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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Seems to be a USA-based org primarily for Americans
Can I apply if I live outside the United States?
It depends. If you live outside the U.S., you may still be eligible—but the types of products or services we can support may be limited. The application form will flag any parts of your request that might not qualify. If you’re unsure, we still encourage you to apply—our team will review your submission and follow up if needed.
So good news, but doesn’t seem hugely relevant to this community
- Comment on Stop Killing Games join lawsuit against the PlayStation Store's "Sony Tax," in latest venture beyond game preservation 4 days ago:
Neither of them recently announced that they would stop supporting physical media you can buy from third parties though
- Comment on Painful to recover from 6 days ago:
Allow me to make an inflammatory counterpoint to demonstrate my intelligence: this text isn’t green YOU BUFFOON!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Firstly, that’s the tip of the iceberg in mad decisions (or lack of QA) in red and blue, seeing people break those games is a thing of beauty.
Secondly, that’s how Twitch Plays Pokémon was able to beat the Elite Four, venomoth is poison so Lance’s dragonite kept using its super-effective psychic move: agility (which does no damage).
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 week ago:
The Beatles got quite a lot of cash from Apple when they started selling music through iTunes, right?
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 1 week ago:
The Department for Education would also be asked to refresh its pupil premium guidance to emphasise that the extra money schools in England receive for supporting the most disadvantaged children could be used for tutoring and mentoring schemes for those at risk of becoming Neet.
Those absolute monsters!
I think everyone’s just so conditioned to reading bad news headlines that they assumed this was something sinister, when it actually seems like quite positive news (in theory at least)
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 week ago:
I’m just going off memory, but sky tv already provided computer-related services and products in Britain, so it’s not unreasonable for them not to want another company essentially using their name for a product that could quite easily be confused as to being associated with them
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 week ago:
Much more achievable for the common man
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 week ago:
- Comment on Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games 1 week ago:
It’s not that the company is losing money, it’s just what investors think their company is worth is now less
The company also reported that ‘bookings’, a key measure of player spending, grew by just 8% year over year after previously posting much stronger growth
This is the most relevant thing the article mentions; they’re still making money, more money than they did last year
Financial news is weird, it all just seems like random guesswork and made up numbers
- Comment on Certified post about shit 1 week ago:
This is why I always shit in the bath, makes the cleanup easier too
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 weeks ago:
People just love stating their opinions as facts, and you can’t really give entirely objective opinions about art. When people say this game was amazing/terrible because of some subjective opinion they usually mean I loved/hated this game because that’s what I love/hate.
- Comment on Elden Ring Journal - Today I got my first hand job! 2 weeks ago:
We don’t do the
/c/communitynamething here, mainly because it reminds us of our ex but also because communities exist on specific instances, e.g. !soulslike@lemmy.zip - Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 2 weeks ago:
To license the idea to other people who want to do something with it?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Relevant discussion, I wonder if the post is directly related to the news
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 3 weeks ago:
Exactly, someone spoofing the biometrics to unlock my phone relies on them having physical access, whereas spoofing the biometrics on an account that can be accessed anywhere in the world is quite a bit bigger of a threat
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 3 weeks ago:
That’s unlocking your phone, this is unlocking your entire Google account (e.g. on a new device)
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 weeks ago:
Let’s hope it encourages a few people to think a bit more critically about other companies too, even if some others don’t get beyond “this directly affects me”
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 3 weeks ago:
I can only assume that people who think Nintendo are somehow worse than the likes of Sony and Microsoft have never looked at a single thing those companies have done that isn’t directly related to video games
- Comment on I made a game. It is short adventure about bying bread during the war. It is free to play. And i am looking for feedback. 3 weeks ago:
FYI you’ve not posted a link to the game! You can edit your post to include the link to the steam page.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
They’ve never made a comment either, which is not exactly normal human behaviour
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think you’ve answered your own question
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 5 weeks ago:
The hairy frog is also notable in possessing retractable “claws”, which it may project through the skin, apparently by intentionally breaking the bones of the toe.[5] These are not true claws, as they are made of bone, not keratin. In addition, there is a small bony nodule nestled in the tissue just beyond the frog’s fingertip. When sheathed, each claw is anchored to the nodule with tough strands of collagen. When the frog is grabbed or attacked, it breaks the nodule connection and forces the sharpened bones through the skin.[6][7] Although a retraction mechanism is not known, it has been hypothesized that the claws later retract passively, while the damaged tissue is regenerated.
This type of natural weaponry appears to be unique in the animal kingdom, although the Otton frog possesses a similar “spike” in its thumb.[8] An alternative hypothesis is that the broken bones could provide a better grip on rocks.[9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_frog
Yep, pretty horrifying, accurate name.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 month ago:
I think “Robot Cache” was a company that claimed to do this sort of thing. The only reason I had even heard of them is because they gave away a game for free, and ironically now they’ve gone out of business and I can’t even access the game anymore!
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 1 month ago:
Maybe hardware limitations will force developers to actually start optimising their code a bit. Ever increasing power leads to laziness because everyone’s got more than enough CPU/RAM/storage. That feels less of an issue in gaming though, where the majority of my pc library will run on a decade-old laptop but a web page demands enough power to run crysis.
- Comment on Is Britain's Plug-In Solar Revolution Really Just Months Away? 1 month ago:
I’ve not ever heard the name “Josiah” here before
- Comment on Wowee!! 2 months ago:
We can rebuild him, we have the technology. But I don’t want to spend a lot of money.
- Comment on On cats 2 months ago:
Their office is in the physics department but their actual job is managing the unix lab
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah I don’t like it when they remove what are essentially accessibility features in the name of their artistic vision. A classic is something like limiting when you can pause the game.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I guess it’s a design decision so people don’t save-scum, but losing your whole game highlights a pretty massive issue with that design