First optional but gets pushed more and more until it’s mandatory.

Comparing the 3 stages of the UI design, feels more like a refining, specially with the contrast on the middle one was kinda bad, so making the most recent rework feel like a big improvement. =)

I’ve seen ponderations about award events being used for passing messages/agendas/politics. Wonder if HORSES getting the award was purely on merit, or if it was also nominated in protest against Valve.

Having read the article, some points from the dev make sense, but also he acted like a princess by the end, so a bit of a messy situation.

Looking also at the 2024 data, sounds more like fluctuation. Would need more data to see by those if it’s a tendency.

Glad I take notes, I guess. Could never remember so much stuff without.

Also wonder if I should count Crystal Castles twice, since the arcade and Atari 2026 feel pretty different from each other.

Andy Nguyen be like: “I can’t do this”

Nguyen bored 2 years later: “I’ll do this and I don’t care if even reality says otherwise”

But no indication of making it selfhostable. Another brick to this fate they built for themselves.

gets arrested for using ad-blocking technologies

Thanks. The instance was having issues with the media hosting platform so it’s in the middle of changing it, but the images should be back in a few days according to the announcement.

“this co-op party game”: King of Meat

Haven’t read the article, but the give a shit part is likely from here, a reference to a reference:

Apparently FFXII and FFXIV 1.0 both are heavily inspired on the FFXI formula, so perhaps FFXII is the closest to what the OP is asking.

The problem, however, is that such reasoning of the State taking the initiative happens too frequently in several parts of the world, e.g. for ID scans that have been gaining traction since October from what I can gather. As when a coincidence happens too often, chances are it isn’t a coincidence, such news rise a red flag to me.

Again “think of the children”. Besides how many laws and “pragmatic precedents” use that as an excuse, shouldn’t the parents moderate what their children do online, and not the State?

IP leak means your real IP is exposed even with VPN on.

As an analyst from my country proposes, depending on how the situation is dealt with, the next step would be a “stag-inflation”, when inflation freezes for a while. Then, if the issue is left to grow, there are cases of deflation, but because people are in full contingency. And as manufactures lose notion of cost and demand, they stop producing as much, shrinking the already shrinking stocks, and making people go on a rush to stock up, resulting in hyper-inflation.

But I suspect this issue is just a cover up for the world’s general impoverishment/inflation from the past few decades, AIs being an useful scapegoat.

Seen someone else comment it…

What if AI is being used as either a scapegoat or the excuse for the “you will nothing and ne happy” thing?

Agreed to the author’s opinion at the end:
You don’t own the games installed in the console. Physical media requires Sony’s hardware’s validation. Now you start to not even own the hardware anymore. And all that being slowly normalized for decades, drop by drop, and just now the situation seems to be reaching a breaking point.

Also impressive Sony didn’t keep pulling a Nintendo after the Bleem Emulator case. Imagine how bad it is to be able to run a game outside of the native hardware. /s

Probably cycling through Nier Automata (finally using it other than as a CPU check), Baba is You, Dicey Tales and Castlevania 2, since those are the ones I have readily installed and I can’t decide for some other game to play.

Bloomberg’s all broken for me, so going by the snippet:
I get the impression the absolute majority of games aren’t even past the 40 USD threshold, including the majority of successful games I see in the wild. If the snippet considers the AAA games as a good sample for the gaming market, I’d argue otherwise, that they’re a loud minority of games, and a decaying one at that for multiple reasons, including the bloated prices.

Oh, boy. Misread. Erasing then.

Looks hand-drawn. 👀

Also Toph can’t not beat the Avatar it seems :V

Yet to play Elden Ring specifically, but there’s also [email protected] if you’d like to crosspost there.

Slog through most of it, and underdelivered for what Ragnarök the myth is. Also apparently it must’ve been a trilogy, the Norse saga of GoW, but someone decided for cramming two games into one.

Remake

No footage

Remembers GoW Fimbulvinter Ragnarök

concern

Some times for praticality, others for testing certain elements, others because there are device-specific builds.

From what I understand, that’s still problematic for privacy. A bit more containerized, sure, but still having to make calls to Google.

Problem of Nova is that even if it works, you can’t be sure it is/isn’t a Trojan Horse.

For “sideloading”, I don’t have much of a preferred method, going mainly by what I can find that works.

But aside from the aforementioned Itchio and F-Droid, I also use git-based services like Github, game stores and Patreon-like sites if/when they have Android contents, through Aurora Store if the program is on Google Play only and either I paid for ir already or it’s free, and some times I even download the apps directly from the Play Store from another device, generating an APK from it with an appropriate tool and moving to my main phone, which uses a vanilla system.

Also I back up everything I can, and test them in both my main phone while in airplane mode, and in a virtual machine running BlissOS 15 (Android ported to the x86 architecture).

If you want to go for privacy, specifically through using a “vanilla” system (as close to the base Android as possible, at most with some FOSS apps), you’ll lose some stuff, like most banking apps, since those usually require Google Services.

Also though the main app source for Android is Google’s Play Store, you can find some useful stuff on places like F-Droid (for utilities from my experience) and Itchio (for games in my experience). There’s some more places but they’re usually much smaller or not as easy to sort by Android.

I have a bias that favours tinkering systems, so if you’d be curious about something different or if I use some jargon you don’t know, please do point out.

Meant instance 😅

Also luckily I’ve been training myself to not use the word “servers” for Discord for years now. Linguistics as hobby and computer habits making me bothered that they’re repurposing the word I understand as a computer/datacenter that acts as provider and all that.

But about your site, that isn’t what I asked for. I’m asking about a site that tracks total users and/or monthly active users, or medium-sized servers going by those metrics, like e.g. FediDB does. That page from Matrix.org, at least on phone, is more institutional, like a more resistance-free entry point for people curious.

Problem of Matrix.org is that, afaik, it’s the biggest one, meaning if it suddlenly goes offline (again), people will be in the dark.

For those that can’t (or at least for now won’t) self-host, any suggestions on medium-sized #Matrix servers?

Or at least some database on those so users can check more easily, similar to the database sites for the ActivityPub?

Alternative headline:
“Overwatch 2 reaches 67k peak since its release day 75k peak, reviews still mostly negative on Steam”

Not on PC, but if you can find discs for them, maybe the rest of the God of War games?

A few asked there before about RSS, including myself, but the more, the merrier.

No RSS feed still and I don’t like opening sites just to see if there’s news.

Can’t remember for PC Gamer, but when popups pester more than help, I hide them with Ublock Origin, or simply disable JavaScript for the domain.

Played it some years ago. Story felt to be a lot on the weak side, but in retrospect, the gameplay was superb. =D