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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store

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  • Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG's idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries' gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.

  • ‘DON’T PEE IN OUR POOL’ [OC]

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  • YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment

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  • Counterpoint: hand-sewing reduces your impact on the environment more because you can't impact environment that much with both hands occupied for dozens of hours. It's like touching grass but productive.

  • Consumer group seeks total alcohol advertising ban in Poland

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  • At my place some beer/coctail brands introduced alcohol-free (<0.5%) beverage varieties primarily to keep ads on air. It still made them less frequent but the doublethink thing was awkward. Only a few of first of them took effort to differ from average beer ads, like seemingly adressing those who enjoy the taste alone or want to be with their buddies in spite of their choice, but many just slapped 0% stickers on what could otherwise be an obvious regular beer ad.

  • Tankie goes on a rant about this community and throws in a quick Uyghur genocide denial -- They just can't help themsevles

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  • CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article)

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  • I shared your confusion.

    Now I'm curious if one can pull that off with simple games if features like high refresh rate and wireless thrown off. Also, price. With that 'Memory LCD' of theirs, it costs $100 per unit as per their Twitter.

    14 days standby clock, 8 hours active

    That's what PD team claims for 740 mAh battery, it is what cheap mp3 players now have\consume. If there is a space to optimize it further, we'd see even better numbers, but I'm not confident this crank or little solar panel on the surface (whole back panel?) could make it autonomous. Yet, the idea of a handheld that LOVES sunlight is tempting. And, also, the idea of games that are built around slow and infrequent refresh like those minigames on e-books.

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    I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology

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  • Cloud\fileshare server could make everything transparent and logged if that's a concern. That could also make basic law books accessible to everyone. But I'm pretty sure none GAF about inmates.

  • Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’

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  • Or having an initial test period, where, by default, they get adutomatically fired unless they serve well or work on their promises, like contractors, not like kings.

    Locking into power once elected is a stupid design decision someone should've protested with a chainsaw in their hand, just like Milei, if he didn't enjoy it himself.

  • Lil Nas X arrested and taken to hospital after wandering LA streets in underwear

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  • Nas X name confused LEOs. Another lifehack they won't tell you about.

  • Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones

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  • I work with lots of people with higher than average education level, mostly 30-50yo apolitical liberals.

    Never heard anyone refering to Max like they do inviting someone to a TG/VK/Whatsup/Viber/Teams chat. No work chats there as far as I know, none in the context of schools/neighborhood communication group talks. Most people do use other replacement products like RuTube/VK VIds/Yandex video search, Yandex products are very popular amongst them, and like one eight of them uses VPNs to access YT but doesn't boast about it.

    There were and are a wave of paid influencers and ads promoting it, but I've always heard about it second-hand, so compared to the likes of VK, Ya and others that do even billboard advertisement at my place, it's not that well promoted, and I only encounter it in local news articles. I'm yet to see any business advertise their Max channel like they did with Insta, VK and TG. It kinda suggests there are no money to make there.

    I have an obviously skewed sample, but I don't see anyone signing in for a chat platform when no one is there. I suppose, besides pre-installs, they'd softly push it onto a public sector to gain base (september is a good month since schools and colleges start their year cycle there)(I'm sure I've heard some employers did promote it), then they'd seemingly lock some government functions behind it, then, probably, it'd start to roll and people themselves become their ad agents and reasons to join. If it'd start to roll.

    I suspect it's more profits and profiling for VK, Max parent company, it's owner's dad being a top henchman who's likely gifted him that monopoly, but it is still too dangerous to have it at your device. Many people I described aren't pessimistic about the government's line like I am, but I do feel the buzz of generalized lack of trust to things suggested by the gvmnt. I assume, they won't join it unless it's needed or beneficial, and right now it's not.

    AMA if you care, but I won't disclose anything leading to me.

    chatted just now:

    Some friends of my friend do install that shit for they don't care. They don't see many people or services there, so it's pretty stagnant, but they are on the edge of switching because they are afraid theit TG/WS chats would get blocked.

  • Russia orders state-backed MAX messenger app, a WhatsApp rival, pre-installed on phones and tablets

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  • It's so popular it became obligatory.

  • What Tiktok ban? White House launches TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice'

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  • Shut up.

  • You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

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  • They could've postponed that for like half a year, but they seem to doubt they'd sell anything then, after release. Bad PR move for already troubled game. I think it's a really bad sign if publishers does just that.

  • THIS IS NOT A DRILL

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  • I'm still confused how Tom Artyom Alexandrovich is his full name. As it's used in articles and on wiki, Tom is his name, Artyom is ??? and Alexandrovich is supposedly a surname. For my ear it is a mess, see why below, but do know that's only a theory.

    Between eastern slav nations (a lot of israeli immigrants came from here, from USSR and after), Alexandrovich is a popular patronim (son of Alexander), Artyom is a name, and Tom could be a short-hand for Artyom and\or nickname and\or the englification of his name on documents, - and by this logic there's no surname.

    I don't see how it came to be, but what I know - is (ex) soviet people, especially in official context, used to call each other by name+patronim, e.g. Artyom Alexandrovich, and as a cybersec guy and an arrested pedophile who wanted to keep a low profile (and kept for some time?), he could've tried to avoid disclosing his real surname. Probably a sound tactic for someone like him, but other than that, his surname could lead to other interesting discoveries.

  • Alaskan man gifted new motorcycle by Vladimir Putin during Trump summit

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  • The unexpected gift by the Russian leader came after reporters with Russian state television Channel 1 met Warren by chance on the streets of Anchorage ahead of the summit.

    It could've been more than a week after he got polled by a reporter (if he really got found this way), so it lets russian side order one and transport it. Him having Ural is likely a marker to question him in the first place. What makes less sense is the gift itself, it's really out of blue and you can't interpret it as anything but a random move by his PR team.

    If gossips are right and Vlad himself watches his own TV tho... I imagine some clerks in the mission hunting local listings for a new Ural with one day delivery.

  • Russian APC attacks Ukrainian positions while flying American and Russian flags

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  • It's driving in a safe zone with a couple of drones dedicated exclusively to film it. Probably a planned and ordered shooting coming from above to support a media image of that meeting. Boring.

  • The dream of a fairytale wedding

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  • imagine shrex

  • Day 395 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • Kill it with fire.

  • Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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  • Covid hungover. Everyone saw these numbers on web services, streaming, gaming, etc and thought they miss an opportunity to milk it for double, or that their product is just too essential now to quit. That confidence just sped up the degradation.

  • Ex-Kentucky clerk asks Supreme Court to hear case that could upend same-sex marriage

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  • Besides funny rituals invloving deities, what is material in neoliberal capitalistic world is that there are various exclusive legal rights for partners over property, in labor forces, over child upbringing and in other fields. A select group of heterosexual partners who co-signed and keeps that deal with church/gvmnt gets a different treatment and some benefits no other party gets. It sounds petty and surreal to hold belief this custom should exist for that whole group but not +2% percents who are not heterosexual.

    Single people, single parents, partners not married are way larger groups that are to look into discussing the marriage privelege. There can be no logical reason into pushing LGBTQ+ folks out but, emh, being more occupied with their personal live than their own. And with how many legalized gay marriage are in her state, there'd probably more court clerk involved into reviewing her whining than there are actual married gays, portraying how relevant and/or significant her problem with them.

    For both law and market it isn't reasonable to generate subcategories that small, as they seek the most optimized approach in classificating clients. While the state would instinctively want to calculate owned taxes as clear as possible, the market would feel ganked on for it doesn't know what to do there, like, they need to invent new flavors of rings and decorations for incorrectly wed people? It is unreasonable to say the least, I bet they would still sell the same rings for hetero pairs and it would only lead into a spiral of moral-inspired lawsuits.

    I don't feel that person can be involved in any discussion about gay people. I'm not a gay person myself but I have a gay friend so I get it naturally. Sorry for rambling, I was farming for my second diamond hoe while dictating it.

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