I feel like he got enough for it to be a huge bombshell report.

Just putting a reasonably-up-to-date real-world value estimate next to any price in parentheses would be a big step forward though.

Subjectively, Lemmy’s communities are much more robust and have a lot more content than they did during the Reddit API exodus. I imagine there will be more people who choose to stay this time around.

While malicious compliance is definitely the optimal strategy, undermining the “legitimacy” of DOGE is also a decent strategy to take. It’s great news that Elon’s recent email gambit was (generally) a failure and he’s now trying to pretend it was just a joke. If a few more of their objectives fail in a suitably humiliating way, more agencies will be empowered to laugh them off. And I’d say having your own staff resign is humiliating enough.

The East was hit even harder in many ways:

“in 1331 an outbreak erupted in the Yuan Empire and may have hastened the end of Mongol rule over China. Three years later, the disease killed over 90 percent of the Hebei Province’s population with deaths totaling over 5 million people.” Source

he literally tried it once already, we don’t really need to speculate if he’d go for it

I feel like ATC is one of those pattern-recognition constraint-satisfaction problem jobs where a (non-generative!) algorithm can probably do a pretty good job.

Even effects-forward pieces like Jurassic Park still hold up because everyone on the island is a memorable character and the plot is exciting! Though it’s true that the constraints on effects might have caused that - the dinosaurs in that movie only had about 15 minutes of total screen-time, so they had to actually, y’know, write.

“My ad preferences” are no ads

With the deprecation of UBlock Origin, it’s time.

Even though my vaxxes are up to date, I caught the new variant recently. It was pretty nasty - a lot like strep throat.

Given the history of the series, I find this to be pretty endearing. I have fond memories of playing the multi-disc Baldurs Gate 1 on PC as a child. It’s kinda fun to see that today’s gamers will have a similar experience with the same series nearly 30 years later.

The Gameboy Advance startup sound never fails to activate my neurons either.

Note takers, I guess…

Well, then it can run DOOM. I’m sold.

Less-corporate, creator-owned networks like Nebula and Dropout might be a potential route to a more sustainable and less centralized online video ecosystem.

Yeah, at least these dominant corporations are now being forced to compete and become profitable without the advantages of free financing. This process is revealing the ghoulishness that their exaggerated ability to outspend their competition via borrowed capital had been hiding from the consumers.

Isn’t this just World of Warcraft? It’s practically a co-op ARPG at this point.

Miserable game design for something that is trying to get players to come back every few months for content releases. “You can’t play the new hero until you grind for it until you burn out or pay” is just not a compelling pitch to get people to resume playing your game.

It’s only going to get worse over time as the proportion of premium characters grows… 😐

• The Bioshock series supports a spellcasting-based play style with a decent skill tree.
• CONTROL also involves a lot of eldritch force powers in its combat sequences
• I know you didn’t really want sidescrollers or top-downs but Noita and Magicka are pretty great at delivering on the creativity of mage combat and scratch this itch for me.

This YouTube creator has published several quality videos what’s going on in Wizard Games lately, which is a quick way to catch up on the genre: https://youtu.be/quPKQIVEX5A