you forgot:

• making it mandatory for any 3rd party game to stay exclusive to the NES for 2 years, essentially giving themselves a monopoly
• suing to make cheating devices like the game genie illegal (they failed, thankfully)
• suing to make game rentals illegal (they also failed)
• introducing the lockout chip, normalizing walled gardens on consoles, as well as region locking

this is not trump being oblivious, this is trump being blatantly racist

thank you, I will!

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thank you for your posts, it’s always a great time to read them!

i love that you share cool fan projects too! it’s inspiring me to make a physical collection for my GOG games, including actual DVDs with the games installers on them. most of the physical collection projects i see seem to only do the box, but i want to go all in!

take care 🧡

only Hypixel Studios, the dev studio behind Hytale that was bought by Riot, is shutting down

the Hypixel server isn’t going anywhere (for now, at least)

part of the reason is alberta seats entirely on treaty territory, so it doesn’t get to leave without a say from Indigenous peoples (at least in theory, in practice we know too well that canada wipes its ass with treaties)

and the new alberta would’ve certainly been a strongly reactionary state, so it’s important to stand in solidarity with albertan leftists and oppose its creation

same reasons most leftists oppose quebec independence

tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo

and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)

according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.

and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.

so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.

that’s fun.

honestly surprised more than half of the apps on Flathub are verified! I expected it to be less

back before the redesign, it felt like most apps had “note: this wrapper is not made by, or affiliated with the original developers” somewhere

this reminds me of the Hippocratic License, which comes with a bunch of modules restricting the use of software based on ethical considerations (for example, there’s a module forbidding the use by police, and another one forbidding the use by any institution on the BDS list)

i think the FSF, in their eternal and unchallengeable wisdom (/s), also declared that it wasn’t foss

because it’s not about being “pro-life”, it’s about controlling women’s bodies

because they’re trying to manufacture consent for a war with Iran

you have it backwards, israel is an american puppet; not the other way around

still works tho, why would america restrain its imperialist genocidal outpost? creating chaos in the Middle East is its raison d’être

they already do! (sorta)

if you buy games through heroic, the heroic devs get a percentage of the sale

depends on your time zone, it most of the world it comes out wensday (aka, as i write this, tomorrow where i am, or even today if you live east of the atlantic!)

(the switch 2 version comes out at 00:00 on thursday no matter the time zone tho)

what kind of country are you creating

one that doesn’t take away the rights of her people

if you want so bad to live in a “civilized” country where Indigenous people don’t bother you with their existence, go back to england you fucking colonizer

you missed the Hopes Others Will Do The Same part.

they’re pulling their game as part of the larger BDS boycott. the point is to put pressure on complicit companies (in this case microsoft) for them to stop working with israel

the IDF won’t care, but if enough devs pull their games, and if enough people stop using xbox products & services, microsoft will care.

yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better

but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for