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  • No, this is the first time it has been available to the public. It was acquired by Riot Games several years into development, they decided to scrap most of the original work and start over in a new game engine, work on the new engine severely delayed reimplementation of previously completed features, which kept pushing the release timeline back, and eventually Riot canned the project.

    Last year the original founder purchased the rights to the game from Riot, they went back to the original engine, and they got a working early access build out in like six months.

  • And you're a prescriptivist!

  • No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

    He cannot "accept ... [an] Office ... from any ... foreign State." I suppose he might argue that "accepting" and "seizing by force" are not the same thing.

    Or Congress could pass an act to allow it.

    Edit: Or, more realistically, someone will complain to the Supreme Court and they'll find a reason to avoid ruling on the issue and Sotomayor will write an angry dissent but nothing will change.

  • At my last job it was just the HR interview and an interview with my prospective boss, but my boss' idea of an interview was to make me take a lengthy, ridiculous test he designed himself that was mostly questions he could have just asked me, including a bunch of weird lateral thinking questions cribbed from "This Google interview question will stump you" clickbait, plus intentional interruptions during the test to see how I handled the unexpected.

    I felt kind of insulted by it but I'm glad I stuck it out, because he turned out to be a great boss, who just happens to have strange ideas about interviewing.

  • Why is the headline putting the blame on an inanimate program? If those X posters had used Photoshop to do this, the headline would not be "Photoshop edited Good's body..."

    Controlling the bot with a natural-language interface does not mean the bot has agency.

  • Why is every sentence in this article its own paragraph?

  • The same person quoted also said that, in this article.

    Geoffrey Robertson KC, a founding head of Doughty Street Chambers and a former president of the UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone, said the attack on Venezuela was contrary to article 2(4) of the charter. “The reality is that America is in breach of the United Nations charter,” he added. “It has committed the crime of aggression, which the court at Nuremberg described as the supreme crime, it’s the worst crime of all.”

  • This is a minefield when playing Jackbox games with strangers!

  • Was that in The Diamond Age?

  • Ah, I see your girlfriend plans like me! I don't have a partner to offload the planning to, so that's how I feel on every trip I make, lol. On my last trip I went to the wrong airport! (I still made my flight after taking an Uber to the correct airport, somehow.)

  • If so many people need a place to smoke, why not create a designated smoking area?

  • Ah, well the figures in the article aren't based on any grey market stuff, so you'd have to look somewhere else to find out what the ISK-to-USD conversion looks like.

  • I was under the impression that you could only put real money into the game, not get it out.

    You can spend real money to buy pilot license extensions (PLEX), which can be redeemed by the holder for subscription time. You don't have to redeem it right away, and PLEX can be sold to other players. So there is a USD to ISK exchange rate based on the market value of PLEX, but you can't turn PLEX back into dollars.

  • It has always been the Department of War. Renaming it to "Defense" was a psyop to justify the "defense" budget.

  • They are really making it hard not to say "Silksong was the best game of 2025, and it was $20, and the DLC is going to be FREE" every time almost any other game announces its pricing, aren't they?

  • All/Top 6 hours.

  • "The police are questioning their son" and "Their son killed them" are two very different things. I'm very curious what their "sources" told them.

  • I don't think that's really the same. The repackaging of Wii U games was because the Switch's install base was several times larger than the Wii U's, so they could sell them to people who had never played them before. The "Switch 2 Edition" updates are a way to try to extract some extra money from people who already played the games, but they're not going to fulfill the same strategic goals as, say, Mario Kart 8 DX, partly because they aren't going to sell as much, and partly because most of the people who buy them will already own the game and therefore only pay the upgrade price. I think from a strategic standpoint they're basically filler.

  • I'm sure they'll make one eventually. They don't have anything else in exactly the same niche, and ACNH was incredibly popular. This seems like the kind of update you put out to make sure people keep the brand in mind while your next title is still too far out to announce.

  • Resomb, legomb, plomb, flomb...