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At this point Embracer Group are just committing mass vandalism to an entire artistic medium. Fuck ’em.

https://www.eurogamer.net/embracer-cancels-deus-ex-game-in-development-for-two-years

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I shouldn’t be becoming numb to this but it is really just quite hard not to at this point

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs

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eos4j v1.2.0 has been released! This new version adds support for the Ecom interface in Epic Online Services. It also fixes a bug with conversion from timestamps to Java Date objects.

https://github.com/Bearwaves/eos4j/releases/tag/1.2.0

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Just saw the Wide Ocean Big Jacket devs have a new game out - instant buy for me.

https://beforethegreenmoon.com/

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I think Embracer should rename as they have fully moved into their Extinguisher phase

https://www.eurogamer.net/embracer-owned-time-splitters-studio-free-radical-reportedly-facing-closure

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Rolled credits on Signalis last night and haven’t been able to get it out of my head, so it’s good this excellent video essay from Sam Greer exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnVUXAn-fQ

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Pretty cool seeing POSSE getting traction on The Verge, of all places:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon

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eos4j v1.1.0 has been released! This new version features support for the Leaderboards interface in Epic Online Services.

https://github.com/Bearwaves/eos4j/releases/tag/1.1.0

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UK petition: Do not require schools to tell parents their child is transgender/non-binary

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/636802

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Steve Ballmer was the same age I am now in this video. Fucking hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgJS2tQPGKQ

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I worked at Improbable in 2019, when Unity tried to change their TOS to screw us over. They ended up backtracking and put their TOS on GitHub, saying they would not change TOS retroactively.

It appears to be gone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/16hnibp/unity_silently_removed_their_github_repo_to_track/

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Nothing says confidence in your product like giving users the option to hide the fact they bought your product.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option

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Really enjoying all the ‘astronomers baffled’ content the last couple days

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/this-white-dwarf-star-has-two-faces

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I kind of wish I cared about sports so I could read Defector all the time.

https://defector.com/burning-down-the-house

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“The masses are not balking at paying for Twitter Blue because they’re trying to shelter themselves within a crumbling elitist internet order, but because they think Musk is offering an unworthy product and is also a dickhead.”

https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

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I was on Twitter in 2019, I can promise you I have thought about feral hogs.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/feral-hogs-are-the-invasive-menace-youve-never-thought-about/

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Discord, or the Death of Lore

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5509

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How Complex Systems Fail (extra credit for the URL)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

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