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Cake day: October 3rd, 2024

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  • Team Rocket are actually great pilots! The spots they can get that balloon into and out of are absurd. They can take it seemingly whatever direction they want, with people and critters jumping into and out of the balloon at random.

    They could be professional aeronauts, but their boss keeps making them chase a living high voltage hazard and his balloon-wrecking friends.



  • TMTG is also active in financial services, and the company announced US$2.5 billion in funding a year ago to invest in cryptocurrencies, one of Trump’s recent passions.

    But the plunge in digital currencies hit this part of the business hard as the price of Bitcoin tumbled from over US$126,000 in early October to below US$70,000 in March.

    It has since rebounded somewhat to over US$80,000.

    Because the company is required to reveal the value of its investments, even if it hasn’t sold them, it recorded a loss of US$406 million for the first quarter.

    “The vast bulk” of the loss was due to digital assets, the company stated.

    So the parent company is also a crypto bank that lost value when their crypto lost value. Just another kind of grift.



  • It’s about making the game playable for the most players possible. Good accessibility mechanics don’t give players a competitive advantage, but they can help close the gap. You could put a degree of auto-aim in Counter-Strike, but don’t make it faster or more accurate than a skilled human player can click on enemies’ heads. You still have to predict where the enemy players will come from.

    Some features like remappable controls and input device support are absolutely necessary to make games playable for lots of people. I wouldn’t consider remapping controls a certain way to be an advantage. If someone comes up with a better control scheme for first-person games than keyboard-and-mouse, the high level players will be the first to adopt it.

    In Quake Live, you can force the enemy character models to use a bright green colors, and all kinds of players make use of that without changing how people play Quake Live. Control assists like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s steering assist and Street Fighter 6’s Modern control style make the games playable for people who aren’t great with controllers, without breaking the whole game in favor of those mechanics.












  • The PC Gamer article’s title also says “upgrade or”. That’s a heck of a detail to editorialize out of the title.

    From the Mozilla post it cites:

    After this, no security updates will be provided and you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a supported Microsoft Windows version.

    Or, if your current hardware can’t handle Windows 10 or higher for some reason, you can switch to a Linux-based operating system. The vast majority of Linux distributions come with Firefox as the default browser.

    I agree switching to Linux is the better option. I want to try Bazzite.