Please tell me how a rogue employee could print those rare cards on his own. Do you understand that those cards require specialized equipment and card stock not really available to the public?

Counterfeits are easy to spot, or if there are put there counterfeits indistinguishable from the real ones, then it seems the counterfeiters make sure to keep the market high.

What can, and did, happen though, is that done guy can print drawings, glue them on cardboard, say they are prototype cards from before the release of the game, and sell them for over 100 000 $...

That's called making proxys and everyone playing those cards games is doing it when playing with friends to test cards or to use prohibitively expensive ones.

Not legal in tournaments, but noone cares outside. And yes, some websites offer alternate, tasteful or not, arts for those cards.

The card printing companies aren't dumb, they are quite aware of the secondary market and most do what they can to at least not tank it, because it could kill their business if they do.

One thing they do is make it easy to distinguish which card is a reprint or is original, with symbols or serial numbers, or different design or arts, or different back. And many card games these days have anti counterfeit measures in place for their most rare cards (which are usually foil, so harder to counterfeit in the first place).

Some companies also pledged to never reprint some cards in a legal to play them way. Wizards of the coast do so for Magic. Cards put on the reserved list will never be reprinted as legal cards (dick move for people who just want to play the game and can't buy those cards). They did reprint some extremely expensive cards but with different backs and square corners, making them illegal in tournaments. They still fetch a high price, but nothing close to the original legal card.

Case in point, the Charizard in question that can fetch absurd prices has been reprinted at least 17 times, in a functionally identical way game wise, must of them with the same art and legal in tournaments, and you can see here how the first editions versions are still way more expensive https://www.cardmarket.com/en/...

You can get a foil good condition one from the evolution set for less than 50â (still an absurd price, I agree), but if you want a base edition one, you'll need to shell at least 500â for a shitty condition one, which isn't even foil.

Those people's kids, now adults, can try to let go of the past and build a country on the land they have and create a good future for their kids, or pass on the hate and their impossible quest to get land back to their children, ensuring they'll suffer the same misery.

And Italians and Germans and French and British and half of Europe had very real reasons to hate everyone else too 80 years ago.

They cut their losses, didn't pass on the hate, they rebuilt and now there're no borders.

Palestinians have a place to go to : where they are currently. At least for the west bank, the population density there is high but viable, and the Palestinian authority is probably open to peace. They won't get any more land anyway, and everyday that passes where the Palestinians don't cut their losses is a day israel uses to grab more and more land.

Gaza is an issue, but at this point, it's completely blocking any peace attempt. The palestinian authority should just recognize gaza as a lost territory (which it is, de facto), give it up, and work towards building a state on the west bank and peace with israel, with the objective of later reclaiming gaza.

The current stance can only make things worse for the Palestinians, and israel won't change its stance, since it's winning. The ball is on the west bank.

In 1948. Everyone who participated in that is dead or will soon be.

Wars happen, conquest of land too. Some win, some lose, many die, people are moved, treaties are signed and borders established. That's how it worked for millenia and how it still works today.

Or should all white Americans go back to Europe, and all arabs in Africa back to the arab peninsula, how far back do you want to roll history back?

You may not like it, I don't either, but reality doesn't give a shit about what we think.

There was a war, israel won it, they took the land, and Palestinians don't have and won't have the means to wrestle it back. That's reality.

At one point, you lost, you should cut your losses and try to get the least worse deal with the last bad cards you have in hands.

But Palestine acts like the addicted gambler who bets ever more in hope to win back what he lost, while crying to other people that the casino should give him back everything he lost. As if that would happen. Except in a casino, you have 49.5% chance of winning. Here the bet is always losing, and israel is the croupier that is all too happy to incite the gambling, knowing that every new bet will get them more land.

Imagine if germany was constantly crying about the parts of its old empire that it lost during the 2 world wars while bombing Poland every other week. It would still be under the allies rule, maybe not unlike Palestine is now. Instead they cut their losses, accepted their new borders, the land they lost and the reparations they had to pay and now they regained their sovereignty and became a successful country.

History happens, cut your losses, sign peace and work for a better future.

And for me it's important to be able to change the screen resolution from the command line.

I have some old games with a low resolution and 4/3 aspect ratio running through wine and the only way to play them well is to lower the screen resolution.

Something really done with xrandr, that I put in the scripts I use to run those games, and which lowers the resolution at launch and resets it when the game is closed.

Last time I checked, it was still impossible to do in Wayland, with the response by some Wayland fanboys being "no Wayland doesn't lack functionality, you can still change the resolution, you just need to go to the settings and click"...

So I don't have much hope, and it will remain a blocking issue for me.

I agree, hence the "(or shouldn't, at least)", but tell that to my country's leaders...

But those who aren't satisfied with the current status won't (or shouldn't, at least) be satisfied with that 99%.

When you think about moving nation-level strategic data to a cloud, it doesn't matter if the probability of it leaking to the US gov is 1% or 60%, as long as it's not 0, it's an issue.

That's weird, right? Maybe it's similar to Georges Lucas with star wars: people were allowed to tell him "no" during the first movies, and he didn't have much power. Then for the newer ones, he was completely unchecked.

It maybe the opposite, he had freedom at the beginning, but now big mouse has a day in the scripts.

I was hopeful when I learned he'd return, especially with Tennant for the specials, but then said specials were released and that hope was obliterated.

I don't know what happened, but something did.

As a guy who never watched the old series (I was a baby when it ended), I find your take on the new one rather surprising, but also interesting, especially as I had hope when it was announced that RTD was coming back.

You seem to put all of the new series in the same bag of awful, and while I understand why you wouldn't like any of it since it changed too much compared to the old, I still find it odd you don't differentiate between the first seasons and the latter seasons of the new series.

Like it or not, the first new seasons were successful, and made the show a global phenomenon, with RTD and then Moffat running and writing most of it.

The show took a deep dive when it was handed to Chibnall.

What really surprised me though, is how it continued, and maybe even accelerated that dive when RTD returned as showrunner and main writer. I thought maybe disney had a hand in the change of quality of his work, or maybe that he was just old, tired, or went full political correctness, but your comment sheds an interesting light.

You pick and choose the revisions you like. There was always debate on that page, but most of the time, it said he was a retainer, or at least mentioned the diverging opinions and sources.

You're right that edits were locked once hordes of racists pieces of shit tried to change it. You're just wrong in assuming only one side is racist. If you think the afrocentrists who push the narrative that there's is absolutely no doubt he was a samurai aren't racists just as much as those who claim it is certain he was just a curiosity, I have a bridge to sell you.

The page should mention the variety of sources, as it did before, showing there's debate about whether or not he was made samurai. The fact the admins caved to one racist horde and purged all the dissenting information doesn't make it a good thing just because it's the horde you like.

What makes them unreliable in this case is the insane cherry picking of sources, and the fact the wiki article even cherry picks sentences from the already cherry picked sources.

They use very few supporting sources, and exclude sources that argue he was not a samurai.

One of their primary sources is encyclopedia Britannica, which states that he was a samurai, but that the claim is disputed.

But the wiki article has no mention of said disputes and presents him being a samurai as certain truth, when it is anything but certain. And when for example people in the talk page asked why the wiki article doesn't mention those disputes, the answer is that britannica doesn't sources those disputes. Fair point, maybe, but when other commenters then provide disputing sources, they are either ignored or told their sources are unreliable, with a double standards so thick it's not even funny.

I have a stake in that I don't want to live in a world where history is rewritten to justify something as insignificant as a creative choice in a video game.

In a world where ordinary people are not only the victims of that, but also the perpetrators.

Ubisoft should have said something like "yasuke's history is interesting and a good starting point for our game's story. The game isn't meant to be perfectly historical accurate, we took creative liberties."

But no, they had to go "of course yasuke was a samurai, it's proven", and five even more ammo and motivation to afrocentrists and other self proclaimed progressives obsessed by race to further their entreprise of manipulation of history.

By the way, that wiki page is locked in edition, but even the talk page is locked to shut down the discussion.

Wikipedia isn't reliable anymore on that kind ouf topics.

Yes there's a page. Now look at the history of that page. Look at the talk section, too.

It used to say Yasuke wasn't a samurai. After ubisoft announced it and started catching flak, that page was rewritten to fit the new narrative, based on one controversial guy's book.

This is literally rewriting history to push an agenda, it's eerily reminiscent to 1984.

Noone would have batted an eye if Yasuke was an important NPC, but ubisoft had to make him the main character, and alter history for it, to push their agenda. People are tired of having agendas pushed onto them. Doubly more so when it hijacks a beloved franchise, like AC or dragon age. Triply more so when it happens on the Japan episode fans wanted for years. And even more when said episode is riddled with micro transactions and battle passes despite being single player. Especially in a franchise that used to try to be reasonably historical accurate.