Very reddit of them?

OnlyFans models are sex workers too, for instance. Maybe your view of what a sex worker is is a bit outdated?

60 frames per 42.5 days, playable.

this will probably help advertisers and political groups astroturf all of reddit.

So it'll work as intended then.

What would be the second best in terms of popularity, community and affordability?

Winning Game of the year is a great honor and I want to first thank everyone that voted for us and I want to congratulate all the other nominees. This has been an incredibly competitive year and you each would have deserved to win this award @CapcomUSA_ @remedygames @insomniacgames @NintendoAmerica

I want to thank @geoffkeighley and the people that organized the #gameawards for creating an award show so big that it gets mainstream attention. While 30 secs is a bit short , there’s nothing like the game awards and it’s an incredible achievement

I wore armor at the #gameawards because BG3 is a game that couldn’t exist without its our player community and I wanted to pay tribute to how important they’ve been for the development. You rock community BG3

Making a game like this only works if you have an incredible passionate and talented team and in that regard I am incredibly lucky with the @larianstudios – they are some of the finest and they did a truly amazing job

Over 2000 people are listed in the credits and since I can’t call out everyone, I want to focus on a group of people that don’t always get the credit they deserve

Team QA, team localisation, team customer support, team operations, team publishing, team play testers, and every other developer at Larian, BG3 wouldn’t exist without you and you all deserve to be very proud of this

I want to dedicate this award to the friends and family members we lost during development including Jim, our lead cinematic animator who passed away last month and personally to my father who passed away the week before we launched our early access campaign

You don’t get to make something like BG3 if you don’t have the support from the people around you. Personally, I really want to thank 5 special people, a crazy dog and a one-eyed cat for sticking with me

Big shout out also to our localization partners and @PitStopTweets who had to use every corner of their building to record and performance capture what was an insane number of lines

To our actors – you did great. I hope our paths will cross again in the future and your agents will remain their usual reasonable selves :)
I also want to thank @Wizards_DnD and specifically the DnD team for giving us carte blanche. I’m really sorry to hear so many of you were let go. It’s a sad thing to realize that of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left. I hope you all end up well

There are many more partners I want to thank. We asked much of you all, but you delivered and without your efforts, BG3 would not be what it is

I want to end with a story of a conversation I had a long time ago with a publisher. He told me, luckily for them, games are driven by idealism. He meant it in an exploitative way but he was right

Games are a unique art form, as important as books, music or movies. Many developers, myself included, make games because they love seeing others engage with their creations in a way only games can offer

They don’t care that much about the money made beyond it being the fuel they need to create new and better games. It’s worth reminding everyone that fuel is but a means, not a goal. Whereto and how we journey are what matter and what we remember

Thank you.

That's the thing, Devs usually don't get a better cut, publishers do. So unless their publisher isn't hoarding all the money (lmao) or they self-publish their games, Devs don't even get to smell that extra cut.

You're absolutely right, everything's so civil here that the moment someone is remotely hostile to anyone it stands out like a sore thumb. Reddit was hell in some places in this regard, one word against the general consensus and everyone piles on you like you're a terrorist.

And that's without mentioning people who are there clearly just to stir up arguments, I don't know how so many people don't realize this. The "old" saying "don't feed the troll" has been forgotten by a big portion of the internauts.

6 got me LMAO

better revenue shares for developers?
Money bonuses for exclusivity is great for developers?

It actually goes to publishers, so the only way devs see that extra cut is by self-publishing. So I guess for smaller indie devs it can be a good deal.

Social media is having its quarter-life crisis, if a quarter-life crisis is a thing, if we can even put a lifespan on social media, which might in fact play a role in our society from now until the end of time. After 25 years of status updates, news feeds, clever tweets, performative photos, and endless scrolls, the US social media companies that have commandeered our attention and monetized it so successfully have run out of fresh ideas and are looking to reinvent themselves.

Lucky us?

Some 18 months ago, 3D immersion via face computers was going to reinvigorate our online social experience. Facebook believed in this vision so firmly that it changed its name to Meta to reflect it. Having determined more recently that something a little simpler might jack up engagement, Meta launched Threads—basically, Twitter for Instagram.

Now the video app TikTok is introducing a way to compose text-based posts—its own version of the Create feature found in Instagram Stories. Accessed through the app’s camera, where users typically go to post videos or photos, the new text option is billed by TikTok as “the latest addition to options for content creation, allowing creators to share their stories, poems, recipes, and other written content on TikTok.” Text: It’s the future. This comes right on the heels of Twitter rebranding itself as X, part of the company’s broader strategy for becoming an everything-app, like China’s WeChat.

TikTok’s new text feature, which feels mostly additive, and Twitter’s brand pivot, which feels mostly superfluous, are not by themselves causes for existential angst. But they’re part of an evolution in the social media landscape, where the polite “borrowing” of features has turned into a full-fledged land grab for our frayed attention spans. Whether through subscriptions, shopping, payments, or AI-infused products, social media companies are throwing everything at the wall to counter both an unpredictable ad market and people’s limited capacity for using a dozen different social apps.

“If we evaluate these apps from the legacy technology-innovation lens, then yes—they’re copying each other and there are no new ideas,” says Chris Messina, a software product designer who is credited with introducing the hashtag to Twitter. “But the better way to understand it is that social media is now a fashion industry, so as a product manager, you’re evaluating success based on engagement and retention, not innovation.”

Messina also adds that he believes X (née Twitter) is now “incredibly vulnerable, and the most competitive teams, like Meta and TikTok, aren’t going to sit idly by if they can carve up Twitter’s former advertising base.”

Meta’s early success with Instagram Threads—over 100 million sign-ups in under a week—has largely been credited to its platform advantage; over a billion people already use Instagram, and porting one’s Instagram identity over to Threads is frictionless. But that’s success in metrics only—quantitative, not qualitative. (In any case, daily active users on Threads have reportedly fallen off.) Threads still doesn’t have a web or desktop app, hasn’t yet rolled out its promised chronological feed, and doesn’t yet support a more open-source protocol that the company has said it will support.

More recently, Ozzy and his wife Sharon dressed up as West and his wife Bianca Censori for Halloween last year.

LMAO

Every GTA player sweating bullets right now.

“As social software has become more probabilistic and personalized, the more important thing is to have ‘shots on goal’ to keep people engaged and prevent churn,” Messina says. “And so Instagram does limited, progressive feature rollouts.”

Masha Liberman, a tech investor who previously built 3D bitmoji for Snapchat, believes that social media is experiencing a “crisis of ideas,” but she says that’s not a new thing. “It’s always been tough to invent something new,” she says. “What’s happening with social media companies is that they want to see themselves as media networks that offer everything inside the app. That’s the competitive advantage right now. And at some point we will probably view some of these things as new formats rather than copycat features.”

Social media as a category is probably overdue for a serious rethink, both in the usability sense and the regulatory sense. The time-suck it has become for some people, its potential mental health harms, and its fire-to-gasoline spread of misinformation are all reasons enough to question it.
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It has also, over the past 20-plus years, offered connection, community, entertainment, and access to information unlike anything humanity has ever experienced before. And a new group of apps is now promising a decentralized social media experience instead of the founder-driven model of the past two decades.

But this era of platform identity crises, brand pivots, and frenetic feature reinvention isn’t necessarily in service of users, either. “My experience working at a social media company during turbulent times, especially when there’s a separate app or even a separate page, is that these are huge internal political projects,” Liberman says. “They’re not for users directly, and users sometimes feel this.”

It’s hard not to feel it, to have a persistent sense of déjà vu after another new app feature is announced, or to feel like you never really asked for the thing to begin with. It’s hard not to feel like it’s getting a little late at the social media party, and that there has to be some other reason to stay.

incube8games has a few, you might want to check it out.

Exactly. If games were released in a polished state, I'm sure more people would buy them at full price.

Another new type of phishing I've been seeing in my junk mail uses links to Bing. Not sure what it does because, as you can understand, I haven't clicked any of those.

By the way, if you use Firefox, there's this little add-on called "Redirect AMP to HTML" that might be useful to prevent this (or maybe not, I don't know).

Or, the random person saying the mods got reinstated is a plant and just wants people to have faith and come back.

Sounds likely, no mods appear in the subreddit's mod list at the moment.

while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

So this is when they'll start adding features exclusive to their instance. Does it sound familiar?

I don't think that list is complete. Dead Space does have Denuvo, even though it doesn't say so on its Steam page. There a re probably more.

But first shadowmods getting shadowbanned. It's almost beautiful.

Before the onset of Parkinson’s disease becomes apparent, patients begin to write with smaller and smaller letters. Even before they themselves realize it, they hold down the cellphone keys longer when they send a message. And several years before the diagnosis, the first movement disorders occur. By the time the doctor diagnoses Parkinson’s, 60% or more of the neurons that produce dopamine have stopped doing so, making tremors, muscle stiffness, depression tremendously evident. Now, an investigation of thousands of people who wore smartwatches has been able to anticipate who will have Parkinson’s long before it becomes evident.

Since 2006, a study has been underway in which the U.K. health authorities have been monitoring the health of half a million people over the age of 40 (UK Biobank). A decade later, 103,712 of them were given smartwatches to record their activity for a week. These data have allowed a group of scientists to investigate something that science is eager to find: an objective marker of Parkinson’s that can be used for early detection. When they put the watches on, 273 of the participants had a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s. And since then, another 196 have been diagnosed. The data from these two groups have been key to detecting the abnormal signals that indicates that something is wrong in the substantia nigra, the part of the brain that degenerates as the disease progresses.

“Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative movement disorder characterized by slow disease progression,” recalls Cynthia Sandor, a researcher at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and co-author of the study. “Affected people experience motor symptoms such as slow movement, stiffness, coordination difficulties and tremors,” she adds. All these prodromes — signs that precede the disease — appear long before its diagnosis. “They can present subtle motor or non-motor symptoms that often go unnoticed by the person themselves.” But the accelerometers, magnetometers and gyros that are found in movement-tracking devices and smartwatches are able to pick them up. In theory, cellphones also have this technology, but as they are not always carried by a person, the records would be invalid.
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In the study, the researchers relied on the data offered by a smartwatch’s accelerometer. This sensor registers the acceleration, the beginning of each movement, and is represented in a three-dimensional system that changes with each second. To distinguish distinctive patterns in the thousands and thousands of resulting graphs, the scientists used an artificial intelligence system. The results of the study, which have just been published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, show a decrease in mobility between 7 a.m. and 12 p.m. in people diagnosed with Parkinson’s when they put on the smartwatches. Artificial intelligence was able to differentiate this pattern from the more than 40,000 people in the control group.

With that training, the researchers went further, also identifying nearly 200 people who were diagnosed an average of 4.33 years after their movements were recorded. In some cases, detection occurred up to seven years earlier. “We show that a single week of captured data can predict events up to seven years in advance. With these results, we could develop a valuable tool to help in the early detection of Parkinson’s disease,” says Sandor, who is also the head of the Institute for Dementia Research in the United Kingdom. Data from smartwatches is easily accessible and, in the U.K., a third of the population already uses the device. A platform would have to be set up to centralize the data, and the researchers were aware that this poses a technological challenge and also has legal and privacy implications. But there is no cure for Parkinson’s and all the treatment to stop its progress have failed.

Francisco Grandas, a Parkinson’s expert at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, points out that all the treatments available are symptomatic: they improve the patient’s condition, “but do not prevent its progression.” He also says that there are several trials of drugs in the experimental phase, which are intended to slow down the disease’s progress, but so far have not succeeded. “In addition to problems such as the one posed by the blood-brain barrier [the membrane that protects brain tissue], we suspect that it may be because the moment has already passed, because the disease is already in an advanced phase,” Grandas explains. That’s why he is optimistic about the new research. “Other markers are being investigated, such as brain imaging, lifestyle, blood biochemistry... Non-motor symptoms appear years before, but now we are beginning to learn that there are also subtle motor signs and systems for analyzing these movements could detect them,” he says. This would open the possibility of using experimental treatments in the prodromal phase of the disease.

Geno comes from ancient Greek.

Besides the IRS who could give them that info?

The users themselves, in their stupidity, like every single time in the past.

They tried to aim for a more premium console with the N64 and the Gamecube, and the result was Sony ate their lunch.

To be fair, they shot themselves in the foot by not using CD-ROM and regular DVDs respectively. The Nintendo 64 was a very anticipated piece of hardware, but they took too long to release it and then many companies jumped ship due to said lack of CD-ROM, how long they took and cheaper licensing too most likely.

They never actually competed on equal terms thanks to Yamauchi's stubbornness.

I'll just leave this here

I have the feeling they're planning to embrace, expand and extinguish. I wouldn't give them the benefit of the doubt after all they've done for years.

I think Inquisition is actually Bioware's second best selling game, and EA only sees money. So I'm afraid that's what we can expect from Dreadwolf: another Inquisition, or even something more watered-down to cater to wider audiences.

Sirwan Darweesh, from the Department of Neurology at the Eramus University School of Medicine in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) has spent years studying the onset and evolution of Parkinson’s. In 1990, researchers from the university began a very ambitious study to follow the health of all the inhabitants over 55 years of age in Ommord, a neighborhood in the Dutch city. Within this work, Darwesh focused on a hundred people who ended up being diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Based on his research, Darwesh can say that “the pathology of the disease begins more than two decades before a clinical diagnosis can be made. The first symptoms usually appear 10 years before diagnosis.” Darwesh agrees with Grandas that Parkinson’s is being diagnosed too late: “Disease-modifying therapies are ineffective in the clinical phase of Parkinson’s. The likely reason is that the pathology of the disease is already too advanced at that stage, as more than 60% of the key dopaminergic brain cells have already been depleted by the time the diagnosis is made.”

One of the weaknesses of the new research is that the smartwatches only recorded activity for a week, but if it were applied in a real environment, the collection of data over time could refine the warning signals. Before Sandor’s current work, a group of scientists in the United States used artificial intelligence to detect patterns in data from smartwatches. They also used the sample from the UK Biobank, but they started with the data of patients who had already diagnosed with Parkinson’s. One of the authors of this research is neurologist Karl Friedl. For him, a full week of sampling movement patterns is enough “to be able to detect someone who is going to have Parkinson’s.” From a broader point of view, “we can help people discover many important characteristics of their health and well-being through the way they move,” adds Friedl. “If we add to it all the other prodromal features that are emerging related to Parkinson’s [anosmia, REM sleep disturbance, depression], the predictive algorithms in our new AI world will become very powerful,” he concludes.

Indeed, the smartwatch study also obtained data on sleep patterns, in this case using a sample of 65,000 people. Again, artificial intelligence was able to detect a decrease in the duration and quality of sleep, both in those diagnosed with Parkinson’s when their activity was recorded and in those who were diagnosis years later. “The smartwatches tell us that people wake up more frequently at night and experience longer sleep duration several years before a Parkinson’s diagnosis,” says Sandor. Combined with daytime and nighttime data, the accelerometers could give doctors time to try to curb the disease.

I'm playing Apollo Justice on my N3DS after playing Phoenix Wright 2 and 3. So far I find it less interesting, I played it for a bit way back in the DS days but can't remember much. Strangely enough, Maya Fei is my favourite character of the franchise, with her half a brain cell and all.

I'm also trying to get through Persona 5 Royal, I've tried 4 times between the original on PS3 and this one. I can't get engaged enough and it's so frustrating. I loved Persona 3 and 4 and have played them a few times since I discovered them in 2011 or so and was really hyped for 5 for years. But 5 feels like a worse Persona 4, despite all the enhancements. I just finished the third palace (the farthest I ever got was the fourth palace a few years ago) and I haven't touched it in a couple of days because I can't find the will to go on. Maybe it's me who has changed, although I still find 3 and 4 very enjoyable.

Is this the "super game" they were advertising some time ago?

This is more recent

And apparently squenix "said that they consider blockchain technology critical to their growth." LOL

Sigh, I miss Squaresoft.

I got mine in 2015 and had a lot of fun with it. Such a shame Sony stopped supporting it so early. But even still, it has a very respectable catalogue.

Not only in America, unfortunately.

How can anyone trust Facebook over this? I just don't understand.

That's the oldest trick in the book: appealing to nostalgia to sell more copies. Bethesda did it again!

Startpage supposedly uses Google's search engine without tracking your ip.

Schredditors then?

Skyrim 2: Electric Fus Ro Dah

TLDW: No.