• 4 Posts
  • 426 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 11th, 2023

help-circle


  • sbv@sh.itjust.workstoRPG@lemmy.mlHelp with racing mechanics
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    18 days ago

    Only once or twice. I play it like combat. Every racer plays in initiative order and has a set of available actions and resources.

    With twenty other racers, that sounds tedious to run. I’d be lazy and say the players, their nemesis, and a couple of other racers pull out ahead and hand wave the others out of the scene.











  • Google was ordered to make it possible to install new app stores as apps, so you could go into Google Play, search for a different app store, and, with a single click, install it on your phone, and switch to getting your apps from that store, rather than Google’s.

    That’s what’s behind Google’s new ban on “sideloading”: this is a form of malicious compliance with the court orders stemming from its losses to Epic Games. In fact, it’s not even malicious compliance – it’s malicious noncompliance, a move that so obviously fails to satisfy the court order that I think it’s only a matter of time until Google gets hit with fines so large that they’ll actually affect Google’s operations.





  • This is good shit:

    Ortega is poised to receive a record dividend of €3.1bn (£2.7bn) this year from his shares in Zara’s parent group, Inditex. He is reportedly racing to spend the windfall, which would otherwise be subject to wealth taxes. Sources close to Pontegadea told the Guardian it was not investing to avoid tax, but following its mandate “to create wealth from the original assets, maintain it, make it grow, and consolidate it over generations”.

    What is clear is that, two years on, a predicted exodus of the rich, trumpeted in endless alarmist headlines, has not materialised. Forbes counted 26 Spanish billionaires in 2021. This year, it lists 34, with a combined net worth comfortably over $200bn.

    So far, there is no sign that it has affected growth. Spain was the world’s fastest-expanding major advanced economy last year, outpacing even the US, with GDP up 3.2%. By contrast, growth in the UK and France last year barely scraped above 1%. On the balconies of the Planeta building, and in the country at large, the green shoots are alive and well.