Where did you see that first reply?

Disclaimer: I have not played the game or read the rules, so I am speaking based on what I have heard from reviewers.

The game is single use. You read story cards and stick more and more stickers to the board until you have read every story card in the game.

If you are curious about what would have happened if you took the other option on story card decisions, you can flip the board and replay the campaign always doing the opposite of what you did in your first playthrough (you have to do the opposite, since the game does not come with enough stickers to take the same decision twice).

Once you have played through the campaign twice, you should have experienced most of the possible game story.

Handheld computers are competition to the PlayStation in the sense that Sony would want everyone who owns one to buy a PS5 instead but not in the sense that those consumers having an option is hurting sales significantly. I could not find actual numbers, but analysts seem to be estimating that Valve has sold about 6 million Steam Decks in total. For comparison, Sony sold 1.5 million PS5s last quarter, which is devastating since they sold 2.8 million the year before.

Also, that sales gap is going to get worse in the short term. Instead of raising Steam Deck prices or reducing profit margins, Valve has decided to stop selling systems until RAM prices come back down.

Good riddance. I don’t think I have ever seen a positive news article about him as a person. As a coach, his career highlights seem to be developing Gianis and Luka but never having much team success. I am not saying team owners are overtly racist, but I wonder if he would have had as many coaching opportunities if he was black.

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Also, I am pretty sure he becomes the King of Xanth in one of the later books.

Ouch. My company was just about to start moving over to GitLab off of Atlassian.

So a Switch 2 game where you walk around the real world and catch Pokemon? I see a bunch of issues with it:

• The S2 does not have mobile Internet, so they would need to preload maps of the entire world and put out constant game patches to keep them current. Any multiplayer content will only be playable when the player is home (or by a Wi-Fi hotspot).
• The S2 does not have GPS. Would they track location by polling the joycon accelerometer every second and moving the player character 2 inches down the street? You would be to start every play session from a known location and keep the S2 running for the entire play session. Also, the longer you play, the more the errors in your location will add up.
• The S2 does not have a rear camera, so you cannot do AR, only a fantasy background.

Pokemon Go or Pokemon Let’s Go? I would love a new Let’s Go. I would also love the old games to be released on Switch Online (or stand alone) with full Pokemon Home integration.

Your journalism degree makes you a more well rounded person. Also, there is an overlap between journalism and IT: tech news, tech blogging, tech review, etc.

Have you given any thought about what your next steps will be?

They left entirely? Not just tuned out the group until the topic of conversation moved on?

The article argues that extremist views and echo chambers are inherent in public social networks where everyone is trying to talk to everyone else. That includes Fediverse networks like Lemmy and Mastodon.

They argue for smaller, more intimate networks like group chats among friends. I agree with the notion, but I am not sure how someone can build these sorts of environments without just inviting a group of friends and making an echo chamber.

If you read the article, the argument they are making is that you cannot fix social media by simply tweaking the algorithm. We need a new form of social media that is not just everyone screaming into the void for attention, which includes Lemmy, Mastodon, and other Fediverse platforms.

I was replying to someone who did not specify a “minimalist red maple leaf on a white background”. They said that Canada should trademark all depictions of maple leafs on all product packaging.

I was also joking. I should know by now that people on the Internet are bad at picking up my tone.

What about maple syrup? American made syrup has every right to the leaf, to represent the tree of origin.

You geese did not invent the maple tree.

I was joking, but the economic case is definitely there.

The owner now has a professional team in the South East and one in the North West. Presumably, he will want both teams in the same city. Moving the Blazers moving to North Carolina or the Hurricanes to Oregon seems like a lot of effort. If he is going through that effort, might as well move both teams to the biggest media market he can. So, presumably Vegas is getting a basketball team and a second hockey team?

When I (rarely) browse without an ad blocker, I notice how much better contextual ads (ads based on the site I am looking at) are compared to personalized ads. For example, on Board Game Geek shows ads for board games, board game accessories, and board game storage solutions. On webcomics I will see an ad for another webcomic that targets a similar audience. Both types of ads are genuinely interesting to me and I click on them on occasion.

When I see “personalized” ads, they are for things I have absolutely no interest in. On a tech news site, I get an ad for hair conditioner (I have short hair and losing it). On a 3d printing site, I am sold t-shirts with pro-police slogans (the fact that I regularly visit lemmy should automatically mark me as a bad target for the product).

That is how it is in many places in the US. People who want to marry off their child find the most regressive, backwards judge in the area who is happy to do it just to keep up traditional values.

No, since I would expect Indie World would be an even bigger disappointment in that case. If the big third party developers did not present anything that excited you, what are the odds that a game made by a small, underfunded team will?

I am guessing this is the overflow from the third party direct. They sent out word for developers to send them trailers for upcoming games and got more responses than they wanted. The big name studios were put in the main show and this showcase is the trailers that were edited out for time.

Except they are not. Their car sales revenue is falling. Their plan to reverse it is to make their cars cheaper (crappier).

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/tesla-q2-2025-sell-fewer-cars-and-carbon-credits-make-less-money/