I expect that that means that Israel isn't too worried about incoming ballistic missiles from Iran at this point, or they'd probably be hanging onto it.
People have done a good job of mentioning the free open-source games that I'd call notable already.
I don't play most mobile games, because most are commercial, and I'm not willing to get a Google account and associate it with my phone. I think that Google has enough information about me.
However, there are a number of commercial games that exist for both the PC and for Android, stuff like Bloons TD 6. Unless you have a PC, I'd probably take a glance there, since if a game is good-enough, unless it's deeply tied to a touch interface, I'd expect it to have a PC port.
goes to find a list of Steam games with mobile ports
Some games on there that I know and think are good --- though I haven't played the mobile versions, and can't speak as to port quality:
Stardew Valley. I'm not a huge fan of this type of game --- lots of drudge tasks --- but I think that it was well-made, and lots of people like it.
Balatro. Already mentioned here.
Hades. Action roguelite. Might want a controller for this; I don't know how well this would translate to a touch interface.
Terraria. I don't know how well this would work without a mouse.
Bloons TD 6. I already mentioned this.
Subnautica. Dunno how well this translates to not having a mouse, and the game is 3D-heavy, so I dunno what tradeoffs someone is gonna make to get it running on a phone, but it's pretty neat.
Vampire Survivors. I'd guess that this is probably playable with a touch interface, though probably best with a controller.
Slay the Spire.
Dead Cells. This might want a controller.
Papers, Please
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I would definitely want a controller for this.
Spiritfarer. Didn't really click with me, but popular, and if you're looking for an adventure game...
Little Inferno. Older puzzle game that I enjoyed, and I don't usually do puzzle games.
I'd also mention:
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (if you want Android; there isn't a current iOS version) is a good free and open-source game on the PC with an extremely steep learning curve. It is a very deep open-world roguelike. However, it is seriously tied to a keyboard interface. I have played the Android version, and while I think that the porter did do a better job than I expected making it playable on Android, it's clearly not optimized for a touch interface, and it is very CPU-hungry, so can run slower than the original does on PC.
Mali’s leadership tried to sell the French exit as an anti-colonial victory, but it was anything but. As one empire left, another quickly moved in. Russian mercenaries replaced French soldiers, announcing to the world Mali’s intention to move into Russia’s orbit.
Americans watched with worry, and eventually started to use the “counterterrorism” angle to try and befriend a regime they loudly condemned and sanctioned just a few years ago.
For the Malian people, the country’s transfer to team Russia brought no real positives. Sure, the humiliation of France at the heart of Francophone Africa was rejoiced over by some, but the Russians brought with them nothing but more aggression, corruption and chaos.
As the Russians enjoy their newfound influence, Americans appear to be looking for a way back in. They are now courting the regime under the guise of addressing “terror” but clearly with the sole intent of weakening the Russian hand.
Europe and America’s support for many “friendly” dictators across Africa, such as Uganda’s Museveni, and Washington’s ongoing attempts to befriend Mali’s junta despite its insults to democracy, clearly show Africans have no true ally in this proxy war being waged on their lands.
Well, dude, if Africans are going to permit themselves to be led by dictators, I doubt that you're going to find that there's going to be an absolute wall built against dealing with them. The US most-likely isn't going to come in, forcibly eject your leadership, and impose elections, and I suspect that there are people in Mali who wouldn't like it if they did.
You'll probably get more support for a democratic government, but there's going to be a limit as to how much by way of national interest that will be sacrificed for that, true enough.
As to wanting agency --- Africans have agency. If the population of Mali collectively told the leadership of Mali that they weren't going to be running Mali, said leadership wouldn't be running Mali.
While certain pro-digital-surveillance countries like Hungary, Ireland, Spain and Denmark have unwaveringly supported the mass scanning and encryption-breaking measures, many other countries have been rightly alarmed.
They don't have specifics there on a state-by-state basis.
Of the 20 EU countries represented in the document leaked to WIRED, the majority said they are in favor of some form of scanning of encrypted messages, with Spain’s position emerging as the most extreme. “Ideally, in our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption,” Spanish representatives said in the document.
I'm pretty sure that Wired is referencing the leaked documents that I'm thinking of.
No problem. And just to make it clear, if you haven't done so before, if you find a community you like on lemmyverse.net, you'll want to copy the text with the leading exclamation mark, which you can do by clicking on that text on lemmyverse.net --- say, for example, !foodporn@lemmy.world --- and then paste it into the community search on whatever client or Web UI you use. That'll make your home instance connect to the instance where the community lives and learn about it, if it hasn't already. Your home instance is sh.itjust.works, which is decently-sized, so it's not as much an issue for you --- for many communities, some user on sh.itjust.works will have already done this and subscribed to the community --- but for users on smaller instances, it's more important.
Eh. It sounds like the thing is likely going out of business, and people are just batting around ideas to try to bring it back. Probably good odds that it won't happen.
Craigslea community kindergarten, a local childcare centre in Chermside West in Brisbane’s north, made national headlines this week after a series of emails to parents. The centre has been in turmoil for weeks and was closed after a mass exodus of staff before the school holidays.
On Sunday, the management committee sent parents a 1,000-word email claiming the centre was “insolvent”, owing more than $40,314 to the tax office and employees. It proposed to “wind up” the centre, which has been placed into voluntary administration.
The next day, in a second email the management committee proposed to charge $2,200 for a scrapbook of artwork produced by their children and photographs of them to help pay off the debt.
I think that if I were Google, Meta, and Vodafone, I'd go build an app to measure a phone's lifetime playing video and then promote that as a benchmark. Things that are the path of least resistance to measure tend to get measured more than those that are a pain to measure.
And thus it was, the life-and-death struggle between man and beast. The majestic lion, and the knight wearing full plate mail holding a submachine gun in a bucket of water.
I mean, there are more options to spend money on. But it's not like you're obligated to exercise those options.
If you live out on a farm in North Dakota, and there isn't much by way of eateries near by, you probably don't eat out much. You don't have to eat out in a city, either. Just more options for it.
EDIT: Honestly, a lot of people known for being in a meme probably do a pretty good job of fitting into this camp, outside of maybe where viral marketing campaigns have managed to intentionally create successful memes themselves.
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