There's been a plan floated where there's a Palestinian "state", but actually UAE or another Gulf State runs it. My guess is that this news is along these lines - Saudi Arabian leaders don't give a shit about Palestine (look at the Abraham accords).
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Same for me, running for a few months and all my steam games work great. I had to install some extra software to run my Logitech mouse and get the scroll wheel to be more sensitive. Otherwise though it's been a great experience so far.
Although I'm an IT professional, I really don't want extra work when I'm sitting down to game. So POP! has been great overall for my use case, with the bonus of Linux for any coding projects I tackle otherwise.
It Takes Two! I played it with my partner and really enjoyed the story and very imaginative game play.
Same - I used this tool which worked great for that workflow:
That's actually a real strategy by Russia. Since they have so few deep water ports for their Navy, if temperatures rise then they have new options in their far north territories.
Good call. I gave up halfway through S3 of umbrella academy. It was just weird and goofy, the tone didn't match S1 at all.
Oh damn, I forgot that part about "Earth being the control". That's hilarious!
My favorite one of them is Excession. I found the relationships / culture between the ship AI's so interesting and frankly, better written than many human relationships in the series overall.
Thanks for writing about the Godzilla movie. I had heard some buzz but didn't know about the depth to it's concept. I'll have to check it out!
Have you ever read the Culture novels, by Iain M. Banks? They explore a somewhat similar idea to "intelligence agencies of ~~fascist~~ post scarcity interstellar empires".
I can't remember if the contacted civilizations are ever socialist, although there's definitely a more feudal one and the overall themes may be interesting to you nonetheless.
I've heard of Boom Aerospace from the US, which is a little further along in their development process, although they are only super sonic.