It’s to give talking points to the politicians they paid for.

This is his third term as a senator.

WTF Texas?

Back in 2018, Steam stated its approach to content on its platform was "to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling".

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A social media account linked on Steam to the game’s developer includes a post suggesting Ukraine’s refusal to surrender will provide “a lot of content to make more missions in our game”.

I’m pretty sure that qualifies.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1at1k7qIo5dgPp6K1aCrYIyAgNOjY-IhF/htmlview

These are the total numbers and includes the at-risk games. Which may not be helpful to some, since the fate of those games is unknown.

…Dead games, which means no one on Earth can currently play the game. It’s not possible…

…At-risk games, which means these games are currently working, but they’re designed in such a way that the second the publisher ends support, they will become dead games without some sort of intervention…

…Dev Preserved, which means the game would have died, but the publisher or developer implemented some sort of endof life plan, so now the game is safe…

…Fan Preserved, where the publisher did nothing or practically nothing to save the game, but fans managed to either hack it to remove dependencies or reverse engineer a server emulator so that the game was saved in spite of the publisher actions.

Survival horror is not my cuppa, but Alpha Beta Gamer recorded some gameplay from the demo(?) it for people who like that sort of thing:

[YouTube] Labyrinth of the Demon King - Crunchy Retro-Grim Survival Horror Set in Feudal Japan!

Hermes: Orpheus. Don’t come on too strong.

Seconds later…

Orpheus: Come home with me.
Eurydice: Who are you?
Orpheus: The man who’s gonna marry you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIuXrVvouVc

I wish we had a better name.

When marketing to the “I only read the headline before commenting and sharing” crowd, anti-abortion is a loser compared to pro-life.

Pro-bodily-autonomy doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

After blowing up the aid trucks.

We did not blow up an aid truck. We blew up terrorists.

After evidence comes out that, yes, it was an aid truck.

Well, they did not properly identify themselves as an aid truck.

Video evidence comes out that they identified themselves on the truck, with their uniforms, and during direct conversation with the soldiers who then killed them anyway.

One of the aid workers was totally a terrorist. He was hiding a bomb in his underpants, we swear!

Everyone knows this is an obvious lie.

And what are you going go do about it? Tweet at us?

Serbian prosecutors on May 14 announced that the cultural official in charge of the site’s historic designation had forged a key document and had been arrested. Goran Vasic, the acting director of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, admitted he had fabricated an expert’s opinion.

“Vasic forged a proposal for a decision to revoke the status of cultural property,” prosecutors said in a statement.

So they forged a document in order to un-protect the building site?

I’m so glad my Lemmy app has video preview thumbnails.

The letter

Shame on Harvey Randall for platforming executive bullshit:

The problem, he puts it, is inflation. Which is an unerringly boring but also correct answer: “We live in contrasting times, where inflation is real and significant, but people expect games that are ever more ambitious and therefore expensive to develop to cost the same. It’s an impossible equation.”

They’re not responding to the expectations of the people; they’re responding to the expectations of their investors.

Is there a Lemmy function to block keywords?

I have never seen a conversation that was made better by this guy being a part of it. Even takedown videos make me feel like the other guy should have better things to do.

Edit: I know it probably wouldn’t have saved me from this post, but figured I’d ask while it was on my mind.

I knew someone would make this joke the first time I saw it on my feed.

Brother went through ego death before writing this:

When the listener submits himself to the beat, he loosens his mind from its moorings in space and time; no longer does he feel a separation between himself and his surroundings. The difficult world of external objects is blurred and unreal; only the inner pulse is real, the beat its outer projection. Earthly worries are submerged in a tide of rising exaltation. Dream and dreamer merge, object and feeling jell: the whole universe is compressed into the medium of the beat, where all things unite and pound forward, rhythmic, regular, not to be denied.

Rock ’n’ roll is the only form in modern music which deliberately seeks these effects and no others. They are also obtainable through jazz, but the soul of jazz is its continual improvisation, which draws on a wide range of moods and which demands the keenest attention. In contrast, rock ’n’ roll dulls the capacity for attention; the steady beat creates instead a kind of hypnotic monotony. Seen in this light, RnR is only the latest in a series of rituals which have existed in many societies for the purpose of inducing mystic ecstasy, usually in connection with religion. One might think not only of African or American Indian drumbeating frenzies but also of the cults of frenzied dancing and shaking which periodically rose up from the main body of European Christianity. In the United States, Negro “gospel music” often creates ecstasy through repeated phrases of enormous energy, and has been more than casually influential in the formation of rock ’n’ roll. Through gospel music, RnR draws directly on both Christian and African cults of rhythmic ecstasy. It should not surprise us then that so many RnR songs celebrate the all-pervasiveness of God.

Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction

YouTube link

It was FREE.

But at what cost?

From the article:

In a rare rebuke, the Republican congresswoman has broken ranks to suggest the administration was losing its base.

“I represent the base and when I’m frustrated and upset over the direction of things, you better be clear, the base is not happy,” she wrote in a lengthy post on X.

Ms Taylor Greene, one of the loudest voices of the Maga movement, said she was “frustrated” with the direction of the administration, claiming it was not delivering promises she had campaigned on.

She said: “When you are losing MTG, you are losing the base. And Trump isn’t on the ballot in the future, so do the math on that.”

Ms Taylor Greene compared the signing of the Ukrainian minerals deal to the invasion of Iraq, and questioned why Mr Trump’s team had not pulled approvals for the Covid vaccine, which she claimed “does not stop people from catching Covid”.

She added: “I campaigned for no more foreign wars. And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.

“And on top of that, now we are told that we have signed a deal for mineral rights in Ukraine, in order to pay us back for the hundreds of billions of dollars that we gave Ukraine.

“Why don’t we just mine our own rare earth minerals that are tied up on federal lands that the government confiscated years ago?”