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- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 20 hours ago:
I honestly think it would be easier to just list games that they allow. I suppose Germans are really into Tetris or something since that’s apparently the only acceptable game.
- Comment on Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK 21 hours ago:
Oh that’s why he never visits Clapton it’s too close to the sea
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 days ago:
I can kind of understand Wolfenstein, as Germany does seem to have this thing where they do and also don’t want to face their past.
But Dying light is a generic zombie game.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 days ago:
One of the big advantages of steam and online storefronts in general is that it bypasses PEGI / ESRB and their unnecessary Draconian nonsense.
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 2 days ago:
That’s hiw McDonald’s get more people in again. THC infused Egg McMuffin.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 4 days ago:
That’s what happens when you do off the book stuff on company time. Got to organize yourself better.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 4 days ago:
It depends on what happened. If the company simply said they’d done the test but never gave any of the tasks to their employees then the employees would be in the clear. You can’t be sued for something you never even knew about.
But if the company had taken the contract on in good faith given the task to an employee and then they’d just lied to their managers and said they’d done it then yeah the employee could be gone after.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 4 days ago:
You hope it’ll set off alarms. Sometimes it doesn’t, mostly because they don’t have monitoring setup.
- Comment on Uh. So how are the Maplin's in your area doing? 5 days ago:
Oh I know but they could still make money from me by selling me things that I want to buy from them. I just find it baffling that they don’t want to do that.
- Comment on Anon is a math prodigy 6 days ago:
Php outputs HTML at the end of the process. If it didn’t run because of a missing semicolon it would just output an error. It wouldn’t crash
- Comment on Uh. So how are the Maplin's in your area doing? 6 days ago:
I’ve given up on PC world now. I went in once and asked and they don’t even sell graphics cards. What’s the actual point in them?
Only do all printers and pre-built PCs. Which are always terrible value.
- Comment on Uh. So how are the Maplin's in your area doing? 6 days ago:
I could never work out what they sold. It always just used to be random stuff, the one near me had brake pads at one point, it was kind of like Woolworths in that respect.
- Comment on Anon is a math prodigy 6 days ago:
If the file failed to compile the server wouldn’t execute it because a file wouldn’t be created. A compile error stops the process, It doesn’t result in a corrupted output, since that would be really stupid.
- Comment on Anon is a math prodigy 6 days ago:
What programming language returns a 500 error because it fails?
A 500 area is a critical server failure, It isn’t something that can happen because a piece of JavaScript failed.
- Comment on Anon tries to be attractive 1 week ago:
I feel like he’s going around showing people.
- Comment on Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents 1 week ago:
At one point didn’t accompany have a patent over an interactive loading screen?
Which is why loading screens in games have been boring for years, because actually having any kind of thing to do while the game loads is apparently banned.
- Comment on Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents 1 week ago:
I’ve said it before. Well they need to replace it with a “pal decahedron”. You have to get real close to realize it isn’t a sphere.
- Comment on Anon eats lunch alone 1 week ago:
I think it’s a kind of flat bread.
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 1 week ago:
Well technically we’ve had it confirmed all the way up to the PS9. Which presumably will release alongside somehow the Xbox X
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 1 week ago:
That’s my big problem with the online mode as well. They could have actually made it fun but it’s totally unplayable because they don’t do anything about hackers while at the same time even by legitimate means giving players access to fucking sci-fi death machines.
I’m so sick of spawning in and instantly getting blown up by a flying motorcycle with infinite rockets. That’s not even fun gameplay for the person the flying motorcycle.
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 1 week ago:
Oh well I’m definitely going to get the game then. I was concerned that it wouldn’t be maximally profitable for shareholders.
I don’t need to know anything about the gameplay just that someone who isn’t me will make a lot of money out of this.
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 1 week ago:
.won dednah-thgir eb ot detadpu neeb sah hsilgnE haeY
?omem eht teg uoy diD
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 1 week ago:
You know there are people with families of the own now who were born after that meme came out, and they still use it.
- Comment on Funko gets community noted 1 week ago:
Maybe the registrar holds some blame too.
Frankly everyone involved in this situation looks bad except the victim who did nothing wrong.
Funko deserves blame for using a dodgy solution that they have no real understanding of.
The brand protection partner, whatever the hell they’re called, deserves blame for being scumbags who go for the nuclear eruption as a first result. Knowing full well how destructive and completely disproportionate of a response that is.
The registrar deserves blame for being utterly stupid and responding to a report without doing even the most minor of investigations first. Like I don’t know, looking at the website.
No one at any point attempted to reach out to the owner of the site, they called his mother for some reason, not the actual site administrator, so they didn’t make any legitimate attempt at contact.
I honestly have no idea what the end game here was supposed to be, because there’s no way in hell that this was ever going to end other than everyone looking like complete idiots. I honestly think that just everyone evolved here is just utterly incompetent.
I have never heard of this particular registrar but they’re going on my long list of registrars not to trust, alongside GoDaddy.
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
I wish people would stop saying this. That was a political decision from decades ago back when the internet was far smaller. It has no bearing on today where the political situation here is completely different and not only that but the internet is far larger and the ICANN are far more powerful.
Back in the 1980s they didn’t have the political clout to really be able to enforce anything. They just have to basically accept it as a fader complete, not so anymore
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Peter Molyneux is going to require an entire volume bound in leather at this right
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Not in Canada though otherwise everybody would be in prison all of the time.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
The best thing about rising open the corporate world is the increased salary. Well the worst thing is the fact that idiots start talking to you like that in person.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Where exactly was corporate council in all of this. Who on earth signed off on, “automatically taking potentially ligacious actions”?
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
It wouldn’t be so bad if the AI engaged with a human at some point to confirm the action was both warranted and proportionate. Nope, apparently it’s allowed to just do whatever the hell it wants, with literally zero oversight.