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Steam just had a free weekend so I’ve been playing it. I like it a lot and I do think it’s worth playing, but it’s definitely a clunky console port, the added latency of forced multiplayer doesn’t do it any favors, and the amount of QoL locked behind microtransactions or a $13/month subscription just feels bad.

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Under the deal renewal, Max will be the future home of “The Boy and the Heron”; the streaming premiere date on Max will be announced later this year.

I occasionally see those types of ads in subs downloaded through the Plex UI, but usually it’s in an intro or at the end. Haven’t seen them in the middle of a dialogue yet.

About 20 years ago I was so outraged by Bonsai Kitten that I asked a friend’s mom to help me write letters to ISPs and law enforcement to try to get it taken down.

It was a site with pictures of cats in glass jars, but it had very graphic details about how they supposedly kept cats alive in jars and grew them into weird shapes… I still think it’s pretty tasteless, but it was clearly someone’s idea of satire. It felt like a big deal back then, but these days it would be nothing more than a bad meme.

Didn’t he literally have Twitter employees sleeping in the office post-acquisition and even go so far as remodeling vacated offices as makeshift hotel rooms? I doubt he’s kidding here, seems on-brand.

Yeah I’m not sure what “rape bid” is even supposed to mean, in any context. Doesn’t “bid” imply something that can be accepted?

Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t just make Prime more expensive for everyone while citing “added value” like they normally do.

I have no trouble believing he didn’t read something. Maybe if there were an illustrated version…

It works most of the time, and they sort of addressed the main complaint I saw, which was with the infamy system. Definitely still has some major problems, but a lot of the hate is pretty overblown.

Not sure if reverse image search would tell you acting useful, but it reminds me of the art from a comic called Fables.

I mean… Hopefully it doesn’t go on so long that anyone loses their home over it, but not being able to pay your mortgage or access your money is a pretty big deal.

Balls of steel in more ways than one. Couldn’t pay me to get in that thing.

The candidate who delivered Trump his first term, still doubling down on her “deplorables” strategy 7 years later.

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Not surprising. Their free AI models on Bing are great, but GPT4 is limited to 5 messages before you have to start a new topic, and DALL-E throttles heavily once you run out of credits that reset weekly… Or you can buy more uses with the daily points you earn from doing quizzes and such on Bing. The bar is set pretty low.

He has always been and will always be. R’lyeh Ftaghn.

I think it’s important to consider that the joke was made over a decade ago before getting upset that it hasn’t been accurate in over a decade.

But yeah, OP probably could have included a date in the title and avoided some of this.

It’s a comic from 2011. Here’s the source: https://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/

I think the problem that notification LEDs were designed to solve is just solved in other ways now, notably smart watches or the Always-On Display for OLED devices. Both consume more power than a notification LED would, but they also don’t require a dedicated physical space on the phone.