Well, I’d be surprised if they’re throwing away the digitized versions, they will want to use them in training all of their future models. If they go bankrupt maybe someone more willing to share will get the data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d’%C3%A9tat

Kind of the reason Iran is so terrible now

(And tons of other countries have similar stories)

https://xkcd.com/1170/

That isn’t the first impression that I got, although of course I’m just one data-point. The composition, lighting, and post-processing of the stills are really good which is not common for games that are actually lazily thrown together assets. Looking a bit closer though, I do see what you mean and I think the main problem is that the level of quality doesn’t seem that consistent. IDK what’s going on on that 13th still with the monitor. A lot of the scenery in the trailer looks worse that the scenery in the stills, and some of the UI stuff seems a bit meh. I get that as an indie dev it takes forever to do this sort of stuff, and definitely there’s very little that looks outright bad, the problem is mostly the inconsistency in quality. People only have so much time to play games, and it’s not that easy to judge how fun a game is from it’s trailers and description, so they look for any clues they can of less than complete effort, as any inattention to detail could indicate a lack of attention to the actual gameplay parts as well. Unfortunately for both gamers and developers, how fun or engaging your game is doesn’t necessarily correspond that well with how appealing it is to people who see the trailer.

IDK, this is all kind of unfounded speculation from someone who really doesn’t have much personal experience in the area, so take it with a grain of salt

I think the money accumulates over time, so you’ll eventually get a payment once you have $100 at the start of a month after fees. But there’s also the $100 up front cost to list a game, so even after the first payment you haven’t really made money

You’d probably have to get like $200 in sales from a game before you have actually started to make money (from taxes and steam’s 30% cut)

Idk this is just what I’ve heard on the internet, I haven’t experienced it myself

Yes, Google Translate has used neural networks for quite a while. Recently they’ve also switched it to using the same Gemini LLMs that they give you chat interfaces with, so it’s pretty equivalent to using ChatGPT for translations. It’s just another company’s version of the same thing, wrapped in a translation interface.

Eh, they’re trying their hardest not to be. They fired ~30 union members 8 months ago for what is pretty obviously union busting purposes, but it seems that backfired as it drew a lot of attention to the union. People Make Games has been making documentaries on YouTube following the events so far, they just released another today.

some things I though were funny:

community regex: “^Yuri|^WholesomeYuri”

filtered domains: “*.itch.io”, “bit.ly”, “forms.google.com”

keywords: “🥺?👉👈”, “enlightened centrist”, “italian plumber”, “Perchance”

Anyways here’s what it is at the moment

https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json

Curl is a foss utility that’s kinda everywhere

lol as a piano player I feel like my hands get quite a bit of exercise

And in general piano players are known for having quite large hands (although that’s by no means universal) it really makes some things quite a lot easier. I think it also trains you to stretch your handspan more than non-piano-players can with equivalently sized hands, although I’m sure that won’t help you open a beer ofc.

Yeah, we have had this little rubber pad kicking around in a drawer that we always used to open cans. More grip makes it a lot easier.

Someone linked a study on this a while ago. IIRC it’s a 20-30% strength loss on average, depending on the ability you’re testing?

great video about perceptions of british food (Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities, 48 min)

I have never heard it referred to as toad in a hole, but fried bread with an egg in the middle is pretty good. Just pan fry with a bit of butter and salt appropriately

I was about to say this same fact on another comment above, but then I read the wikipedia article again

apparently it isn’t like an ‘official’ national dish, I guess it comes from Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referring to it as “a true british national dish” in a speech

Chicken Tikka Massala is now a true British national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. Chicken Tikka is an Indian dish. The Massala sauce was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy. (full speech) (wikipedia)

chicken tikka masala was invented in England

well, i measured that on windows (since I still run windows on my main PC) but I assumed it would be similar on linux lol

steam is like 500 MB of ram by itself at least for me rn, so add any game or os stuff on top and it rounds up to a gigabyte

Windows file manager opens things in apps based on file extensions, and then it’s up to the apps to figure out what to do with it. I did a bit of testing, and it seems like Firefox is fine with opening JPEGs mislabeled as PNGs, but not PDFs mislabeled as PNGs. LibreOffice Draw is fine with that though, so if in windows I set that as my default for PNG files, it opens a PDF labelled as a PNG perfectly normally (and can also open actual PNGs normally).

If I just completely delete the extension from a PNG or PDF, Firefox will open either correctly.