It’s the same “people” who always seem to be “saying” what he’s thinking at any given moment.

And I could care less about a headphone jack (I’m an Android user and I’d say Apple’s USB-C DAC is better than 99% of cheap built-in phone DACs - change my mind) but since we’re making requests I’ll take a phone that’s <5.5" please!

Steam was the first major storefront to refuse to carry Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility” set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.

Publisher Santa Ragione said in November that Valve declined to carry Horses because it contained “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Santa Ragione disputed that characterization, but an appeal was rejected and the ban stands.

Seems like it’s treading a very fine line…

Yet another reason to use and support open fonts.

Idk how many fonts are typically in a game but at $20k a pop, I suspect you could hire your own designer or collaborate with a few other small studios to design a few open game fonts.

You’re assuming that whatever they’re talking to is capable of giving only good advice with awareness and consideration of their living situation.

Sex education is beneficial if done well, but there is zero evidence suggesting AI can do anything well.

Gonna go with the wildcard here and suggest Walkscape. It’s still in beta, so access requires a one-time patron sub ($4.50, then cancel) or a free written application through their portal (may take like a week to approve)

It’s a classic runescape-style RPG where all actions cost “steps” walking. It’s designed to keep screen time to a minimum and walking time to a maximum.

Character management is generally pretty passive and 1-handed. Definitely much more casual by nature, but encourages much more active participation.

Tried a few public instances and it seems like the only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.

Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Can you still get results routing through TOR?

Not all disabilities are visible.

Who needs money when you can just have the company you’re buying take on debt to pay for its own buyout, then let that debt slowly rot it from the inside out.

What? Even if you take the argument, which is full of shit, at face value, tons of people are citizens to countries other than their birth county. Born or married into a family that grants you citizenship rights? Moved somewhere and changed citizenship?

It’s up to India, not China, to determine who gets Indian passports, and it’s China, not India’s, fault for not issuing a Chinese passport to this woman if they view her place of birth as Chinese territory.

Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

Letting your cat be an “outside” cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said “outside cat” is how we get feral cats everywhere.

That said, I dont love the vague “eradicate feral cats” language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.

Which you’d think would be incredibly easy to do

Minecraft has a gigantic base of players and modders, a “better” Minecraft would need to draw a similar crowd or convince them all to give up years of customization and optimization to switch en masse.

Hard to imagine any game pulling it off without going F2P, which, bleh.

And, as with any standardized hardware, it’s a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.

Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.

Attack Troll with Nasty Knife

Me, about once a month. “It’s only 3 things, not worth writing down, I’ve got this”

Narrator: he didn’t got this.

This is reminding me - I need to pay the bill from my psychiatrist. But they’re closed right now… Can someone repost this tomorrow during business hours, maybe I’ll see it then?

I’ll take the mail. 50/50 shot I can address it now and toss it. All others are impossible.

Technical debt aside of course the development process looks like that - what’s the alternative? Infinite feature growth? No one benefits from that.

As an example, I’ve got signal on my phone- it started with texting features, added images, calls, video calling, but at some point there’s a limit on the number of useful ways to communicate.

I don’t need it to be another social network.

I don’t need it to tell me my horoscope, order a pizza, or organize my photos.

I don’t need it to track my health, play games, read my work emails, or drive my car.

It doesn’t need to integrate with VR, or AI, or whatever 2-letter buzz acronym comes up next week.

It’s a secure messaging platform, I need it to send messages. Sure, there’s always a cat and mouse game of encryption to keep ahead of, but infinite feature growth? It’s not practical or necessary. Things can exist to do one thing reliably and well.

Wait, so you’re telling me that “health” bar with 30g of sugar actually was secretly concealing 30g of sugar? Who could have seen this coming??

You could do PR with the ballot of potential Reps distributed by district. When the election is settled the district Reps are assigned starting with the highest-skewed district. E.g.:

Overall vote: 60:40 (red:blue)

D1: 80:20
D2: 40:60
D3: 70:30
D4: 45:55
D5: 30:70

You can go randomly, round Robin, or winner-first to divvy up the districts, but essentially you would expect D1, D3, and D4 to be assigned their local red Rep (even though red “lost” in the close D4 race) and D2 & D5 to go blue

With more parties, random or round robin are a little more “fair” for the third party - winner first allocation could result in 3rd party getting the “whatever’s left” district where they didn’t actually get any votes.

It’s not perfect, but neither is the current system.