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  • Did you dream of a videogame long before it happened?

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  • Not saying you knew about it, but the predecessor, Elite 2 (1993), also had procedural galaxies. The Elite series goes back to the 80s.

  • Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”

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  • Also is the act of canabalism in and of itself a crime? If I eat my own leg, who's the victim?

  • The City of Chicago will allow residents to issue parking tickets

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  • Chicago? The city with the famously horrendous 75 year parking meter deal?

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    Technically Mitch

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  • Me either

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  • I go to the library to borrow movies, still fun.

  • Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime)

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  • Disagree, free loading customers still help their customer base. They are still seen as potential customers and normalize having epic store client, legitimizing their own walled garden. It's similar to any free-to-play game. All the customers that pay $0 technically cost the company money, but it's worth having that dead weight to build a player base to get the whales in. Just by installing and having an epic account will inevitably draw other people in that will spend money and lure in investors and developers. They're not dumb.

    Really don't think of it from an individual point of view, but as a whole.

  • Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime)

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  • Not really, you cost Epic money but give them more users. Which is what they want. Only get free games from them if you want to support Epic.

  • I did not care for the Godfather

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  • Recently watched Citizen Kane for the first time. I'm surprised how well it holds up. It's better than many new movies that are coming out. But I think that says more about how shitty some new movies are.

  • Poor baby

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  • I guess you'll just end up with rice porridge at some point, bacteria growth, or run out of moisture.

    It depends on the cooker and how well it seals/temperature regulates. My old shitty rice cooker would just dry everything out after a few hours.

  • Poor baby

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  • My rice cooker keeps rice hot for up to 30 hours. Very convenient.

  • Too Close - Litterbox Comics

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  • As a fuckcar crowd, I moved from a rural location to the city. Because, you guessed it, fuck cars.

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  • Yea I travel a bit, and I like talking about how they travel to gleen what kind of person they are. Like big cities? Do they take transit? What kind of activities? Lodging? Adventurous with food? Planned /spontaneous?

    But at the same time, I typically move on to non-travel based chat pretty quickly. So I agree with the spirit of the comic.

  • Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas

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  • I would say the vast majority of micro transactions are cosmetic or time unlocking. Not adding much novelty.

    Also the context of this post is about gifting kids on Christmas, so no, not necessarily "up to you". I guess there's an argument to just give kids whatever they want, but I don't think think that leads to the best development outcomes. You can't force kids to do anything either, but there does exist a middle ground.

  • Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas

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  • Not sure why novelty is in quotes, it's a quantifiable measurement based on differences. Anyway, novelty has shown to have a wide range of mental benefits. This is a pretty good overview, and if you want to dig into specific papers they're listed as well.

    Even if you want to ignore any potential benefits of novelty, generally when you have a new experience for the first time, you will have more fun that you typically do. The downside is some new experiences may not be fun, but that's very low risk in the context of gaming.

  • Nearly half of US kids want in-game currency this Christmas

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  • I think it's a little different. With new games comes novelty. Sticking with a single game and just buying cosmetics doesn't provide nearly as much novelty.

    I don't think this is a children only issue either. Its a trap adults fall into as well.

  • The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal

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  • It's way more likely they have an informant in the chat or the phone itself is compromised. End to end encryption doesn't protect the "end"s.

  • Valve engineer says Steam Machine performance beats 70% of PCs, and can play all games

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  • What? 32bit has nothing to do with how many threads it can use. Just how much memory it can address.

  • Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

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  • But sounds like there is still a bug, KDE settings shouldn't segfault with malformed reports/descriptors. Might want to write a bug report or do PR yourself.