Written in 2020 but still an interesting read. I wonder what the author thinks of games that have released in the intervening years, like Manor Lords, Going Medieval, and Farthest Frontier?

OpenOffice isn’t as well known now because it was replaced, for all intents and purposes, by LibreOffice in ~2010.

Raphnet (and possibly others) make a USB adapter for Dreamcast pads, if you have one.

If you want something brand new, Xbox controllers have a more or less direct lineage from Sega pads, as (iirc) MS hired many ex-Dreamcast personnel to work on the original Xbox after the DC was killed off.

360 pads work well on PC and are easy to come by. Hyperkin also makes a modern version of the original Xbox ‘duke’ controller that might work well.

True, it doesn’t seem like something that would kill the business. But still, I would think the prospect of migrating an entire streaming service to a completely different platform might warrant losing at least a little sleep.

Isn’t all of Dropout.tv hosted on Vimeo?

Edit: yes it is

“Do not build your own app. Vimeo’s right here. I don’t have to worry about customer service. I don’t have to worry about legal compliance… Our budget can go to what actually matters to us and what we’re actually good at, which is content."

Andrew Bridgman, Chief Digital Officer at Dropout

that might age poorly

In a tweet from the studio account, they also said:

Alt-Frequencies might (it’s a maybe) return at a later date.

If I had to guess, maybe they don’t fully own the rights to their own games?

I fucking love Highway 17 - it’s an atmospheric and enjoyable road trip and I will die on this hill.

The good news is he’s dead now, so you can enjoy Dilbert without any risk of accidentally giving him any money.

Are you talking about Swedish fish?

Haven’t been to a wedding recently but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the speeches are LLM slop now, too.

I don’t believe there is any situation in which a penalty of death is ethical.

Even putting aside the morality of killing someone, you can never rule out mistakes, miscarriages of justice, or political abuse.

It sounds like you want a clear set of rules as to what defines every possible genre of music, which does not and cannot exist.

Genres only exist for the purpose of subjective comparison. Anyone can create them by taking some elements common to several pieces of music and labelling that as a genre. There’s no master list or governing body that decides exactly what constitutes ‘art rock’. It just is.

Use them as labels if you find it useful to make a distinction that they allow for. If you don’t see the difference between death metal and heavy metal, great - you don’t need to.

No, this is the YouTube home feed.

The ‘sacrificed his lungs’ bit is the title of a completely unrelated video above the Robert Reich post - you can see a sliver of the thumbnail at the very top of the feed. Looks to involve a piano.

Fuck off, sincerely. It’s hard enough out there for game devs as it is without heartless idiots online celebrating the demise of their studios.

Also, obviously, fuck Meta for closing them.

Confirmation bias. You simply don’t notice the criminals who don’t look or act the way you’re expecting.

You’re right - heaven forbid anyone would read the article before dropping a four-paragraph rant based on their incorrect understanding of the title.

You misread the title.

To be clear, I was being sardonic.

Doing things the right way is difficult, and I don’t trust governments to do things that might piss off Big Tech because of all the money tied up in that sector. Politicians seem more interested in appeasing the Musks and Zucks of the world than in actually helping people. So it goes.

Eugh.

I mean, it’s not wrong, but this has the energy of a Facebook meme for people who make atheism their entire personality.

If I saw someone with this mug I would probably avoid them.

Yes but this would require intelligent legislature and risks pissing off Big Tech. Far easier to make a few vague proclamations and then throw public funds at more useless age verification tech instead.