Boldly Blogging | August 28. 2023

 Been a couple weeks, but we're back! Funny coming just after the name change, but everyone's going through some tough times right now. Fell behind an extra day due to the hurricane. On the upside, here's a big ol' recap of the stuff we were talking about the few weeks!

 News 

• Opera GX assumes you're dead after 14 days 'or using a different browser. In that case, you'll just be dead to us'
• Epic loses bid to make Apple change its App Store payment rules right now
• RaterLabs bans the use of LLMs to generate task comments
• New Player - SKIDROW has entered the piracy Denovo crack. “Wait does this mean we don't need to solely rely on an insane cult leader to Crack denuvo anymore?” https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/15qa7s4/feskidrow/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
• ‘Complete meltdown’: Driverless cars in San Francisco stall causing a traffic jam
• Hardware channel Linus Tech Tips defended itself following a competitor's claims about its "accuracy, ethics, and responsibility."
• Linus Tech Tips temporarily halts production, releases apology video: 'Linus made a clear and egregious judgment error'
• X is slowing down links to websites Elon Musk has publicly feuded with & removing news headlines and text in shared articles
• Aldi to buy 400 Winn-Dixie, Harveys groceries in Southern US
• Lenovo's new handheld will smush together our favorite bits of the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch
• Postal devs stance on piracy https://twitter.com/RWSstudios/status/1691023696620589056?t=6HHID-JWoEzLedpX2d-NFQ&s=19
• Finally! HP sued over color printers not being able to print black when a color is empty: https://gizmodo.com/judge-rules-hp-must-face-lawsuit-over-disabled-printers-1850742791
• HL2 getting an RTX makeover: Half-Life 2 RTX Announced by Nvidia.
• [Updated] Microsoft Restructures Planned Activision-Blizzard Deal by Selling ABK Cloud Gaming Rights to Ubisoft
• Gamescom Opening Night: Another VGA incident
• Microsoft will bring PC Game Pass to NVIDIA's GeForce Now on August 24th
• It's-a not me: Voice actor of Mario retires after 27 years

Media

• NVME mounting on the back of the motherboard?!
• GOG version of Baldur’s Gate 3 is 106GB download and 120GB installed ?!
• Baldur’s Gate 3: VERY cinematic; Starts like a 90s edgelord’s wet dream; clubbed a hellboar to death with the body of an intellect devourer; Plays like a different game depending on gamepad or M&K; Not BG3 but D:OS3 staring D&D; Do ANYTHING!; Horny; atheist; D&D rules still suck for video games; Female narrator;I wish it came with a manual; Old school learning curve; Overrated: Game is 8.5 (prob. 9 after patching) and too ‘hardcore’ to recommend to people not already into this genre.
• The long-rumored 'Quake II' remaster is out now on PC and consoles
• Huge respect to the creator of the EVO 2023 fightstick so unwieldy they had to carry it around on their back
• “using a singular game to set expectations for everyone developing titles in a genre isn't useful and is instead foolhardy” because gamedev is hard QQ Baldur’s Gate 3 is Causing Some Developers to Panic
• Fast.com is a minimal internet speed test powered by Netflix
• Marvel: Secret Invasion finale rates 7% on Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/secret_invasion/s01/e06
• Google search page AI results are live and HUGE! Hope you like scrolling!
• Free and Released! Fan made remake for the 1999 classic… LEGO Rock Raiders? Manic Miners
• That moment in Dwarf Fortress when you figure out what happened: Something horrible has happened to the departing caravan... : r/dwarffortress
• Jarred garlic sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgES_Oj6-tQ

Odds and Ends

• Finally free! My last 2 games are being delisted from Google Play
• I’m not the only one who forgets that there’s still new Star Trek coming out…
• Dump sh*t Dwarf Fortress makes you say: “We’ve had quite the outbreak of wererhinocerouses lately.”
• GOD HELP ME IF ANOTHER INCIDENT OCCURS AND I GET CUCKED ON SUNDAY (teehee)
• DUCKYOU -Thingiverse https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6137509

 

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