coyotino [he/him] @ theangriestbird @beehaw.org

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well, that's a big bummer. AbleGamers has clearly done an outsized amount of advocacy work in the industry, and it's awesome that we have stuff like the Xbox Adaptive Controller. Way less cool if the entire org was rotten at the top. Some of these incidents make me wonder if Barlet even cared all that much about disabled folks.

The industry still struggles with basic accessibility options in a lot of games - many studios will implement a wide array of accessibility options, but they do the absolute bare minimum for each disability, such that it looks like they are being inclusive to the gamers that don't actually use those options. Colorblind options are a common culprit. Basic color filters over the entire screen are insufficient for most colorblind gamers.

One wonders if Able Gamers would be tackling issues like this more directly if their founder had his eye on the ball (instead of having his eye on his coworkers' breasts)

the right detains people for simply holding different political views and talking about them online. Meanwhile, the Biden admin couldn't even be bothered to file the papers for Trump's actual treason against the United States.

i think it makes sense to be skeptical. they've shown one game for it that seems neat but not revolutionary. I think this is just a case of "the switch 2 has to do something that the switch can't do, besides running prettier games."

tbh it seems okay except i'm not sure where the ring and pinky fingers are supposed to rest. The dual-mouse possibilities are very intriguing, but i remain cautiously optimistic. this vid didn't change my feelings one way or the other.

Every Shotcut update is a win for the world. Shotcut is already perfect for small-scale video projects that don't require all the bells and whistles. Every update brings it closer to feature parity with the Premieres and Vegases of the world.

The order calls on the health department, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to broker new price tags for drugs over the next month. If deals are not reached, Kennedy will be tasked with developing a new rule that ties the price the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.

I'm struggling to understand how this would play out. CMS (Medicare/Medicaid) just says "this is what we're paying now" and the pharmacies just accept that? I can't help but feel like this will set off a chain reaction that will end in poor people unable to get their needed medications, as drug manufacturers withhold their product or something because this EO doesn't have strong enough legal footing. Nothing Trump loves more than inflicting suffering on poor people.

transparent window for Qatar to see US government secrets

from the very first line of the linked article:

When Australia holds its federal elections on Saturday, it’ll do so with the requirement that all eligible citizens head to the polls and vote. If they don’t, the Australian Electoral Commission will fine them $20 AUD (that’s roughly $13 USD).

Even just the excerpts that alyaza provided make it clear that the headline is more metaphorical than literal.

exactly what i was gonna post. it's hidden by default now and you can set a username to further hide that identity

it sucks that half of my favorite studios are now owned by a company that makes it's money on literally killing people. i want to support the devs for the amazing games that they made but i don't want my money supporting that heinous shit.

they were in turmoil over the past week, everyone was expecting that Fandom was gutting the division but they would continue trotting out GB's corpse.

I'm stoked about this news! I don't super care for the current Giant Bomb crew, but the current dudes are all good people, and I've loved all past iterations of the site. So it's really exciting to see GB finally open a new chapter!

Fandom was the third company in a chain of companies that bought Giant Bomb. For some reason they were always "bundled" with CNET and GameSpot, so as those sites have been passed around, Giant Bomb was just along for the ride, I guess.

Disney+ is being targeted by BDS right now. Perfect excuse to sail the high seas for Andor and skip the ads 👌

Someone on reddit pointed out that this deposit is useless without facilities to process it into usable lithium, and currently almost all of that capacity exists outside of the US. They are in the middle of building a massive facility in California, but even after that is built, it won't be big enough to process even half of US need for lithium processing. So this headline is yet another US win that will be turned into a loss by the Trump administration.

hopefully they don't start a patreon like the other devs.

yeah i edited the headline because even that was kinda clickbaity for what essentially amounts to Nintendo saying "no". But at least good to know Nintendo isn't buying into the AI hypetrain?

i'unno, i feel like there's way more to the story than that. I thought it was a fun read, a complete story front to back.