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UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it
  • I'm holding off on buying this until I clear some stuff in my backlog (and hopefully getting the game at a deeper discount).

    However from the videos I've watched my only criticism is that some of the games look rather complex and would benefit from supplying more information than a small blurb and a controls page. I wish UFO 50 had taken a page from Retro Game Challenge and had some in-universe game manuals and magazines. Still, since I'm planning on buying it at some point obviously not a deal breaker.

  • He puts it on top of the lettuce to leak all over it.
  • Ugh... this reminds me of the time I spotted some hotdogs tucked into a non-refrigerated endcap at a local store. Since they were already room temperature (and as such no longer food safe) I just left them there with the assumption that the staff would clean them up after hours. I went back to the store about a week later and noticed the hot dogs were still there.

  • This might not be too far off
  • I would not take this bet.

  • You're right, no human would stack and carve rocks like this.
  • Grinding is another possibility. Rubbing rocks together isn't a very complicated technology.

  • Thousands of toxins from food packaging found in humans – research
  • Ugh...

    A "toxin" is a poisonous substance produced by a living organism. While all toxins are toxic to something, not all things that are toxic are toxins. As an example caffeine would meet the definition of a toxin (poisonous to insects and mammals in sufficient doses), arsenic would not (poisonous to almost all life, but not produced by a living organism).

    Sorry for being so pedantic, but this is a pet peeve of mine.

  • An old comic still relevant
  • The groceries in the passenger seat are a nice touch, because of course there's gonna be no trunk space.

  • Kentucky sheriff charged in judge’s death allegedly ignored deputy’s abuse of woman in his chambers
  • Three charges related to a second woman were dismissed because she is now dead.

    Yeah... I'd like to know more about that.

  • Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’
  • Yeah, when I was looking for information about Tears of the Kingdom around 90% of my search results was AI slop. I think was looking for info about how weapon durability and fusion worked and I kept getting a badly reworded version of the explanation of fusion from the gameplay teaser.

    Actually.. that reminded me of another TotK search I did, I was looking for where to farm some variety of lizalfos tails and kept getting AI articles that confused BotW locations with TotK. Amusingly, I eventually tried Google's chatbot out of exasperation and it actually proved more accurate than my search results.

  • Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Faces Backlash Over Deleted Post on Kamala Harris, Defends It as Commentary on Tyranny in Recent Statement
  • I was quoting it more for the "past tyrants like Abraham Lincoln" part. Because, ya know, apparently the people running Libertarian Twitter think that "Hey, maybe people shouldn't be property" is tyranny.

  • Libertarian Party of New Hampshire Faces Backlash Over Deleted Post on Kamala Harris, Defends It as Commentary on Tyranny in Recent Statement
  • Is this the one where the post the "apology" that has the...

    If you celebrate the Pine Tree Riot, the War for American Independence, or the assassination of past tyrants like Abraham Lincoln, you believe that violence is sometimes necessary to advance or protect freedom.

    yep it's that one.

  • 'Beyond stupid': McConnell begs House Republicans not to blow election with a shutdown
  • Even a turtle realizes when something can threaten its existence.

  • NYPD can't find knife at center of Brooklyn subway bystander shooting
  • Hey now, don't worry. I'm sure this will all be cleared up when the bodycam footage is released and it clearly shows the police being menaced with a knife... right?

  • Israel says 'high probability' its own airstrike killed 3 hostages in Gaza last November
  • Ah... well. You know the old saying, you can't make a genocide without killing a few hostages.

  • Nvidia CEO: "We can't do computer graphics anymore without artificial intelligence"
  • Gee, we've had over a half century of computer graphics at this point. However, suddenly when a technology arises that requires obscene amount of GPU's to generate a results a GPU manufacturer is here to tell us that all computer graphics without that new technology is dead for... reasons. I cannot see any see any connections between these points.

  • Tesla Cybertruck Owners Shocked That Tires Are Barely Lasting 6,000 Miles
  • Yikes, even Rivians are having similar issues, so this isn’t exclusive to these shitty trucks.

    That being said, given the sheer number quality control problems with the Cybertruck I'm not willing to discount there being some sort of manufacturing defect contributing to tire problems. Like maybe Telsa didn't give the right specs to Goodyear, or maybe they cheaped out on the materials used, or Elon got involved and demanded that ketamine needed to be mixed into the rubber or something.

  • Trump Wants to Hire 'Free Spirit' Laura Loomer. MAGA Allies Think She's Nuts
  • I'd also like to add she's dumb as a rock, just in case anyone missed that.

  • What in the fresh hell is this?
  • Spez is a pretty standard tech bro, so of course he wants to jam "AI" into everything he can.

  • Trump shot a cat.
  • That seems like a good way to get fleas.

  • Trump says Harris debate was 'rigged,' ABC should lose license, but 'we did great'
  • Trump is a psychopath that should not be allowed to drive a car let alone a country.

    Good news then, presidents and former presidents aren't allowed to drive themselves. So at least we won't have to deal with Trump claiming that deep state operatives switched the gas and brake peddles.

  • So there's a new homebrew app for Streetpasses over the internet.

    gbatemp.net A new way to experience StreetPass

    NetPass: A new way to experience StreetPass Scan QR code to download! Releases: https://gitlab.com/Sorunome/3ds-streetpass/-/releases Source Code: https://gitlab.com/Sorunome/3ds-streetpass Discord: https://discord.gg/QY8wzCMHyP Introducing NetPass: In the current state of the world, the 3DS...

    A new way to experience StreetPass

    Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

    Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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    What's up with all the $99 games with a 95+% discount on Steam?

    So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

    I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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