ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I always loved the line in Lil Dicky's Lemme Freak.

"That's not even me, like, I don't jerk off mobily"

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

The kids are on a field trip but also need to walk into a field so yeah it works in English.

I don't know japanese but 遠足 translates to "excursion" and is made up of the characters for "far, estranged, temporarily long" and "foot". I'm guessing it's not a pun based on how the kanji is read, but on the meaning of the word itself just like in English.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Can you give an example? Every time I ask for examples I get a list of games like Concord. A bunch of failed launches nobody has heard of.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Literally how would this change anything? Nobody played the game because it's bad. Everyone who bought it got a refund. Why would you want a law forcing them to give people a game they don't want?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

The government using brute force to influence other regions isn't popular in democracies. There were huge protests over the Vietnam war and currently lots of protests over Isreal-Palestine, a conflict that the US is only somewhat involved in. Political parties have nothing to gain if they're voted out of office a few years after launching an expansionist war.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Everything is 0s and 1s to a computer. What a pattern of 0s and 1s encodes is decided by people--often arbitrarily. Over the years there have been attempts to standardize encodings but, for legacy reasons, older encodings are still valid.

The 0s and 1s that encode ' in UTF-8 (a standardized encoding) are the same 0s and 1s that encode ’ in CP-1252 (a legacy encoding).

The � symbol is shown when the 0s and 1s don't encode anything of meaning.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 47 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The venom is toxic to the spider's prey by acting on potassium and calcium ion channels. It also acts on the sodium ion channels of primates by coincidence.

Wiki: Robustoxin

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Personally, I really liked Papers, Please. You play as a customs agent checking people's paperwork as they seek entry into your country. The idea of the game is very simple but it's surprisingly good at telling a story and putting you in situations that are morally difficult.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 months ago

Yup. Millions subscribe to MMOs and Game Pass. Live service games like Genshin Impact and Fate/Grand Order are incredibly popular. There are also games with crazy intrusive DRM like kernel level spyware and always online DRM that are still installed by millions. How can you look at these stats and not think people are fine with paying for temporary games? If the game is good enough, players don't care. Ubisoft's problem is their games aren't good enough.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

If you liked this story you might like the South Korean film Burning (2018)

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Oh nice, just in time to watch PewDiePie play PUBG

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