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The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Twice as many leased electric vehicles are coming to market.

Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.

Reviews too! Steam has a frequently used and frequently useful user-submitted reviewing feature.

Reviews are a “community” feature, and it’s remarkably hard to build a review feature people want to use that is actually valuable.

Legitimately was going to say the same thing. Who would ever download this garbage?

The narcissism is embarrassing.

One thing that’s entertaining about these “crashes” is that they frequently give failures an excuse for why they fail.

John Romero has never once individually made a game people liked. He made Quake, got fired from id, and released failure after failure. It’s insane he still has a name people talk about.

He had to downsize because no one wanted to play Gunman Taco Truck, Empire of Sin, or SIGIL II.

Ah damn I was fooled by their “make a donation” text

El queso es viejo y mohosa.

Seems like it, yeah. Free for personal use.

The text on the bottom is obviously not original.

The original looks like this.

I don’t want to dust the tops of all those pans.

And cast iron usually requires oil after use, which traps the dust even better!

Thank you! I was like “who?”

It’s never too late! I don’t even like Skyrim but it’s literally never too late to have more fun with older games.

TIL he played on the Bravely Default soundtrack!

The first time I played Tetris Effect in VR was like a religious experience. It blew my mind.

It’s also just a decent Tetris game, in my opinion.

I feel like “biographical” means something different than it used to.

Rogers noted, “It’s a Hollywood script, a movie. It’s not about history so a lot of [what’s in the movie] never happened.”

If only all of our dads could give us jobs like this!

Her father, Henk Rogers, was the video game developer who secured the rights to distribute Tetris on Video game consoles and began to base his businesses in the U.S.

To go along with that, it’s also a “good” time to lay people off.

“Everyone” is laying people off for “efficiency,” so it’s like a free pass.

That makes a lot of sense! I didn’t know they added the micro transaction stuff but that explains why reviews plummeted after a couple months.

Thanks for the details! (Or for telling me something I missed in the article)

The article definitely makes it sound like it wasn’t as big of a hit as they initially thought it was.

Steam concurrents have also dropped significantly following Battlefield 6’s big launch, when it hit a huge 747,440 peak. Steam concurrents are now, typically, in the tens of thousands. For example, Battlefield 6 hit 67,000 peak concurrent players on Valve’s platform yesterday.

That’s hilarious.

“Every credential that was in Moltbook’s Supabase was unsecured for some time,” Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. “For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available.”

Last month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth was asked about the AI agent social network in an Instagram Q&A. He said he didn’t “find it particularly interesting” that the agents talk like us, since they are trained on massive databases of human material. Rather, Bosworth was intrigued by how humans were hacking into the network, which was not a feature but a large-scale error.

It’s telling that Meta is still impressed by this kind of bullshit. None of this is particularly interesting.

What’s funny is, we literally already have helicopters that rich people seem to use to get places.

These flying taxis are the exact same thing.

It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, which is why it pretty much never takes off (no pun intended).