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Can't move code between MGE and OpenMW because MGE works by intercepting the old DirectX calls in a custom DLL that inserts it's own code into those calls, rather than being a wholely new rendering pipeline. It's a square peg and a round hole.

MWSE-Lua compatibility is unlikely also because MWSE-Lua had to make design compromises due to how the Gamebyro engine data was structured and what it could hook into, whilst OpenMW Lua doesn't have those constraints and instead has much more flexibility to change things for a better design. Best you'd get is if someone wrote a bridging API that offers the same MWSE-Lua functions but calls the OpenMW lua inside them. Assuming they even directly translate to how OpenMWs engine works.

Performance wise vs MGE it's more different trade-offs atm. OpenMW can do distant rendering without needing to generate the distant land LOD objects because of it having a better batch rendering pipeline via object paging but that's more espensive to render than dedicated LOD optimized objects. It also only recently got a Post-Processing effects pipeline for doing things like godrays or bloom properly on the GPU. Or Volumetric Clouds and proper PBR.

As I understand it, neither OpenMW or vanilla do occlusion culling. Since in a wide open world the time to process what to occlude can overall cost more than the savings in rendering, it's debatable if it brings any value. Any FPS gained in Balmora streets might be matched or exceeded by FPS lost in a location like Pelgiad or by simply levitating over Balmora. It may be possible to add it by adding 'occlusion maps' to let it be controlled by location, but that'd need require an extra mod with those maps to actually support it anyway.

Usually when asked anti-abortion women will say something that boils down to "I don't want to have one therefore I don't think anybody should be able to ever have one".

Personally I'm fine in concept with parents having the right to walk away from a child they don't want, so long as it's a complete walk away. No obligations means no rights, no visitation, no anything. Legally you essentially aren't their parent anymore.

My mum gave my biological father that choice when he was trying to avoid child support by fudging his books, and pissing off is the best thing he ever did for me.

In practice, this is going to rely on their being a decent welfare system in place for supporting single parents when one of them choses to waive their 'rights and obligations' as a parent.

Also from what I've read they seem to have essentially used the argument that older legal precedent can invalidate newer legal precedent? Doesn't that basically lock all constitutional considerations into the social point of view of the 18th century? How can you say that applies to this, but not any legal precedents set by changes overtime to legal challenges to race rights?

Last I checked, EU privacy regulations have been one of the things making it more difficult for a lot of EU member states to legislate that already. So there's been a lot of pushes for that at every level, both national and now international, and they get beaten back each time. So need to beat it back again, but it's nothing new or surprising that a faction in the EU want to push for that.

(Seriously we need to get out of the habit of describing things like the EU or UN or NATO or whatever in 'X wants' terms when legislation is proposed, these are coalitions of multiple actors and not a single brain after all and proposal of laws is not unanimous agreement of law. And unlike a government, proposals in these usually aren't done by whichever faction has majority control so you're gonna get ones that come out and get defeated more often).

For comparison, 179 British service personnel were killed during the entire war in Iraq, and 457 during the entire war in Afghanistan. Of the USA, 2401 died in Afghanistan and 4431 in Iraq.

So the most generous available numbers still amount to entire an entire modern wars worth of deaths happening in a matter of days.

Interesting point I saw brought up is that Russia may be running into the issue that rampant corruption may keep things in a state moving, but it both isn't efficient at it and is very hard to remove or move away from once it becomes entrenched. Since military might only matters on paper, up to the point that you actually use it, I can see how it'd be a prime target for oliagarchs wanting to "skim some off the top", so it seems like a good chunk of the military budget of Russia could have been basically vanishing into the black hole of oliagrach banks accounts and properties.

Bank accounts and properties they kept outside of Russia and are having their access to restricted by the international sanctions...

Lukashenka committed treason – he made our country a participant in the invasion of Ukraine. So I declared myself as the national leader of Belarus to protect the sovereignty & independence of our country, represent it in security negotiations & crisis management in the region. - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Wish it was that easy xD