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Gestrid

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  • Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

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  • 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

    Sadly, it's not available on PC, but it is available on Nintendo Switch (US eShop page linked above) and PlayStation 4 (and PlayStation 5 through backwards compatibility).

    It's a sci-fi game made by the creators of some games you might've heard of in passing (namely Dragon's Crown, Odin Sphere, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, etc.), Vanillaware. I can't go into any details about the game itself because of spoilers, but I will say it is quite simply the best and most uniquely told story I have ever seen in a game. It's a game you have to experience for yourself. You should go into it as blind as possible, too.

    I will say the English dub of the game is also surprisingly good, considering it was recorded almost entirely in COVID lockdown. The Atlus West sound engineers (Atlus published the game in the west) must've worked some incredible magic to get it to sound as good as it does.

  • Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time

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  • Japan says Chinese military violated territorial airspace for first time

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  • Unfortunately, bullets fired straight up need to... come down. And the wind means it won't always land in the same spot.

    I still remember some idiot fired a pistol or something straight up at a local fireworks show a few years ago. A little boy died. It was really sad. I don't think they ever found the guy who did it, either.

    ... I just googled it. That was ten years ago. Dang...

  • Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars

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  • "What directly benefits the user?"

    "Heated seats."

    "Okay, start charging a subscription fee for that."

    I know it's not what you meant, but it's what I immediately thought of.

  • Not all ai is bad, just most of it

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  • At least it's routing you to a department instead of trying to help you solve the issue yourself by showing you different help pages you already looked at before trying to contact support.

  • Not all ai is bad, just most of it

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  • I've had to literally perform a Google search to find a customer support phone number before. Because the website of the company just kept redirecting me in circles.

    Their phone support was just as useless, though.

    It was GameStop, by the way.

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    Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement

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  • Twitter has World Bank ads?

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    My job offers "free" online consultations for mental health reasons. Every single "available" slot is during working hours.

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  • I mean, just schedule the appointment, put it on your work schedule, and ask that doctor (or whatever you call them) for a note for work. That's what I do.

  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

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  • On the flip side, this is what makes Windows generally very good at backwards compatibility. They do update the codebase for stuff, but still generally very backwards compatible with software and games designed to run on previous versions of Windows.

    Fun Fact: Backwards compatibility is the reason you can't name a file or folder CON.

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.

    You're not wrong about the high switching cost.

    Switching from Chrome to Vivaldi (because of Chrome's whole FLoC thing) to Brave (because I didn't like Vivaldi's layout) to Firefox (because of Brave's whole thing) was a pain.

    And I don't mean as a whole. Taking the time each time to change from one browser to another was always a pain. Transferring bookmarks and passwords was easy (Chrome and Firefox are at least compatible in that regard), but transferring extension settings was a whole different beast.

    Some extensions had cloud sync support. Others had local export support. Some didn't have either kind, and I'd have to manually copy the settings from one browser over to the other. And that's not even getting into finding replacements for the Chrome-exclusive extensions (of which there were only a few, thankfully).

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • The headline is a bit overdramatic. Google hasn't pulled uBlock Origin off its extension webstore. Rather, it's switching from Manifest v2 to Manifest v3, which won't support features the current version of uBlock Origin needs to work. We've known this was in the process of happening for months. It's a good reminder of what's coming eventually (namely, the fact v2 extensions will be entirely disabled by Chrome soon), but this is nothing new.

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Anderson]

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  • I was born in the late 90s but didn't get high speed internet (had dial-up ethernet growing up), wifi, or cable until the mid- to late-2000s.

  • Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Anderson]

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  • To be fair, I've met a quite a number of millennials who don't know what internet safety is, either. Some barely know how their magic typing box (read: computer) works.

  • FTC head wants investigation into grocery stores over inflated prices

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  • You usually get BOGO for half price in my experience.

    Not necessarily. In my area, most stores actually require that you get two. Publix is the exception.

    Only one or two stores on grocery day, but I saw her cut a bill in half with coupons.

    I used to work in a grocery store (not Publix). I once saw someone use so many coupons that the store owed her money. I have never seen that happen since. It blew my mind at the time that that even happened. It still kinda does.

  • Parking like this for your benefit

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  • Contractors did exist. Innovation usually happens because enough people have a want or need for something for some reason. It's entirely possible (or even likely) that long trucks came into existence because contractors had a need for them. Ford and other truck companies saw an opportunity to make money from that need and obliged.

  • FTC head wants investigation into grocery stores over inflated prices

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  • I know a lot of people at my local Publix shop there primarily for the BOGOs. In my region, you don't actually need to get two. The product just rings up as half price at the register. (Apparently, in some regions, you actually need to get two for the BOGO to work. That's not the case in my region, though.)

  • Parking like this for your benefit

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  • He's parked at an IKEA. I'm willing to bet he's a contractor that needs that long of a truck to fit everything he buys (including stuff from Home Depot or Lowe's).

  • Parking like this for your benefit

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  • Sam's Club (a warehouse store similar to Costco that's owned by the same company as Walmart) does the same thing. They have a small loading zone in front of the store for people with big purchases.

  • Parking like this for your benefit

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  • Boonies (n): a thinly settled rural area

    Boondocks (n): a remote, thinly settled rural area

    (They both have basically the same definition, but I thought I'd still put them both for good measure.)