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The Stop Killing games campaign is an EU petition to prevent game developers from making games that people bought unplayable, for example by turning off the servers of always-online games.

Pirate Software is a youtuber and game developer who made several videos criticizing the campaign. He thinks it's unreasonable to expect game developers to do this and also asserts that people who purchase games don't own them. His videos supposedly had a measurable negative impact on the petition, which at this point looks like it might fail. Combined with the fact that he often acted quite rude and arrogant towards supporters of the campaign, he is now quite unpopular among them.

Game developer. Quickly realized the working conditions in the industry were not for me. Maybe one day I'll go indie and try to release my own game.

And for today's "not the Onion" headline...

In all seriousness though, I'm having trouble deciding whether Rutte's behaviour towards Trump is a smart way to keep him under control or just plain pathetic. Maybe it's both.

And for whoever they crash into as well... While I do think power limits for eBikes are a bit too low here in Europe, I gotta say I'm glad we don't have death machines like that thing rolling around on our trails.

Yeah, could be that or the testing methods of either site might have been flawed. In any case the difference shouldn't just be brushed aside like it was in the article.

Japan's Chimolog is our second source. Its tests showed the Switch 2's display to be slightly quicker, averaging 17 ms at 60 Hz.

That's quite a huge difference though, about half that of Monitors Unboxed. Would definitely be worth finding out why the results are so different.

Citra may be "dead", but it still works great, including with retroarch. Seems to still be available on the internet archive.

Yeah, especially since replacing the mainboard is not trivial work at all. I assume it's probably more expensive outside Japan though, with the weak yen etc.

Raytracing and path tracing can look pretty nice and raytracing especially is worth turning on when it's a game where it's properly optimized. Unfortunately in many games, it really isn't, which means the performance impact is too large compared to the visual benefits. So in many games, I don't turn it on as I prefer the much higher framerate.

Upscaling technologies are pretty great. Especially in their current iterations, the image quality they can achieve from low resolutions is impressive. That said, they should be used as a way to get graphically advanced games working on low to mid-spec GPUs. Using them as a crutch to get unoptimized games working on high-end cards is not acceptable. Neither is pretending that upscaled and frame-generated performance is directly equivalent to native-res performance (looking at you, nVidia).

In general, no.

Depending on the situation, as a last resort, yes.

Linux EAC client is user level, so the statement only applies to Windows.

Some time around 2001 or so. Frequented various Pokemon fansites and also had some kind of "100 coolest websites for kids" book.

The beating around the bush about who it was actually sold to certainly doesn't bode well.

Honestly most of season 1 and about half of season 2 are pretty weak (with some decent episodes in between). Quite a lot of season 1 you can downright skip. There are quite a few guides out there on which episodes to watch and skip, for example here or even this one that skips season 1 and 2 almost entirely. In my opinion, from season 3 onwards, the general quality gets so good that you might as well watch every episode from that point.

Every country has their own brand and degree of nationalism. For example, in Europe, you won't commonly see the national flag displayed in a private context in countries like France or Germany, but it's very common as a decoration in Switzerland and Denmark. Doesn't mean I'd really compare the Danes or Swiss to American nationalists though. I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they're the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn't matter. No Swiss nationalist would think that their country could thrive without at least some degree of cooperation with other countries.

Maybe other large-population countries like China and India might be more similar. When I went to high school in China as an exchange student, they had a flag-raising ceremony once a week where the national anthem was played. But I guess that's still tame compared to having the pledge of allegiance every day.

I'd say it's less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they'll keep finding flaws in their appearance. The surgery may even result in additional perceived flaws, which will lead to a cycle of getting even more procedures done.

"Her body type is minority" is a bit of a strange thing to say, like "minority" is a body type. From your explanation, you meant to say "Her body type is in the minority", so I guess it was a misunderstanding.

I've also enjoyed working with it. Switching to React Native for a different project later felt like a huge step back.

Right but reddit created the karma system and allows mods to set karma limits. Why did they allow this ?

Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to manage the subreddits. Antagonizing them by taking away their options for moderation is not a great idea for Reddit (as the API changes have shown).

Does it though ? Because a bot can post more and by virtue of being a bot has nowhere to be and nothing to do. Let’s say it takes 1 hour to get 10 karma. A human with school and or work can only to deal with might only have like 2 hours to post a bot can post 24/7 365.

Bots have ways to get around karma limits, for example by just reposting some popular memes for a few days after account creation and only starting to post spam a few weeks later. But that still means there's an additional difficulty to posting spam and that there's time for automated systems to possibly kick in before the bot gets the chance to post spam.

If that is really the issue then why not just have a captcha on post ? I know bots are better at dealing with captchas but those are still expensive.

That sounds like a nightmare TBH, I'd take a Karma limit any day over having to do a captcha every time to post.

I'm also curious, which subs did you want to post in where Karma limits are so high you couldn't reach them? I've never seen them be much of a hurdle. You can easily get 1k karma on a single comment just by echoing a popular sentiment or making a mediocre joke.

That's not a reddit rule, but a rule that subreddit moderators introduce to lessen their workload. Requiring a minimum karma means less spambots and trolls to deal with.