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Explosive Media, known in Persian as Akhbar Enfejari, has denied it is backed by the Iranian government and its videos have reached millions of viewers across a range of social media platforms.

Speaking to the BBC, the head of Explosive Media, who referred to himself as “Mr Explosive”, said his team consisted of fewer than 10 people and that the Iranian government was a “customer” of his company.

NGL, confusing article. Not even sure why it would matter?

42 in the image, 65 in the series. I think the whole of the 30k/40k universe is up to more than 300 books now though, it’s insane.

Yeah, I really respect what a literary undertaking it was but… jesus christ, when the recommended reading order has to come in the form of charts like this maybe you should prune down the number of entries in the series guys.

Oh jeeze yeah, Brutal Kunnin’ was so much fun. I still have yet to pick up most of the other Ork ones, I remember Prophet of the WAAAAGH! being another one that’s just a genuinely good piece of sci-fi. Still have yet to read the Red Gobbo books, really need to get around to that one of these days. Savoring the good fiction, I suppose…

Flight of the Eisenstein is pretty good too. But… none of the HH books have ever really grabbed me. 40k has some truly good pieces of science fiction (The Infinite and The Divine (probably the best warhammer book, I don’t even think that’s a contentious claim), Ruin/Reign, Flesh & Steel, Assassinorum: Kingmaker), but I was always kinda underwhelmed by the 30k stuff… idk what it was. Maybe the inevitability of the setting?

Apparently a lot of the fortnite devs got the axe - they’ve nixed a ton of the less popular game modes?

Man, this is a weird source. Everything they report just reads like they’re quoting the advertizing blurb about the item. Iran’s missiles will threaten the US ships, US anti-missile batteries will clear the skies, Japan’s new planes have EW systems that will blind all aggressors… very strange to see such open glazing of military hardware with little concern for country-specific bias

In this one case EA is to blame, but I do know what you mean. I think it’s just that YouTube videos have had a large impact on the form media takes, and that’s trickled out towards other forms.

I’m sorry, I’m not sure if you’re satirizing the initial poster or not :(

… Because they tell a compelling story?

I can have a preferred color combination (turquoise and violet) without making that color combination my entire personality. You can do the same thing with video games.

What? What does that have to do with it? They’re not engaging with once massively popular stories, not bemoaning how they can’t be obsessed with them.

It’s a great game imho, but I was gifted my copy - in no world is any game worth €80, this one included, it’s completely divorced from reality to charge that much. Fucking tragic the publisher just killed it on delivery.

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what your point is - yes it was a broadly impractical thing to do, that’s not in dispute.

I’m not entirely sure on the difference here, valve is selling them directly and by all the reporting we’ve seen, there aren’t going to be hardware restrictions on any of the models.

That’s a tradition with gaming systems, see the Navy’s playstation supercomputer!

The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.

Remember kids, look into securing your phone & only add people to your group chats that you have good reason to trust.

He owns a lot of boats, both the RV6000 (currently being constructed, rumored price $300 mil) and the Pressure Drop are research vessels that belong to him - pressure drop does some very good science, and has for quite a long time.

He also owns a fleet of pleasure yachts. The two groups of ships are conflated for… reasons I actually cannot understand.

As I understand it no, the modloaders will still handle things like file management and conflicts and load orders and etc. Individual mods could implement solutions for that, but it makes more sense to centralize that effort around the modloaders.

What this will do is make it much less tedious to develop the mods in the first place.

(I may be wrong and the role of modloaders may have changed in the six years since I was last active in the modding scene without my knowing it)

Preanimated takedown moves, from the look if it.

In defense of the generally indefensible masses of reddit, Hansen is hardly a figure above criticism. Fetishizing vigilante justice, embracing of the far-right, his emphasis on spectacle without regard for the community, that time where they more or less killed a guy… Child molesters are horrible (tho why we keep electing them, I’ll never know), but we don’t need to hail and laud someone as our champion just because they agree.

Hansen’s documentary has an opportunity to shed light on online grooming as a pervasive problem endemic to all online spaces but instead appears to further his usual moral panic about how there’s people lurking behind the bushes, waiting to nab your children while they do the things they enjoy. His productions have never been better than any other schlock reality television, but with a veneer of legitimacy from his LARPing with law enforcement. Targeting a popular piece of pop culture, instead of an expose on say grooming rings on discord or the constant abuses of children from religious institutions as facets of the ever-increasing access children have to unmoderated online interaction seems to be just as morally vapid as his work has ever been.

Sure, and I’m not disagreeing that being able to engage with professional sports at all is a big factor. I think there’s more factors at play here than just that, for anecdotal reasons if nothing else, but I think you’re dead right about one of the biggest ones.

Sure, and I imagine that’s a big part of it too. From what I understand all professional sports are having difficulties gaining traction with the Gen Z demographic, but baseball is especially hard-hit (their recent rule changes to try and increase the pace of games may have done something to help with this, I haven’t seen any data about it).

It’s possible there are multiple influences at play here. I’m certainly not disagreeing with you, you make some very good points about accessibility of content. And I’m also of the opinion that baseball is deeply uninteresting to watch. I can understand how someone could be into it (much as with any other hobby I don’t partake in), I just personally find it only marginally less dull than a seminar on comparative accounting practices (read: a great deal less dull than cricket).

I think a big part of it is the diversity of entertainment we have available now. If your interests don’t align with what baseball offers, it’s no longer a problem to find something else to occupy your time with. You’re not trapped into a paradigm with five or six sports to choose from, each with a limited season, and many of these new ones you can also engage with directly (gaming, drone racing, CTFs, competitive nerf battles, etc.) which gives you an appreciation for the game that is missing from some professional sports. Take Basketball and Football: both are still quite popular with the younger generations, and both are physically very integrated into american culture. Streetball is about the most accessible sport out there, and every school in the country has a football field (and you can play touch or flag football games in any park)

I suspect it’s the same reason non-american Football (soccer) has maintained such popularity: there is almost no barrier to engagement, even at a non-professional level (you just need a ball, a couple piles of sweatshirts and some friends) and more developed infrastructure for it is incredibly easy to find the world over. Whereas baseball, tennis, jai alai, golf etc. are all unsafe to play in a public setting where there’s a risk of an unaware bystander getting beaned by a small hard ball going 200mph, and require safety equipment that raises the facility cost (and thus barrier to entry) by quite a bit (ex: nets). They still have traction, but if you’re a kid in a shitty suburb or poor town, you’re far more likely to be able to play soccer/football/basketball than you are baseball, and will be able to relate more intimately with those games when watching them played.

(And that’s not to mention esports)

When we’ve got so many choices and so little time to ourselves, why spend it on something we have to compromise our way into enjoying or that is a particular labor for us to be able to consume, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming rights?

It’s not very popular with the younger generations (possibly because it is viewed as -extremely- boring). It’s been bleeding fans slowly but steadily for at least a decade now.

When a business starts dictating morality to the general public, it too crosses a line from “just business” to a legit public concern that merits a stronger response. Hiding from the consequences of their actions because it’s “just business” is the reason so much of the world is so incredibly shitty right now, and we need to move past it’s acceptability as an excuse.

I don’t really know how else to phrase this, but I’ll give it a shot anyways: Anti-cheat isn’t intrinsically linked to root level permissions. It’s inclusion in a section about data sources compounds that concept. That is the claim that you are now making, and which isn’t supported by the section you’ve cited.

If that’s all it takes to dumbfound you, I am profoundly jealous. Anyways.

Those aren’t the claims fauxliving was making. They claim that there is no indication of taketwo requesting root level access and they’re strictly right, there is no language requesting that permission (or equivalents) (but I doubt that would matter to TakeTwo since they could argue it’s implicit)

They then claim that there has been no change to the game to include kernel level anticheat, which is also true.

What you presented does nothing to substantiate or refute those claims, just the claims made in the OP. Fauxliving’s comment was arguably off base, sure, but substantially their points are correct.

That… doesn’t actually rebut anything FauxLiving said. That they may use anti-cheat, and that they may have automatic updates, aren’t the claims in question here.

Iirc the lore gets a bit weird about this, but essentially their nutrient requirements are so high that unless they’re eating an entire butchered hog for every meal, they’re basically starving to death. Slowly, yes, but it takes a lot to maintain the astartes’ physiology. Normal humans just die if they eat astartes food (of… food overdose? I guess? Too much nutrition? its unclear.), but inconsistency is rife on this subject. Basically tho, bigger picture, if things are so bad even the astartes supply line is cut off you’ve got bigger problems than food to worry about so the point is a bit moot.

Really, anything from the Game Canon is a good choice: Mario, Doom, Tetris, SimCity, Civ I, Warcraft, SpaceWar, Zork, that soccer game I don’t remember, StarRaiders.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Zork yet, and it really ought to be in contention here. Pretty much all video games can trace how their narrative is structured through gameplay back to the foundations laid by Zork, even doom. It drew on Colossus, sure, but it built on it so much that it became revolutionary to both games as a storytelling medium and to natural language processing. Really cool stuff.

The censorship thing is solidly the US’s fault (sorry) and a very different conversation than what’s happening here. Though I’m sure it has it’s roots in backwards '40s orientalism at some point, we were really good at exporting that.

But like, from an outside person that interacts with japanese institutions in the ‘adult content’ sphere, they go way beyond what is mandated whenever anything international is involved. This article alone highlights how they won’t even say why they’re doing things, they’ll just vaguely blame it on nonspecific policy requirements and continue to restrict funds / obstruct shipping / deny visas / etc. It’s maddening to deal with.

TL;DR Japanese institutions being disingenuous about being weird and regressive about sex.

Again.

I gotta say, going into the new years, I quite respect your dedication to this.

I’d be fine with that, if that had been criticism the games had ever received. But… this just seems like their own personal hangip?

Well I suppose that answers that. They got picked up by Microsoft/Xbox Games, IP rights included, which is pretty kickass to hear. Hopefully Microsoft continues to be just middling evil towards their studios and obsidian can actually do what they’re good at. Seems like they’ve had enough dev time on this / grounded that they might actually be allowed to, you know, make good content…

Not sure if the IP is still owned by WB, but if so it’ll never happen. Warner Bros are awful about not fucking over the users.

They use a radical new networking technique called “Lying, but with graphs”

You’ve a winning argument, to be sure! Not sure where I quantified how much I think hollywood influences culture but okay.

FWIW, obviously popular media both is influential and responds to culture. “Hollywood” really shouldn’t be treated as a singular entity if we’re trying for a semblance of legitimacy. This is really quickly going to fall into a discussion of the role of the audience and how that’s changed in the digital era (vs. when Aristotle first brought it up…), and neither of us care enough to suffer through thay. Suffice to say it’s not cut and dry, and beyond that I dont know any better than you do what specific impact they have (and neither do they).

This is a real Im14AndThisIsDeep meme. More people have access to platforms where they can share their creative works than at any other point in human history, if you aren’t seeing it then you’re not really trying to find it. That point would be fair, too; its hard to find original content (even more so with the rise of AI-driven SEO). It’s not the trend in hollywood, but hollywood doesn’t define culture NEARLY as much as they’d like to think they do…)