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  • At one point during Biboo's Pokemon Legends Z-A stream towards the end when she is talking with Cece (timestamp pending), she receives a DM that causes her to gasp and get excited. Cece asks what that was about and Biboo says something along the lines of: she received great news that she can't reveal now. When Cece asks if it's something that she knows about, Biboo says no. (This is only from my memory, I can't find the moment right now. It wasn't clipped, and perhaps it was cut out from the VOD afterwards for secrecy's sake. Cece joined the stream sometime after 10:30:00)

    My speculation is that Biboo was informed that someone she knows/recommended was accepted into hololive, likely via a DM from that individual. I don't know anything about Biboo's past pre-holo, but I guess that it would be someone she has interacted with before. I don't know if past-life info is allowed to be discussed here (is it "doxxing"?)

    edit: Found the timestamps:

    • (8:20:08 - 8:24:00) Raora leaves the stream, Biboo checks her messages, gasps, and gets stunned into silence.
    • (10:49:16) The news Biboo received is something that even Cece doesn't know.
  • I can't believe this is how I found out (/jk)

  • It's a public service announcement disguised as entertainment.

  • I just zoomed in on the controllers trying to see how you could tell they were counterfeit.

  • (edit: preface: not defending the shooter or making a definitive claim about his ideology)

    To be fair, my grandma would assume/say the same thing about me. That's because I hold my tongue at family reunions as to not make a scene. I know that if I spoke up, I would be outnumbered at least 10:1 and the ones that would agree also aren't the type to handle being shouted down. It's easier just to nod your head, keep quite, and lightly push back on topics that won't cause a blowback response; which is easier in individual conversations, away from grandma(ga).

  • Ironic

    Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu is seen as a traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new republic of South Africa and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.

    A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".

    "A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."

     
        	--Archbishop Desmond Tutu
      

    As a platform based on Free software, the Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of ubuntu to the software world.

  • This fixed my issue! Now Wayland is working perfectly on my Nvidia card. I don't know why this isn't documented in the knowledge base. Thanks!

  • It's so the position: absolute for .leaves works relative to .tree. The implication is that .leaves is a descendant of .tree.

    position: absolute looks for the nearest ancestor with a set position in order to determine its own positioning context. Otherwise the absolute positioning would basically be relative to the viewport. If the position: relative was missing, the leaves would be against the bottom edge of the image.

    source

    edit: I mean .leaves, not .branch

  • If they didn't meet their quotas they get cherry-bombed.

  • I enjoy A Link to the Past Randomizer, but primarily because it adds replayability to a game I'm already so familiar with. ALttPR becomes a puzzle of which chests/dungeons have the highest probability of containing progression items. Calculating that optimized routing in realtime while racing against a clock is fun. Also figuring out the best way to deal with a boss that you already know well, but now you have an unexpected equipment loadout is fun to me.

    However. If I were to play a new game I didn't have any familiarity with and its item placement and/or map layout was procedurally generated, I don't think I would enjoy a first playthrough. I don't enjoy variety just for the sake of variety. The proc-gen would have to have some known parameters that allow me to strategize in how I approach it in order to not seem arbitrary. If I didn't enjoy the first playthrough of such a game, I might not be motivated to learn enough to enjoy future runs.

    That's why I think I don't love Spelunky or Slay the Spire despite loving games that play similarly like Cave Story and Magic the Gathering respectively. I think I could love these games if I could reasonably plan ahead, but I feel those games have too much variance and the outcomes feel arbitrary as a result. Though that could just be my lack of dedication to understanding the bounds of the generated content.

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  • Saw this on my bird calendar last week. Would have been better if it was positioned next to the pair of "Great Tits" that were in another photo.

    edit: In case the text is too small, the name is "Andean Cock-of-the-Rock"

  • 126Saying "over" is the old radio protocol. The new radio protocol is starting by saying the number of characters in the message.

  • She must be lactose intolerant

  • Edit: I just now realized that the graphic is more privacy-focused rather than consumer-rights-focused. I don't know what privacy issues Steam has specifically, so its inclusion on this list may not be justified regardless of any anti-consumer practices.

    I'm not ditching my 20yo steam account on behalf of this graphic

    I think that's why they were included in this graphic. They provide DRM games that are vendor-locked to their platform. They require that you buy a game from them to download mods from the workshop, even if that game doesn't use a Steam-specific modding framework (Slay the Spire and Black Ops 3 for example). They tie that account to many services in order to make it difficult to leave their platform. Services such as: per-game community forums, friend lists with direct messaging and multiplayer integration, VAC anti-cheat, and achievement tracking.

    I like Valve, they contribute a lot to open source. But be honest, if Epic Games did 1/10 of this, they would be accused of trying to build a walled garden like Apple.

    It will be absolute hell if Steam ever gets enshitified. It would be better if these services could follow an interoperable and open standard or were run independently. Vendor-lock from "good" corporations is still anti consumer.

  • And this was written before the Trump assassination attempt. Revelations 13 describes a beast healing from a fatal wound. There's also this bit which could read like it describes a loyalist vice president who prevents economic deals with countries who don't display loyalty to the president (i.e. wearing a hat that displays his name and number "Trump 45-47").

    [11] Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. [12] It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. [13] And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. [14] Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. [15] The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. [16] It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, [17] so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

    Edit: I see now there are updates at the bottom of the article that mention the same points I did.

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  • Not a film, but he was a playable character (as himself) in the "Call of the Dead" map for Call of Duty Zombies. But even as a good guy, that mode is endless survival, so he inevitability dies in the end.

    Edit: I guess he technically doesn't die if you survive long enough that the game resets at the ~70 hour 'killscreen'.