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Kinda funny how much media is out there warning about the folly of allowing this kind of mega conglomeration, yet we’re still gonna just do it anyway


Well getting this running on my steam deck has just become one of the top 10 entries on my to-do list


Goddamn this is knowledge you could have kept to yourself

I’m only just over having balatro on my phone


I guess it’s my turn to say it in a thread:

Shattered pixel dungeon

Best classic roguelike on mobile IMO

I was going to also suggest Downwell but it doesn’t seem to be available any more


Hmm, tough one. I’m going to maximise replayability and this assumes all DLC too

  • RimWorld
  • Factorio
  • Balatro
  • FTL or Slay the Spire
  • Civ 6 or Cities Skylines

Honourable mention to several JRPGs from Squaresoft

Edit: I’m now reading the thread and second guessing everything. But gonna keep my original list


Stores are supposed to then take what they’ve received and donate it to a local charity. The workers have to figure out what charity they’ll partner with, and have to do the leg work of coordinating the donations themselves.

And let me guess, they’re either expected to do this in their free time or not miss their targets if they do it during work


I think it’s mostly because these Devs were impacted by an actual mistake from valve recently, and then this happens during their apparent compensation for this.

Tbf though I agree this article is mostly about clicks. They say the emails went out and they sold 5k copies, so it’s not like the first time


I’ve been playing N64 games just fine on my MiSTer FPGA for like a year or so now.

I can even use my Retrode 2 to use a real cart if I want rather than my network share with a complete 1g1r set for the platform.

I know they’re a “it just works” solution, but I just don’t see the value in the Analogue stuff compared to MiSTer if you’re even remotely techy

You get hardware emulation of almost everything from before the dreamcast for about the same price as this single console



!!!

Guess I know where my free time is going this weekend


Cloudflare is increasingly a SPOF for the web

It’s hilariously probably at the point where it’s beneficial for them from a PR perspective to recommend alternatives to new customers now


Just like UnReal World, I don’t think DF is ever going to be complete


Well that’s lit up some braincells that haven’t fired in a while, might pick this up and give it a go once it’s out

I feel like those early 3d platformer collect-a-thon games often don’t age too well though IMO




At this point, I’m just looking at all this as an interesting social experiment on sunk cost fallacy

I wonder how long they can go without delivering on anything


Isn’t Microsoft about to block kernel modules like this entirely? I thought I read that somewhere


I didn’t even need to click the video and your comment made me hear it




Oh yeah I saw the list and am pretty sure I’m not even installing any of them, but claiming the bundle in solidarity


I mean there will be customers for those products, I just don’t get why they’re leaving the mass appeal demographic on the table


It shouldn’t be, no. But one of the big problems with phones currently is that the radio firmware is almost always a closed-source binary blob.

Airplane mode is probably better understood as the OS asking the radio nicely to not attempt to communicate with the outside world. The antenna is still there able to receive signals, and the radio technically doesn’t have to listen to the OS if it doesn’t want to.

It’s incredibly unlikely (researchers look for this kind of thing), so make sure your tin foil is on tight, but not impossible that a radio could store cell tower identifiers it has seen whilst on airplane mode and do something with them when it is allowed to communicate again. There’s also the possibility there’s some secret signal that can be sent to force a phone in airplane mode to respond.

Unless you’re up to some Edward Snowdon level stuff though, even if that last one exists, it’s probably not being used on you.


The radios are the parts of your phone that communicate wirelessly. Most phones will only turn the cell radio off entirely during airplane mode, disabling mobile data does not typically turn that radio off.

Airplane mode should turn everything off (unless you re-enable things like WiFi, but that should still keep the cell radio off)


There was the odd diamond in the rough, but I agree it has been getting increasingly worse.

Weirdly enough I was staying subscribed because if I quit I’d lose my current price for good. Makes no difference now


They are losing business, because revenue goes down.

They will negotiate the prices they pay publishers for a set of keys to use in humble choice to mean they get their 15% cut of the revenue. If a publisher sets the price too high, they’ll go elsewhere until they can get their margin.

If they lose ~25% of their subscribers over a ~40% price hike, they will be right back where they started in terms of profit—which is a place where they would consider hiking the price and losing customers.


That’s about a 40% increase in the amount I have been paying for years without fail, partially at the threat of if I cancel, I lose my grandfathered pricing.

And frankly the quality of the bundles has been dropping for a while.

I guess I finally cancel then. What a silly way to lose business

Edit: and cancelled, happy there was a text box for me to tell them why I’m gone. 8 years of paying monthly apparently


People who knew what they were doing with computers used Netscape until it died, those people went to Mozilla suite and then Firefox (well, Phoenix then Firebird then Firefox). But that was a shrinking minority of people on the internet at the turn of the millennium.

Practically everyone else used IE (90%+ of web traffic at its peak) and continued to do so until Google released Chrome and shone a light on how little Microsoft had been doing for nearly a decade.

Dominance was dominance however they got it, and they pissed it away through complacency, somewhat similarly to what they’re doing now.


They had internet explorer dominance, they pissed that away

They had PC gaming OS dominance, they’re now pissing that away


Oh dear Microsoft, you had everything and you pissed it away again


I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront






Sure but that’s like calling Vice City GTA4. It’s not named that by the people that make it


IIRC valve outright said it wasn’t HL3


TBF it’s not something I really read, just that I’ve heard of it. Though that’s a pretty clear signal of what the future holds for Polygon then


No, not at all, generally not a good sign whatsoever (unless you’re wall st apparently). I guess there’s the chance it was particularly inefficiently staffed, but then Vox seem like they should have known what they were doing, so that doesn’t seem likely.

The new owner seems to have a few gaming brands already, Game Rant being the only one I’ve heard of though. Perhaps they’re planning a consolidation and this is the redundancy from that?

Not necessarily saying there’s a silver lining, just trying to rationalise


Hmm, had to look up who these guys were

Apparently they own XDA and Android Police too, which haven’t gone entirely to shit

I’ll tentatively put the pitchfork away


> Uefa has warned ministers that England could be excluded from the European Championship it is co-hosting in 2028 over "concerns" that a planned independent football regulator could lead to "government interference" in the sport. > A bill to establish a body to oversee the top five tiers of the men's game in England was reintroduced in July. > The UK government has said the football watchdog will "protect clubs" by "ensuring their financial sustainability". > But in a letter sent to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and seen by BBC Sport, Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote: "We do have concerns remaining... as normally football regulation should be managed by the national federation.
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