There’s probably something in the terms about it, and it would take a very expensive legal battle to settle it. And I doubt it has enough legal merit to be taken on as a class-action lawsuit.
So, really, does it matter if it’s illegal? With the asymmetrical power imbalance, they literally don’t need to care about the laws. Realistically, no EU regulator is going to fine them for cancelling “a purchase made in India”, either.
Clickbait explained:
[When on a quest] you’ll see bright blue birds fly into frame and perch on signposts and tree branches and stone arches, their beaks pointing the way to the hobbit you’re looking for.
It’s a lovely fairytale touch.
Sounds like it might be an interesting game for people looking for more Stardew-Valley-inspired cozy games to play.
That article doesn’t pull its punches. Good for them. Columbia University leadership should be dragged through the mud for this farcical panel of partisans with extreme views being selected, without any domain expertise, to run this panel. What a joke.
I suppose it depends on your awareness of American politics and genocide in Palestine. It was instantly clear to me that this was most likely in response to US lawmakers, and I get most of my news from Lemmy (that is, not much).
It was effective clickbait for me since I wanted to click through to verify my guess… and I suppose to get some sick enjoyment from seeing other people in power fight back against American Exceptionalism and hegemony.
I was surprised with how many people were watching Star Citizen streams on Twitch. I don’t know if there was some sort of event on or something, but it was near the top of the Twitch leaderboards.
I was one of the suckers that bought the game in the initial campaign and I haven’t played it yet. It looks like there might actually be enough content now to be worth checking out, but I’m not convinced it’s worth pushing past the jank to play when there are so many amazing, polished games to play instead. I’ll wait until I hear it’s reasonably stable. (Which it clearly isn’t, yet; the streamer I briefly tuned into the other day was saying that he can’t complete a quest line the intended way because of a game-breaking bug that’s been around for months.)
It’s not too hard if you follow a build guide. Somebody who’s done the math will tell you how to spec and gear your character.
If I had more time, I’d love to be one of those über nerds, but adulting, y’know?
I mean, I guess? But regardless of what comes next, we know that humanity is having a global impact on geology, so calling it the anthropocene seems reasonable. Even if we reverse anthropogenic climate change and use science and technology to live in a climate utopia, that’s still man-changed. Or if we cause our own extinction, then we were the cause of the next geological epoch. Regardless, “anthro” works.
IIRC, there is a setting to just make it open an Explorer window every time and skip all the crap. I’m on my phone, so I don’t want to look for it rn, but it’s only a few clicks.
(It might just skip the OneDrive step; I don’t have documents this way often, so I can’t recall off the top of my head.)
Ironically, I just passed Explorer to save to a OneDrive folder, but it’s faster and easier to get to the right spot with a classic Explorer “save as” window.
The Team Fortress 2 community has come together in an attempt to brute force developer Valve into fixing a bot problem that has plagued the hero shooter for years.
I initially thought this was just a way of protesting the law, but looking at how it was written, I think this was literally their only legal option. I’m not sure how any library can stay open with the laws as written. I don’t think schools can have basically any books, either.
idk, I couldn’t care less about 90Hz. I switched to 60 Hz to save battery on my last phone that had a 90Hz display anyway.
I love how narrow the Xperia 10 series is. It’s a great one-handed phone, and the 21:9 aspect ratio is great for getting a lot of text on the page.
idk… I feel like Valve might be the one with the power to stop this already with refunds. It sucks for them, since they’ll lose their cut of the sale, but if they refund thousands of copies at full price, it adds a financial disincentive for publishers.
If Valve made it a policy to automatically refund games to anyone who asks after DRM is added, that might help encourage more users to request refunds, so publishers might be less inclined to add Linux-breaking DRM (good for Valve), and get more goodwill from gamers, but it will also cost Valve more in fees, and encourage publisher pushback against Steam’s perceived monopoly.
I have no way to speculate which of those incentives is more important for Valve.
The nice part is that the indie game dev space has grown enough now that there are dozens of amazing games coming out every year, so AAA titles are becoming increasingly irrelevant for a growing number of gamers.
I’m trying to think of the last AAA game I played, and I’m coming up blank… Maybe Doom Eternal a year ago? Almost all of my playtime is indie games. I’m debating getting the Monster Hunter bundle from Humble, which might be the 2nd AAA game I play in as many years.
The last time I paid full price for a AAA title was Diablo 3, which I almost instantly regretted. What a disappointment.
Edit: Not getting Monster Hunter. I forgot that Capcom added DRM that breaks Steam Deck compatibility. I probably won’t bother playing it, but I suppose I could just download a pirated copy.
Another really sad part is that campus security just stood by and watched as the protesters were attacked by “counter protesters”.
This is absolutely ridiculous. From what I can discern, it sounds like they weren’t blocking anyone’s access to facilities, they were students peacefully protesting at their post secondary educational institution. This shit is happening in Canada, too!; thankfully a Quebec court just overruled one of our university’s attempt to forcefully forcefully remove the protesters.
I hope the universities that called in militarized police responses get sued and administration staff is forced to resign. These chuckleclowns should never be in charge of educational institutions ever again.
I disagree that CEOs are equivalent to landlords. CEOs do create value by providing direction for the efficient application of resources to solve business problems and leadership and direction to employees. It’s not an easy job, by any stretch.
That said, taking skill doesn’t mean that CEOs should be entitled to massive take-home pay. I think the “fix” comes in adjusting our taxation system, not CEO compensation. Well, at least so long as we’re tied to the profit-seeking corporation structure we’re in. A “good” CEO can lead a company to producing significantly more value than a bad CEO, so let them fight for big compensation packages all they want.
The highest marginal tax rate in the US for individuals peaked at 92% in the early 50s. If we had sane marginal income tax rates at higher income levels, then there would be no problem with executive income. (Granted, we also need to fix taxation on other forms of compensation and capital gains, too.)
But then you need to know enough about the topic already to know what is stable and what changes with newer versions.
Like, the “web dev boot camp” course I got from UDemy a few years ago as a guide for building a web dev high school course: I recently went back to to look something up, and the whole thing has been completely redone start to finish. Makes sense, considering that it’s updated to the newest versions of Bootstrap and other libraries (and who knows what else).
I know nothing about Rust, but I would assume there are at least some libraries that have major new versions in the last couple of years which might change best practices somehow? idk. But the harder part is not knowing what you don’t know.
Okay, let’s see… Not sure if the spell is even activating that glyph sequence. Let’s try casting it again with a purple glow rune there…
“She’s asking to be objectified.”
No, she’s not. And this sexist argument needs to stop.
Cool; I didn’t know Blahaj was a 2SLGBTQ+ instance. I just thought it was a kind and accepting space, like Beehaw.
Not to derail this thread too much, but I assume Allies are welcome to join? If Beehaw ends up leaving Lemmy, I’ll need to make a new account somewhere.
This statistic is misleading. They have no way of knowing what people paid for those games. The “value” isn’t just the Steam price.
As many people have mentioned here, most games in big Steam libraries come from bundles. It’s pretty typical to get games for, like, $1-2 each in those. I regularly get 8 games for $10, of which I only really want 1. I play the one I cared about and get my $10 worth. There’s no “lost value” so long as I got my money’s worth from the title I played.
I take an even bigger view: if I buy 10 bundles for $10 each, and get 1 absolute banger (for my preferences) and a few others that are fun for a bit, then I’m happy. I often add 20 new games to my library in a month, and only immediately play 1. That doesn’t mean I have “$400 value of games I’ve never played.”