Its recommended specs are very low actually, so it’s possible that it will run well without “ultra” graphics features.

Utility is for poors. People who don’t count money want something shiny or whatever their peers have. They can easily replace it if it breaks.

It’s not even about waiting or patience. I’m not a teenager anymore, so I don’t have as much to play games as I used to (and I have now other interests too). I have so many great PC games in my queue I literally won’t have time to play them all until I die. The queue only gets longer with time. So what if I can’t play some console exclusive? It’s just one game in the long list of games I won’t get to play and I have no problems with that.

No, but there are many obstacles. Besides usual ones common to migration in general, due to sanctions people who want to emigrate won’t be able to easily access their money left in Russia. Also if they speak up against Putin everything they left in Russia will be confiscated and returning back (for any reason including possible deportation) will be dangerous (Russia is smart enough to not charge dissenters living abroad so that they won’t be able to claim asylum, but when they return they can be arrested. This strategy was used since USSR times). This makes emigration a risky proposition unless you already have a high-paying job lined up for you, and can receive foreign citizenship in a short time.

There are a lot of people there that haven’t experienced oppression personally and genuinely believe that “strong ruler” that “keeps people in line” is what’s needed for their country to be “strong”.

Also one of the key points of Russian propaganda that has been hammered into them for decades is that “democracy is a sham” and that any alternative to Putin’s regime would be just as oppressive and simply less “competent” (and therefore lead to Russia’s ruin).

Putin supporters do not believe that democracy can work and they don’t want democracy, as simple as that.

This makes using “swipe to previous app” gesture harder in case app has a list with swipeable elements (such as Gmail) One of the purposes of the gesture bar is to prevent such conflicts.

Started reading Second Apocalypse by R. Scott Bakker recently. It’s rough around the edges but shows promise. Although I really don’t like how conflict of two major religions is a straight ripoff of Crusades (completed with “bad guys” being desert people who occupy the “holy land” of “good guys”). Screams lazy world building to me.