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…and then you come out at the ass end of the internet (a.k.a. 4chan)

I’ve just finished the story mode of Green Hell. Now working on the Spirits of Amazonia mode. I hope I can build a more permanent base there instead of having to move every few hours.

As long as it hurts Ubisoft enough that next time they make an offline patch before pulling the plug on a game.

Depends on the exact wording of the patent, and the jurisdiction (U.S. or Japan)

No, the sneaky thing is that they are older patents that were amended/updated after Palworld was released. But the initial patents are older than Palworld.

In a sane world, the case should be decided by the original text of the patents, not the updated one.

What am I saying, in a sane world these patents should not exist.

They come from your sink, not your toilet

Have you seen the state of the US? A “clown world capitalist dictatorship” is a pretty apt description

Since MS forced the upgrade, you should get 2025 for free. That would probably be really easy to argue in court

Nah, the new family sharing is way better. With the new vetsion, I can play games from my wife’s library even if she is playing a different steam game at the same time.

Yes, I recommend the book as well. Don’t ask me why though. I tried quitting smoking many times using many different methods but always failed. On a whim I got the Alan Carr book and read it. I read it in bursts over a month or two. There was nothing interesting in there. Nothing I didn’t already know. I finished it and quit smoking. The next day I relapsed and smoked again. I reread the last few chapters and quit again, this time using nicotine patches. I quit the patches within a day because they made me feel sick. I never smoked again. It’s been 7-ish years and I haven’t had any inclination to smoke again. It went from one of the hardest things to one of the easiest things to do. I don’t care if people smoke around me, it doesn’t bother me anymore. I still don’t know why the book works, but it did for me.

So, the exact opposite of Baldur’s Gate 3

I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.

They will be gone with time, but not because anything that Valve does. Microsoft is locking down the kernel after the CrowdStrike debacle. In a few years it will be impossible to run any custom kernel code.

Thanks for the suggestion. Conarium is also in the sale now, so I bought it. Thanks!

I enjoyed “Followers of Cthulhu”, “Permafrost” and “Ale Abbey” during the last steam next fest

That’s all fine for technically inclined people, not for the scores of tech illiterate folk that need a big “migrate” button.

It’s important to have some context though. Because it the Japanese libs are like the Australian libs then it is very different than e.g. the western European libs.

There’s worse. Ever heared of FOOF? https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

Secure from what exactly? You need to have a threat model here. For most personal use cases I’d argue that protection from adtech tracking is more important than e.g. sandboxing. Most people run into adtech continuously, but few people browse shady exploit-ridden sites.

In that case, Firefox us the clear winner. It supports manifest v2 for better adblocking, and it is the only mobile browser with extension support allowing you to use adblocking on mobile as well.

Sadly they will probably jack up the price while they are at it too. I just moved everything to my own petsonal .io a few years ago. I don’t want to have to move again.