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Finally the "dark Zelda" generations of edgy teenagers have been asking for!

...and also not doing what Nintendo have always Nintendon't?

The key card thing is weird... conceptually kind of get it, but if you're going to allow that, you should probably just allow people to trade licenses? pay a $20 premium for a tradable license? 20 years from now is the Switch shop still going to be live to download from for someone who waded...

In a consumerist economy, every single dollar that isnt' tied up in investments? Access to, influence over, and feedback from consumers is practically the entire game- ironically the "personalized" advertisments you wind up seeing are almost incidental to the abstracted fungible data point you...

Just rewatched Starship Troopers this weekend- almost too on the nose with the "would you like to know more?" propaganda clip starring a psychic Doogie Howser standing in front of a dead alien behind jail bars. https://i.imgflip.com/52v77w.jpg

... for now https://www.ala.org/faq-executive-order-targeting-imls https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-library-news/an-executive-order-issued-will-eliminate-funding-for-library-services ... but who needs libraries when you can have... (jazz hands) kindle unlimited! </s>

Thank you for explaining. I think it's the necessity to use somewhat sketchy looking, grey market-ish key retailers to obtain the single OEM license that was the confusing point (although a lot of us have probably in the past re-used a license from a prebuilt computer (for instance to upgrade a...

Uh... so as I was skimming my way through the comments here, the fucking full screen Windows 10 EOL/Windows 11 advertisment just happened to pop-up. (Considering the regularity with which I read negative reporting and rants about MS, I'll chalk this one up to coincidence, but usually that only...

AFAIU, they no longer make cellular Kindles. You probably lucked out on the timing, since IIRC only the last gen or two of Oasis were 4G and the old "whispernet"/3G network was likely to be shut down ~2022.

Most people see this and probably think "how does that happen?", but as someone who routinely walks into stationary objects, I think I understand. I also do not drive. You're welcome, world.

Might have to do with the type of service being used to transfer the payment- In 2021 congress significantly lowered the threshold of IRS reporting requirements for services like Paypal, Venmo etc... and it's finally going into effect this year, so they are likely to start requiring SSNs to...

Trump's media career from the '80s onward was basically this schtick, and it was so effective he accidentally became president. Maybe the Oprah 4 Prez people were actually onto something... (~/s?)

List view for the Windows desktop.... I'm pretty used to be a built-in feature, then it had to be re-set after every reboot. Then it stopped working entirely. Microsoft apparently hates the idea of people a having neat, efficient & legible desktop space? Someone went so far as to make a utility...

The ball portaling idea is pretty cool, hope I get to see one of these in the wild- though a Portal theme seems like a good opportunity for a Black Hole style layered playfields and some "physics" shenanigans too. (speaking of Valve and LCD's., for anyone into gonzo hybrid video pinball...

Thanks for this article. Watching people just... accept... this funhouse mirror vision of the world has been really something else, man.

Pratt himself and Jim O'Heir ("Jerry", I linked a story about his recollection on pg 2) appear to be the only people who have talked about it? Try a search for Pratt and Flashing ( guess this is the one), he also told the story on Seth Meyers' show. If you were searching for "harassment" at...

"Forum users" sure, they'll care... but just think of all the people who watch things in the wrong aspect ratio because it "fills the screen" and refuse to let you disable motion smoothing even though they were just loudly complaining about how weird the picture looks...

Certainly there's voluminous enough organic, out-of-context, and creepily parasocial celebrity gossip tea leaf reading on the internet and social media for the AI to synthesize from. But, yeah, AFAICT those claims appear to be pretty much all wild exaggeration/extrapolations, if not completely...

It may also amaze that many people can only read, and even think, at roughly the "snail's pace" of the spoken word. (Coming from that perspective myself, I only recently learned that many people do not, as a matter of course, think verbally (i.e. via internal mono- or dialogue) and are able to...