Into the ground, you say?

After everything they’ve done to their other key franchises… Surely no one is going to fall for this, right?

This may help explain why some devs I talk to think LLM code assistants are amazing, while others find them only situationally useful at best.

Blizzard openly admitting that they scammed players into buying Overwatch 1 twice:

Shot in the dark, but have you tried without the LK Banner buff? I seem to remember it having some kind of weird glitchy effect on certain enemies.

Edit: just realised how old this post is, I guess I scrolled a little far. Hopefully you figured something out by now :)

download all of Demon Slayer thousands of times over

shueisha is forced to transfer billions of yen to my bank account

checkmate corpos

I picked this back up recently to play through the DLC with my Golden Order caster.

What if we were the real parasites all along

Sure, but exploring the way games abstract reality can be interesting and worthwhile.

Glad you caught it early. Imagine brushing your teeth and a toothbrush cyst bursts in your mouth

Classic publicly traded company using “reorganisation” (read: layoffs) to trick shareholders into thinking they are turning things around by simultaneously reducing costs and shifting blame for past failures of leadership.

The next step is a super safe release, like a remaster of one of their top selling games, followed by an announcement of a new entry in one of their most popular series. Line goes up. Ubisoft is back! Hire more developers, open a new studio (or buy an established studio), resume enshittifying. Rinse and repeat.

I have played these games before.webp

Wasn’t this the game that had an RCE exploit in the chat system? Like you could just type JavaScript in general chat and the game client would run it for anyone who saw it. That’s about as enshittified as it gets (see also: smart appliances)

The difference between awards chosen purely by people who play video games and awards chosen primarily by people who make their pay cheques in the industry

Saints Row 2-3-4 are great for this. 2 is the GOAT, but 3 and 4 are arguably better at providing the “screwing around” experience.

Sleeping Dogs is underrated and regularly goes on sale for like $5. There is not as much sandbox-ey stuff to do compared to GTA/Just Cause/Saints Row, but I loved jacking a nice car and cruising the freeway at night, or going on a murder spree and playing survival against waves of cops.

Elder Scrolls isn’t necessarily as wacky of an experience out of the box, but between mods and the sheer amount of freedom you have in the game, there is plenty of dumb random stuff you can get up to.

If you have Elden Ring on PS4/5 and know your way around the game, invasions have a ton of potential for shenanigans. Probably not what you’re after, and I imagine multiplayer activity is down since Nightreign came out, but it’s worth mentioning as such a unique experience.

Honourable indie mention: Mars First Logistics is a game where you build vehicles and use them to transport objects from point A to point B. The challenges are largely physics-based, with the objects often having unusual shapes or odd properties, and your vehicle needs to be able to self-load them in addition to bearing them across varying distances and terrains. It’s not really what you’re asking for, but I feel like it scratched the same sort of itch for me in terms of open-ended low-stakes gameplay.

I have both a Miele canister similar to your pic and a cordless Shark Rocket. The Rocket:

• is easier to move around the house
• has a reusable dust collector that is easy to empty
• has reusable filters that just need to be cleaned once a month or so
• doesn’t get jammed by hair
• was somewhere around 1/3 to 1/2 the price of the Miele

Whereas the bulkier and more expensive Miele unit has disposable bags and filters, and the brush head (that I had to buy separately for close to the price of the whole ass Shark vacuum) is constantly jammed and needs to be completely disassembled to clear it.

I have no C# experience and both styles look fine to me. /shrug

The place I am storing the crimper is the place where I thought I had stored the connectors. 💔

Luckily, the cables are already run throughout the house. They are cat5e but currently terminated with RJ11, which isn’t terribly useful to me these days.

I’ll be installing ports at one end. The connectors are going in the (unfinished) basement where I intend to move the modem/router/server PC. :)

Oh no