Have you looked at all the different layers? A while back they added more of those, with different types of quests that don't appear normally.

Holy freaking shite, what a finale!

Random assortment of thoughts:

• Nice and quick joke at the WB Batgirl debacle with the A-Train movie getting pulled out.
• Erin Moriarty's performance as both Annie and the shapeshifter was jaw-breaking, loved it! Finally she got some great scenes.
• Shapeshifter's skin peeling is disgusting as hell.
• Karl's makeup for sick butcher was spot on. Also love Kessler's portrayal, very well acted.
• Ryan's actor(s?) is doing a really good job too, he's got some talent at a young age.
• Still on that topic of Ryan, nice to see him disobey HL. Half expected a brawl in that scorched room.
• Shapeshifter's quick correction of psycopath -> sociopath was interesting to see. Again excellent acting from Erin. Great insight into Annie's character too.
• HL is just a complete wildcard at this point, he just freaking ratted Vichy like that.
• Rip Ashley II, kinda poetic that she was killed by Noir II (with a murder boner lol). Cold death though.
• Ashley I took V! Looking forward to seeing her powers in Gen V S2, maybe??
• Always love Frenchie's lab scenes. Reminds me of S1.
• Connect 4 was cute. Grace fucked it up pretty badly and pushed Ryan too far. He shouldn't have killed her, but she was playing with fire.
• Deep just disgusts me further every episode.
• Firecracker got a classic HL treatment, she's probably starting to think more about her life choices.
• Annie's escape scene was absolutely brutal. The special/visual effects on this show are quite something.
• Shapeshifter's rampage on the bunker was nice, loved the use of dolls for that guy getting bent backwards.
• Kimiko getting her neck 180'd was... yeah.
• Annie vs shapeshifter 🔥 though I thought it was a bit short, was expecting a bit more of a fight. Was sorta nice they didn't get Kimiko back in time to help Annie, and instead let her have it all by herself.
• Hughie and Annie's little fight was pretty cute, ngl. Her comeback later with "shapershifter syphilis" was great xD
• Vichy's call to Hughie was touching.
• I kinda expected the pub writer to live, but the Deep is HL's little puppy.
• 🇫🇷🥰
• Butcher's realization that Grace's death was fucked and his slow nod to Kessler was 👌
• Oh my gawd! Vichy's death was so fucking brutal and unexpected, jfc. Poor Zoe, had to watch that and get sent to Red River (though she was quite violent too). That's some bad stuff brewing for Gen V S2, I smell it.
• Butcher was looking sooo much healthier, though. As soon as he yielded to Kessler, he stopped being sabotaged by it. Fuck cancer.
• Sage is such a wildcard too, but at least we got to see some of her motive? Does she just want to test some theories of her at a real scale, thus cementing how brilliant she is? Does she just want power because that's ultimately what somebody can achieve in their lifespan (doesn't make all that much sense)?
• Rip Dakota Bob
• HL's last speech and close up was nice. From what I can tell, they are closing the gap between the show and the comics.
• The U-turn on The Boys' escape completely caught me off-guard, but was pretty good. As I've seen mentioned, t'was a bit of a Endgame portal moment, but nice nonetheless.
• Kimiko's screams and pleads were devastating 😭 Sam was just completely unfazed by anything :/ Kind of expected Frenchie to commit suicide, but I guess he can be more useful to make some sort of antidote to the virus?
• Poor MM, with his Love Sausage encounters. It was the 3rd now! Nobody deserves a phallic slap.
• Why did they get Eleven™️? I thought she hated Vought&Co for all the shit they did to her. Felt very out of place.
• On the other hand, Star(f)light go brrrrrrrr. Dunno how she draws power when flying in the sky....
• I swear to god they played a tiny snippet of the Avenger theme, completely out of tune, when they panned to Soldier Boy's face, in the mid-credits scene. Curious to see his role in the next season.

Well, that was quite lengthy lmao. But it was a very packed episode, much more so than all other 7 episodes in this season, I feel like.

I'm not familiar with any service that works at the international level, but over in Portugal, the biggest ATM network, Multibanco, has had a service called MB NET (now integrated with the newer MB WAY app), which allows you to create temporary cards with 3 different behaviours: one-time, monthly, multiple uses. The first one always has 1 month of validity, while the others only expire after a year, and you can define a maximum capacity.

It works perfectly well in foreign online services, but you have to have a card from one of the associated banks (presumably from their Portuguese branch?).

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Haha I was really confused in the first few scenes too. With the beard gone and lost weight (he looks skinnier, no?), it really was a big change. Didn't notice the voice change, was it really a noticeable difference? I'll have to rewatch older seasons to compare.

I've been a laptop-only guy for over 10 years, here's my take:

At first, I wanted a powerful and colorful desktop computer, so I could play all the games I wanted, maybe touch on some 3D software, and overall have a cool setup. However, I couldn't afford it at all (though times during and after the 2009 crisis, in Portugal), so I ended up just sticking with the handful of years old, 17 inch and 4Kg laptop my older brother had given me.
The years passed and I never bought a desktop. The mobility and versatility of laptops was too good to give up, and having poured many hours into configuring my system (first years of laptop-only coincided with first years of Linux, pretty much) I didn't want to have to manage and sync two different computers. I wasn't aware of Nix and similar OSs, but even that doesn't solve the sync issue. Now my work requires me to take a computer with me, so I must have a laptop. I also work from home quite a lot, but I like to work outside, in the porch/garden.

Nowadays you can get really good and mobile (gaming) laptops, like the ones from XMG (and their sister brands) or even the newer Frameworks (which are also great for other obvious reasons). Even XMG laptops are quite reparable, outside of CPU/GPU failures, and DIY is supported by the seller. I'm currently rocking their XMG Fusion 15 L19 (late 2019), and am incredibly happy with my purchase, it's still in pristine shape!

Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone, but I think a laptop is generally a safer bet, if you know where to buy.
Happy to discuss this further! :)

Edit: Just wanted to drop an very nice laptop-focused channel: Bob Of All Trades. It seems they haven't been very active as of late, but they were very informative and had good guides some years ago, when I was looking for a new laptop.

This is an area of very much needed improvement.

For users, you should use the completion popup. When you type an @ followed by a name it will suggest users matching that, and if you click on one it will fill out a mention with the link to their origin page.
Give it a shot, try mentioning me in a reply!

The issue with this is the link isn't portable, meaning it may get you out of your home instance. The best way to link any user or community is to do /u/name@origininstance.tld (for users; /c/ for communities) instead of https://origininstance.tld/u/name. That way the link is relative (so no issue of moving away from your home) and it's fully qualified (so no issue with name clashes between instances).

Congrats to everyone involved on this awesome massive new release! 🤍

Awesome! Welcome to Lemmy, I hope you have a great stay :D
Lurking is also always an option, I tend to do it myself quite a lot as well hehe

This is an amazing initiative, great job! :D

Infinity is FOSS, Boost isn't.

Kinda mid one, but Pokémon Black/White 2 were the last real games. After that, they started being too 3D and lost a lot of their charm, imo. Gen 3, 4 and 5 as well are so freaking good! Love Emerald in particular (best end-game!) <3