Sony has written off those countries for years of PS sales, its been a resounding yes for them since long before they started inching into the PC market
I love long complicated games, like breath of the wild, but I think the world also needs more concise games, those 20-40 hour masterpieces that keep you wrapped up without having to memorize 3600 pages of back story to remember where you left off.
What the studios (especially Nintendo) don’t understand is you can’t charge the same ~$60 for both games. People don’t hate shorter simpler games, they just hate paying the same price for less content.
Right now, Nintendo is selling the Switch version of Link’s Awakening for only $10 less than TOTK ($60 vs $70). That’s right, a remake of a 20+ year old game with a pretty limited story is selling for almost the same as the largest most complex and expansive game Nintendo has ever produced.
I don’t know why they’re so fixated on matching prices between games that took orders of magnitude different amounts of effort to produce.
Is it possible (it appears to be) that the data for rolling stone album “weeks on chart” metric includes weeks outside of your sample range as well?
I could be wrong, but it looks like by counting weeks on top, this graph is comparing popularity from date the first album on the lost charted to 2020 vs just 2003-2020
For me - I have a problem where people stop joining after a certain amount of time. Fresh start? People join up instantly, but by the time we get to the 3rd mission, if someone drops there’s a 90% chance that seat never gets refilled, SOS or not.
I followed a Jaime Oliver recipe for curry, which started with grating onion, ginger and garlic. I liked the curry, but grating an onion is a miserable job. He said that technique unlocked the onion’s ‘sweetness’. How much difference do you think I’d notice if I used a food processor?
I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there’s hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn’t authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256...
capture the generated codes and time of input in some way, then brute force hashes until they generate one that produces the correct codes at x time
Given a TOTP key is usually at least 18 characters for a 6-digit code, having only one data point sticks you with something on the order of 10^28 possible keys for a given singular code (way more if case sensitive). You’d need to be regularly intercepting TOTP codes to brute force your way to the right key, and even then it’d only be valid for a single site. At that point it probably means you’ve fully compromised the connecting device or server, at which point, why do you even need the TOTP again?
Hi! I recently discovered a couple eco-friendly apps to try out. But, I’m also wondering if there are any eco-friendly social networks out there? I haven’t had much luck in my search, maybe people here have heard something? Here are the apps I discovered:...
To elaborate - Ecosia is basically just a frontend for Bing. They split the revenue from advertisements with Bing, and donate a portion of their share to a variety is charities to support tree planting initiatives
It looks like the most recent month’s revenue split was low on trees (16.6%), but looking back at previous months they tend to average in the 25% to projects range. I wouldn’t be surprised if the increase in March advertising spending was all Earth Month related.
If you don’t mind Bing, and you don’t mind ads, Ecosia is a fantastic way to make a little impact every day with something you’d be doing anyways. If you do mind those things, then consider donating to one or more of the charities Ecosia supports, because at minimum they have a better project vetting budget than I do.
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Matt Smith’s character in HOTD is actually The Eleventh Doctor, during his several hundred year run off screen. He spends much of GoT working to remember where he left the TARDIS, so that he could ferry the plot along in S6+
YIKES, that’s probably not the article I would reference when trying to introduce people to the social cost of carbon - it’s full on fossil fuel industry propaganda, you may want to give it a read.
Also, the $200/t is an estimate of the societal cost of emitting carbon, not the cost of avoiding or removing carbon. There’s plenty of ways avoidance/offsets/removal programs that can decrease global emissions for a fraction of that price - it just sets the upper end of what is (for better or worse) a “good deal” for the economy. I.e., if it costs more than $200/t to avoid emitting, it’s better for the economy to just let the planet burn.
Agreed that today’s carbon “offsets” are cheap because they’re garbage, and good offsets are and should be more expensive, but they don’t have to be $200/ton to be effective, they just have to be under that much in order to be better than dealing with their consequences.
The refunds may have hurt, but what hurt more was the fact that in the last week HD2 went from #1/2 on the Steam global top sellers to #11. The big red “Overwhelmingly Negative” next to a title is a huge turnoff to new buyers.
Some executive somewhere has a chart showing daily sales numbers and watched them fall off a cliff in the last week.
But lets be honest, even Duck Duck Go is better than Google these days.
I hate to say it, because I love their privacy policy, but it we’re being honest, it’s not. DDG mostly uses Bing, and I struggle to find what I’m after on that engine. I have better results with Brave search, who now run their own index (but their tech bro CEO leaves me nervous at every turn)
Is dark matter’s main rival theory dead? There’s bad news from the Cassini spacecraft and other recent tests (theconversation.com)
Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. (lemmy.ca)
NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days (lemmy.world)
Nintendo president: “Game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated” (mynintendonews.com)
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)
Bitwarden transitions from Manifest v2 to v3 (bitwarden.com)
Environmentalists are having a cow over Tyson Foods' "climate friendly" beef (www.motherjones.com)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday her intention to sue the fossil fuel industry for its role in changing Michigan's climate and threatening the state (www.detroitnews.com)
He really broke his toe (lemmy.world)
Patch 1.000.303 Notes (Steam) (store.steampowered.com)
Fixes...
Alternatives to onion grating
I followed a Jaime Oliver recipe for curry, which started with grating onion, ginger and garlic. I liked the curry, but grating an onion is a miserable job. He said that technique unlocked the onion’s ‘sweetness’. How much difference do you think I’d notice if I used a food processor?
Why every TOTP app default uses SHA-1 hash encryption?
I use Aegis as my 2fa. Today on new token creation I observed that there’s hash function set to SHA-1, later checked all my tokens and the result is same type of encryption used for all. So I have edited all my tokens to SHA-256 as a result my totp doesn’t authenticate. Do I have to rescan my tokens for updating to SHA-256...
World Bank’s climate plan: Pricier red meat and dairy, cheaper chicken and veggies (www.politico.eu)
“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions....
Some green apps to try!
Hi! I recently discovered a couple eco-friendly apps to try out. But, I’m also wondering if there are any eco-friendly social networks out there? I haven’t had much luck in my search, maybe people here have heard something? Here are the apps I discovered:...
What plot holes could be adequately explained away with a single shot or line of dialogue?
“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment....
Are Flight Offsets Worth It? A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly. (www.nytimes.com)
Sony cancelled the PSN account linking requirement for Helldivers 2 (lemmy.world)
Kristi Noem Cries ‘Fake News’ After Disastrous Interview on CBS (www.thedailybeast.com)
Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change (aftermath.site)