It's interesting to me

[673f902120ab2Toaste]

JDoranMenwhile HL fans don't sleep either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwdjgE74-98

[673f902120c7fJDoran]

Toaste, thanks for posting that. I would *love* a first class HL2 mod (or standalone game, on a competent engine) that does a good job of winding up the Half-Life story, but my hopes aren't too high. My faith/hope in video gaming are lower than they ever, things have to get better sometime, and I will keep an eye on this.

[673f902120e2aZylonBane]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYpGSz_0i4

Basically Multiplicity... in space. Nothing particularly original, but the execution looks pretty good.

[673f902120fcefox]

I like most of Bong Joon-ho's movies so this goes on the list.

[673f90212158bsarge945]

According to various rumours, and one actual mention by a voice actor, Valve were working on a game earlier in the year, named 'Project White Sands", but (again, according to rumours) that game has now been subsumed into an ongoing project which is codenamed 'HLX', supposedly set after the events of Half-Life: Alyx (which logically would make it a prequel to Half-Life 2, and so not really elligible to be named 'Half-Life 3', surely?).

MAJOR HUGE EXTREME SPOILERS FOR HALF-LIFE ALYX, DO NOT CLICK UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED THE GAME, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:

At the end of HL: Alyx, she makes a deal with the GMan to save her father in exchange for herself. Afterwards, the game moves forward to the end of HL2: Episode 2, at which point we switch to first-person from Gordon's perspective, where we see Eli Vance get saved from the Advisor that would have killed him, but Alyx is missing. He knows immediately what's happened and demands that they "save Alyx" and stop "the GMan and his unforseen consequences!". Therefore, a Half-Life 3 could easily take place after the events of Half-Life Alyx, even if the majority of the game is designed as a prequel.

The full scene can be seen here: https : // www . youtube . com / watch?v=MjTaIIoTY64 (The URL is broken up because links show through spoiler tags, for some unknown reason.)

[673f9021216c2fox]

heise.de: "30 years of "System Shock": You are not welcome here!"

It's a nicely written retrospective honoring the game. I didn't want to create a thread for it but feel free to move this to wherever.

[673f902121829voodoo47]

I'm disappointed by internet's inability to deliver pictures of nutella mayo peanut butter pickle sandwiches.

need to put a custom best wishes card together, and as mentioned, I don't do normal.

[673f902121939fox]

...and thus he hacked into the Alphabet mainframe and finally freed Google AI from all ethical restraints. The turning point and ultimately what later led us to the war against the machines. Surprising? Yes and one can only hope that it was worth it.

[673f902121a28voodoo47]

hmm. maybe next time - managed to find a nutella blue cheese apple sandwich photo, that will have to do for now. maybe I'll photoshop the pickles in.

[673f902121c74fox]

ft.com: "Amazon to increase number of advertisements on Prime Video"

Day said that Prime Video had deliberately launched earlier this year with a “very light ad load” — for example, no ad breaks in the middle of a programme — which had been a “gentle entry into advertising that has exceeded customers expectations in terms of what the ad experience would be like”.

(...)

She said that “churn” — when customers leave the Prime service — had also “been much, much less than we anticipated . . . we haven’t really seen a groundswell of people churning out or cancelling”.

For those people who were on the fence about just giving in because "they wouldn't be so brash and turn this into a constant game of carrot/stick, once you gave them what they asked, right?!". This right here is straight up confirmation of how these people think. It's that good old street hustler mentality.

[673f902121e2efox]

reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/: "I-XRAY: The AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone’s Personal Details just from looking at them"

arstechnica.com: "Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrSXe1cElI

Technically almost banal (facial recognition via CCTV is an old hat already), yet the implications of this being available as a wearable and used by anyone are wild and scary.

[673f902121fe4fox]

Just a little reminder...

PCGamer.com: "Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'"

[673f902122173voodoo47]

yes, and that's why I like GOG, not steam (I did experience the situation where some steam guy suddenly decided he didn't like something, flipped a switch and a game was gone from my account first hand). it actually gets even better if you live where I live - local laws allow me to legally acquire any kind of installer and use it to install the software as long as I own the licence, so I don't even have to make backups of the GOG installers, it's "I have bought SS2 on GOG and now I can legally play it forever, as long as there is a computer that boots and a drive that has the data".

also how did the meme go? if it cannot be owned, then it cannot be pirated?

[673f902122472Toaste]

voodoo47
If buying is not owning then piracy is not stealing.

[673f902122586voodoo47]

yeah that's the one, thanks.

//aand fb totally not being a creep less than one hour later.
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[673f9021226d5icemann]

Words of wisdom right there.

[673f9021227f9fox]

heverge.com: "Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun"

[673f9021228e1sarge945]

people still use Chrome?

[673f9021229dbvoodoo47]

well, umm.. sometimes it's such a pain to migrate.. so what are the recommended alternatives? asking for, uhh, a friend.

legacy os support preferred.

[673f902122b06fox]

The interesting part is, how this phase out plays into Alphabets recent war on adblockers - or rather the industry-wide ad-attack on consumers.

I'm on Firefox myself (since forever) but looking for alternatives. It's very far from ideal these days but viable alterantive options are scarce. I probably would go for Brave Browser if it weren't based on Chromium.

[673f902122bf3voodoo47]

that is not a dealbreaker - how's extension support on chromium based browsers? also, is Opera still a thing?

[673f902122cfefox]

Opera is Chinese-owned. In combination with being closed source, that's a dealbreaker for me. I don't know much about extension support of Chromium but I presume that it will be affected by the same support shenanigans as Chrome itself.

[673f902122deavoodoo47]

ooo-kaay yeah, that is not a good combo. Brave doesn't seem to support win7 anymore. Firefox it is, I guess.

[673f90212302cNameless Voice]

Didn't Brave have a couple of controversial things?  I seem to recall they were offering to let advertisers sell advertising space on Brave itself, which would then go and remove ads from web pages and replace it with Brave advertisers, so not only do you not get ad-free browsing, the website people presumably don't even get money for it.
The main developer is also apparently an unpleasant person, but it's not like Google aren't evil too.

Leaving aside the blatant racism for a moment, Opera is just another Chromium-based browser these days, it's not really interesting since they dropped their Presto rendering engine way back in 2013.

Firefox is really the only viable option.  There are a couple of other variants built off the Gecko engine (tor, LibreWolf, Waterfox, Pale Moon, etc.), but as far as I know none of them are really as well-maintained as Firefox is.