I have to imagine a comment like this does absolutely nothing to their sales figures. People who were going to download a cracked version of their games anyway remain unaffected now that they have a blessing, and I doubt people who weren't going to pirate would now feel more inclined to do so.

This seems like good PR and frankly it should probably be the default position for games studios.

Today I felt that small twinge of motivation to start cleaning so you better believe I latched on to that feeling and didn't let go until the dishes were washed, laundry was done, floors were cleaned and rugs were vacuumed.

I fully expect not to feel this again for weeks.

Update 9/21/2023: Google says it has removed the AI-generated selfie from Knowledge Graph and Knowledge Panels, where it was appearing, after 404 Media reached out for comment and first published this story.

Importance remains in a quantum superposition

I think people know who Ubisoft is, Kotaku.

I always wait for vote sales. People preordering upvotes are crazy

One thing I appreciate about Canadian elections is how quickly they happen. An election is called, campaigning is like a month or two and then we find out the new government just hours after casting our votes.

To be honest, even Reddit doesn't really feel like Reddit anymore. I have a certain nostalgia for how the site used to be a decade ago, it feels far too corporate now.

Lemmy user slams game developer over use of controlled leaks

Pulling a game from the steam store does not stop people from downloading it if already in their library.

Don't sleep on this one. This game is a profound masterpiece and I recommend everybody play this without any story spoilers.

For those that aren't familiar and want to know more, Outer Wilds is a first person space-based mystery and exploration game. You are given free rein to take your space ship to any planet in the solar system. There are no combat encounters and no objective markers. Your immediate goal is set by you and your own curiosity. Depending on your pace you can expect to spend about 20 hours to finish the base game, and then another 10-15 for the DLC.

The big hook that got me to play was knowing that once you have played through this game to completion for the first time, you will never again be able to experience it in the same way. I've been chasing that feeling by watching other people do blind playthroughs on youtube and I've even forced one of my friends to play it while I watched him. Sort of like Subnautica, where ::: spoiler spoiler once you've played the entire game then the fear of the unknown that stuck with you at first is gone and the next time you play you realize how important that was to your enjoyment of the game. Outer Wilds is a game driven by your knowledge of events that already took place hundreds of thousands of years ago, you just have to put it all together. Once you've learned what there is to learn, you can't undo that. :::

I think my mood has been permanently damaged since dealing with my infestation.

I seem to remember something similar a little while ago except it was like a pair of shoes or something.

Edit: It was Lil Nas X and his Satan Nikes.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lil-nas-x-mschf-satan-nike-shoes/index.html

North Korea runs out of shells, asks Russia to be rearmed.

Nothing ruins a day like a late afternoon appointment. Spend the entire day yesterday thinking about it so that you don't accidentally forget which makes you stressed the moment you wake up because you assume that you've overslept and now don't have time to get ready and that feeling stays with you as you shower and get dressed and drag a comb through your hair and it's only 11am but you're fully ready to leave and now have to just sit there and wait as the day slowly disappears.

Really tame vanilla stuff over here, I'm seeing debian-12.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso

While this is true, the act erodes confidence between users and the platform. (Whatever confidence that still remains)

In fact, treat all video game releases this way.

If people stop preordering or buying on day one regardless of the quality of the product, maybe publishers will finally take notice and start pushing games that actually function.

If there was ever a better string of words to get me to watch a video

Insecticides have limited effect on bed bugs. What's important is catching them early before they get out of control, look out for signs like unusual bite mark patterns on your body when you wake up or small blood stains on your sheets. Check around the corners of your bed and under the mattress for the small dark blotches of fecal matter. If you see a living bug, then there are going to be more of them. It only takes a single pregnant female to begin a rampant infestation.

Wash all of your bedding in hot water and dry on high heat. Buy mattress protectors rated for bed bugs and seal up all beds in the home. Bed bugs can remain dormant for up to a year without food so the cover will need to stay on for at least that long. Anywhere you find evidence of bug activity needs to be hit with diatomaceous earth, this isn't a nasty chemical insecticide treatment but it works by getting into the small joints of the bugs and immobilizing them. Spray into all corners of the room around the floor and under baseboards. It may be necessary to disassemble the bed frame to make sure all corners can be examined.

To prevent them coming into your home, make sure whenever you are staying at a hotel that you check around the beds for any evidence of activity. All of your belongings must stay off the floor and as far away from the bed as possible. When you get home the first thing you should do is throw all of your clothing into a hot wash cycle. If you live in an apartment building it is possible they will come in through the walls from an adjacent unit so be sure to communicate with your neighbours and landlord; fighting your own infestation while the source is next door will ultimately get you nowhere.

Fighting bed bugs was easily the worst time of my life and if I can save at least one other person from going through the same thing then at least my experience counts for something.

I gave up on Below Zero around the time you're given the blueprints for the hover bike. I just could not get invested in whatever linear narrative they were trying to push, so I put the game down and haven't touched it since.

It feels like the devs captured lightning in a bottle with the first game but couldn't figure out what exactly made it so popular and fun to play. It certainly didn't do them any favours when they got rid of their composer Simon Chylinski. His score was so important at setting the tone.

Subnautica is one of my favourite games of all time and it kills me to know that we won't get another one like it.

It's good that you're trying to bring attention to this, but it's off topic for this community.

Relevant XKCD

Without thinking or reading to the last paragraph of this article, I went and started a dist-upgrade on my pi.

Curious now to see if it still boots after it's finished.

Edit: Oops

~ » ssh pihole@172.16.0.1
Last login: Wed Oct 11 09:38:31 2023 from 172.16.0.96
compdump:print:36: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:42: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:44: write error: no space left on device

Smart move, unless you really know what you're doing and have redundancy. When I first made the switch from Lastpass to Bitwarden I had tried to host the vault myself instead of using the cloud version, which worked fine right up until the moment I had a server outage and lost access to all my passwords.

Oh darn guys, I think he means business

There's a tradeoff with CFL bulbs between longevity and instant action. The normal expectation for a light bulb is to have it at full brightness the moment you flip the switch, but the first CFL bulbs to market often took minutes to reach peak output. Longer if they were cold.

So to meet consumer expectations, manufacturers began designing bulbs that would, on ignition, damage themselves in order to reach peak output faster.

It's no wonder the CFL bulb failed as a product, you would either get a bulb that would never be bright enough when you needed it, or you got a bulb that would burn itself out just as quickly as any incandescent for twice the price.

This is honestly the last thing I expected

I use lidarr along with last.fm to discover new artists, and then Plexamp as my music player. Plex automatically scrobbles what I listen to and last.fm feeds me recommendations.

Since starting with lidarr a couple years ago my music library has grown from zero to nearly 3000 albums. 41k tracks.

Antichamber was pretty good for this. You would accidentally fall off a bridge or something and expect a game over, only to find an entirely new area to explore. There were no failure states as far as I remember.

It's a bit weird to me how, on a post regarding a GNOME update, people feel the need to come out of the woodwork to explain how they prefer to use Plasma or any other DE or WM.

This is Linux, you can use whatever you feel like using. Let people be happy with what they're happy with.

Hopefully this includes bug fixes and more compatibility with linux?

I've been trying and failing to get my Debian host to stream to an Nvidia Shield Pro

I'd be curious to know the stats of how many driving trips are done in cities vs your washboard example.

The moral panic slippery slope of: Pilots shouldn't be using psychedelics therefor nobody should be using psychedelics.

And in any case, the article states that he wasn't even a member of the flight crew but was sitting in the jump seat and had been operating on 40 hours without any sleep and didn't say when he actually consumed the mushrooms.

If you look up gatekeeping in the dictionary it gives a link back to this comment.

If you aren't fighting conservatism, you're fighting conservationism.

This is problematic because if Plex suffers an outage (which has happened before) users are suddenly unable to sign in. Even if your media server is running fine, through no fault of your own your content becomes inaccessible.

Jellyfin does not have this issue because authentication is handled locally.

However, Plex has too many nice features so I'll be staying with them for the time being. Credits/intro skipping and Plexamp are a godsend, and the UI is in my opinion way better than what Jellyfin has.

Just make sure you physically disconnect all other storage devices while installing windows. The windows boot loader seems to make itself comfy on any drive it can find.

KathmanGNU

Neurotypicals that have a normal working relationship with their own brain be like: