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  • I wonder if 2023 will go down as one of the last good years for gaming (and even that only works if you ignore all the layoffs that already happened).

  • Piranha Bytes is/was owned by Embracer, that should say everything about its chances of survival.

  • As far as I understand it, the studios are trying a different angle: They are not suing Reddit this time, but an ISP and want Reddit to provide the data of costumers of that ISP.

  • Now Elon has lost the crucial support of NFT bros. All five of them!

  • Because there are lots of people in this thread who paint whales as "rich schmucks" who can afford to spend $48k without thinking twic. This is a myth that lots of the gaming industry itself loves to perpetuate, because it absolves them of taking responsibility for ruining lives.

    Research has shown repeatedly that whales are much more likely to be people with mental health problems and/or gambling addicts. That Star Citizen isn't a freemium game with loot boxes makes it marginally better than - let's say - Genshin Impact, but offers like the bundle in the article is still predatory.

  • Sheesh! Not everything a toddler says is plagiarizing the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It must at least included the word "California".

  • Thank you Ada and Supakaity for all the work you invested into Blåhaj Lemmy!

  • One more that comes to my mind: Icehouse was also pretty big.

  • flute starts playing in my head

    Oh my glob! What hav you done!?

  • Rules are rules

    Jump
  • Consider getting a coloscopy.

  • To add to what krellor already mentioned: It's hard to find one definitive image of a specific Greek deities, because they were worshipped over hundreds of years and not only in Greece, but also in Greek colonies (for example Sicily) and places that were heavily influenced by Greek culture (for example around the Black Sea). Most of these places had their own particular interpretation of what a Greek deity was or wasn't.

    So it was no contradiction that Artemis could be a "man hating, out lesbian" in one place and an "aro-ace ascetic" in another. Unlike in modern monotheism, there was no overarching dogma people could refer to and places often had their very own myths and stories about the deities. Only some of those have survived until today.

    So our modern interpretation of Greek deities is something of a puzzle with many pieces missing and no way to confirm if the pieces that we have ever were part of the same picture in the first place.

  • Yeah, what is anyone supposed to do with Somerton besides calling him out? Ask him politely to please don't plagiarise and scam people anymore?

    Half of Hbomberguy's video is about Somerton having been accused of plagiarism for a long time and Somerton just kept doing it. Beside the fact that the very first anecdote about Somerton in the video is about him sending his fans after someone who dared to point out plagiarism, accusing them of doxxing him and sending him threats without any hint of that ever happening.
    Somerton had no qualms to resort to harassment if it suited him.

    Dog knows social media is a toxic hellhole which thrives on malice and there will always be enough toxic people out there to harass people for whatever reason they can find (and often flimsy pretext), but to insist that the existence of these people precludes exposing wrong-doing, ultimately means that nobody can ever warn anybody else of scammers and grifters like James Somerton.

  • I find the thought of facing Kai Winn while being high utterly terrifying. Talking about a bad trip...

  • The reason is bards, isn't it?

  • If you are up for written reviews: Buried Treasure does a very good job of digging up stuff that hardly ever gets any attention elsewhere.

  • That's one part of the reason: Google seriously angered the judge by deleting possible evidence (Google got in similar trouble in the anti-trust trial in regards to their search engine). Additionally there were emails that showed that Google was very worried about Epic and that they bribed phone manufacturers to not install pre-install a Fortnite launcher (or other app stores) on their phones.

    So there was a clear paper trail that showed how Google execs used their control over Android and the Google app store in order to undermine Epic's efforts to circumvent having to pay Google for being included in the app store. That's the main difference in regards to the trial against Apple where the evidence was not that clear-cut.

  • Congratulations, BeardyGrumps!
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