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Somewhat Ironically, the Pixels are the only supported devices for GrapheneOS.



Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.

I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.


WB doesn’t seem to know how to release any media post 2010.

They keep trying to shoehorn IP into trends, years after market saturation to try and capture nostalgia, and then wonder why they didn’t meet sales targets. See MK1, Space Jam 2, or anything related to HP or LotR.

The other thing they do is when they do have an interesting or original idea with the IP, the executive team seems too risk averse to put any capital behind it. See the two new Loony Tunes movies, one was in theaters for less than a week and the other was scrapped entirely for a tax writeoff.


Damn, there’s like $900 worth of PS2 games in this image


Nah, they’ll just brand it as “Next Gen AI” or “True AI” or something. Kind of like how antivirus became “Endpoint Detection and Response”


Sure, but if it were free it’s a “you get what you pay for” situation. People are a lot more forgiving when they aren’t personally losing money.


Because Steam’s DRM is entirely unobtrusive, it doesn’t require online-only gameplay and the customer experience is excellent.

When Epic tries to compete with Steam they don’t look to make a better user experience, instead they bribe developers for exclusivity deals to force people on their platform if they want to play a game on release.



Ive played in a few of these. It’s an absolute blast once you get your settings dialed in and balanced to everyone else. If they’re not, then the player in the smallest game tends to have a lot of downtime.

The only downside is that the participants need to be familiar enough with their chosen game to do a randomizer which means roping in casual players is difficult.

Also, there are a massive number of unsupported games that you can play like this that are not part of the main website. https://multiworld.news/apworlds.html


People have been saying this since he was forced into buying the platform. I initially thought that could be true too.

As time has gone on, however, I’m starting to think he’s just that incompetent


Ubisoft’s bean counters had some trouble reading the market on this one.

They left Steam because they felt the 30% cut that Valve takes for sales on their platform is way too high, but didn’t account that users of Steam are really entrenched into that platform and don’t want to leave just for the chance to play an Ubisoft title. So instead of seeing 70% of Steam sales of their games, they saw 0.



Excel is one of those tools that punches way above its weight class, which is why it’s so common to see in places where it should have been replaced by a proper database years ago.



Nintendo doesn’t go after fangames like this

Unless you’re like AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, Mario 64 online, or any of the the other numerous fangames, romhacks, or mods that Nintendo threatened to sue into oblivion.


This looks incredible. I hope it evades the eye of sauron that is Nintendo’s lawyers


While many of the CVEs are filed in good faith by responsible researchers and represent credible security vulnerabilities, a recently growing pattern involves newbie security enthusiasts and bug bounty hunters ostensibly “collecting” CVEs to enrich their resume rather than reporting security bugs that constitute real-world, practical impact from exploitation.

Oh, this is once again HR’s fault


Uh oh. What did Ubisoft do this time?

They only talk about BG&E2 when they are about to be raked over the coals for some heinous shit they did.


Mid-range GPUs still exist, they just dont get the same coverage as the top-end cards. An RTX 4060 is set at $300 which is much cheaper than a PS5 or Series X


This is an interesting take. Historically, the main benefits to console gaming were 2 things:

  • Consoles are cheaper than PCs

  • Games require no config and and are guaranteed to be compatible

Nether of these is really the case anymore. For the price of a PS5 or a Series X you could get a midrange gaming PC with similar performance.

Regarding complexity, we kind of met in the middle. Long gone are the days when you could just pop a disc in the tray of your playstation or xbox and start playing, every game requires an install now. And on the PC side, you very rarely need to configure settings to get a game to a playable state. Hell, you dont really even need to manually install drivers anymore.

Of course, as the article points out, none of this applies to Nintendo and those consoles are still worth buying.

My guess for the future is that if Microsoft and Sony are going to hang around in the hardware space, they’re going to make something akin to the steam deck, but locked to their own storefront. And then they’ll wonder why people are still choosing PCs over their hardware.


That’s exactly the problem.

Under the current system, people that produce creative works as their job are forced to monetize them. Until we live in a post-scarcity world where everyone’s needs are met, like Star Trek, we have to deal with capitalist problems. To say otherwise is to ensure a system where artists and authors are unable to survive. Currently, the copyright system is good enough™ that creating art can be profitable enough that they are not destitute.

Simply because the technology exists to endlessly replicate and distribute art, regardless of the wishes of the artist (for which it is already frequently used, if you look at piracy channels) does not mean that it should be used with reckless abandon.


Copyright is generally a good idea. There has to be some level of restriction, otherwise infinite copies of your art immediately show up and you cant make a living.

On the flipside, it harms the industry at large if the copyright is too long. There is no reason why a corporate entity should be making royalties on something long after it’s creator has died.

So, where is the middle point? What is a good length of time to let an artist exclusively sell their art without fear of someone undercutting them as soon as they make something? Personally, i think the US figured out the sweet spot before all the changes. 14 years, plus a single 14 year extension you have to register. 28 years is enough time that you can make a career, but also not long enough to harm the creative process or prevent art from reaching the masses while its relevant.


My Ryzen 3900X idles at around 50C, although that’s a few generations ago now


Probably negatively, but also likey not enough to matter. CPUs these days run pretty cool.

Were a long way from the days of an idle Pentium 4 at 75C


The argument is that “we would like to study these works of art in a purely academic setting, and are willing to limit access to academics only, we just need to make sure it’s going to work even if you guys stop supporting it”

The corporations involved seem to read this argument as “we are looking to start a game streaming service, please give us free access to all your games to distribute at our whim”


Someone didnt watch the video


Computer engineers will try to get 2 things running on anything that could be described as Turing complete. The first is Conway’s Game of Life and the other is Doom


It sucks that this was the outcome as it’s going to require a ton of work from the modders, but to expect that a major publisher would involve the unofficial modding community in the release of official patches feels insane, even if they do have a sizable following.

In fact, I prefer it this way. I want the publisher to keep their fingers out of what the modders do as much as possible. Things are their best when the publisher is ignorant of their work. Less chance that the Eye of Sauron that is their legal department starts checking over mods for potential copyright lawsuits


I just made the switch after seeing this article.

Is there a way to get an icon to open the app drawer? Or am i forced to live with a gesture?


My understanding is that Wizards is mostly pretty good. Its their corpo overlords at Hasbro to watch for


Paul Verhoeven is about as subtle as a brick to the skull with his messaging, and people still think movies like RoboCop are pro-police


I have only one question.

Can you move and swing your sword at the same time?

In most 2D Zelda games you can’t, and it helps with positioning so you don’t run into the enemy when you try to hit it.

Most of the 2d Zelda clones I’ve played let you move and swing at the same time and it takes some time to get used to.



The man has been working since the mid 80s and he’s in his 60s.

Just let the man retire in peace


“I wish we could get a new versions of the good sega Dreamcast games”

Monkey’s paw curls


I’ll see you at the end of Act 2 when you remember what a fucking slog Act 3 was and decide you’ve scratched the itch.

I’m now just learning of this too and intend to do the same


The issue here isnt that Tencent is Chinese. It’s that they’re a massive corporation with basically no interest in the product except how much money it can make.

WotC seemed to actually care about it and most of the bad decisions were Hasbro’s fault in the name of profitability over quality


I only skimmed the article, do these results rely on the patient giving informative answers that are easily parsed by the AI?

For example “my arm hurts” might give a different diagnosis than “my shoulder and upper biceps are swolen after my workout an hour ago”


A sequel would be rad, but even a proper PC port would be nice