Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
This seems the most ethical to me. Don’t pirate smaller stuff. I would say it’s ethical to also pirate where the artist has passed away and it’s just their estate who get the money, but I’d take that on a case by case basis.
Good points. Its worth mentioning that while SteamOS is based on arch (a famously unstable distro), it is immutable, so the user will have a much harder time bricking their system. KDE plasma was the right choice I agree, considering the number of windows users Valve is marketing towards.
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a fan at all of Bill Burr, but he recently went on Bill Maher’s show, and said he was with the students. He’s also said some inflammatory things in the past, so I’m not sure. Are we cool with Bill Burr, now?
I think in general he leans more left than he lets on if that’s what you mean.
His podcast when his wife is on (It annoys me that people would find this to be relevant credentials, but she’s a POC) shows that he has a pretty healthy world view where he talks crap a lot, but is happy to be told he’s an idiot as well, at least by her.
Yeah, my PC is beefier than a PS5, so I’m hoping I can get better 60fps results than the performance mode on PS5. So glad to see SE is taking multiplatform seriously. They’re probably the most egregious publisher in terms of setting sales targets well beyond what is reasonable.
That’s horrible to hear. We get on edge about the constant military/economic threat of China here in Australia, but that’s much more an existential threat than immediate one. The idea that some random citizen could end 100 peoples lives in minutes is terrifying.
We have people over here that I’m sure would be a school shooter situation if we had guns.
We have a strong economic dependancy on China for trade, and a military dependency on the USA for defence. What could possibly go wrong? I’m not a sky news watcher, but I’ll admit I have family that are very cautious about geopolitics (also not sky news watchers)
For people interested in tech edutainment he’s alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.
So much terrible click bait has meant I haven’t bothered clicking in a year or so though.
Sports fans seem pretty happy to be fucked around though. It happens to them hard when seeing sport in real life and have to pay exorbitantly for food at stadiums/sports channel subscriptions, so EA is fucking them quite gently in comparison.
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...
Once you discover the sea of great indie games you won’t even care what AAA is doing anymore. Some of the AAA games remove cash shops after the game loses relevance anyway, like Shadow of War, meaning you get rewarded for not buying the game until it is 90% off.
In recent times, triple-A publishers have repeatedly had their lunch eaten — at least, in terms of mindshare — by more creatively nimble indies. Lethal Companywas last holiday season’s breakout hit, andPalworld followed not long after. https://aftermath.site/the-nerve-of-balatro-for-being-this-goodand...
It’s genuinely upsetting to see people losing their jobs in pursuit of company profits.
That said, the AAA game development model is broken financially. If Indies and small studios get the release space and attention they need to thrive now, the death of widespread AAA gaming is a wonderful thing.
How many of the most interesting gaming experiences in the last decade have been indies? I would argue most of the best games have been made by teams with less than 30 people, often single dev “studios”.
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
Stardew creator won't rush Haunted Chocolatier: "better to have a good delayed game than a bad game on time" (www.eurogamer.net)
Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater...
Twitter is officially X.com now (www.theverge.com)
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games (jacobin.com)
What drew you to the high seas?
Inspired by a post since deleted, I feel bad for probably coming off judgemental about the poster’s taste in the movie that drove him to consider sailing....
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
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Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream (gizmodo.com)
RetroArch brings its free multisystem emulation to the iOS App Store (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12676645...
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
Do we like Bill Burr now?
Let me preface this by saying I’m not a fan at all of Bill Burr, but he recently went on Bill Maher’s show, and said he was with the students. He’s also said some inflammatory things in the past, so I’m not sure. Are we cool with Bill Burr, now?
X now treats the term cisgender as a slur (www.engadget.com)
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble (www.ign.com)
A new generation of J.R.R. Tolkien games is coming | Lee Guinchard exclusive interview (venturebeat.com)
It looks like Rockstar is gearing up to release Red Dead Redemption 1 on PC. (twitter.com)
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Parishioners stopped teen with a rifle from entering church with 60 children inside (www.nbcnews.com)
Children were inside St. Mary Magdalen in Abbeville, Louisiana, waiting to take their first Holy Communion, the church said....
Responsive Design Go Brrrr (sh.itjust.works)
EA boss thinks ads in triple-A games would be 'meaningful' growth driver (www.gamedeveloper.com)
What could help triple-A games get even bigger right now? According to EA CEO Andrew Wilson, the answer lies in ads....
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being...
Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
In recent times, triple-A publishers have repeatedly had their lunch eaten — at least, in terms of mindshare — by more creatively nimble indies. Lethal Companywas last holiday season’s breakout hit, andPalworld followed not long after. https://aftermath.site/the-nerve-of-balatro-for-being-this-goodand...
[ META ] What is the community's opinion of Pop!_OS?
It’s an Ubuntu downstream maintained by Linux box maker System76 which is targeted for both general usability and design/media applications. They will soon be debuting their own home-spun desktop environment, Cosmic DE, which is highly anticipated by the Linux community....
The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....