Welp. The internet had a nice run.
Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.
"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."
FFXIV's Endwalker turned the story into my favourite numbered entry in the series, I'm with you there!
The double whammy of Shadowbringers and EW is strong, but also requires, uh, how many hundred hours to experience? 😬
I see replies with hundreds of likes explaining different scientific definitions, and him going "yea, but, like, you can't prove it, can you" OVER AND OVER AGAIN, and, yea, it's that, or someone asking for his overriped potato brain to be mashed up. These people are SO fucking stupid.
really cute idea that riffs on the Criterion Closet but with video games: take a celebrity to a cramped game store and let them spill anecdotes youtu.be/rhvMRw3OPjY
Imho he starts off with a full tank of "I like this guy" purely because he's just Hal from Malcolm until, uh, yea, 10 minutes in.
There must be something about fish-out-of-water actors? I'm thinking Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson as well? Drama actors in comedies, or vice versa?
Always here for more IL, obviously!
Oh! I thought that was the case, but then I was told about "trapped birds" on tiles in my deck? Which I then... never saw, I think? I guess I didn't get something about the metaphor then.
That was lovely, thanks!
Minor UX issue I ran into: It took me waaay too long to notice that 1) captured birds are behind me, and 2) that's where I get rewards, and 3) in the middle of a "fight" - which I then realised is more of an act anyway.
In case you avoid Slay the Spire 2 because you don't wanna lose 1000 hours immediately, how about a StS-esque demo about birds?
Tho to be fair, if you play like me it's mostly about an awful sparrow setting everyone on fire, then blowing up repeatedly. But. Birds!
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Absolutely, yea, definitely a time and place thing.
For me it was more the self-destruction leaving lingering problems for yourself and others, and how that ripples. That, and the fact it was the first story for me where you _had been_ the villain and now tried to fix things. (Hello KotOR.)
Planescape was one of mine for the longest time too, but I realized picking my 9 that Disco Elysium kinda took over its entire point. Still an incredibly fantastical world about broken people trying to find some sorta redemption, where your decisions twist reality into shape to an absurd degree.
Congratulations! 🎉
I remember when it was the Castle and a nice chill place! I never went there while it was Brewdog, because screw em, but heard it was consistently less busy than it should've been? Hope you had a good time there!
Shuttered Brewdog Friedrichshain entrance
Rest in piss
If anyone else is willing to share Steam Next Fest numbers, please reply to this post.
Let's normalize sharing reality and not "fake it til you make it" culture.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that sticker campaign is what landed them in hot water in the first place! But yea, reading about the whole thing, Mr Müller appears to have been very vocally dodgy for decades. Hope this court decision causes some Streisand Effect!
Funny you're mentioning that! aktion.campact.de/rechtsextrem...
(Let me know if following you to reply is not desired, I had no way to reach you otherwise! Will delete + unfollow with just a word 🙇♀️ )
I see people -freelancers- in my network connected to Ilja, co-founder of Sentona. Be careful!
I hate that noname products don't need to mention who actually produced them. Definitely "avoided" some awful companies only to buy the same stuff before!
Penny low fat yoghurt produced by Muller Milch factory BY718 and SN016
Oh, and if you think buying the cheap noname/house brand instead, maaaybe check who produces it. I can't find anything for REWE's brand, but PENNY DE for instance sells Müller yoghurt as their own. (via Stefan Duphorn's Markendetektiv)
After losing in court one can now safely mention that the Müller brand of milk products is owned by an AfD (Germany's officially declared "extreme right wing" party) supporting billionaire. Whose giant family relocated to Switzerland in 2003 btw, to avoid 30% inheritance tax when he passes.
Well, ammo and such. The combination ingredient. Which bottle were you talking about? DM if you don't wanna spoil any mutuals? but I don't know if there's a lot of those 🙈
The, uh, crafting one? Yea, I'm stunned how they managed to get exp / gold into a survival game! Killing zombies is still not the best way forward, but to a degree there's a positive loop. Slick!
Aaah, it'll be adorable!
The money printing machine isn't printing money fast enough, the overlord wants increasing f'(x), not just increasing f(x)! Time to add loot boxes to splatbooks, gacha for classes, serialised legendary item cards only available on eBay, the future is bRiGhT!!
(I'm so tired.)
Train selfie. Mostly empty, I'm pissed or tired, wearing a mask
For context, ich gerade im bisher 54min verspäteten RJX, hoffend, dass wir noch irgendwo 6 Minuten auf ein Gleis warten müssen. COME ON, DADDY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF VIDEOGAMES
Das wirkliche Wetten ist, davon auszugehen, dass alle Tickets 25% billiger sind! 60 Euro? Haha, ich glaube nicht! ✅
Bahn hat jetzt scheinbar alle Fahrten langsamer gemacht, damit wenigstens ein paar "pünktlich" ankommen. Also einfach die Verspätung als Default gesetzt. lolsob
Ah, I'll give them another year at least! They'll come up with a way to have AI "workers" present AI talks to AI listeners and expect us unemployed fleshies to buy $600 vault access for the whole show. Mmh, delicious progress!
