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3 hours agoAlso Scarborough’s wife lmao
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4·19 hours agoI’d recommend the line-up on sale right now on Steam except the one that came after RE5 and before RE7
As the resident RE6 apologist, I firmly believe that it is easily worth $5 for a somewhat janky and extremely campy action co-op experience if you have a buddy to play it with. And yeah, there’s no “survival” aspect–this is definitely the game where they turned the dial too far to the “action” side, after which they swung towards “survival” back past RE4 for RE7 (excellent if that’s to your taste–incredible atmosphere), and finally landed back in the crowd-pleasing sweet spot for RE8 (which I absolutely adore and beat like half a dozen times).
RE2R and OG RE4 I could easily recommend to anyone; perhaps not the latter if you’re completely allergic to tank controls, but the game is tuned for that playstyle and it makes the encounters very intense. I also enjoyed RE3R, although it’s not quite as good as RE2R and a bit on the short side. And I hear RE4R is great, but I haven’t yet played it myself–would definitely recommend giving the OG a shot first, since the new REngine games have a different tempo and feel to them and the original holds up completely. I’d also recommend installing the RE4 HD texture mod if anyone goes for OG RE4–truly an incredible labor of love by a pair of dedicated fans.
Yes, sorry, wasn’t clear with the way I worded that! I guess it’s a little strange to say he vindicated himself–regardless it must feel good to finally be able to say it with his chest after holding his tongue for all this time.
“Stupid fucking mistakes, man.”
“Nothing illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed, I never even met the individual,” Beahm claimed. “I went through a lengthy arbitration regarding a civil dispute with Twitch and that case was resolved by a settlement…But trust me when I say this…to all my haters that live and breath [sic] social media with zero real life experience, I don’t give a fuck about you. They want me to disappear… yeah fucking right.”
The words of someone who is definitely contrite.
Also,
Meanwhile, the cause for the ban remained a mystery, prompting years of innuendo, conspiracy theories and questions about why neither Twitch nor gaming journalists had been able to reveal the nature of Beahm’s violation. (Full disclosure: the primary author of this article, Rod Breslau, first learned the reason for Beahm’s ban from credible sources in June 2020, but chose not to report on it then due to the extreme sensitivity of the topic.)
holy shit, Slasher finally vindicated after all these years. That tweet became a major meme on Twitch, with some people assuming that Dr. Disrespect did something truly horrible (ding ding ding!) but plenty of others assuming he was full of shit and just grandstanding.
I think the only time I ever set foot in a Burger King was to get one of these. Sadly I think mine is long gone along with some other Pokémon ephemera (including my beloved Pokédex), but at least I still have all my cards!
Many of us spend hours researching scouring the internet to learn to dig deeper and ultimately enjoy more of what the game has to offer. This is where Project G-Assist comes in. It uses AI to make sure information is readily available whenever we need it.
How is this possibly going to supplant hours of research? It’s basically the equivalent of hitting the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google that takes you to the first result and never looking at anything else, except now since it’s AI-generated you can’t even judge the accuracy based on the source. Oftentimes there aren’t objectively true answers to questions, so it’s necessary to read different perspectives to make a decision. And also, I actually LIKE interacting with fellow human beings to find out about games–it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
16·9 days agoI thought it was just God proclaiming that he’s not into voyeurism
Here ya go (the second letter is the one previously mentioned):
Relevant excerpt from Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'
The instances where poor whites helped slaves were not frequent, but sufficient to show the need for setting one group against the other. Genovese says:
The slaveholders . . . suspected that non-slaveholders would encourage slave disobedience and even rebellion, not so much out of sympathy for the blacks as out of hatred for the rich planters and resentment of their own poverty. White men sometimes were linked to slave insurrectionary plots, and each such incident rekindled fears.
This helps explain the stern police measures against whites who fraternized with blacks. Herbert Aptheker quotes a report to the governor of Virginia on a slave conspiracy in 1802: “I have just received information that three white persons are concerned in the plot; and they have arms and ammunition concealed under their houses, and were to give aid when the negroes should begin.” One of the conspiring slaves said that it was “the common run of poor white people” who were involved.
In return, blacks helped whites in need. One black runaway told of a slave woman who had received fifty lashes of the whip for giving food to a white neighbor who was poor and sick.
When the Brunswick canal was built in Georgia, the black slaves and white Irish workers were segregated, the excuse being that they would do violence against one another. That may well have been true, but Fanny Kemble, the famous actress and wife of a planter, wrote in her journal:
But the Irish are not only quarrelers, and rioters, and fighters, and drinkers, and despisers of [N-words]—they are a passionate, impulsive, warm-hearted, generous people, much given to powerful indignations, which break out suddenly when not compelled to smoulder sullenly—pestilent sympathizers too, and with a sufficient dose of American atmospheric air in their lungs, properly mixed with a right proportion of ardent spirits, there is no saying but what they might actually take to sympathy with the slaves, and I leave you to judge of the possible consequences. You perceive, I am sure, that they can by no means be allowed to work together on the Brunswick Canal.
The need for slave control led to an ingenious device, paying poor whites—themselves so troublesome for two hundred years of southern history—to be overseers of black labor and therefore buffers for black hatred.
edit: in case it’s helpful, this quote occurs a few pages into Chapter 9: “Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom” (can’t give a page number or anything because I’ve got an EPUB)
This is what I’ve done for ages and it works like a charm (although unfortunately search is still terrible, no saving that mess). Well, I only got around to disabling watch history in the last year or so, but I’ve been going directly to the sub feed for almost as long as YouTube has existed. I think the only time I actually used the front page was in the very early days of YouTube when it was actually a little community and you’d have featured videos and stuff, but that was like 15 years ago.
8·12 days agoWtf are these ergonomics
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2·13 days agoArchive link + full text of the referenced Financial Times article:
spoiler
Brussels is set to charge Apple over allegedly stifling competition on its mobile app store, the first time EU regulators have used new digital rules to target a Big Tech group.
The European Commission has determined that the iPhone maker is not complying with obligations to allow app developers to “steer” users to offers outside its App Store without imposing fees on them, according to three people with close knowledge of its investigation.
The charges would be the first brought against a tech company under the Digital Markets Act, landmark legislation designed to force powerful “online gatekeepers” to open up their businesses to competition in the EU.
The commission, the EU’s executive arm, said in March it was investigating Apple, as well as Alphabet and Meta, under powers granted by the DMA. An announcement over the charges against Apple was expected in the coming weeks, said two people with knowledge of the case.
These people said regulators have only made preliminary findings, and Apple could still take actions to correct its practices, which could then lead regulators to reassess any final decision. They added the timing of any announcement could also shift.
The EU could also decide to announce charges against other tech groups, with regulators still investigating whether Google parent Alphabet is favouring its own app store and Facebook owner Meta’s use of personal data for advertising.
If found to be breaking the DMA, Apple faces daily penalties for non-compliance of up to 5 per cent of its average daily worldwide turnover, which is currently just over $1bn.
The move comes as competition watchdogs around the world increase their scrutiny of Big Tech companies and their market dominance. In March, the US brought an antitrust case against Apple for allegedly using its power in the smartphone sector to squash rivals and limit consumer choice.
Epic Games, which sued Apple over the App Store in 2020, is also awaiting a decision from a California federal judge on whether Apple failed to comply with a US injunction prohibiting its steering rules, following a series of court hearings over recent weeks.
In January, Apple announced historic changes to its iOS mobile software, App Store and Safari browser in the EU.
The changes were an effort to placate regulators in Brussels and meant Apple would allow users to access rival app stores and download apps from other sources. The changes also included slashing the fee paid by companies using the App Store to sell digital goods and services from 30 per cent to 17 per cent.
However, the EU is also looking at whether these fee changes properly adhere to its new digital rules. Apple introduced new charges in Europe, including a “core technology fee” of 50 cents on developers with apps that have more than 1mn users for every first instalment by a user. Apple will also charge an additional 3 per cent fee to app developers that use its payment processor.
Some developers have argued they could face higher charges as a result of the fee changes. The EU could also announce initial charges over these developer fees, people familiar with the commission’s thinking said.
According to analysis by Sensor Tower, consumer spending on Apple’s App Store throughout the second quarter of 2024 was “relatively flat”, suggesting the EU rules have yet to affect the company’s bottom line.
Apple declined to comment but pointed to an earlier statement that said: “We’re confident our plan complies with the DMA, and we’ll continue to constructively engage with the European Commission as they conduct their investigations.”
The EU declined to comment.
The Forever Winter
5·15 days agoUniversity of Chicago delenda est
Retromags is awesome. And yeah, there’s no need to keep a huge stack, but I honestly wish I would have held onto a few standouts to thumb through for maximum nostalgia (we had basically the same run of issues!). Oh well, at least I kept my strategy guides.
Alternative link (also damn, that magazine didn’t even make it a year)
The magazine cover that is burned into my retinas from when I walked into a Blockbuster and saw it staring my in the face was the February 2001 NextGen cover where Duke Nukem is fondling Lara Croft from behind (censored on the cover). Very telling that this the representation of “games growing up”. Gamers™ really are stuck in the early 2000s.
I only have the vaguest memories of the IGN Babes section; seems like it started up around 2008, and the only time I was actually actively reading gaming magazines and stuff was from the early 2000s to around 2006 or 2007.
Part of me is nostalgic for that era (I honestly wasn’t reading those sorts of publications–stuck to Nintendo Power, EGM, and GameSpot, none of which were particularly horny), but I think it’s less about the magazines themselves and more that I’m nostalgic for being so excited about video games that I would get a new issue in the mail and read it cover to cover. I’d kill to be that excited about literally anything at this point.
Hi-res scan of that page courtesy of Retromags if you need it for some reason
My grandpa was more coherent in his 90s after a traumatic brain injury