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pcgamer.com with the spineless headline which should have read “Donkey Kong cheater Billy Mitchell


JK Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot, and a fascist.






Missing the most important spec for me: weight





Apparently they have barely produced any so they will all be sold out anyway.




No, it means that Linux systems also need to blacklist the keys in their UEFI firmware. I don’t know if distros push updates for those blacklists or if you have to do it manually.


RIP Benny Harvey, miss you big man. Gone but not forgotten.




You can exclude tags by going to your Store Settings page and scrolling down to “Tags to Exclude.” You can only exclude up to 10, and this only works for games that are actually tagged with the word. It doesn’t exclude keywords in the description. I don’t know how many games are actually tagged with “dystopian.” I get 3195 results when I search for the “Dystopian” tag, so at least you can exclude those.

This works best for genre types.



This is so much better than a remake or remaster.

id Software led the way, decades ago, making Doom and then Quake engines open source. I wish more studios would donate their old software to the public domain.

Fingers crossed one day we will get Unreal source code. I wonder if it even still exists.


the lawsuit accuses Keighin of streaming leaked Switch games, including this month’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership, ahead of release using emulation software as many as 50 times in the last two years. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 in damages for each instance of alleged copyright infringement.

Hilarious that the screenshot Kotaku use in the article is his social media post with his recommendations of what sites to download the games from.


I played Forza Horizon 4 and the Drivatars are pretty convincing. They make exactly the kind of mistakes on the track that I make and they can be challenging but beatable in a way that’s much more fun than any other racing game I had played before.



Does Croc have a big enough fanbase to be able to pull off an exclusivity deal?



Older games are better than a lot of modern AAA slop, but not for the reasons she describes.

I was hoping she would talk about game design, or writing, mechanics, player agency, gameplay before graphics or literally anything else but she spent nearly 15 minutes only talking about tired culture wars talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”

Yeah AAA writing is shit, please change the record so all the sweaty neckbeard virgins complaining about Aloy’s facial hair can crawl back in their caves. So sick of hearing about it.

She shouts out Asmongold in her comments. Disgraceful.


Anyone who falls for the scam of thinking that you can determine IQ from the genome of an embryo is probably below average themselves.


You’re just unabashedly supporting eugenics? Is that because you’re too young, or too uneducated to know any better?




Instead of linking to a jpeg hosted on a non-HTTPS website for a weird investments scam you could just link wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle



Reuters just regurgitating investor-bait because they have no domain expertise. Maybe Reuters journalists should be getting some training from experts too.


I hate to be the one to break it to you, but railing against “forced diversity” is just a dog-whistle for rejecting actual diversity.

Normal people don’t actually care about it. If something is shit because it’s badly written with bad character design then we say “it’s shit because it’s badly written and has bad character design,” not “it’s bad because it has women and minorities.”


You clicked the tree somewhere and it would tell you either to try again, or you would win something. I think most people who won got $5 and a monkey plush toy. I’m not sure anyone ever won the jackpot. You could just click over and over again trying to remember where you had previously clicked, like a treasure hunt. Meanwhile they’re showing banner ads on the page.

It worked using the ismap attribute on the image which tells the browser to add the x,y coordinates of the user’s click to the link when fetching the result.


Does anyone remember the TreeLoot.com MoneyTree? It existed from 1998-2004 and looked like this:

I’m all in favor of going back to the old internet, but… not this.


Intel’s assets are worth more than Intel’s market cap. That’s how badly they’re doing in the stockmarket, and also shows you how market cap is a fairly irrelevant indicator of a company’s value.


Wait until you see the ones that let you choose between “Accept All” and “Subscribe to monthly plan 4.99/mo”

I saw a website like that the other week and it was based in an EU country.


Since nobody has mentioned it yet, the other game that ruined his reputation for me is Godus. He funded it with a kickstarter with the promise it would be a successor to the God-Sim genre like Populous. It turned out to have all of the dark patterns of mobile games (time-gating with micro-transactions), but in a PC game.


“Huge Leak” is just clickbait. This is just data-mined stuff from Source engine and nothing here was convincing for me.


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