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Using a love potion can also be dangerous. See: Sorry, but I'm Not Yuri for more details.

I'm like, "Hold up, how did, that's not even me
Like, I don't jerk off mobily"

Related news is the authors of Dave the Diver having to explain that they are in no way an independent studio

To save people from looking it up: The studio that made Dave the Diver is traded on the Tokyo stock exchange, has 7,000 employees, and brings in $2 billion USD per year.

In games like Poker, a player can have an advantage over others at the table by having a higher chip count than everyone else. It's a common scam for two people to pretend not to know each other and then have one "feed" all their chips to their friend by purposefully losing to them. Their friend can then press their advantage for an easy win and the two split their winnings. The power of friendship!

And if people bought a PlayStation game that uses Sony's PSN servers they're going to configure and run this how?

I personally doubt the EU parliament will be much better but this does seem to have enough people caring now that if it was directed at specific games/companies it might actually convince them to change things. Right now there's only UK and EU people doing anything and it's mostly just signing a petition. Imagine if everyone could get involved in something directed at a company actively killing games.

She doesn't give any actual examples though. She just says "I work in game dev and ensuring games still function when companies shut down their servers would be a technical challenge but it's possible." She also has less than 1,000 subscribers and this video is by far her most popular ever at 17,000 views and counting while her average view count is around 100.

I read an article once about a guy who grew up in a poor rural area in the US that changed my opinion a bit. He talked about how progressive and left leaning people want to help the poor and uneducated, but typically only in major city centers.

Poor people in major cities are seen as victims of society. Socioeconomic forces beyond their control have caused them to fall behind and they need help! Rap music is the voice of the oppressed! Poor people in rural towns are seen as hillbillies who should have paid more attention in science class instead of playing football and taking their cousin to prom. Country music is for hicks! Combine this with the stats that inner city poverty is mostly minorities and rural poverty is mostly white people and you get a sense as to how rural people can see progressive programs as "racist". It certainly doesn't help that this idea is beamed into their heads by billionaire funded propaganda like Fox News.

A tech company lays off 1,000 employees and there's rage, but a coal mine shuts down putting 1,000 people out of work and there's cheers. Biden telling rural Americans facing the loss of their livelihood "learn to program" is pretty rich coming from a wealthy successful man who likely doesn't know how to work a computer, let alone know how to program one. Republican politicians at least pretend to care about run down rural towns. And if they don't do that, at least they pledge to knock those smug city slickers down a few pegs! Send the Marines into LA!

Hopefully the US can fix its urban-rural divide. I have no idea how that would happen, but it seems to be a major hindrance to class consciousness.

Frostpunk

I get it. I like city builders too and the idea of a game that's constantly threatening your city with crisis seemed interesting, but every run seems to be the same.

Outer Wilds

Alright, you and I are gonna fight now.

This is like when people say they must add stuff to coffee to make it addicting. Yeah, caffeine.

My young nephew has entered a phase where he says "I like x" where x is the last thing you said to him. I told him I was going to work and he said "I like going to work". No, little buddy. You don't.

It's a 3% tax on tech companies. Carney did not agree to be a vassal state. He cancelled a would be tax that Trudeau said would take effect today in an attempt to sign a trade deal with the US, something the US agreed to negotiate before end of July. If there's no deal by then he could always move forward with the tax.