AndrasKrigare @ AndrasKrigare @beehaw.org

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Only surprise for me is that Witcher 3 is so high up. In my experience it doesn't actually run very well and needs the settings cranked down for an unstable 30 fps. Glad people are enjoying it, though.

Pedantic point: it's anti-materiEl, not anti-materiAl. Materiel in a military context refers to hardware, such as vehicles.

I particularly like that it's gained enough popularity that most of the gaming podcasts I'll listen to will make some remark on whether or not a particular game works well on steam deck

Huh, I never knew there was no middle ground between hating on something and liking it. TIL

"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?"

The industry should've already learned this lesson from the MMO crash, of everyone trying to replicate WoW's success and then later realizing that a business model of investing a ton of money to try and compete for both consumers' time and money is a bad idea.

If you don't want to spend as much time waiting for things to uncompress. Or if you want your compressed files to be smaller (and also compress faster).

Another is checking modified time of the directory

Also worth noting that France and Italy combined have a population roughly a third of the US's. So, normalized by population, it's much more prevalent there than in the US

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/job-interview

The overview is even more explicit

The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a mouse-like human boy named Stuart Little.

Weekly reminder that "trickle down economics" was always meant as a criticism. Coined by Will Rogers

This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year. They [Republicans] didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#:~:text=Trickle%2Ddown%20economics%20is%20a,critics%20of%20supply%2Dside%20economics.

I'd just throw out that my recollection is that it was really more of a mid-to-late 2000's thing for the oversaturation of WW2 games, if you're willing to move your window forward a bit. That and there weren't nearly as many games being released at that time period, so it didn't take much to saturate the market; there were roughly 1/50th the number of releases in 2008 as today (https://www.statista.com/statistics/552623/number-games-released-steam/ using steam releases as a rough approximation of total).

In terms of specific games, I don't have any that aren't already mentioned elsewhere. The Battlefield, Band of Brothers, and Call of Duty recurring releases are really the big ones. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games has a good list if you want to browse more.

Rule of Acquisition number 102: Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever

misconfigured

Makes me skeptical this is a real "loophole"

The issue revolves around permissions, with GKE allowing users access to the system with any valid Google account. Orca Security said this creates a “significant security loophole when administrators decide to bind this group with overly permissive roles.”

Orca Security noted that Google considers this to be “intended behavior” because in the end, this is an assigned permission vulnerability that can be prevented by the user. Customers are responsible for the access controls they configure.

The researchers backed Google’s assessment that organizations should “take responsibility and not deploy their assets and permissions in a way that carries security risks and vulnerabilities.”

Yeah, PEBKAC

I'm sure the $10 billion they make from Steam plays a role

Weekly reminder that "trickle down economics" was always meant as a criticism. Coined by Will Rogers

This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year. They [Republicans] didn't start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands. They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics#:~:text=Trickle%2Ddown%20economics%20is%20a,critics%20of%20supply%2Dside%20economics.

"Gross" means "large" in English

That's not true. If you're intentionally logged in to a website, sure, but tracking without an account requires action on the part of your browser, assuming you're using a VPN. Cookies, ad-IDs, user agent, preferred language, etc. is all information that the browser can decide if it provides or not.

"The work or service provided for free?" If so what's the difference? If you're getting something for free you have no right to complain

Could you explain to me how "if someone wants to use my work, they should pay me for it" could be perceived as racketeering, let alone "textbook?"