No, but Microsoft bought Mojang out 12 years ago, and Microsoft gonna Microsoft.

Interior doors are piss easy to take down/put up unless you fucked up the frame. Why would you pay someone to do that?

If you’re into emulation, it’s a legitimately good sidescrolling shmup, and if I remember right, the music was great as well.

It’s just that absymal translation that launched it into meme status.

I want to be the first, but I am definitely closer to the second. I’m trying to find a reasonable middle ground.

Like, I want to have a nice home network with a proper NAS, Pihole DNS, Plex/Emby/Jellyfin media server, all my music properly tagged, little mediaplayer/emulation/game streaming endpoint boxes on each TV, etc. But I don’t have the time or money to do it right at the moment.

So I have my desktop set up to share out my media folders as SMB shares when it’s powered on, and I’ve used a few tools to get my video content organized right for Kodi. I’ve got Kodi installed as an app on the Xbox Series X plugged into the family room TV. The other TV has a Chromecast dongle with VLC sideloaded and set up to connect to the SMB shares, because I’m too lazy to get my Kodi setup on it. Every room in the house has an ethernet port, and most rooms have a dumb switch so as much hardware can have ethernet connection as possible. I’ve run my music collection through MusicBrainz Picard, and separated it into a properly tagged and organized folder, and one for stuff that isn’t.

I’m sure you could set up containers or VMs for them to run on if you tried.

Even today, people value photos differently than paintings, at least in part due to the amount of effort that goes into each.

There’s no reasonable argument to preventing people from having the information up front to make the same sort of value decision about a game.

You’re free to use AI, just declare it. The purchasing public is free to decide if that changes how much they’re willing to pay for your game.

We aren’t entitled to your time, but you aren’t entitle to sales. If your use of AI is losing you sales, you’re perfectly free to decide to stop or keep using it.

Unity doesn’t work by hoovering up the collected works of humanity, mixing it all up, and extruding it as a paste as a response to a sentence or two prompt (yes, image generation is more complicated to prompt but it is still roughly a paragraph of text).

Look, if you personally don’t see the issue with AI, I still have a hard time believing that you haven’t seen plenty of varied arguments against it. Ignoring all the varied reasons to pretend it’s only some needless hand-wringing at this point just feels like bad faith.

And either way, we’re talking about a tag/label. I see no issues with games having a tab/label/etc on their store page indicating the engine they’re built off of. Some people don’t like horror, puzzles, always online, forced PvP, or a particular art style. Some people don’t like generative AI. I don’t think there’s a strong argument to be made that usage of generative AI should be a special case here. If no one’s harassing people, I see no reason to prevent people from making informed decisions on what they purchase.

If your counterargument is that AI is just a tool, and we don’t tag whether the artists used a mouse or a drawing tablet, I’d counter with this: hand drawn art is a selling point due to the increased workload to create it (and implied extra quality). Now “no generative AI” can be the same. An indicator that things were done “the hard way”, with an implication (but no guarantee) of higher quality.

If I recall right, the only exlusive weapon was the Flamethrower, but they also added the missile Warthog. Might be forgetting some other weapons though, as I never had the Xbox version.

I had some fun when I was younger modding the demo. The only content stripped out of it were the levels, so there were all these custom versions of the Blood Gulch map floating around with Ghosts and Scorpion tanks, etc.

I liked messing with weapon properties. Had my own temu/wish.com “cursed halo at home” long before it was a real thing.

• Sniper rifle fired plasma grenades, and you could do fun stuff like stacking two so the first would throw the second into the air and the trail and explosion made it like a flare.
• Shotgun fired a spread of frag grenades instead of bullets, and pushed you backwards a bit.
• Pistol was more accurate, slightly faster, much less damage, and pushed whoever got hit back a ton. You could easily juggle someone up into the skybox with it. It pushed vehicles too.
• Rocket launcher fired a massive ball of rockets that would lag everything.
• Flamethrower fired rockets instead of flames, with a much higher ammo pool, but no other changes. So rocket sprinkler.
• Fully charged plasma pistol fired a Scorpion Tank shot. I think the non charged ones homed in to a stupid extent.
• Chaingun Warthog fired needler rounds with an increased lifetime.
• Assault rifle worked as area denial, setting an area in an orb shape around you on fire.
• The plasma cannon thing would spawn a Scorpion tank over your head, crushing you.
• I think I turned the needler into a shotgun blast thing, but it still fired needles.
• I think I changed the elites’ plasma smg thing to start firing slowly but “rev up” to stupid fast speeds, and then the cooldown hurt your shields?
• There was something that would call down a larger version of the plasma cannon projectile from the sky, with a larger explosion radius and a stupid big/strong pushback effect.
• Vehicle crashes called the same kind of system as a projectile hitting, so you were effectively “shot” with a vehicle impact “bullet” as a rider if you crashed too hard. Congrats that’s now a frag grenade explosion. That one was shamelessly stolen from a tutorial.

That’s what I remember at least.

Good old Trainwiz. Pretty sure the mad bastard used to frequent 4chan’s Elder Scrolls modding threads, so I’m kind of impressed at the restraint of his response.

Give them BBB support you coward!

The full list really isn’t as bad as I expected.

BBC is up there, apnews, the guardian.

As another comment has said, NPR is audio content, and nearly all of their podcasts are available through podcast apps directly. And PBS isn’t a news site, so of course it doesn’t show up.

Also worth remembering that CNN was pretty widely considered to be balanced until around a decade ago. I’m sure there’s a bunch of older people still operating from that.

For anyone who missed the trailer (potential season 1 spoilers): https://youtu.be/jjhRSNkquOc

Original Super Mario Galaxy logo: U R MR GAY

Galaxy 2 logo: (backwards) YA I M R U

Super Mario Bros movie logo: U R MR BI

And now, HE MR GAY

Good. You can spend Thanksgiving “fighting the good fight” while the rest of us try to survive and have a day not filled with doom and gloom.

Put yourself on a news diet, take all this energy and put it into doing good locally when and where you can, and leave it away from conversations with the family during Thanksgiving.

Or you can fucking host and set whatever rules you want.

That’s shortsighted as hell. I cma understand not wanting to have multiple clients installed but there’s GoG at the very least.

Gog gives drm free installers, no laucher needed. Install it somewhere, go into steam, add non-steam game. Boom. Done.

The price has crept up with the paid expansions, but holy shit do NOT sleep on the Castlevania one. It doubles the base game content, and fits in great.

Oh lord, 6 years ago a Twitch streamer struggled through using it in a VM and made this half hour monstrosity: https://youtu.be/sUT2kKZeUpo

I shudder to think what horrors await if the community makes significant updates.

Looks like it’s Wikipedia’s current fundraising banner thing, since I couldn’t figure out what OP meant. Ad blockers for a win.

I know, right?

For a while it looked like everyone was just going to stick with calling the older folks boomers and the younger folks millenials, but I guess some intelligence leaked through into the “futile generational hate” machine.

Is every generation working to make things better than it was? No! Clearly the old folks don’t want the young ones to have anything good, otherwise the world wouldn’t have any problems by now!

Just give yourself some more years, time for life experiences, and to be shocked and apalled when you learn how hard it can be to coordinate a group of people who all want the same outcomes to a concentrated cooperative effective course of action. Hell, how hard it can be to get them to even agree on the same path to the desired outcome.

Pretty much, especially when you chain together splitters that don’t have their own protection built in. Also in older or unmaintained places you can’t always rely on the breaker. Used to be a joke that you could just replace a breaker fuse with a stack of pennies and be good to go, and electricians have found tons of places where idiot cheapskates took it at face value.

Basically, when setting a whole lot of the inside of your walls on fire all at once is the ultimate risk, you don’t want to ever rely on only one (or even two) failsafe(s). Especially if you don’t know what the failsafes actually are and when they were last tested between your shit and where power enters the building.

There was a proof of concept app ages ago that demonstrated how for any seemingly important permission like location, there were ways to get at the very least “good enough” data for it through other sources on/in the phone, even when you only gave it the bare minimum permissions (nothing that prompted for permissions or would show up in the play store).

From most wide to most precise, you have triangulation by cell towers, Wi-fi SSIDs have been pretty thoroughly mapped to location ages ago, and when your phone sees multiple SSIDs at once it can triangulate location even better based on the signal strength of each. GPS is the most accurate, but location can be trimmed down to well within the walls of a building, if not down to the room without it.

Fucking horrible.

Here it is on F-Droid. Doesn’t have the location features I thought it did though. That must have been something else.