Poison the food, burn down the houses, kill all the villagers, then migrate a couple loyal believers to breed me some new followers.

So much easier to grow new ones than to convert existing ones.

Scared the crap out of me when it happened too. Wouldn’t work today though, as my wife named our user accounts and I doubt they have a recording of someone whispering “Mr Bitchtits”.

I need everyone to pay attention to this: if you stop paying for this bullshit the prices go down.

Is Musk doing anything to help people living in dictatorships access information? Or is this just happening in Brazil?

This is about Brazil, which is not a Dictatorship.

So as long as this one specific billionaire hasn’t had someone killed (that we know of) that makes it okay for that one individual to have complete control over what people have access to?

Travel (especially in older zones where you would be using portals) consists of:
Mount flying mount, point in the right direction, hit auto-run, wait.

Not really the most exciting game play experience when you’ve already flown over the area a dozen times before. Taxis are also just as bad. Other MMOs (Guldwars 2, FF14) have no problem with players teleporting directly to somewhere close to their destination. They already traveled their once, no need to force them to do it again.

The removed a bunch of portals from WoW in order to “make the world feel big” (make you waste more time traveling instead of doing fun things).

Steam is currently a good company so I am happy to support it. If it enshittifies then I will stop using it and sail the high seas if need be.

I don’t know why this wasn’t the case long ago.

Thomas was alone

An excellent example of storytelling elevating a game. The game play is a decent puzzle platformer, and the story is very charming.

Hand of Fate

A deck construction game where the cards you choose to put in the deck are the challenges you will face on your run. You unlock more cards by completing challenges on the cards you have.

You can skip the first one and play the sequel, it’s more polished.

“has enough time passed that we won’t get bad press for this?”

It’s okay, they sent out $10 gift cards for Uber Eats to apologize (that they immediately cancelled).

And if that doesn’t work check the physical connection by unplugging it and plugging it back in.

The guy who decided to start the battle increased ad revenue for a week so he got his bonus, that’s all that matters.
“I’ll glady tank YouTube’s revenue tomorrow for an extra dollar today.”

Can someone explain why the fuck Google is pushing this so hard? Generative AI is not a general intelligence, and useless for concrete facts. Google has already demonstrated how shitty it is for information, and the people with the knowledge to work on the project have to know this.

So why the fuck are they all full steam ahead on something that will always be useless for them?

ISPs can’t take your money if they cut off your internet

In any other setting if you tell a journalist something without an NDA, and outside of a personal setting, you should expect it to get published.

In any setting, if a journalist is asked not to publish something and they do anyway, the journalist should expect to not have people willing to talk to them or show them things anymore.

A new challenger joins the battle in the Elon / Cloudstrike “ruin an established company any % speed run” challenge?