YouTubers really are the way to go. For me, there’s no better way to see if I want to play a game than watching someone play it.

And for story games best played blind, I go by word of mouth.

Yep. There are people who can vote who were born after Portal came out XD

OpenDesk seems more aimed at municipalities and larger orgs, whereas cryptpad is better for smaller orgs - the 1000 user “large” edition may be too small for ICC. I’m assuming they aren’t selfhosting the community edition of open desk and wanted the support.

Or maybe open desk just gave them a better deal. Who knows

Oh yeah, that’s definitely around the time when games started getting “big”, especially with Halo.

We are living in great times for small studio and indie games!

I feel like every other news article I’ve read today has been some sort of layoff.

I’d say Star Trek tends to be “above average”, especially when it considers how people might interact with technology in the future.

…though i do hope star trek’s wrong about a near-apocalyptic world war coming before world peace/unification

It has a little more gameplay than past telltale games with its dispatch sections (a bit of strategy, deciding which heroes go on what calls), but otherwise you are right, it’s a fancy choose your own adventure game. They have done some interesting things with superhero tropes so far (e.g., superheroes working out of a corporate call center), but it’s a bit early to tell if they’ll subvert some of my expectations for the “final boss”.

As soon as this phone kicks the bucket, I’m getting grapheneOS. (Sadly, my current phone is too old to be supported)

I would be OK with losing out on random novelty hotdog-flavored chips.

That being said, you could get around this problem by focusing on staples (rice, flour, vegetables, salt, etc.) since the vast majority of folks don’t really have a preference on this sort of thing, aside from allergies/gluten free.

As this continues, I would highly recommend folks support their local food pantries as they are able. Cash is better, but there’s nothing wrong with a food drive to collect cans from your neighbors. Some pantries also accept fresh produce, if you have some left from your garden this year.

I was about to say, almost sounded like you were speaking from experience XD You’ll be the first suspect if a supervillain with your powers ever pops up

Superspeed- quick commute, get chores done fast, visit the world

It would be neat to have some sort of public survey/contest to name these

I wouldn’t rule out things being better in, say, 100 years, but it would take a lot of luck and effort to get to that point.

Has anyone used OpenDesk? Looks like they have a community edition

You mean we’re supposed to actually read the articles before talking about them?! ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle it’s been done before. AI facial recognition gets a little overhyped

Hey man, the playing-pinball-while-a-cat-interferes peertube community is very close-knit (https://video.apz.fi/).

I kid, but it’s true that peertube lacks the dopamine hooks and variety that youtube does. It’s much harder to sink hours into watching a bunch of videos that you’ll only half remember by the next day.

“Staying peaceful” and “fighting back” aren’t mutually exclusive. Anyone who thinks nonviolent tactics don’t work hasn’t read up on their history (East Timor, Philippines, etc.). Every time ICE shows up to pepper spray cops and shoot at priests, local police gets more pissed, and they drive a wedge between local and federal law enforcement, weakening the administration’s ability to project power. Don’t underestimate that opportunity.

That being said, current actions are far more symbolic than transformative. No kings protests don’t do anything on their own, but could easily be leveraged into an enabler of things like boycotts and general strikes which will have a strong impact.