Black and White. I miss good god games. Most these days seem like they are just casual, mobile style games.

Splinter Cell. Or a similar tactical stealth shooter. Except made by anyone other than Ubishit

I liked using KanBoard. Its simple and runs well inside a docker container.

Lol. “No one is playing our games, better raise prices”. Genius.

Rio Tinto is moving to solar (and some wind) here in Australia for its aluminum refining and smelting operations. Would be good if the same could be done for steel too.

Here’s the ABC news reporting

Police say no indication of terrorism at this stage.

WoW, XBL and Eve are some examples

Subscriptions to online vs offline games is the major difference from now and back then.

I used to pay a subscription to play WoW and Eve because alot of the game runs on the game company’s hardware, which requires maintenance and upgrading periodically.

Single player games that have no reason to connect to the internet other than for updates should not be locked into having a continuous connection to authentication servers and there is no reason to pay a continuing subscription for the game, other than the company’s greed.

They should release decent DLC, expansions, etc if they want to keep milking the same title (or better yet, invest in some new IP instead of swapping franchises like trading cards)

He’s not the messiah. He’s a very naughty boy!

I’ve got >500hours in Timberborn on Ubuntu. Runs flawlessly and never had an issue.

They do that here in Australia too (probably better than the USA) but there are way more people seeking placement in aged care homes than there are beds available. Waiting times are in the years and so people end up on the street. Especially with the way rent and cost of living is these days. Government pension doesn’t pay enough to rent anywhere.

They get kicked out on the street. ‘Unconscionable’: Baby boomers are becoming homeless at a rate ‘not seen since the Great Depression’ — here’s what’s driving this terrible trend

This site has a good comparison: https://privacytests.org/

Wow. American police really are just an execution and cleanup crew. Just have a chat and compliment someone who is accused of being a danger on their weapons, ignore the victim begging them to stay and help, and then blame the victim and lie.

They are also trying out old-school sail ships

Non-paywalled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/parents-are-stealing-their-children-s-identities-to-access-debt-and-destroying-their-kids-credit-scores-in-the-process/ar-AA1jmVGp

Yeah I’d love to have anything near 100Mbps. Currently get 12Mbps on a good day, usually around 6Mbps. This is after spending thousands of dollars to upgrade the connection last year. Australian internet is fucked.

I use an Odroid loaded up with CoreElec ( a version of Kodi ).

• It connects via HDMI
• can be controlled with a normal remote control via HDMI-CEC
• can connect 4 USB devices (including a USB hub)
• no need for a constant internet connection
• Tv and movie database info is downloaded once and stored, not retrieved as needed
• Has played every file format I’ve thrown at it
• Easy to use interface
• FOSS and no ads