Pompey and his allies induced the Senate to demand Caesar give up his provinces and armies in the opening days of 49 BC. Caesar refused and instead marched on Rome.

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Addendum:

The civil war ultimately led to Caesar’s becoming dictator for life (dictator perpetuo). Caesar had been appointed to a governorshipover a region that ranged from southern Gaulto Illyricum. As his term of governorship ended, the Senate ordered him to disband his army and return to Rome. As it was illegal to bring armies into the northern border of which was marked by the river Rubicon, his crossing the river under arms amounted to insurrection, treason, and a declaration of war on the state. According to some authors, he uttered the phrase iacta alea est (“the die is cast”) before crossing.

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Wasn’t that literally the last thing Julius Caesar did immediately before declaring himself emperor for life?

Isn’t it super cool how that STILL WOULDNT HAVE MATTERED

If I remember correctly, this policy was introduced after they got flack because some employee called the cops on a black person who was just hanging out inside the store.

Turns out money is more important to them than the appearance of inclusion surprised pikachu face

Aw shucks, that’s a bummer. Good try though, fellas! You gave it your all and I’m sure you’ll gettem next time!

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I’m legitimately curious how many half-baked ad-filled second-to-the-punch products will be too many for Microsoft before they finally capitulate.

Is this literally Trump engaging in a dick measuring contest with Xi and Putin? Like “they’re gonna take Ukraine and Taiwan? NO FAIR I want new land too!!!” What a fucking baby

we will be shipping a beta of SteamOS which should improve the experience on other handhelds, and users can download and test this themselves

So how does SteamOS distinguish between a “handheld” and a desktop, and what’s the Nvidia support like?

Asking for a friend who has an Nvidia-powered desktop that’s been infected with the Windows virus for over a decade now

Hrmmmmmmmmmmmg

My dad: “Yeah, maybe a good solution to the problem of not being able to pay rent would be government-provided housing”

Also my dad: “Socialism is horrible! If it wasn’t, then why would EVERYONE be trying to leave Communist countries like Russia and the rest of Eastern Europe???”

My 11 year old brother was told he can’t beat DOOM Eternal on Ultra Nightmare (1 life mode) given only 100 hours of playtime. I told him there’s absolutely no chance he can do that if he’s on Xbox or PS, and to prove it to him I’ve been letting him try on my Steam Deck which is essentially a console controller++

Credit where it’s due, he’s great with the thumbsticks but he’s changed difficulty from Nightmare to Ultra Violence a few too many times to instill any confidence that he could do this lol

That was definitely a bold design decision, but I’m glad it paid off for Gearbox. Never before had I played a first person shooter from the perspective of an underpaid pumpkin.

He’s the shining poster child of the GOP!

What about the domestic terrorist corporations who assassinate whistleblowers? Or are there so many hands involved there that it’s not worth the trouble to dismantle those terrorist organizations?

“Are we the baddies?” is for sure an extraordinarily alarming moment of clarity

On a plane I’ll use my Airpods Pro 2. They have worked shockingly well for the Deck being a non-Apple product.

I will say though for seemingly no reason they don’t work with God of War Ragnarok. They work fine at first but after roughly a minute, everytime I launch the game, the audio starts to get glitchy and eventually just disappears entirely until I disconnect and reconnect, when it starts that cycle over. I can’t tell in any way why it happens but it happens everytime.

COD is so interesting because there’s so many of them and so many people play them that it seems there’s always at least someone who loves each of the different games

I played every beta of the Finals that I could get accepted into. It felt like what I wanted a new Battlefield game to be. The destructible floors and bridges made it so much fun to set up traps in ways no other game made it possible.

Weirdly enough I have yet to install it since its full release. Still looks like the same amount of fun!

Ooh Dark Descent looked really cool. Would you recommend it for someone with little isometric experience, let alone real-time isometric combat?

Sea of Thieves has definitely interested me but it looks like one of those games that gets better A) if you invest a lot of time into it and B) if you have friends who play it too all the time, and I already have big time sinks in my life and I suck at convincing my friends to play specific games with me