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  • This is strange.

    Let me know when you figure it out. I'm happy to revisit.

    You may be correct on MB though. I pulled that number from a news article that I can't get into again because I exceeded my daily threshold of free ones. I'll just concede that I'm incorrect on the case count in MB specifically, at least until I can get into the dang article again.

  • Western Europe has way less cases...

    Fair enough, so lets move those goalposts to the west a bit.

    Here's the EU data from April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which seems to be the latest available. You'll note that in that time period there were 26,222 cases. Romania, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium reported the most.

    ...and nearly all of them in Romania.

    True but Romania is part of the EU and so they count against the numbers. Just like Texas does for the US.

    Looking at the data we can plainly see that in 2025 the EU has reported more cases of measles every month than the US has in all months combined. The EU had 4482 cases by the end of March while the US is still under a thousand partway into May.

    For funsies though let's remove Romania from the data completely and see what it looks like.

    Of 26,222 cases Romania accounted for 21,620 which leaves a remainder of 4,602. On the United States side there has been 935 cases YTD and there were 285 in 2024 for a total of 1,219 in the past 16+ months.

    I've linked and quoted Official Sources from both the EU and the US and the data clear; the EU is having a worse measles outbreak than the US.

    Lest you feel I'm picking on the EU I'm also going after Canada because they too have had more cases of measles since just last October than the US has had in the past 16+ months. You can find that data linked in my post here.

  • I always roll my eyes when I read hyperbolic comments like this; both the incident rate and the absolute case count is higher in Manitoba Canada than the entirety of the United States and if that isn't enough the European Region has a skyrocketing case count with over 120,000 cases reported to the W.H.O. in 2024 which is more than 10 times the cases in the United States.

    So the numbers say that the Europeans should ban themselves first, then the Canadians, and then the Americans.

  • "Starting" is somewhat of an understatement; since October of 2024 Manitoba has had over 1,200 measles cases. In that same time frame the United States has had 951.

    With less than 1% of the US population Manitoba has nearly 30% more cases between 10/1/24 and 5/1/25.

    I honestly had no idea there was even a problem in Manitoba until I read your comment. Now I'm wondering why the US is headline news for this.

  • That isn't exactly true with Steam. Valve does allow a dev to offer a discount at a different store as long as that same discount comes to Steam in a reasonable amount of time.

    Straight from the docs:"It's OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time."

  • I always forget about this perk of my Amazon subscription so thanks for posting this. I jumped over and claimed all the GOG codes. I've never tried the Lego games using Proton so I hope they work.

  • Very odd comparison...

    Not really. There are more people using Steam than own a PS5 or Xbox X. So in what reality does Steam "not work for most people"?

    you just need to sign up and you’re considered a user.

    You'll note that I used Steam's ACTIVE user statistic. That's not people who just "signed up", those are people playing games on Steam.

    Steam works just fine for most people.

  • Steam doesn't work for most people? You sure about that? It has 132 Million active users, that's nearly double the number of PS 5s that have been sold!

  • I'll have to try the UET mod but the author's changelog doesn't inspire much confidence.

  • "Game-Key Cards" so it's a licensing dongle with a fancy name and peculiar shape.

  • Yeah, no shit it's hostile. This Administration is being hostile to their business! What in the fuck did they expect to happen?

  • It is fun, but it’s much smaller than I imagined.

    It's a product of its time. Oblivion's game size was right at the 4.7G limit of what would fit on single layer DVD-5.

    Oblivion Gates

    Ugh, arguably the most boring and repetitive part of the game. Such a wasted opportunity too as they could have made each Oblivion gate be a hellscape mirror of the area that it spawned in (including towns). That would have been a fairly small amount of additional data for a huge gain in game play.

    They suck, don't do any more of them then you have too.