the last scene. You’re right, he doesn’t actually die. Which means the link is also wrong.

Still, I think it’s a stretch to say he’s the last samurai, since he never really becomes a samurai. One important note is that samurai is “samurai” in the plural, too.

What did he save? Literally everyone but Meiji-backed forces dies at the end.

It is implied that Tom Cruise dies at the end. I think the confusion comes from a voice over, but you never see the character on screen again.

He also does not “become a samurai”. He fights alongside them, but at no point do they call him a samurai.

Edit: looks like that link is wrong. He doesn’t die at the end. I guess memory is a fickle beast.

The fun thing about The Last Samurai is that the title doesn’t refer to Tom Cruise. He does not play a samurai in the film. He plays an American officer.

He hangs with a group of samurai, who are collectively the last of their kind.

That said, plenty of people complained about it in its day.

Thanks

Yep yep, I didn’t take offense. Tbh idk why I still do it. Just habit I guess.

Edit: I made an edit but I won’t say what it was. :)

Maybe it is. I always considered it a courtesy since otherwise it can be difficult to see what was edited. It’s from my reddit days.

But if the file system needs extra writes anyway for CoW, and the SSD needs its own CoW, then wouldn’t that end up being exponential writes? Or is there some mechanism which mitigates that?

I don’t disagree with that. They’re also a much smaller group so I think it just stands to reason.

But I do appreciate that they’re taking chances (probably for the same reason). Cosmic is quite impressive already and a good alternative to Gnome/KDE/Cinnamon; better than the Pop Shell on Gnome.

Edit: a word

It’s more expensive for a worse game than V or VI, both of which can be had for the price of dirt.

Not surprising.

Yes. My gaming rig has been on Pop for years now.

I hate the idea of still being on Pop. But it’s so damned pleasant.

Now on the Cosmic alpha.

The CoW nature of Btrfs means it’s often slower than ext4 for common tasks, right? It also means more writes to your SSDs.

I’ve stuck to ext4 so far, as someone who doesn’t really have a need for snapshotting.

Edit: I’m not an expert on file systems in the least, so do chime in if these assumptions are incorrect.

Whew, that’s gonna open up a lot or capital so these companies can finally pay other employees fair wages. Right?.. Right?!

It’s also way different from the goal of HL2. Downloading a launcher called Steam for free is not the same thing as buying specific hardware to play one game.

Ok boomer

Sonic 2. It came bundled with a lot of Sega Genesis consoles.

A fantastic game that you can technically complete in a sitting.

It is NOT, in fact, more user friendly than 15 years ago.

This is just patently false. Pick any common distro.

Cool, now I can watch it.

Movie theaters are such a joke now. To see a movie with just one other person is easily $50+, possibly slightly higher. All that to possibly end up in a theater with someone loud af anyway and a theater staff that doesn’t give the slightest fuck since they’re also criminally underpaid.

That’s about what I paid for mine as well. Feels like I stole it for how it benchmarks. Last gen x3d is definitely overpriced in comparison.

I absolutely love my 9700x.

At the bone stock 65W TDP, it runs incredibly cool and is a nice performer. 105W TDP is now officially supported as well, which gives you even better performance and it still runs cooler than any major player from Team Blue.

At this point I’d rather have efficiency rather than push for those few extra frames with Intel and need hundreds of bucks more in cooling hardware and power draw.