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@p @DiamondMind @Economic_Hitman @GhostOfMoshe @Godsend @JVKO @Kensurgence @MagicMoshe @Mombi @NonPlayableClown @SilverDeth @VaxxSabbath @bonifartius @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @dcc @fish @freemayonnaise @ins0mniak @ins0mniak @jae @mrsaturday @nimt @pista @samwise @sicp @takao @thebitchisback @tsubo @w0rm @yaboisugoi @yomiel Several posts up the thread you’ve shown some AI skills, so I presumed that you’ve got on a friendly footing with things like ad hoc translation too.



























Well, I guessed wrong, so there’s the translation, if someone interested:

> Let us recall the glorious date of our athletics – the adventures of Viacheslav Vedenin in Japanese Sapporo. The Soviet athelete has been calmly waiting for his turn, but several minutes before his start, a thick and sticky snow began to fall. Having to adjust with the changed circumstances, Vedenin treated the skis with a grease, which, according to his understanding, was more fitting for the tough weather. A Japanese reporter noticed that. (At that time there were no mixt-zones at ski competitions, and journalists were placed near the athletes even before the start.) The Japanese had some skills in the Russian language, and decided to jokingly ask the skier “Do you really believe, that this will do? [It’s] such a heavy snow [after all]”
> Vededin, still focused on preparing the skis and slightly irritated, dropped “And two ###s with it”. The Japanese journalist knew the language not that well to understand the meaning of the phrase, but he remembered the words. Vedenin ran off into the snowfall, and at the beginning it seemed, that he has troubles – by the 10 km mark, only the seventh time. But to the 20 km mark everything had changed: the Soviet skier took the lead with an advantage of 11 seconds. And then he would only increase the tempo and finished first, having outrun the nearest competitor by almost a minute. The next day one of the well-known Japanese newspapers published a headline: “Soviet skier said the magic word ‘Entufawizu’ and won the Olympics”. For many years this story travelled from people to people as a tale, but in 2013 Vedenin has confirmed: it was just this way – “This was before the thirtieth. That blizzard. He came up and asked: it’s snowing, how are you going to run, even? And I grumbled ‘And two ###s with it’”.

> Why, the word really is magical
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@hfaust Ironically, I’ve just finished a book about how humans descended from animal-like creatures, and now I realise what bullshit is the “Planet of the apes” concept.

tl;dr mutations, that our ancestors underwent in the area of the Great African rift, which separated us from the then-regular proto-apes, left us without two powerful limbs (they’ve become our legs) and fangs, among some other things like less hair. from the point of view of evolution and capability to survive, the new species were weaker. And exactly ⧸because they were weaker⧸, they had to invent tools and weapons to compensate for the lost fangs, which then-regular proto-apes used to defend, to attack and to pierce through the skin of some local hairy pigs, for example, to get to their flesh after hunt. The first tools that the human used were small sharp rocks, which were used for cutting. Only much later something like axes appeared. Just to use the tool systematically took the first proto-humans 1.5–2 million years. One chapter in the book is dedicated to describing the behaviour of modern chimpanzees (whose DNA structure surprisingly matches human’s), and the result of observations was basically that an ape will never become human, despite that one can teach it to make sharp rocks and force the animal to use it – because the animal doesn’t see, why it should. It has fangs and four powerful limbs. It thus has no need for an axe, it’s fitting the nature, its local habitat fine as it is, the ape doesn’t have to compensate for something with the tools. And as it never will use tools systematically, it’ll never evolve. At least, until the circumstances, which prodded the human species to emerge, would appear again, but the chance is extremely small. What these circumstances were is another long story.
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@phnt @hakui Considering, that Steam uses its own library pack and thus is almost completely untied from the OS, it needs just an OS that doesn’t fuck itself up and user not breaking it. The only problem may be proton, which is Vulkan-based by default. So the OS has to have recent Vulkan compatible with the hardware (and hardware with Vulkan support). I remember there was an environment variable to disable Vulkan and relay queries to native D3D, but
 - mostly only old games, that use DX9 will run;
 - some games, that for some reason were built exactly for DX10 may run, but will be slow or often have glitches;
 - DX11 and DX12 won’t run.
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